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Electric Dreams (1984) (* PROJECT CANCELLED/POSTPONED *)

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A while back, it came to my attention that Electric Dreams was finally released on blu ray, but only in Europe. If that’s not disappointing enough,the blu-ray version had a completely different sound mix then the old 80s releases, plus it had that stupid blue tint that Hollywood is obsessed with adding to everything.

I planned to do a blu ray of this movie quite some time ago, but right when I was ready, I lost the freaking blu ray. I’m not kidding. It was accidentally thrown out when I was renovating the computer room in my house.

Having said that, I do own the VHS, and I will restore it for the fullscreen version, but my VCR only has mono output. Luckily, a vhs rip has been on youtube for quite some time now, so it’s gonna have to do for now as far as audio.

Now, I hate to ask this, but is there any chance anyone on here has the blu-ray? if so, can you rip the MKV for me and send it my way? If not, I can order another copy, but it will take a while to ship from England to Michigan. I’m just asking if anyone has it to see if we can speed up the process.

If nobody owns it, don’t bother buying a copy. I’ll just get one myself. 😃

Artwork I did based on the VHS.

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The rules say you have to own the source material. Sorry you lost your Blu_Ray.

The Laserdisc might be a better source for the full screen version and audio.

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I have the movie but not bluray. Whatt are the differences in audio?

here’s to sugar on the strawberries.

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Does the UK Blu-ray contain the acapella at the beginning that’s been omitted from the MGM releases?

“Logic is the battlefield of adulthood.”

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nedmerrill said:

I have the movie but not bluray. Whatt are the differences in audio?

The audio on the Blu-ray is upmixed to 5.1 and has leveling differences. Typical loudness war bullcrap.

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JayArgonaut said:

Does the UK Blu-ray contain the acapella at the beginning that’s been omitted from the MGM releases?

No it doesn’t, but it’s easily fixed with the soundtrack CD audio. Can literally overdub over the MGM logo on the bluray (on the VHS, the acapella is there, and so are the lion roars.).

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Well, I ordered a new copy of the Blu-ray. In the meantime i’ll continue work on the fullscreen restoration. The laserdisc goes for quite a bit, and at the moment I don’t have enough for it. I’ll keep an eye out for it on LDDB though.

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Mango said:

nedmerrill said:

I have the movie but not bluray. Whatt are the differences in audio?

The audio on the Blu-ray is upmixed to 5.1 and has leveling differences. Typical loudness war bullcrap.

the audio on mine is lpcm 2.0

here’s to sugar on the strawberries.

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nedmerrill said:

Mango said:

nedmerrill said:

I have the movie but not bluray. Whatt are the differences in audio?

The audio on the Blu-ray is upmixed to 5.1 and has leveling differences. Typical loudness war bullcrap.

the audio on mine is lpcm 2.0

Really? Maybe it’s just the Mixing differences I noticed. I remember the movie would be really quiet, and then get really loud at scenes with music or any sort of action. Either way,the blu-ray DOES omit a part at the beginning.

I do have some good news though, there’s a lasderdisc on LDDB at a semi reasonable price. I made an offer, but even if its rejected I’ll still buy it. I’ve been wanting to do this restoration for a while.

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VHS and laserdisc should share the same colors.

I am curious to see the difference between VHS and BD(DVD); can you post few screenshot comparisons? Thanks!

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Mango said:

JayArgonaut said:

Does the UK Blu-ray contain the acapella at the beginning that’s been omitted from the MGM releases?

No it doesn’t, but it’s easily fixed with the soundtrack CD audio. Can literally overdub over the MGM logo on the bluray (on the VHS, the acapella is there, and so are the lion roars.).

Thanks for the confirmation. It’s irritating that MGM would do something so petty (not the first time though) because you can still see references to the Virgin organisation during the credits sequence… I shall follow your project with great interest. 😃

“Logic is the battlefield of adulthood.”

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Well, after carefully looking at the laserdisc, it seems to have the same color grading as the DVD and Blu-ray, but the VHS still appears to have a more warm tone to it. Either way, It seems like it might be completely unnecessary to continue this project. The only real problem with the blu-ray is the missing acapella at the beginning, but I personally don’t see even that as much of a reason to continue.

I think I’m gonna mark this project as cancelled, but if you want a nice quality version of the artwork I made, shoot me a PM.

Sorry guys. 😕