I noticed consistently with all of the earliest Warner titles was a slightly dark look to the image. This new transfer is brighter, revealing more detail and depth to the image. The picture is crisper with fine detail often stunningly apparent. The brightening of the image also improves the color balance, which appears more natural and not as drained as the darker transfer. Fleshtones look quite natural and other elements, like the blood red of the scratches on the back of Kimble's neck, are far bolder.
Whites appear very pure and bright, while black level is generally quite excellent.
Andrew Davis preferred that his dark interiors be filmed with very naturalistic light and that only adds to the importance of shadow delineation which is very impressive. Another area where this disc excels is the removal of the pan and scan version, allowing the widescreen transfer to be spread across a dual layer disc. With the first release, each version of the film was smooshed on a single layer on opposite sides of a double-sided disc. With a running time of 2 hours and 10 minutes, that disc was quite compressed. Given the opportunity to reauthor the disc, I was sure that they could do a better job, and the difference is immediately noticeable.