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The Roan Group copy may or may not be the best, but it is not all it's built up to be. Their original LD "restoration" was washed out, with much ghosting when characters moved and a flatness which made backgrounds look like painted theatrical flats (including some stationary characters). Annoyingly, the last note of the finale was left off the sound track. The DVD, as I recall, was little better, perhaps less washed out, but as I recall the source print had become splicey; I sent it back and burned my own copy from a tape I'd made of a TMC or TNT showing - which ironically also bore the credits of the Roan restoration team. That superb little final musical note was missing in all versions, however.

I had had a 16mm print of WZ from the 60s, which was crisp and clear, and had all the music. The positive addition to its content by the Roans were a few frames in which the 6th zombie is included by name in the "introduction" Lugosi makes of his cadre to Robt. Frazer (Beaumont) - some "restoration". Unfortunately, I donated the print to a charity auction, thinking the promised restoration had to be at least as good, since these 16mm prints had been in circulation, made to order by a dealer thru the late 60s-early 70s. Evidently, the Roans weren't aware decent prints had been struck of WZ that recently, and never sought one out, but rather got hold of something with a few zombie frames and a missing musical note from a dustbin somewhere and passed it off as an improvement.

With the LD, they also included a trailer, claiming it was from the 50s but in fact it was from the 70s, and what they claimed was a copy of the original UA pressbook, but in fact was a reissue pbk of perhaps no earlier than 1940.

But the myth persists that the Roans did a great thing with WZ, and they made a business with other video issues on that basis. Either few noticed how bad their WZ was, or didn't care; I never could figure that out.