Anchorhead said:

Glad I got my 1997 DVD when it was first released. It's interesting how many movies have been misrepresented from their theatrical releases - all in the name of marketing and technology-testing.

At this point, I'm going to always go to screen capture comparison sites prior to making any new purchases. Fortunately, I already have most everything I'm interested in watching. With current and future films, my only choice may be buy or not buy. At least with films from the 60s, 70s, and 80s I can buy early DVDs that hadn't been improved yet. Same with over-compressed music CDs and the loudness wars.

Might be time for me to start hitting ebay & Amazon for extra copies of the ones I'm happy with.

Yeah, I'm also glad I still have that disc even though it has a crude transfer. Some day I would really like to attempt a "color correction" to the new transfer with that as an overall reference.

I agree, I'm very suspicious nowadays when it comes to new releases, image comparisons can be a little misleading sometimes but in this case with Bladerunner it sure isn't. But I guess this is small problems when you're starting to look at another franchise created by that bearded man from Modesto. ;)