Not to go too far with this here ... but, I think their monitors weren't calibrated and they pushed the film beyond reasonable limits. I just grabbed the DVD (Warner 1999) and it shows the title board more plain (just like with the above downloaded HD image, when I paint-program pushed it to duplicate my maladjusted TV) ..

I wonder if this would show on the laserdisc, too (the Kubrick approved, Criterion Collection one PDB is using at the 2001 thread)?
[I'll copy this over there to continue with it.]