umm, honestly, I dont think there would be a single legal argument Hollywood could use that would win that case against them, you can have your name changed officially, new passport the works, you are still the same person in the eyes of the law though, that's why it has to be done officially

Stamper, that sounds utterly insane. It wouldn't set a "precedent" for family members altering someone else's work either. That's a slippery slope fallacy.

Only the author can retouch his work, and the authors of this film are gone. Their sisters aren't allowed, it would establish a precedent where family can retouch an authors work!

Pull the other one.

Maybe some legal issue regarding copyrights and names, and such things?

?!?!? Stamper, now I have to hear this!

????

There will never be a remaster of the Matrix, the director's have changed sex so they can't go back and fix their previous film it's illegal

@TAF, PM sent on ot.com. :-)

Yeah at the Prince Charles cinema. Maybe someone here went to that screening.

There was a 35mm screening of The Matrix in London recently, I would have loved to have gone but couldn't

They need to remaster The Matrix as well. I was at a screening last Sunday and it was the same old 2K master...

It'll get a new timing pass for UHD

Yep it's the Final cut http://www.thehdroom.com/bluray/blade-ru...er-109666/

I assume just the final cut?

I'll be interested in seeing how they handle Blade Runner on UHD. I hope they don't muck it up.

Blade Runner UHD Blu Ray coming this september

Don't worry, vbangle. I replied to your PM. It's all good. :-)

If chewtobacca reads this, my apologies for PMing you for links...didn't read the rules until now...sorry man.

Also.. a PM is like.. well.. how saying it best.. uhm.. if he is offline, while you send a PM.. he may read it, when he comes online.. the PM doesn't just.. get lost on waiting...

So, send him a pm, lol.

he was online 4 hours ago...

I was hoping to send him a PM.

Oh, where's Stamper these days?

Clearly we could have guessed that from your username

The sun reflecting on me was blinding the other people...

Last year I was called "the whitest thing around the pool area"... Even the Plastik Chairs were not as white as I...

Yeah us brit can't handle weather like you chaps lol. being in the Health and Safety profession as well makes it more intresting! i've just had to iossue a memo to tell workers to check their pee!

^You should see what happens when it snows here

The UK calls 30 degree temps a "heatwave"!! LOL

If they work from negatives it must mean that they are going to re-do the title cards, right? I hope they pick the exact same font

This is a big release for Arrow. They're going to do a great job

Wasn't the 35th anniversary edition of Halloween the same as the old Criterion LD though and more closer to it's original cinema presentation? the 1999 THX DVD was a Cundy apporved 'revision' saying it was closer to what they were trying to acheive back in 1978? Correct me if i'm wrong though?

Wasn't the Scream Factory release from last year also supervised by Cundey?

None of those guys knows how their films look like. It's too long ago and they did too many films in between.

So we can be sure it will look bland with zero color correction like Halloween does I guess

This new 4K restorayion from the original negative is being supervised by both Dean Cundy and John Carpenter and thats direct from Stuart Cohen (Producer)

I'm ready to regrade it as well!

Yeah Arrow announced it earlier this year, it will be interesting to see how it differs from the Shout release

Looks like Arrow is preparing a restoration of The Thing in 4k https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/stat...5211807744

So when do we get 3D trailers?

re: BLADE RUNNER 2049 Making-Of Featurette -- my favorite part is ... "See it REAL 3D" :-O

And that is why we can't have nice things...

Invites on CG have been disabled for a while, since some vindictive ex-member tried to bring the site down.

@althor ... CG = CinemaGeddon

Hell, I still can't get an invite for there, lol. I had one guy on myspleen tell me he'd hook me up when they got things sorted and that's the last I heard of it.

BLADE RUNNER 2049 Making-Of Featurette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BUozYf9w0Y

What is CG?

I'm having trouble DLing new files from CG. Everything I've already DL'd seeds just fine, but anything new I pull down never connects. Is anyone else experiencing the same?

Let me know if you need any help with Data Structures and Algorithms, Colek. My degree is in CS.

Today's Data Structure and Algorithms, tomorrow Physics.

@Colek wow, what's the exam on?

^ ^ Because they're "getting into the flow" today? "Stealing Fire" -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og6q2h1QScg

I am procrastinating, so I visit it every few minutes rather than learn for today's exam.

