_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

I have not (yet) the WOWOW files, as this is only an idea, and (still?) not a future project.

Please explain: why I should use LD audio only with open matte sources?

And, regarding the 3D BD of JP1: if all my project is based onto the fact that the LD has better color grading than the BD, and you agreed and liked my project, why now the 3D BD has accurate color grading?!?

I definitely liked your project a lot (and still do)! There's no doubt in that! As it was an extensive restoration of JP, with its original wider framing and the excellent DTS audio! The colour was better than the bluish DVD and Bluray! You put so much effort, and as a fellow JP fan how can I not appreciate it genuinely?

But when I saw the 3D BD the only plus point was the original colour timing and the detail (obviously a 4K scan would have lot of detail). And the 3D BD had cropped too much out of the original framing, resulting in cut-off heads of dinos!

Regarding why you should use LD audio with open-matte source-

because it combines the best of both worlds!

For JP the 1.78:1 HDTV or WOWOW source is only selectively open-matte (during the CG scenes) The standard scenes are all cropped at the sides (from a wider print) to 1.78:1. Even the CG scenes though they have more image at the top and the bottom(not all cg scenes) they lose tiny amout on the right hand side. So if you use the matted BD print or matted wowow print (1.85:1) Then what you are getting is a print that has been initially cropped from a 1.85:1 master to 1.78:1, then has been further cropped to 1.85:1 by putting black bars on top of that already cropped 1.78:1 version (the CG scenes will be taller mind you, some of them at least)!

So the best option (if you want a very good HD version of JP) would be to use an open-matte print (which'll have the same height as the laserdisc) and use the DTS Laserdisc audio!

But with TLWJP its a different story!

The open-matte HDTV version (of TLW) is both taller and wider than the Laserdisc, DVD and BD! I imagine the WOWOW source to have the same open-matte framing!