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Blu Ray, limited edition of 3000 units cropped by MGM !


If you compare this new edition to the dvd from 2004, you will clearly notice that the picture is severely cropped on top and slightly on the right side. The end titles with London Bridge is a very obvious exemple, with the top of one tower cropped on BD while there is a portion of sky above the same tower on the dvd. Also, a tree is cropped on the right side of the BD. So, eventhough the BD format is 2.35, it's seems like MGM zoomed in the picture. Already in 2004, the dvd was also cropped, down and left of the picture, this time, to the point that the format was wrongly announced as 2.35 (more 2.27 or 2.29)

However concerning the BD, this cropping adds more disappointment to a transfer,not really sharp and poor in details. For me, the gap between the BD and dvd is almost unnoticable.

Compared to the amazing BD of Big Jake( 1971),this limited edition of Brannigan is definetely a true disappointment.

For a such a limited,exclusive and expensive edition of Brannigan, I expected much better than such a poor and unrestored BD with a cropped picture hardly better than a simple dvd.

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