ImperialFighter said:

I'm really hacked off that it's likely to be presented in the same 'stylised' re-colouration that was done for the 'Director's Cut'!

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Unfortunately, I have no doubt this re-colouration is going to be the DE FACTO 'look' for the forthcoming Blu-ray release too...

Do you know this for a fact? The Quadrilogy DVD was branched (for economy of disc space) so the two versions had to be matched in terms of colour manipulation... this might not necessarily be so with the Blu-ray.

And hasn't there already been an HD transfer of Alien (on DVHS and - I believe - TV broadcasts) - what did that look like? (EDIT: Seems the previous HD release was only the director's cut)