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Post #744413

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litemakr
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'Raiders of the Lost Ark' - bluray and colour timing changes (Released)
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Date created
3-Jan-2015, 4:38 PM

AntcuFaalb said:

litemakr said:

I suspect the blu is the wowow version tweaked to try and fit the orange/teal "modern" look.

Wasn't the BD made from an entirely new 4K scan of the negative?

Also, it doesn't look orange/teal to me. It looks gold tinted.

That's what they claim but it doesn't make sense that they would scan and fully restore twice within a couple of years. And they didn't specify when the scan was made, just that it was the camera neg. All other home video releases used IPs or prints. The same company did both (Laser Pacific did the wowow and then Technicolor bought them and did the blu-ray color). Most likely the wowow was the original Laser Pacific restoration and then the color was tweaked for the blu ray. It is very telling that the original trailer for the blu-ray restoration uses the wowow color, not the blu-ray color.

Looking at the comparison I did for the ark opening it certainly appears to me that the blu-ray is a tweaked version of the wowow: 

http://imgur.com/a/BnYld