Asaki

I'm sure I forgot a lot of examples, but time is money...

SilverWook said:

There is apparently a reason for that.

http://sleepawaycampfilms.com/article_redcross.htm

 Oh, I know, but it's still silly.

Especially in that example...as if a wounded soldier is going to accidentally grab a DVD boxed set instead of a medkit =)

darth_ender said:

With Disney owning LFL would it be more possible to get a release of the Lost Cut?

 The same Disney that will never ever release The Thief and the Cobbler, and the same Disney that closed LucasArts and cancelled The Clone Wars?

.........maybe!

Yeah, it's really silly that they have to do things like that, especially in videogames...there's a lot of games that end up censoring any red crosses, which is kind of annoying since the red cross is practically the universal symbol for "this will heal you".

digitalfreaknyc said:

If there's a 16mm source, couldn't an HD version be created?

I'm sure when AMC showed it it was in HD, but it's starting to look like nobody recorded it.

Harmy said:

I'm sorry to say it but look at Puggo Grande - while it's great in it's own way, you can hardly say that it's better than the GOUT in terms of sources.

 I take it someone hasn't seen Puggo Strikes Back...

"OUR BAD!"

Never thought I would see that term used by a professional...

On a side note, it's kind of funny that the book is called "Who Censored Roger Rabbit?" @_@

SilverWook said:

My favorite open matte "blooper" is the scene in Bachelor Party where a character wrapped up in bedsheets falls out a window. Two very visible stagehands are at the bottom of the screen to catch the actor.

 One of mine, I don't know why, is in The Mothman Prophecies, there's a scene in the fullscreen version where the main character's hands are bloody for no reason. Probably from a deleted scene.

AntcuFaalb said:

This eliminates the need to pan&scan home releases, but still makes a widescreen theatrical release possible. It's genius.

 It is a nice idea, but often times the open matting can reveal boom mics and other bloopers =)

team_negative1 said:

It looks like we have access to another print of The Empire Strikes Back. Will come in handy down the road when the time comes.

So that makes it three prints that we will combine to get the best version created.

Team Negative1

 Be sure to let us know the details, when you get them \m/

Wow, were those posts really a full year ago? Doesn't seem like it's been that long...

jerlgrain said:

Any chance you may redo 4 and 5 in another fashion to see if they can be eliminated?

 Hopefully, sometime in the future, we'll get AVCHDs, or whatever the kids are into.

Krycek87 said:

Lossy or not, the original mixes still trump the new high age "remixes."

I get so used to switching to mono audio before watching films, that I'll go straight to the "setup" page all the time now, even though we usually watch newer films that were originally released with surround sound =|

TServo2049 said:

I hope I explained it well enough; anybody else, feel free to add anything.

Still kind of weird that a lot of shots look worse in the retakes, but I skimmed down a little further, and Lady Jaye does look better.

I like how he says that the only ten episodes that are botched are available sourced from master tapes on the DVD Battles sets, but fails to mention that they are hardly an economical way to obtain the discs @_@

Joral said:

-Reason for G.I. Joe: A real American hero animated series - the DVD releases were sourced from test prints that featured animation errors that weren't present in the broadcast version:

http://www.cartoonreviewsite.com/changes/joe/s1.htm

http://www.cartoonreviewsite.com/changes/joe/s2.htm

I don't get it. Is there a page where he explains what's going on? He seems to imply that these are all "fixes" that Rhino themselves made.

If, as you say, the Rhino releases are from test prints with errors, then why do most of the example screenshots look way better than the bootlegs?

Also, if, as he says, Rhino made all of these fixes, then surely the older Sony DVDs are unaffected? And possibly the Netflix streams as well?

captainsolo said:

TWINE is indeed at crazy prices. It would be nice to have but not essential. Except that is has the original Dolby 5.1 EX soundtrack which isn't on the UE. Is it on the original SE disc?

I have the SE, but I wouldn't know how to tell you if it's the original soundtrack or not.

In the language options, it only lets you turn on one of two audio commentaries, doesn't say anything about the main audio. I could see what PowerDVD says, but I don't have a DVD-ROM drive plugged in at the moment.

The back of the box just says "Dolby Digital English: 5.1 Surround".

I saw Skyfall the other day. I wouldn't say it's the "best Bond ever", but it was good. It'll be interesting to see where it leads (no spoilers).

Still haven't watched Quantum of Solace, though.

I found a thread somewhere where someone said something about being glad that they had digitally preserved all of their 16mms.

I'm sure if they meant to share them, though, they would've already. Seems like people would rather have you pay $$$ for the bootleg DVDs.

GonbeFAN said:

 ...those airings are apparently not uncut...

Hmm, so we're right back where we started.

Krycek87 said:

So, people are crazy on eBay. I figured I'd buy "Never Say Never Again" on blu-ray but damn... People are crazy.

Welcome to a couple of pages ago ;)

I've not been having any problems with the blog, in IE or Opera. Even the videos load now.

Kind of funny, I saw the Five Star DVDs of ANH and ESB the other day at a thrift...I didn't feel like grabbing them, but man, that box art could've fooled me if I didn't already know they were bootlegs, it looks pretty official.

_,,,^..^,,,_ said:

About Akira: do you think the laserdisc could be better than the DVD counterpart?

Well if yours is in letterbox, and NTSC, and has the original English dub, then yes, it'll be better than the fullscreen PAL DVD.