34 screen grabs available here: http://imgur.com/a/7QCUA
There probably won’t be a Blu-ray release and apparently the DVD’s aren’t that great, so when I learned that the BBC were airing this in HD, I was quite keen to record it. Straight away, it was disappointment time: the aspect ratio appears to be wrong and the picture quality doesn’t strike me as remotely close to HD - even though the EPG on my PVR lists it as an HD broadcast and also informs you when the content has been simply upscaled to HD.
The print doesn’t look exactly stellar either and a few of the actors have a “green” tone during the gym scene. Some sequences suffer from rainbowing artefacts. I know it’s an old film but countless other titles were produced during the same period and they look a million times better than this.
I’d like your opinions please. Would you regard this as HD and what’s behind the image looking so poor - substandard print, bad telecine etc?
