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Posted by Derek Janssen on 10/31/05 09:45
One-Shot Scot wrote:
> "Lookingglass" <Shemakhan@comcast.net> wrote in message
> news:3fSdnRitiJ3QXvjeRVn-vA@comcast.com...
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>>Anyone thinking about getting this new (restored for the Nth time) DVD...
>>GET IT!
>>
>>I have picked up each new "restored" video version, as it's one of my
>>favorite films. Somehow the technicians, this time, have managed to
>>re-align the 3 color strips so that they match up perfectly...
Check out the restoration featurette:
The Nth-minus-1 restoration we got in '98-'99 was a chemical
reconstruction of the film print, but for this one, they hauled out the
big '05 all-digital in-the-computer Ultra weaponry that they used for
"Ben-Hur" and "Gone With the Wind"...
AND finally put it on more than one disk (y'know, seriously, it may
actually have *been* that 1-disk disaster that finally convinced Warner
to start fooling around with multi-disks for their classics)--
Not only leaving room for the commentary that should've been on the
earlier disk, and giving breathing space to the Angela Lansbury
documentary, but we finally got our Music-Only track back, for the first
time since laserdisc. :)
> The main difference that I noticed is that the flesh tones in the color
> sequences don't drift between purple and green anymore. The flesh tones are
> rock solid on the latest OZ. And of course, the picture looks better than it
> has ever looked in the previous versions.
I actually dug out my old '98-print copy that I hadn't thrown out yet,
for comparison:
The colors are only a little noticeably brighter, but it's the CLARITY
that hits you like a lightning bolt--You have to keep reminding yourself
it's from 1939. 0_0
Derek Janssen
djanss@charter.net
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