skyjedi2005 said:
To watch the original version it took me years before the advent of ebay to find a vhs copy and its frickin pan and scan. The laserdisc in the usa is hard to find and considered rare. And the digital audio issue in japan has burnt in subtitles and from what i have heard the sex scene is either cut or censored.

Not a huge surprise that lowry was involved in the fiasco that are the bond remasters, the star wars trilogy. or the recent star trek blu rays. Seriously whenever i hear they worked on a film i will consider the reviews before buying the dvd to see if the colors and grain structure were compromised.

I agree with you about Lowry Digital (or should it really be called Digital Lowering?) removing too much grain. They've "restored" many Disney movies and Pinocchio is another disaster. The color is oversaturated in dark scenes and his feather cap which is red in all the artwork shows up as pink occasionally. Something that should be red turning out pink. Hmm, why does that sound familiar?

I think there need to be campaigns to convince people that grain is good like there were for letterbox over pan & scan.

I have a letterbox dvd made from the THX 1138 laserdisc by the way if you're interested.