Hi, Titanic. Welcome abord &... don't sink too soon with the actual Disney cargo (sorry, the pun was too tempting) .I've never said that I'll do a 3d downscalling, so don't worry about that, I'm working with the other version mostly. The LD image, even on the screencaps, seemed a little over brightened so I toned down a little during the edit I'm doing on my free time at home (meaning not too often these days, alas). I'm also matching the original colours so the final product will have the same colours (or very close) from the LD (only the brightness, contrast & saturation from this source will be corrected a little bit).
So, it might take a while since I'm doing this shot by shot and also I'm doing the audio (english & french) that need to be reconstructed from scratch depending of the sources.
So, in the end, the waiting will well worth it.
First of all I have to say, Beauty and the Beast is my favourite filmof all time, and I was so frustrated on Disney because it altered the colors radically!
So, i refuse to buy the Bluray, and I'm watching the film only from a LDrip i got from the net.
What LD rip do you have exactly?
It's a LD rip that I got from someone here. Not the best quality, but still useable.
I'm entirely with you about Disney with it's actual management, let them screw themselves up with their new and cheezy franchises. They are actually going the same way as Universal with Phantom of the opera (1925), a film that put them on the map but abbandonned anyway, which was nearly ok since some good edition and restaurations came out from others, which is the oppsite of the actual Universal Monsters collection. Although, Disney are becoming so cheap now that they can't assume good restaurations from real professionnals (sorry, but Lowry stinks) just in the name of money. They've pushed so hard on protection of copyright just to be sure that the Disney era stuff stay in their hands only for pocket money, while there's not much money there, they prefer to let those collect dust instead of doing something about it. Their recent batch of barebone Blu-Rays and dvds (some filled with so idiotic stuff) shows just how much they don't care about their more advised customers. That's the main reason Why I'm boycoting them.
So, there you go...