Originally posted by: boris

Most of [the cleanup needed] is due to anomalies created by Laserdisc and not the master.
Actually, the film was cleaned up frame-for frame, and is far more extensive then the amount of clean-up that's being done by X0
[E]ven if they don't do more correction, the fact is the amount of colour correction and film cleanup they did in 1993 is way more then the X0 project is [doing].

Boris, my friend, unless you work for LFL and are personally handling the work, you don't have a scrap of proof that any of that is true. You are at least as bad as the zealots you complain about when you make up "facts" and then use those home-brewed "facts" to prop up an argument. It's not right when the unabashed X0 Project lovers do it, and it's not right when you do it. I'm neither super-mega-pro X0, nor a complete detractor like you. I'm just calling you on your unprovable statements.

If you read Zion's posts, he never claims facts not in evidence, for either side of the debate. He knows more about what's on the current LDs than you do, and I suspect (again, unless you are intimately involved at LFL) that he also knows more about what's on the master tapes than you do. I have a large selection of all available LDs of note, and I have never seen Zion make a post that contradicts what I have seen with my own two eyes. You, on the other hand, claim a lot of "facts" not in evidence.

I'm going with the ever-moderate, edumacated Zion on this one. At the moment, you're off in la-la land with your opinions of how good the upcoming DVD release will be, just like those who figure the X0 Project will automagically be better than DVD just because it will be presented as an anamorphic upscale. The truth -- as Zion, one of the head X0 guys says hisself -- will be somewhere in between.

Please stop pretending to be a voice of cold rationality, when in truth you're just as much of a kook as those people you rail against.