Got the set and, per Beaver's rave of the FAFDM transfer, dipped into that one first. I'm very disappointed. Black levels seem excessive, and this is another case where skin tones are clearly wrong: much of the time, faces are too red. I guess I'll be getting the Italian import . . .
Another review:http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Man-with-No-Name-Trilogy-Blu-ray/10781/#ReviewI should say, another review that thinks the FAFDM disc looks pretty good. On my equipment, it looks the worst. Go figure.
We worked on FISTFUL OF DOLLARS and FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE on behalf of Paramount who are the distributors of these films in the German-speaking territories in Europe. The reason why we did not work on TGTB&TU is simply that this title is not part of that licensing arrangement. That film is with MGM/UA. As for a release on Blu-ray, MGM/UA through Fox have just issued what they already had on DVD - however, this time with the original Mono tracks (at least on two of the three as far as I could make out). Unfortunately, all these titles are originally copyrighted in Italy, so MGM is just a licensee, which makes also the work with low generation elements very difficult. I hope that this will improve/be revisited some time in the future. Of Fo$s there was a quite promising master in Italy - however, it (the Blu-ray issued there) has significant issues with what we call subpixel drag - an error where the native pixel information designated for one pixel is picked up by two instead in two different vertical rows causing significant problems for the eyes to "read" the signal a s a sharp image. Especially on big screens this is very evident. It is likely an encoding error.
