Jetrell Fo said:
Jonno said:
Yes, though it now occurs to me that the earlier 2003 scan (used for the director's cut and quadrilogy DVDs) may have had a life in HDTV too.
In either case, the colour adjustments done for the DC largely remain in the theatrical cut (something that will hopefully be addressed in a spoRv - or similar - project at some point).
There is already a DC project that has the original color timing preserved. Creating menu's is not my strength and I have not been able to find anyone willing to help out so it sits as an "as is" release.
Sorry to interject this here. It should have it's own thread.
A good, quick way to tell which master/color timing was used is the exterior shots of the Nostromo. The Collector's Edition LD, the AC3/70mm LD, the '99 DVD and the early Japanese HDTV copy all have the Nostromo model as being gray. That's the way it is in the original 35mm (I've seen a print) and the way the model looks in real life.
When the film was re-release in '03 the Nostromo and much of the film was re-timed to have a blue tint. It looks this way in the DC's 35mm print (the most beautiful 35mm print I have ever seen) and Dtheater DVHS. I don't think there is another HDTV copy of this color timing outside the DVHS.
When the film was prep'd for the BD there was a green tint added to the blue tint. This is what it looks like on the BD, all current HDTV masters, Itunes (USA) and I believe Vudu (USA).
Those pics have a blue-ish Nostromo so it is the same master as the BD