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I recommend that you also do what I did and compare the colors and the brightness of the DVD against the Blu-ray disc. To my eyes, the DVD gets it about right while the Blu-ray disc is too dark. I'd be interested in your opinions about both comparisons.

That's interesting and suggests that it should be possible for another label to obtain better results.

Correct. My point was that the first Olive disc was severely criticized and the U.K. disc showed what was wrong. Olive made amends with their second disc.

I watched this last night and I'm very disappointed. I don't think there's a brown push as such. I think the transfer is simply too dark. It's not as extreme as in the Blu-ray disc of the King Vidor/ Audrey Hepburn War And Peace but it's enough to subdue all the colors. I hope that a European...

That's a problem with several films of the 1950s. The established stars still had loyal followings who could guarantee big box-office takings, and so they were given leading roles which ideally should have been played by someone much younger. It is of course much easier to make a...

Unless my hearing has deteriorated in exactly the same way as yours - pretty unlikely! :) - the music is not too loud. It's more that the dialog in places is too quiet. On this disc the dynamic range - the span between the quietest and the loudest moments - of the dialog is wide. Even in scenes...

As I posted elsewhere, the teal-push fanatics will have difficulty complaining about Tender Is The Night. It's possible the transfer needs a tad more blue, particularly in some of the interior scenes where Leon Shamroy's lighting is masterly. I don't know the film well enough to judge confidently.