Andrea, you've really done something great here. I'm not going to talk about the movie. I assume you've all watched it. But, Andrea, you've taken a screwed up BD master and taken it to its full potential. It's really such a big improvement and made me realize how terrible the commercial BD was. The colors are wonderful and a huge improvement. Your script has done a much better job than any general color correction would ever do. The colors look pretty dead on to both the DVD and my pre-release tape. The only issue though is the BD's contrast boosting. Frankly, they really pushed it to too much of an extreme: it gets far too shadowy at times and occasionally gives the colors a slightly different appearance. This effect is seem on most contrast-boosted transfers. It's unfortunate you're not working with an okay master like The Thing. The audio is good but I'm having problems playing the DTS.

Should you do a 2.0 version with the HDTV clips, I would look forward to it. Frankly, the HDTV is much better than I think it's given credit for. I made a custom BD of that myself with 1080p video and the 1999 DVD audio. Would that be something you're interested in, as a resource? I have no doubt though that people might be able to do 1080i base files more justice than I can.

That being said, anyone should really check this out. It's really good: heads and tails over the commercial BD.