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Post #1653056

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Sambarker04
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The hunt for the pre-2010 HDTV rips of Toy Story (1995)
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17-Jun-2025, 10:59 AM

Okay, now that I got the ABC HDTV source. I should point out what was on it.

Here are the list of what I was able to spot, some were pointed out by stretch009.

  • The Disney logo has been replaced with the “This film has been modified from its original version.” screen.
  • Of course, there was the TV-G rating as well. It only appears at the beginning and after the fourth ad break.
  • The ABC watermark doesn’t show up until after the director credit.
  • From what I looked, it seems the DVD master was used, which is weird since the UMD Video master seems to be taken from a raw 2K master since the colour grading (or space) looks very identical to the Blu-ray release.
  • The 5.1 audio in this rip is the original 1995 theatrical mix. I found it weirder since I thought Disney would update the master to use the 2005 remix as this rip was from 2008. And speaking of audio, it seems to be more heavily compressed than the DVD.
  • There were spots for the commercial breaks, where there would be fade in and outs. Here’s the list of those scenarios
    • 08:52-08:57
    • 19:26-19:30 (in the middle of that, it show a brief second of what I assume was either a bumper or promo for what looks to be for The Wonderful World of Disney, especially since it shows a flying star with pixie dust and an announcer saying “The w–” before the cut happens. I did check on Wikipedia to see if it was a WWoD presentation, though the last broadcast of this film was in June 3, 2006, not 2008, and that was before they showed Toy Story 3 in 2014.)
    • 29:03-29:06
    • 35:05-35:10 (Hey, it cuts just like how reel 2 ends and reel 3 begins! Oh, and it has the flying star with pixie dust and an announcer saying “The w–” again.)
    • 48:34-48:38 (If you have the UK LaserDisc, that cut is exactly like how side A ends and side B begins. Oh, and it has the flying star with pixie dust and an announcer saying “The w–” again.)
    • 56:30-56:34 (Just like how the Deluxe CAV LaserDisc ends side 2 and begins side 3)
    • 1:06:50-1:06:55 (Thanks to the glitching, the first part of Woody’s line “Nice going–” was cut out.)
  • The video stream seems to be very glitchy on some parts, looking like they cutted out the ad breaks using LosslessCut or a hexeditor, though since MediaInfo hasn’t detected any corruptions, I guess CtrlHD just has a faulty hard drive from their DVR, or maybe their re-encoding is terrible.
  • There was an audio cut at 18:23, I assume anyone who processed the audio just used the unwanted final seconds of the raw reel 1 audio before the 2-pop, since this was obviously a point when reel 2 literally begins when Buzz is about to show off his “flying” skills. (If you listened to the entire reel of the audio from the Cinema DTS discs, you’ll know what I mean, which I presumed was an SMPTE requirement for 35mm audio).
  • According to 20:13, this rip was from a WFTS-DT Tampa Bay ABC 28 broadcast. So we know where those pirates come from. 😈)
  • Shortly after the third cut from the ad break, there was alot of frame stuttering. I can tell it was a poor re-encoding from 1080i 29.97 to 720p 23.97. It was almost fixed after the fourth cut (keep an eye for those stuttering 40 minutes in), until it might be fixed in the fifth cut, then being broken again in the sixth cut.
  • Woody’s line “Buzz, I can’t do this without you.” is cut out thanks to the stupid glitching. Now Woody says “Buzz–you–I need your help.”
  • The audio seems to start having cuts starting at 1:11:57
  • The credits were shown in split screen, bizarrely using ABC’s 1998-2002 branding, despite being a broadcast from 2008, while it shows promos of Alias and United We Stand on the right.

Overall, I think this rip is terrible. I understand this was done to let people watch the film in HD, but the quality makes the film look as close and a bit worse than the 2005 DVD, especially with the constant glitches. Though then again, I don’t think it was that time compressed, since the only things I can think of when it comes to time compression was cutting scenes out or speeding up the movie, as is the case with the 1982 CLV single disc release of Star Wars. Though it’s still fun to preserve it, though.