This falls under the "Rant" category...
Recieved the UK "Optimum"
'Escape From New York' Blu-Ray from Amazon this morning. I could barely believe how terrible this looks! :-x They have clearly done a botched upscale of the DVD and burned it to a Blu-Ray. Only due to massive noise removal and then heavy sharpening this looks much,
much worse than my old DVD (Which looked decent for SD). This is by a long chalk, the worst Blu-Ray I've ever purchased. To put that in perspective, I've purchased the legendarily awful original Blu-Ray releases of Gladiator and The French Connection... this makes those look like 8K transfers ;-).
On a positive note Amazon refunded me the money and just said f**k it, keep the Blu-Ray as well :noidea:.
Thankfully it seems that
Shout! Factory are releasing an awesome looking "Ultimate Edition" with a new transfer next month. So I'll wait for that.