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Post #946645

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captainsolo
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Info Wanted: Psycho - HDTV broadcast vs 50th anniversary Blu-ray (comparison)
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Date created
28-May-2016, 12:26 PM

Hmmm…

Psycho is definitely not what it should be at, like all other Uni held Hitchcock titles. It fares better due to a newer scan but has obviousbly been DNRd at some point. The UK blu has a higher bitrate and lossless original mono so that’s what I went for.

It should have more grain but the BD seems like a stronger presentation due to the lack of TV compression etc. I think the best thing would be to start from scratch with a 4K scan on all the Hitch titles and dump that HORRIBLE multichannel remix.

And it needs to be shown open matte as an alternate. Once seen this way you get what he was going for even more I think and like TOUCH OF EVIL, PSYCHO plays well in both 1.33 and 1.85 so it is unknown which was the intended framing.