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Speedy,

That would be wonderful. if only they still existed.

I must say that I'm a little worried when I hear Peter Shade of Universal say that they are going to "manage" film grain when it becomes "distracting" or "objectionable".

I hope we are not about to receive another collection of "scrubbed" films like The Longest Day

I'm with Darren. Since when does "restoration" mean darkening the image to a tangle of dense shadows?

Seriously????
I don't know what you guys are looking at or what kind of screen your looking at it on, but to my eyes these restorations look absolutely stunning. They look like they were very sensitively done, and the artists that did the corrections were not over-zealous about things like removing grain (I've seen other "restorations" where so much film grain was "corrected" that the end result looked like a bad photocopy).
Noise reduction on audio is often disastrous as well, removing the character of the original, but in the examples shown here the work is stellar.

Good to see them taking their history a bit more seriously (even if in the end, it's just to make a few more bucks on the old stuff. )

I don't want to be anoying, but let's not confuse restoration with tranfer.

The restored file, if in film resolution like 2K, usually try to get all dynamic range of the film emulsion. So the film, if restored like I supose, it's fine.

The dark faded image may be result of the transfer to video, I mean the balance, exposure, intented to video.

Some rDVDs have different transfer to video for a same restoration, creating a dark edition or a bright edition, depending of the DVD or BLu Ray distriuter.

And the computer monitor always fade and darken video image to a certain degree. You need to judge from a video monitor and not a computer monitor.

Guys, this is a YouTube video. High compression? Save the judgment until the Blu-Ray comes out, please.