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Another one that I forgot is Die Hard... Apparently the German dialogue spoken by Hans Gruber's heist team was re-recorded for the home video versions, starting from the remastered Special Edition VHS release, to resolve grammar and punctuation issues that were present in the theatrical cut. Only Alan Rickman's German dialogue remains uncorrected.

I don't know if McTiernan has followed the footsteps of Lucas/Spielberg by ensuring Fox only provide the fixed version for TV broadcasts, I'd have to compare my W/S THX VHS and SE DVD alongside my HDTV recording to confirm. 

I came across the 2xLP vinyl gatefold album today, any interest, considering the discussions earlier in the thread about a high quality isolated score? My SL-1210 is in storage but perhaps someone else could take the album from me and do the honours...

Sky Movies are showing all six films every weekend. They're very likely being shown in their original aspect ratio, unlike the cropped ITV broadcasts. If you're in the UK or Europe and have access to Sky, it might be worth a look. 

Have you felt a disturbance in the Force? Never fear - it's simply the return of ?Sky Movies Star Wars. Every weekend from Saturday 8 August, Sky Movies Greats will become Sky Movies Star Wars, a channel dedicated to all things Star Wars including movie marathons, features and specials. 

What's more, the entire saga - including the phenomenal Clone Wars and Rebels animated series - will be available on demand until the end of September. It's the first time the complete saga has been available on demand, anywhere in the world. ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qQzmh5BkTA

What are you working on at the moment?

I completely forgot about this one and I'm surprised no-one else has picked up on it. The theatrical release of Avatar in its 2.35:1 (2D) OAR is unavailable. On TV and home video, it's shown in Cameron's preferred 1.78:1 though there's a debate here regarding which version shows you more information...  

poita said:

If you really want it to feel like Christmas, stay tuned... Matrix, Star Trek III and Alice in Wonderland news soon.

I'm curious about Star Trek III, do you a version that's different from the theatrical release?

Just a couple of suggestions to add...

The combination of Coojah and Blader has worked well for me with a number of sites where I was then able to FFMPEG the captured .flv into an MP4 or MKV.

http://www.hensence.com/en/coojah/download.htm

RTMPDumpHelper, updated with the KSV 2.4 or 2.5 package enabled me to capture videos from a variety of sites, including, in the past, Hulu. 

http://github.com/K-S-V/Scripts/releases

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/rtmp_dump_helper.html

Cool, maybe I was watching something else at the time. :) What's the source of your avatar, btw?

towne32 said:

III would only take a few seconds to make a theatrical edit but I doubt anyone would care. It would be nice if any of the 'scene' cams/telesyncs from its original release were still available on the net, to see if there are any other changes that haven't been noticed. 

There was better than a cam or tele-sync for ROTS' theatrical version. A telecine did the rounds and whilst it wasn't quite as good as the final retail DVD, it's still a pretty decent copy for the circumstances and put the other offerings to shame. 

I've got it somewhere on an HDD, if you're interested, let me know.

@Mike... C4 broadcast the theatrical cut earlier this year, I don't know if you caught it, if so, what was the sound mix?

Success! After processing and converting the .TS via FFMPEG, I was then able to import the .MOV into Mpeg Streamclip, then perform the necessary trimming to the start and finish and the final .MOV plays in VLC without any audio sync issues whatsoever! For the future, I know what to do and hopefully this will be of benefit to other Mac users too.

Thanks so much for your help with this. 

I'll give it go and tell you what happens. :)

oh_riginal said:

Topic is in the title. I've never seen it in HD, and the DVD is OOP as far as I know.

As with many films that are classified OOP, there's loads of copies of the 190 min director's cut on Ebay:

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.XBlood+In+Blood+Out%3A+Bound+By+Honor.TRS0&_nkw=Blood+In+Blood+Out%3A+Bound+By+Honor&_sacat=0

Can't find any info on an HDTV broadcast but I did a link where someone is offering what they claim is an upscaled 720p version...

pittrek said:

Moth3r said:

Attack of the Clones wasn't released on laserdisc.

