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#461486
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Star Wars coming to Blu Ray (UPDATE: August 30 2011, No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
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@Timstuff: We're still waiting on Indiana Jones blu-rays, and that movie is also available in HD. I don't see why they wouldn't reuse the sources they already have. Plus, September just seems to be the month of big releases - the original GOUT, the original '04 DVDs, the Beatles remasters etc. (the original '04 dvds were a September release, yeah?)

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#461410
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GOUT, Automated Theatrical Colouring, and a Reference Guide
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While in concept your method is a simple fix, Zombie, I don't quite think it does the trick for me. The over-saturation - which does, admittedly, restore color in some shots where it lacks it otherwise - brings out the reds in the skin tones too much. Obviously this is simple levels fixing in a media player, so the results can only go so far. But it may be a good guide in the future for programs such as dark_jedi mentioned.

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#460913
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Huckleberry Finn to be Censored
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I've seen books re-written for kids in similar fashion. For example, I read a version of Gulliver's Travels as a kid that only included half the book (and was entirely re-written by another author). I suppose I'd be less upset if it were a situation like that; however, this is altering Mark Twain's prose. It's ludicrous. Like Gaff said, this is only one edition though so there's no harm done aside from the company looking foolish.

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#460308
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Blu-ray revisionism now getting ridiculous
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Leonardo said:


Well, to be fair, many times it is the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">companies</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">themselves</span> that, whenever they feel that somebody <span style="text-decoration: underline;">could</span> complain, quickly rush to cover their metaphorical asses.

In fact, it was Walt Disney himself, if I recall correctly, that asked for Sunflower to be cut from subsequent releases.

And Tom & Jerry <span style="text-decoration: underline;">were</span> censored, when sometime during the 60's Mammy Two Shoes was rotoscoped out of the cartoons and a thin irish lady was put in her place!

Well, yes, but Mammy's on the DVDs. AND as of the '90s in syndication most cartoons featuring her are merely dubbed over rather than re-animated as a skinny caucasian woman.