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Originally Posted by Gemini Cricket
One of the reasons I'm not on board with the Blu-Ray thing yet is that all the movies I like to watch over and over are black and white classics. I'm thinking they're still going to look all scratchy and grainy on a Blu-Ray disc also.
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There've been some prominent B&W (and old color) restorations done that apparently make the movies look better than they did on the screen back in the day.
That said, one of the big debates I keep seeing is just how much the restoration process should remove grain. Some remove all of it saying that if the filmmaker could have worked in a grainless medium they would have. Others maintain all of it saying that it is part of the artifact. Then there's plenty of in between.