Hm...That's bad, was there at least a widescreen VHS ? My VHS is P&S

No, AOTC only had a fullscreen VHS release. Yet they included the deleted scenes at the end in 16:9...

For SDTV broadcasts, the files within the .TS container are MPEG2 and for that Mpeg Streamclip was usually my default choice :) but it doesn't even recognise the H.264/MPEG4 AVC based .TS files that my PVR churns out from HDTV recordings.

I tried both of them and they don't read .ts files, unfortunately. Thanks though.

A few little goodies for 2001 (& Kubrick) fans...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04sv91q

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04pvdhk

Leonardo said:

Hooooly cow Chris Huelsbeck just followed me on Twitter! I'm freaking out!

Wow! 

Have you contacted him yet?

For my PAL SDTV captures, I've been able to easily remove the adverts/commercials and trim the start and end points with Avidemux but the program doesn't cope with performing the same tasks on HDTV .ts files. The final result nearly always suffers from audio sync issues.

I could run VideoRedo from my Bootcamp partition but I'd really prefer a Mac option instead and one that doesn't involve re-encoding. Can anyone offer recommendations? Although Avidemux is free, I'm happy to shell out the cash and buy a program that will get the job done.

Thanks as always. 

Ronster said:

I found this one the other day also.

Devils Advocate (Taylor Hackford)

http://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=4057

An artist Sued because of a sculpture that was featured in the film was a copy of his work. So it had to be digitally altered to remove it's likeness.

http://originaltrilogy.com/forum/topic.cfm/Movies-that-were-updated-then-the-original-was-lost-other-than-Star-Wars/post/785293/#TopicPost785293

Ronster said:

The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)- Is in an ultimate cut. The theatrical release is no longer available and OOP which has extra and alternative scenes.

Alexander (Oliver Stone) - Is in an ultimate cut. The Alexander Revisited version is no longer available which had extra footage. The theatrical cut also makes use of extra footage. Not that good a film though started watching it and pushed stop on the theatrical cut.

I'm certain that the theatrical cut of Mohicans has aired regularly in recent years in OAR on UK TV (Channel 5) and the revisited version of Alexander isn't exactly difficult to find on BD/DVD. 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=alexander+revisited&_osacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.TRS0&_nkw=alexander+revisited&_sacat=0

Likewise with Enter the Dragon, I'm certain that I've seen the theatrical cut on ITV4 in recent years. Can a film be classified as lost if it's being shown on TV? 

New Order! :D 

Good job.

A lot of people go for Blue Monday but I always preferred True Faith:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA2Z3BhunRA

Thanks for the heads up, watching! :)

Edit... Ok, watched some of it but couldn't take his complaining about the level design for that long. The problem isn't the level, he's just not good at playing Turrican and paying attention to details... I'm amazed that he even needed a cheat mode, I was able to blitz through all the levels reach The Machine with stacks of lives left over. 

The theatrical version of A.G.S. has been available on DVD in a BD/DVD combo pack for nearly a year now:

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/12354/anygivensunday.html

I'm also certain that this was the version that I watched on UK TV some years ago and also recently on US cable, either CW or WGN America.

Hi, thanks for replying.

The UK Blu-ray is by StudioCanal and according to the following, suffers from DNR:

http://www.blu-raydefinition.com/reviews/a-bronx-tale-uk-blu-ray-review.html

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=256335

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/A-Bronx-Tale-Blu-ray/33707/#UserReviews

There's a German BD but apparently it's from the same afflicted master.

http://www.ebay.de/itm/In-den-Strassen-der-Bronx-Robert-De-Niro-BLU-RAY-NEU-/291126224404?hash=item43c879a614

http://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=186728&page=2

It seems like the best bet is to wait for a hopefully superior US release (I'm in the UK but my PS3 is modded and can play all regions) and in the meantime, cap the BBC's 4:3 version on its next airing.