The Aluminum Falcon said:Spartacus (1960)- 2/10- An unmitigated failure in almost all respects. It is DVNR'ed to the point that the figures start looking like wax, and one gets the uncanny valley effect. It was taken from an old transfer ridden with scanner noise. To add icing on the cake, the color restoration work, based off of an IB print, done by Robert Harris, has been completely ignored. The audio prevents this from having a 0/10.
The HD DVD looks like the BD but lacks the heavy DNR. I tried to color-correct the HD DVD to match the Criterion DVD, but ColourLike()/ColourLikeFBF() can be used to render only short clips because of a livelock issue.