SpacemanDoug

I know the episode involving Thomas as a Russian was very heavily edited outside the US

I’m sure a lot of people in here will know exactly why I’m after these airings, but in case you don’t here’s an explanation. When the show initially ran on the British channel E4, it featured a lot of music that was omitted on the DVD and streaming releases cause of laziness to obtain the rights.

I know there are some rips of the original airings floating around the internet somewhere and if you have them please send them to me, I’m considering doing a restoration of sorts.

Can I have a link to this?

also the Japanese laserdisc is edited, it has blurs over all instances of visible pubic hair

s4ndr0w said:

SpacemanDoug said:

update:

I met someone on reddit who’s reconstructing the episodes using a variety of recordings and DVD footage, right now he just started on season 5

Very interested to put my hands on it.
Do you have a link to the reddit page or user?

Thanks

yes I do

stretch009 said:

Actually you should be purchasing it. Both cuts are on the Shout Factory Collector’s Edition:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Exorcist-II-The-Heretic-Blu-ray/207008/#Review

Sadly no one seems to be listening since I said that myself a few months ago

update:

I met someone on reddit who’s reconstructing the episodes using a variety of recordings and DVD footage, right now he just started on season 5

Oh I found them already and shared them on myspleen

I doubt it would be the DVD version

there was no “Japanese version”, the theatrical runtime was 99 minutes

Nien Nunb said:

JayArgonaut said:

Back to the Future II: not necessarily a digital alteration but definitely a visual one.

The original: featuring “Coming Summer 1990”, as seen at the end of the theatrical and home video versions, including the Blu-ray:

Removed from the version shown in recent years by ITV (UK) and the “BTTF Part III” logo also appears to have been altered from the original.

This is an alteration, but I don’t think this is a recent change. It was actually more recently that the “Coming Summer 1990” was restored after years of it not having been included. I first became aware of it on the 25th Anniversary Blu-ray set and corresponding DVD set. It was not present on the 2002 DVDs or any previous VHS release I have ever seen. I believe it appeared in theaters this way and then was removed for it’s initial video release which is how it remained until 2011.

You’re right it was in theaters that way, I could’ve sworn it was on the 2002 DVDs though, but I do know it was missing entirely on the VHS

I sent a PM

I sent feedback in PM

Well the streaming versions for 4 and 5 are split, so a preservation might still be needed

are you gonna do seasons 4 and 5 as well?

they had the same issue as seasons 1 and 2, the DVD is uncut but the BD and streaming are split

I guess I can take a look at it

digitalfreaknyc said:

I have them all (except for Gypsies…).

In fact, you used my notes to create this post. 😉

I found them on Wikipedia yes

I sent a PM

When the show Will & Grace originally aired on NBC, there were a number of super-sized episodes that aired. When the show was released on DVD, there were a number of these that were their syndication edits that were cut down to 21 minutes.

Edited episodes include:
-Ben? Her? (this one is weird, the season 2 DVD has the edited episode but the “Best of Love and Marriage” DVD is uncut)
-Gypsies, Tramps, and Weed (not a super-sized episode but it did use its syndication edit on DVD)
-Women and Children First
-Dolls and Dolls
-May Divorce Be With You
-23
-24
-Dames at Sea
-A-Story, Bee-Story
-Ice Cream Balls
-Strangers With Candace (once again not super-sized but used its syndication edit on DVD)
-Friends With Benefits

If anyone is able to lead me to a source of give me one where they have the original NBC uncut versions of these episodes please let me know

There’s also the issue of the second half of season 7 and season 8 being presented in 4x3 instead of 16x9 as broadcast but that’s something else entirely and I won’t discuss it here.

Ah yes the 1983 laserdisc which is surprisingly good sounding has it

Magnum Force has never had its unedited mono mix on home video as ones that do have it have trimmed shots and other shots time compressed to save the amount of space needed at that time, the 90s stereo mix is the only way to get the original sound effects without any cuts or time compressed shots whatsoever

I have since located the entire original run so no need to search anymore

Most likely the same as the DVD

Why was it edited?

Do any of the DVDs have them unaltered?

Turns out there is some cut footage on the current two part releases of Return/Revenge of the Evil Leaper compared to the original broadcast so I’m doing a reconstruction with that and HD footage

Christine on one of its VHS (or possibly laserdisc) releases it has an extended version which spliced back in many of the deleted scenes which are provided separately on DVD

I know this one is DVD but The Devil’s Advocate has only one home video release that is of the theatrical version due to a lawsuit involving a sculpture from the movie. Only 125,000 DVD copies were made which are extremely OOP now as all other versions are edited to remove the sculpture for the majority of the movie.

oh fuck the upscaling of the master just proves how awful it is behind the poor DVD compression

Ed Harris in one of those shots looks like a wax statue