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Offline purple_jedi

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Best Restored DVD
« on: Jul 05, 2003 at 02:29 PM »
Hi. I'm starting to collect timeless and classic DVDs (eg. West Side Story, Giant, Sound of Music) What to you is the best restored and remastered in your collection. Thanks  :)

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #1 on: Jul 05, 2003 at 05:27 PM »
Singin' in the Rain and Citizen Kane are both excellent transfers. Warner used the same restoration team for both titles if I'm not mistaken.
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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #2 on: Jul 05, 2003 at 07:58 PM »
Vertigo was  great.

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #3 on: Jul 05, 2003 at 09:50 PM »
 Vertigo, La Grande Illusion, My Fair Lady, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Singin' In the Rain
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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #4 on: Jul 05, 2003 at 10:54 PM »
I'd have to go with My Fair Lady, since aside from being restored, it has an entire commentary track about the restoration process!  :)
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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #5 on: Jul 05, 2003 at 11:21 PM »
- citizen kane
- my fair lady
- singin' in the rain
- west side story
- roman holiday
- snow white and the seven dwarfs (platinum edition)
- cleopatra (five star collection)
- lawrence of arabia (limited edition)
- 20,000 leagues under the sea (special edition)
- the love bug (special edition)
- king of kings
- doctor zhivago (special edition)
- benhur
- the ten commandments
- alfred hitchcock's psycho
- spartacus (cc)
- cleopatra (five star collection)
- the sound of music (five star collection)
- the french connection (five star collection)
- beauty and the beast (platinum edition)
- giant (special edition)
- the abyss (five star collection)
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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #6 on: Jul 07, 2003 at 11:39 AM »
Sound of Music and Lawrence of Arabia

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #7 on: Jul 07, 2003 at 01:39 PM »
snow white(animation) :D

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #8 on: Jul 07, 2003 at 03:50 PM »
Vertigo, La Grande Illusion, My Fair Lady, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Singin' In the Rain

was not too pleased with the restoration of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. movie looked and sounded real old and worn. found the movie hardly audible and the picture hardly movie quality like. was honestly expecting a better product like what criterion did with Life of Brian

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #9 on: Jul 08, 2003 at 11:41 AM »
The Great Race on Warner

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #10 on: Jul 08, 2003 at 11:55 AM »
Offhand these are at what i have or used to have and can recall:

On Warner

Whatever Hapenned To Baby Jane (b&w)
King Of Kings
Wizard Of Oz
Casablanca (b&w)
A Streetcar Named Desire (b&w)
Ben-Hur
My Fair Lady
The Exorcist
North By Northwest


Other labels:

Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs
Bridge On The River Kwai
Lawrence Of Arabia
The Ten Comandments
Spartacus
Cleopatra
The Sound Of Music
Fiddler On The Roof
West Side Story
The French Connection
The Godfather Box Set ( 1 & 2)
The Longest Day (b&w)
Guns Of Navarone


A lot of old titles on the Warner label has been restored to some extent. Some titles got excellent digital transfers from well-preserved films, not necessarily restored.  A number of them still has some evident film grain and scratches visible during dark scenes like in Fiddler, The Exorcists and on the openning scene in Bridge oin the River Kwai.  But overall, nothing objectionable.
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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #11 on: Jul 08, 2003 at 11:58 AM »
Also those old Sean Connery James Bond flicks look good.  THough am not sure if they were deliberately restored for DVD.

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #12 on: Jul 14, 2003 at 08:08 PM »
was not too pleased with the restoration of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. movie looked and sounded real old and worn. found the movie hardly audible and the picture hardly movie quality like. was honestly expecting a better product like what criterion did with Life of Brian

Actually, I felt the other way around.  ;D I was disappointed with the Life of Brian Criterion transfer. The sound was creaky at times, and once or twice, I thought I saw scratches on the film.

The Holy Grail transfer was not perfect though, and I probably should not have included it in my list.

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #13 on: Jul 14, 2003 at 08:45 PM »
apocalypse now:redux..  ;)

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #14 on: Jul 16, 2003 at 09:06 AM »
For me it's

The Ten Comandments
and
Ben Hur

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #15 on: Oct 14, 2003 at 06:14 PM »
WOW! got to see 2 of Charlton Heston's (1971 and 1973) Sci Fi/Horror flick...and Thhese are totally wierd cult movies but nice video transfer  :)
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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #16 on: Oct 24, 2003 at 03:14 PM »
I'm not really into classics but, the best restoration I can think of seeing are "Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs" of Disney & "Superman the Movie" also "Sound of Music"

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #17 on: Oct 24, 2003 at 09:21 PM »
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" gets my vote...  ;)

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #18 on: Feb 10, 2004 at 03:16 PM »
T2 EXTREME VERSION..  8)   8)  8)

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Re:Best Restored DVD
« Reply #19 on: Feb 10, 2004 at 08:21 PM »
Lawrence of Arabia Superbit

Miles better than the first release. It probably has the widest difference between a Superbit and its "normal" version.

The Limited Edition is on top. Superbit at the bottom. Talk about night and day!


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Re: Best Restored DVD
« Reply #20 on: Feb 05, 2006 at 05:01 AM »
the adventures of robin hood {1938}............................

enough said

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Re: Best Restored DVD
« Reply #21 on: Mar 24, 2006 at 08:10 AM »
i've seen old transfers of lawrence of arabia (i have the superbit copy now) and Godfather 1 and 2. the newly restored releases are indeed far off better than the first release. ;)
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Re: Best Restored DVD
« Reply #22 on: Apr 18, 2006 at 09:52 PM »
Casablanca
Vertigo
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