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Amazon has the Seven Samurai Blu-ray (2-discs) for $29 with free shipping. This 1954 Japanese film from the Criterion Collection is touted as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made.
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Not something I'd buy but it's a heck of a movie if you don't mind subtitles. The Yul Brenner western Magnificent Seven is an Americanized version of the Seven Samurai. Of the two I prefer the original.
Considering it wasn't shot in HD I question the need for a BR version.
agreed...BR would be a waste on this. Great movie, though.
#2/#3, wasn't this movie shot on film? If so then with a HD transfer you would see an improvement.
yes, dave_c does not know what he is talking about. "shooting in hd" only has meaning for digital filming where the capture is a specific pixel size. 1920x1080 (full hd) has only 2.1 mp frames, whereas you need upwards of 10 to 12 mp to accurately represent normal 35mm, 100 speed film.
If they redigitized it from the original, and that original from the early 1950's is still in good (better) condition than existing digital copies of it, then you may be right. However, it isn't going to need the full 1920x1080 pixels to fit within the 1920x1080 HD standard, back then people (at least in this case) were shooting in 1.33 aspect ratio so some of those 1920 horizontal pixels won't be used.
On the other hand I still agree that IF it's an analog conversion it would benefit from more than 2.1MP, and yet what you're getting IS less than that because of the 1.33 ratio.
Bottom line, if people presumed there was no difference then my post may have mislead, consumers report this IS higher visual and audio quality than what they have seen previously, I leave it up to you to decide if these reports are accurate or just shills for the production company and the difference is just applying some noise filters, but I have hopes... with so many people liking it, it would be nice if it was preserved as much as possible, though on a side note, I thought it was kinda boring but that might be an internet affliction resulting in short attention span. YMMV.