Since it's that time of year where ABC has the annual airing of Cecil B DeMille's 1956 version of The Ten Commandments, the question came back to me again--is the transfer on the 1998 Dolby Digital re-release of the film the same as the 1992 box set?

Initially you would be lead to believe no since the AR for both are different; 1.75:1 for the 1998 version and 1.66:1 for the box set, but the possibility is there that Paramount might have just taken the old transfer from the box set and just cropped the top and bottom a little more. Does anyone have both and made the comparison? It's times like this that I wish I had more issues of Doug Pratt's Laserdisc Newsletter from back then since he used to go into detail on framing differences between releases.

The Ten Commandments is a great movie. I got it on DVD and VHS. I surely need to get a great Laserdisc release of it next.

I've got the blu-ray box set from when Paramount tried to ape Warner's big box releases but the stone tablet case is honestly kind of awful

Blu Rays are nice but I'm not super crazy about high definition quality which is why most people go after Blu rays these days. Just like 4K.

Probably cropped, according to this postm https://www.avsforum.com/threads/the-te ... t-63746065

Edit, dvdbeaver says the 1:1.66 is cropped: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompar ... review.htm