I’m curious Dr. Dre, why is it that so many home releases of movies have a revisionist colour timing like we’ve seen with Raiders of the Lost Ark, Jurassic Park or the Original Star Wars trilogy? and it’s not just the Blu-rays, they’ve been doing it since the VHS days.
I think it is related to the fact, that the limitations of home video made it virtually impossible to accurately represent the theatrical color timing in the old days. Additionally the scanning techniques used were pretty inaccurate, and required adjustments in color and contrast to be presentable. Current home video standards allow a much more accurate representation, but in many cases the color timing, that people remember, are the ones from their old home videos, and not the one they saw in theatres decades earlier. As such, modern transfers are often scanned directly from the negative, and color timed to be reminiscent of previous home video releases, or in some cases revisionist attempts to modernize classic films. That’s my theory at least.