TServo2049 said:
Don't get too excited about this old transfer.
A lot of 80s/early 90s transfers looked very "neutralized", probably in order to read better on CRTs - for example, in early transfers of Empire, Hoth looked very white (more white than any extant print sources we've seen), and Yoda (and Dagobah in general) looked almost gray.
I'm wondering if this transfer also had a yellow boost so that the image would "read" better - the Carolco logo looks almost sepia-tone.
Not trying to pooh-pooh it - just saying that the Siskel and Ebert clips, which were during the theatrical release and thus clearly not timed for home video, have a much more pronounced blue cast in the night shots than that old DVD (possibly originally LD) transfer.
Yeah, you might be right. But to be honest, I didn't expect much from that DVD. Because normally such german releases from smaller companies, without use of an international big master are not as good as that. Also I expected paler colors, and I would not have wondered if it wouldn't have been non anamorphic widescreen, but a zoomed in full screen.
Maybe it has some colorboost, but at least it is not as colorrevisited, as the new releases. So maybe it is possible to get a bit nearer to the theatrical color timing.
Sure no need to get too excited, but better to check, then to leave a possible opportunity.
At least it is a nice DVD to add to my DVD/BD collection... (...and again a multidip.. damnit. :) )