@ Tobes

Prove it. Prove to me that the "crushed blacks" are inherent to the actual transfer. I say this because edge-enhancement and boosting the contrast ratio was very popular in the dvd days. It gave the unknowing consumer the perception that the film was somehow more vibrant--it is the same effect that retailers do when they set their display tvs to "torch mode." Again, provide solid proof that the loss of detail was in the transfer themselves, because a couple of the screens I've seen point in the complete opposite direction.

I have stated before that I think this is entirely possible. The transfer from film to digital may have been perfectly fine.... and the transfer from there to the subsequent steps may have been where things got messed up. All that is immaterial, though... what matters is at what stage they use to start to build the blu-ray.