Quote Originally Posted by Sir Terrence the Terrible
It does not necessarily mean a poor remastering job, just a complete lack of remastering period.
From the look of film, you're probably right. The strange thing is this is the second reissue of movie on DVD (first one being in 1998), amd one would thought at least studio would clean it up a bit for second time around.

Most of time I have seen this movie on TCM, and as you said they may have better quality prints. But I imagine the original negative prints (if there is one) still reside with Columbia Piture which issue the DVD.

But neverthless it is an awesome movie which I'm sure you and Worf would agree