Busy day. This is most people I've seen on the site at one time

Star Wars reality-check by Glenn and crew ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MvMWyIpOs&t=60m40s

That's pretty cool indeed and good to know. It's also weird since we usually keep the credits very close to the originals but oh well.

Basically, the English credits use the standard fades, while the French credits have everything wiping in from left to right, which looks rather cool IMO.

Just found that French Die Hard trailer which is very interesting color wise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDg9AkYRWCc

I didn't even know the English credits were different

Those closing credits for Die Hard 2 in French look better than the English credits, that's for sure! I just wish there was a way to make a clean version of the final shot so I could recreate those French credits in HD...

Yes, including a downmix is never a bad idea. The problem is that it makes it difficult to work out whether the original audio is present or not. If you run the decoded streams through Spek, you should be able to see whether or not you have two different mixes.

@Bigrob in the case of Escape from New York, Scream Factory also included a 2.0 mix which was a downmix from 5.1. I don't know how common downmixing is for them but I have to guess that any film containing both 5.1 and 2.0 tracks is potentially a 2.0 downmix. They say it's for maximum compatibility with all audio systems.

Just came back from a 35mm screening of Silence of the Lambs, and boy, that DS mix is a beast! The low ends rumble very loudly in the asylum, gunshots are very loud and present, and it takes the 5.1 mix by a mile. The image is very similar to the BD in color, but in 2 scenes, the contrast was noticeably different, and effectively so (Avoiding spoilers here, for those who haven't had the pleasure).

You'd probably have to check them on a case-by-case basis.

Scream Factory Blu-Ray's. Are the 2.0 tracks the original audio mix or are they the 5.1 mixes down mixed?

I was going to wait until the back-to-school sale period, one of three in the year when computers go on sale, but the constant failures my Dell laptop's enduring, and the time wasted from those failures alone, have forced my hand.

Good news: I might be getting a new computer soon, finally.

Angry Birds Star Wars cantina scene (very funny!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6lYFO_tKlE

"poita - Damn you Britain and USA trying to steal Australia's rightful place as the land of political turmoil." USA just won the crown: yesterday's Virgina GOP senators baseball practice s̶h̶o̶o̶t̶i̶n̶g̶. mass political assination attempt. And the U.S. "fake news" media is still calling it a "shooting"! We're No.1, right?

Any remixing done for LD tends to be pretty light in touch compared to DVD/BD

All time? Really? For every kind of tracks? AFAIK DD were a direct port of theatrical tracks, while DTS were just an APT-X -> DTS Coherent Acoustics conversions...

Soundtracks were altered for near field home viewing all the time for LD, unfortunately.

Check the tech. Info at IMDB

Just use the LD tracks - they should be 99% theatrical mixes!

There's this for 70mm: http://www.in70mm.com/library/process/dolby/index.htm

I don't want to include home video surround upmixes.

I'd like to include a surround mix with encodes for my digital movie library, but only if it's a legit original surround mix.

Is there some place to check if a film had a surround mix prepared at the time of its theatrical debut?

John Wayne? In Star Wars? Yep ... and sounds just like him, too.

VidAngel

I recall a service which allowed parents to rent a DVD from some company and then send them notes on how they wish to cut it, and the company would just censor it for them. It's no different than TV versions (At least in the states), so I don't see a problem. Even though there are films which even you cut out the graphic images, will still have adult themes.

It even could be interesting for preservation, if they are changed with audio redubs and such....

If the clean versions really are "available at no additional charge as an ‘extra’ included with the original theatrical version of movies in the program", I see no problem.

It's the same think I've thought... gritty, punchy, more violent and sensual... they would be PG-35, though!

They should make 'dirty' versions available too

Oh, Sony want's to start, to bring some clean movie versions (Versions censored for flight companies and Television Broadcast) to some vod services as choice to the normal Theatrical versions...

I'm interested and we have the LD PCM track for it

I'll try and grab them tomorrow.

Post some examples in the proposal section bigrob

Has anyone considered a regrade of Die Hard 2? There were some screencaps that showed that the BD is headed different from the THX LD / DVD release?

Adam West -- same Bat-time, but next Bat-Age, old chum! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NwQvA4OuMI

What??

RIP Adam West

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Psst ... hey bud ... I've got a friend Emile Fournier (Gambit [1966]) and he tells me he can get it for you half price ... on the quiet. ;-)

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If you want Luke's sabre or Paxton's Aliens armour