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If anyone has a link for this, I’d appreciate a PM 😄

Looking forward to this being released!

The Decimator said:

The Muppets came to Disney+ recently, and, wouldn’t you know it, they’ve been edited to hell and back! Not only is The Muppet Show edited to remove “copyright infringing” material, but there are two episodes missing entirely. Namely, the Brooke Shields one, and the one hosted by Chris Langham (for those of you that don’t live in Britain, he was a comedian who got arrested for looking up child porn on his computer).

I knew they put that dumb disclaimer in front, but I didn’t know they censored it as well. How’s the quality? Maybe someone can do a proper restoration using them as a primary source.

There’s a new 4k BD coming out next month, possibly will have different color grading.

Also I see the complaint of it being “too dark” a lot but I just re-watched it and honestly it looked fine, I never had any problems seeing anything.

Would love to check this out if someone could send me a link.

Is it possible to mix Atmos without some expensive Dolby workstation? I bet you could do something really cool with a good Atmos mix to Fantasia, even if it’s not 100% true to the original Fantasound.

Out of curiosity, is there anything wrong with the blu-rays or Home Alone?

Does anyone have a link to this extended edition? I’d love to check it out!

Anyone have a link to the roadshow cut? I sent a few PMs a few months ago but never heard a response.

Nick66 said:

So I’m curious about something. When you stream the new master from iTunes/Apple TV on an 1080p SDR monitor, what are you actually watching? I get that the 4K would just be downscaled to 1080p, but what about the HDR? Is there some kind of tone mapping being done, or does Apple already have a 1080p SDR version of the new master that automatically streams if they detect you’re using a non-HDR screen?

I’d assume all streaming services have an HDR and SDR version of films, and just give you what your monitor supports. Tone mapping HDR to SDR is very resource intensive and not very accurate, while storage is cheap.

THX11384EB said:

Have you tried using something like FairUse4WM 1.3?

That requires a temporary key from the auth server to decrypt it. Since the server is no longer up I don’t there’s any way to use that.

I recently discovered that a 2003 DVD release of T2 included a bonus disc with an HD version of the film for playback on PCs. It was in an encrypted WMV container, and using Windows Media Player it would pull down a 7 day decryption key for playback. From what I’ve gathered it was possible to use that temporary key to completely remove the DRM from the files back then, but now the server is no longer available so that method is no longer usable.
I’ve acquired the encrypted WMVs, and I’ve been trying to decrypt them for the past few days. Does anyone have any insight for how to achieve this? Or maybe somebody has an archive of already decrypted files?
Every HD release of T2 has been notably flawed in one way or another, so I’m very interested to see how this version stacks up. It’s also possible that the audio and/or video can help in any current or future fan restorations. Either way I’d say it’s important to preserve and archive this version of the film, especially if future releases continue to disappoint.

ZombiEsushi said:

I actually have a copy of the F13 New Blood workprint composite. The quality is not the greatest as the deleted scenes are straight from an old vhs, and are missing some elements such as background music etc. and while they have been added back into the film itself (using the deluxe dvd set version if I remember right) the effect is far from seamless, again due to quality, but for what it is it is still a huge treat to see this as the director intended before the MPAA butchered it.
This had the potential to be the best F13th sequel out of the bunch but sadly I doubt that we will ever get to see this one in better quality than this.

I’d love to check this out if you can provide me a link.
It’s a shame no one had the foresight to save a lot of old “unrated” footage.Friday 13th, Event Horizon, and Nightmare on Elm St stick out as films I’d kill for a good unrated/Directors cut.

Would greatly appreciate if someone could provide me with a link.

Also interested in a link to this.

I would love a link to this.

Since it’s a 3D print would there be a way to scan/convert it to 2D without quality loss?

DavidMDaut said:

Could this be stuff that was liquidated from the Neverland Ranch sale?

This seems the most plausible.

Nicolas Cage said:

And So stwd4ndr2 What Do You Want

The US Theatrical Cut with original audio

Could someone PM a link to this? I’m not on BT but I’d love to check this out.

Finally got around to watching this. Great work!

It seems weird just how much footage was cut for the DVD. Seems very unnecessary

I was pretty disappointed in the blu-ray after growing up watching it a bunch on VHS. Really looking forward to what you’re working on.
And if someone could PM me a link to the work already completed I’d greatly appreciate it.

I loved Scrubs, but never knew this was a thing. Looking forward to watching it!

It’s a damn shame Disney hasn’t given this a proper release.
I’ll definitely be keeping an eye on this

Sounds neat. Interested to see how this turns out!

Here’s an interesting blog that has write-ups about the audio tracks on different releases of classic films: https://blah-ray.blogspot.com/