AntcuFaalb said:
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4 - Beauty And The Beast (Letterbox - DS)
would came best (as "double feature") with
3 - Beauty And The Beast - Work In Progress (Letterbox - DS)
I know they are both on DVD and BD; what are the difference between them and the laserdisc version?
Primarily, the colors.
The BD release is closer, but not perfect from what I hear. Also, the DVD is atrocious and has extra scenes.
I believe there's different WIP versions available. I'm not sure if the one on the BD is the same as the one that was released on LD. And, to top it off, on the BD the work-in-progress version is downgraded from an alternate angle to a picture-in-picture feature! I think the DVD that comes with the big set still contains it as an alternate angle feature but that's still a huge disappointment.
Also, it's more than the colors. The LD is the only OAR release of B&TB, the rest are cropped to some degree.
Also why would #5 be letterboxed? Cinderella is in 4:3 is it not? That could also use a transfer if only for color reference. While Disney seems to have gotten better about this, that particular movie has a HUGELY anachronistic color pallet and it's painful to look at. Despite the fact that it's new to BR I think they used their DVD master done by Lowry years ago and it shows. Missing detail ahoy!
I look forward to any work you put out, regardless of if you choose to clean it up!