I want to toss out a question here. I've been going through a list of Disney animated features and comparing old releases and new 'restored' releases.

While colors are frequently an issue, the biggest head scratcher to me is that in a lot of the old releases Gold Editions, LD, etc. the whites are WHITE. Like white as this text you are reading.

The restored releases make them a light grey or with a touch of color. The new versions seems better... if you had never seen the originals. I've seen it on almost all new restorations (I remember seeing this as far back as the Platinum Little Mermaid (which didn't seem right at the time)).

The thing is I then saw some screen shots of the (awful) Pinocchio restoration. This is one for some reason I remember how it looks in theaters, and there really was white.

I guess my question is, why is Disney killing the whites? (Take that quote out of context...)

Example: Cinderella: http://www.dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16200&highlight=cinderella+comparison

Btw, Molly, how goes your Cinderella project?

Edit: Speaking of, does anyone have a Platinum/Diamond screenshot comparison for Cinderella? I can only find LD versus Platinum. I have no idea how the new transfer looks.

Edit 2: Okay, reading further it looks like the Diamond edition did nothing to correct the over scrubbed detail and messed up colors.