@everyone:

thanks for the interest, I hope to receive soon the HD-DVD rip - I also just bought the XBOX360 HD-DVD player just for this project!

Turisu said:

The first thing that struck me as looking wrong with the LD color timing is that the shot of the dog makes its eyes appear grey and colorless whereas you can see clearly in this shot that the dog's eyes are, in fact, brown as in the YouTube HD capture.

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews41/the%20thing%20blu-ray/large/large%20the%20thing%20blu-rayx3.jpg

Sorry, link doesn't work... but I have once a Siberian Husky and, apart the fact that she had one blue eye and one brown, she was almost exactly as the laserdisc's dog - black and white - and not like HD'd dog - fawn and cream... about the eyes: I have seven thai cats (as you could see one in my avatar) and sometimes (it depend from the color of the sky) their eyes seems grey, aquamarine, or almost transparent... so, if I should decide which color timing is right based on the dog's color, I'll go with laserdisc!

You_Too said:

Those color differences are very interesting. I think for most shots, maybe a mix of both chromas would look best?

Did you download the clips? You are right, most of the time a careful mix of them should be the way to go... I think I'll release a pre-version as I wrote in the first post, and start a contest "decide which color this Thing should be"! (^^,)