beware bad prints, lousy projection, bad sound

Rating: 10/10 (19 December 2001)

just a note to warn IMdB users about the current re-release. At New York's Astor Plaza theatre the print I saw was blurry, colors were not true and often bled like bad video, and the sound was mostly unimpressive and sometimes outright warbly like some pathetic summer camp projector. I never thought I'd say this and incredible as it may seem, seeing it on DVD was actually better.
Also - I'd like to put this question out there. Maybe someone knows. This is the third time I've gone to see a re-release of a classic film which has been "digitally restored" (Doctor Zhivago, Wizard of Oz, and now 2001: A Space Odessy) and the print was unexceptional or actually poor. I'm starting to suspect that these prints are not struck from original negatives, but are created after the film has been digitized for DVD from digital information. This would explain the poor quality. Does anyone know?