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After comparing the two the Criterion Blu-ray seems brighter to me too.
That's odd. If you have a computer, and open both pic links so they are in the same place, and toggle between them, they look different? I wonder why they look identical on my monitor.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/110/war_of_the_worlds_blu-ray_/large/large_04_war_of_the_worlds_blu-ray___blu-ray_.jpg
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/110/war_of_the_worlds_blu-ray_/criterion_blu-ray_/large/large_04_war_of_worlds_criterion_blu-ray__blu-ray_.jpg
Hmm. They look the same to me too.
Yep, looking at those two links they ARE identical. As for the covers artwork, I admit the claw poster isn't really true to anything in the movie itself, but none of the more accurate film posters look as good or professional. I find the claw one very dramatic. The menu for the Criterion is TERRIBLE! I get it, just don't like it. The eye colour order is neither here nor there. I wonder why they do this artwork for a company so devoted to accurate presentation everywhere else (an obviously content on the disc is the main main point).
Despite a friend of mine describing it as boring, I like the Network approach with the right livery (as used in a tv series/film titles and official advertising) used everywhere. Nerdy maybe but aren't we all on here? Just seems more appropriate and authentic to me to use graphics from the material's original release.
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The screen shots on this link comparing the two, the Criterion edition is definitely brighter. I’m not sure I will see the difference in a movie that is 67 years old. I don’t own two 60 inch TVs to compare them side by side I can only go by the photos on the review page. I will end up buying both editions. The only other movie that I purchased both of the Blu-rays that were released is The Shape of Things to Come. Supposedly there were differences in those two and one was released a year before the other.
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film9/blu-ray_review_126/war_of_the_worlds_blu-ray.htm
Yes, that's what I was looking at before too, and we can definitely make out peoples faces are a tiny bit lighter can't we? The shots of the war machines don't show it but the skin colour does. But as you say, watching it on tv will be fine. The only way there is if we were crazy enough to watch both at the same time. That's a whole lot more picky. I'm satisfied I've got a good copy and that's all that really matters. Would be nice for both to have all the extras, but you pays your money and takes your choice..
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Coincidentally Barnes and Noble is having a 50% off sale. I phoned a store and had them hold a copy, watched it last night. I'm never sure if HD will change my experience of something I've seen several times, but in this case the restoration definitely made it worth the upgrade. I only have a 32" TV so I didn't see any issues, except banding in the sky at 37.20 minutes when a tank is disintegrated.
I only have the TV's 2 back speakers, but the 5.1 sound-recreation (by Ben Burtt) sounds better than the mono. The music is slightly more prominent, but he also creates a fake stereo with louder effects which positively punched up the film without changing the content in general. But there was one notable instance (to my ears) that didn't sound right...
In the original mono, the pre-firing strum fx (plucked cello string?) for the heat ray was missing when the plane drops a flare. It's inconsistent with earlier scenes, possibly a mistake, so he added the strum to match the blinking. But that sounds inconsistent with earlier scenes, too. Normally the strum starts earlier with a longer fast-repeat section. Would have sounded better if Burtt had at least started it earlier.
Otherwise pretty amazing effort to re-vamp the audio. Toggling between the audio channels is like night and day, where the new audio really increases the impact of the film.
There's 2 short video doc's with the sound and video restoration guys which was interesting.
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