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Blu-Ray looks more like a DVD than Blu-Ray, But still a good movie.

ByJoeon January 16, 2017

Although a great movie, this Blu-Ray transfer leaves a lot to be desired. It's not a bad transfer, just not anything better than good. It's hard to believe it was a transfer from original film elements, because the resolution, clarity and sharpness seem more on par with DVD quality rather than Blu-Ray. One thing that makes a good Blu-ray noticeable is how the fabric of shirts and dresses appears in close-ups and closer shots. Blu-Ray transfers allow us to see the makeup of the fabric. You can nearly see the thread count. But DVD quality won't show this. This transfer gives the impression of being a DVD quality transfer that was put on a Blu-Ray. Disappointing in that respect, but the movie itself, regardless of being an inferior transfer, is still a great movie.

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Excellent movie suffers from audio problems in its blu ray transfer

ByAnderson J. Vitouson March 30, 2015

Five stars of course for the movie itself, one of the canonical WWII movies out there. This review is primarily about the Blu Ray transfer, which yielded decent video quality, considering how old the film masters would be, but terrible audio, which is mono only, and could not be decoded by my consumer-grade Samsung 2010-era Blu Ray player. A recently acquired higher-end Oppo player does decode the mono audio track, but the signal is of limited usability except to play 'as-is' (strictly mono thru center channel of my 5.1 layout). This blu ray disc could certainly have used some audio post-processing to deliver a much better audio experience to a wider variety of players. Fair warning to others looking to add this to their collection.

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Two Stars

ByBRIAN'83on September 6, 2016

Format: DVDVerified Purchase

Good classic movie.....VERY BAD dvd;used is the key word! Would not buy for this seller again. Beware!

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SANDS OF IWO JIMA BLURAY

ByBOB SZVETICSon May 15, 2015

Format: Blu-rayVerified Purchase

Save your money on this bluray and other films released by this so called olive films there is nothing on this bluray but the film and the print is awefull with specks thoughout the whole film the old dvd looks much better and its has a feature on the making of the film and the trailer this bluray has nothing.

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No Closed Captioning

ByHKSon December 6, 2014

Format: Blu-rayVerified Purchase

No Closed Captioning. Video detail OK. Video goes to 3x4 on 16x9 screen just as it should.

Many scenes have white compression thus erasing facial features.
My wife would have enjoyed the CC.