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- #986077
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- Raiders of the Lost Ark HDTV 35mm LPP regrade
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- https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/986077/action/topic#986077
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Ive been following this thread and really enjoy what Im seeing being done for this restore. It took me a while to figure out what the WOWOW meant. What exactly was it? I know it is a Japanese broadcast company, or something, but what does the acronym stand for? Also, the WOWOW was sourced from what?
The WOWOW is an HDTV broadcast of Raiders of the Lost Ark from the Japanese pay television satalite channel WOWOW:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOWOW
The way I understand it, it is the Lowrey’s original restoration of the film based on a scan of the negative, and color timed to closely match their earlier restoration done for the 2003 DVD, that was also meant to be released along with the other two films in the trilogy, that they also restored around the same time. For some reason Steven Spielberg wasn’t satisfied with the result, and the restoration was redone, with a more modern orange and teal color timing, which was released on bluray.