captainsolo said:

Glad to see Live and Let Die has finally been given proper treatment, but Thunderball just seems to get worse over the years. I remember first popping in the UE and expecting it to blow away my letterbox VHS. Yes it was pristine, but the colors were way off and muted not to mention the soundtrack had the different cues. YOLT has almost all of the color stripped out when compared to previous versions. At first I just thought I was used to a dirty video master or something, but then I saw the UE of LALD and the awful tinted opening on OHMSS-these have led me to question things.

Did this project ever get anywhere? I see it was canceled for being too close to an official release, but this would actually be a preservation of a LD restoration from 1995 and not the SE DVD or Lowry UE and Blu ray. They are entirely different transfers/masterings. Or is the original SE disc of Thunderball sourced from the LD master? I don't own it so I can't compare. It doesn't have the original mono though.

There were different laserdisc masters for thunderball. The deluxe set i have has less picture information on the sides than the non restored original letterbox release or Connery Collection disc.

Most of the SE lasers were cancelled. Not many received the THX standard, or ac3 on laserdisc.

Though i do believe the anamorphic dvd of the SE is from the same print as the SE laserdisc.

The old Laserdiscs and SE dvd's had the proper color timing. Only a lot of wear and tear, scratches and dirty opticals. I still think lowry removed far too much grain, the new ones UE look like updated for a modern look colorwise, and look like video not film.

If i was a director the last place i would bring my film to be restored is Lowry. How many films have they reduced to looking like video and pristine.