I've just whatched the SPHE brazilian copy of Starman and it's awesome.
Save for a few exceptions, I've been really impressed with the quality of Sony catalog releases as of lately. They seem to be striking new transfers for most of the titles:
St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night, Starman, A River Runs Through It, Gandhi, Glory, Dr. Strangelove, La Femme Nikita, etc.
Since I'm a film enthusiast and a purist, I wish the original sound mix was included, nevertheless, the remix seems to be quite good with no new foleys (that I could make of) and not much of in the way of gimmicks. On the loudest passages though, it sounds a little harsh, but I think that's inherent to the elements and most of the old Carpenter films I've watched sound more or less like that. It also reminds very much of the CEOTTK remix.
On the video part, there's a very thin EE on some ocasions, but that's something I've found on just about every other reference title out there. So don't let that scare you away
, the imagem is really beautiful with a very natural film quality (I already see grain haters screaming).
Too bad I can't take some caps of it.
I also got Blue Thunder and a few other early releases in regarding to the US, I'll be checking them out soon.
edit: check ou post 5
Save for a few exceptions, I've been really impressed with the quality of Sony catalog releases as of lately. They seem to be striking new transfers for most of the titles:
St. Elmo's Fire, About Last Night, Starman, A River Runs Through It, Gandhi, Glory, Dr. Strangelove, La Femme Nikita, etc.
Since I'm a film enthusiast and a purist, I wish the original sound mix was included, nevertheless, the remix seems to be quite good with no new foleys (that I could make of) and not much of in the way of gimmicks. On the loudest passages though, it sounds a little harsh, but I think that's inherent to the elements and most of the old Carpenter films I've watched sound more or less like that. It also reminds very much of the CEOTTK remix.
On the video part, there's a very thin EE on some ocasions, but that's something I've found on just about every other reference title out there. So don't let that scare you away

Too bad I can't take some caps of it.
I also got Blue Thunder and a few other early releases in regarding to the US, I'll be checking them out soon.
edit: check ou post 5