hairy_hen said: I can't speak definitively on every aspect of Raiders' appearance, but I can state with absolute certainty that the DVD version is not always completely faithful to the original look of the movie.

I fully agree.

I'm not saying the new transfer doesn't have flaws or hasn't been manipulated digitally, but unquestionably it is closer to the original colour timing than previous editions.

That's far from unquestionable. The Japanese HDTV is based on a very recent scan and has a warm look in a number of scenes without going to the extremes of the BD, which seems to look most unnatural. I don't doubt what you are saying about the red, and I'm no fan of the DVD transfers, but I refuse to accept that ROTLA could have looked the way the BD does in 1981.