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Posting here, so I can monitor this thread now.
I was unaware until this morning that anyone outside of the production process had seen any discs from this set.
Thank you to Nick for posting his observations and for the amount of time he's clearly put into this project. I have not seen anything other than the press release at this point.
Whenever the set comes to me, whether that be for a release date in September or a later one, I'll be bringing the discs to a proper projection setup, as I did with The Sting. This will also be my approach with the Monsters set. There are too many titles, and too many classic films here, for me to just try to cursorily go through them. These are going to be necessarily long and in-depth reviews, as Nick has been demonstrating. The movies deserve that level of attention, and I'm glad Nick has been able to do so, even at the expense of time on the man's birthday. (I'm not sure if that counts as double-time or quadruple time...)
I'm actually not as concerned with the idea of taking the older video documentaries and uprezzing them to HD. I'm fine for those to be in SD and just be included in the package. The point of those documentaries is that they exist in the first place, and that they've been preserved. It's like watching the old season sets of SNL. I don't feel a need to see those videos uprezzed to 1080p, as I can't imagine how much more detail we could get out of them. Not saying that they shouldn't look as good as they can - just that I think they already do look as good as they can.
Please be aware that review copies both of the Hitchcock and Monsters sets may not be as readily available as you might think. These are not the usual 2 or 5 disc editions that the reviewers get. These will be higher price point sets of over 10 Blu-rays and we already have indications that the Monsters sets are limited in their review availability. We are working to make sure that HTF receives review copies of the actual sets to go to market, but this doesn't always play out in this fashion. I still remember Paramount famously restricting their review copies in 2008 or 2009.
One last note re typos in the credits: I recall the Paramount Blu-ray of The Warriors had a typo as well for the job title of a wardrobe person. It was a holdover mistake from the credits done for the "Ultimate Director's Cut", and it was simply ported onto the Blu-ray. Meaning that whoever redid the credits for the 2001 or 2002 DVD blew it then, and the mistake carried over. Really not sure what happened with the Frenzy credits, but there's no question that those must be corrected. It's not just the wrong font, although that's annoying - it's simply wrong to miscredit the crew - the film is a document and those credits are part of it. It would be one thing if the typo had always been there, as has happened with many films. But generating the mistake now is unacceptable and should be corrected.