Finally got my copy in the mail, hope to check out the new transfer in person later tonight. That Italian IB is stunning, and like I thought does not have the heavy oversaturated feel that is supposedly correct on the new transfer. Again, I have never GBU look like this, and not even the 35mm MGM extension which had alternate color from what is on video. IIRC it seemed like a modern lit version of the Mondo-just imagine that transfer with the brighter more washed out look of the old MGM BD. If anyone could find images of the extended MGM 35mm that might help us a bit.

What is supposed to be taken into account is the fact that each lab and each country has its own methodology and thus the prints will always look different from one another. We've gone all through this with Eastman vs. IB, US vs. UK on Star Wars, and if anything when coming from the o-neg, vintage prints are used as a general reference--not an absolute unless the intended look was specified that way by all involved.

Every single restoration of Leone's work has produced a different look, no matter which film it is. Here, it seems the intent was to faithfully represent a 1966 Tech IB print, but then that idea was taken overboard by casting an unnatural saturation over everything.

If anything comes of that print poita, I can be counted in along with others for a fistful.

Good news about your track Hutt, with all the blips between video versions of these films it seems like that would be a big amount of work. BTW, how are you doing the reinserted scenes? I always thought the most appropriate thing to do would have been to use the Italian mono with English subtitles as did the original R1 DVD's supplements.

I really need to be importing some titles...why oh why did they have to go with region locking on BD?