Mike O said:

Apparently Cameron thinks those are the colors he always intended to use in 1986. And between the market being on its knees, the franchise being dead, and the fact that it was done by Cameron himself, I don't see it being fixed now or ever. And I can't imagine many 35mm prints of it still kick around. Subtle revisions like the snake pit reflection in Raiders do bug me, but I also have to accept that to a normal, well-adjusted person who gets laid once in a while, but it bothers me all the same the same way it does on the Evil Dead disc, and it's a slippery slope to think what they'll go changing next. In other cases, like the coloring issues on The Fellowship of the Ring or Raiders of the Lost Ark Blu-rays, I do sometimes wonder if it's not a case of revisionism, but of simple fuckups on the mastering end.

Thanks for that comparison, my HDTV recording appears to have been sourced from the same "colour corrected" master as the Blu-Ray. I'll stick to watching my DVD instead.

Filmmakers, directors etc are entitled to make whatever revisions they like to their work (and in the case people such as Lucas, their franchises), regardless of whether those revisions are ill advised and come across as vandalism. As a consumer, I'm also entitled to object to what I see as bad choices that ruin my enjoyment of the product and vote accordingly with my cash.