The Blu-ray release of Nixon is of a high standard. The picture combines a lot of stock footage and new film purposely degraded to look old and to match in with the old but the 'present day' scenes look fantastic in high definition. I never owned this on DVD but I have read reviews saying it was a pretty poor transfer - never fear, Blu-ray is here! Clocking-in at three and a half hours you want it to be as pleasant a viewing experience as possible, and it looks great. The sound is solid too. The only fault I noticed was a couple of instances of a blue line running through the picture in the center of the screen at the 2 hour 35 minute mark - watching the additional disc's deleted scenes, which have nearly all been returned to the movie, confirmed the presence of these blue lines in the original film - why this problem wasn't dealt with during Blu-ray mastering is a mystery but it's a very small fault. While the deleted scenes are now in the movie it is still interesting to hear Oliver Stone's explanations as to why they were cut (time of course...every scene seems to be one of his favorites!). The extras are, as so often is the case, not in Hi-def and the source tape of the Charlie Rose Show interview is pretty poor but interesting to see all the same. You will be very happy with the quality of the main film transfer to Blu-ray - enjoy.
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