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Post #460352

Author
Warbler
Parent topic
Blu-ray revisionism now getting ridiculous
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Date created
31-Dec-2010, 6:46 PM

TheBoost said:

Warbler said:

  Also parents have one other option if they like what characters on a tv show are doing: don't let the kids watch that show.

WHY is that the only option? Why as consumers and citizens CAN'T parents take their concern to the manufacturer?

I didn't say it was the only option, I was merely pointing out that it was another option.   I also didn't say parents couldn't take their concerns to manufactures.     I just don't manufacturers should cover up the original.  It should be available to those who want to view it.

TheBoost said:

I asked if it would be ok with you if they edited it  It seems to me that it would be inconsistent to be ok with one and not the other.  That was my point of asking that question.

I don't see them as the same situation at all.

  1. You have a show still being produced at aimed at preschoolers that from day one tries to teach little kids good lessons, altering itself to do that better. The show has a goal it is trying to accomplish.
  1. You have an old show that has no intention of teaching anyone jack being altered by some hypothetical weirdo to fundamentally change the entire premise of the show.

but in both cases you are going back and changing what previous was. 

TheBoost said:

And when "Tom and Jerry" was 'censored' to cut out the Mammy it was because the owners wanted to keep airing it, making money, and not piss people off. Should some kind of 'restriction' be placed on them, not allowing them to do so? Should they sacrifice profit to avoid revisionism?

Some kind of restriction?  do you mean getting the government involved have them keep the owners from changing the original?   No I would not want the government involved.  Owners should be free to do want they want with what they own, but like the parents, I am free to complain and not buy their product. 

I can under why they made the changes to Tom and Jerry.  What I can not understand nor accept is not having the originals on DVD/blu with the changed versions.   Let people decide for themselves which version to watch and preserve the originals.