Another question - IMDB says this:
Recent copies of The Terminator contain some restored footage, not found in the theatrical release. This footage is not selectable bonus material, rather it is automatically incorporated into the film. Among some of the shots restored are:
- (At the factory)
- A shot of Sarah making a final crawl before falling onto an inactive conveyor belt.
- A shot of Sarah crawling on the inactive belt, towards an active one.
- A shot of the terminator shifting to the left, then to the right.
- A shot of the terminator riding on the active belt.
- A shot of Sarah falling off the active belt, before entering the compactor.
Is this true, are there extra shots in either the DVD or Blu-ray transfers?
And here are the altered scenes in the modern transfers I was referring to:
The new MGM R1 DVD releases has two altered scenes, at the request of Lightstorm Entertainment, supposedly to fix goofs in the original picture: a scene set in the future, when a Terminator enters the rebel compound, has been flipped on its vertical axis; the scene where the Terminator leaves the motel in L.A. has been cropped/reframed so that his feet are no longer visible (this was done to fix a continuity problem: the original scene showed Schwarzenegger wearing shoes instead of boots as previously seen).
The first one can be easily fixed by re-flipping the footage to match the old VHS/LD/first DVD transfers. The second probably can't be fixed, at least not without switching to an SD source like the original Image DVD.