I got the two disc set of GIANT for Christmas last year and had not opened it, so after the Dean documentary, I put in GIANT.
As some may or may not know, Warners remastered/restored the film but when transferring it to DVD, Warners did not enhance the image for widescreen TVs. Thus it's a simple letterbox.
When the credits came up in their semi-blurry not especially colorful guise, I almost started to cry. I was so upset that this classic was going to look so terrible.
Thankfully, the image itself turned out to be nicely saturated and sharp, if not razor-sharp (which anamorphic encoding would have accomplished). I watched the entire first side of the disc, and while disappointed it's not everything it could have been, I was pleased that dirt and damage are nowhere to be seen on the film. I will finish it tomorrow.