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I like this post, and it just hammers home the fact that I really do want a documentary about the restoration process of film from start to Blu-Ray. Cemetry Gator posted:I thought a part of it is Mike Judge also isn't happy with some of the episodes, so he'd rather not release those on home video. But I could be wrong on that. That's what the note on the first volume of the Mike Judge Collection said. I feel like he more likely just cut out the more controversial episodes. There were a few episodes that sometimes show up on YouTube for a while, and yeah, I know why they're swept under the rug. The most egregious part of the Mike Judge Collection is that they completely chopped up some of the episodes that weren't quite standard, such as the Christmas Episode. If you can get a hold of the earlier Time Life set, you at least get that one in proper order (without videos sadly).
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FilthyImp posted:Now consider something like Daria, which relied heavily on MTV's then-current songscape for its transition and background music... you think MTV wants to pay 17 different music labels so they can get the bridge to Living La Vida Loca playing before the commercial break?
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Aug 26, 2019 19:37
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Some turbo-nerd put the music back into Daria but I think they only got a through the first season.
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Aug 26, 2019 19:49
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In general, I think people care way too much about original music in TV shows. It rarely ruins the enjoyment for me. The one that always stood out to me is Married with Children couldn't even license the theme song for a home release. But hey, it allowed them to sell that 21 disc set for like $25 which is what that show should cost. The real crime is when studios put out TV shows using the cut syndicated episodes rather than the full length ones. There's no excuse for that (although usually it seems to happen by mistake).
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Aug 26, 2019 19:54
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WKRP licensed a lot of music for its initial run but didn’t always have the rights for syndication and didn’t have them for DVD release either. The music was considered one of the reasons for the shows popularity. There are some episodes where specific songs were a plot point as well.
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Aug 26, 2019 19:56
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CopywrightMMXI posted:WKRP licensed a lot of music for its initial run but didn’t always have the rights for syndication and didn’t have them for DVD release either. The music was considered one of the reasons for the shows popularity. There are some episodes where specific songs were a plot point as well. This is true but I watched the first season with soundalike music and enjoyed it just fine. At the time, the other seasons weren't available. Then Shoutfactory released all four seasons with most (all?) of the music in-tact, but it cost $100 for the set. I wasn't about to pay that, but I probably would have paid $15/season without the music.
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Aug 26, 2019 20:00
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wa27 posted:In general, I think people care way too much about original music in TV shows. It rarely ruins the enjoyment for me. The one that always stood out to me is Married with Children couldn't even license the theme song for a home release. But hey, it allowed them to sell that 21 disc set for like $25 which is what that show should cost. The worst example of this is the 90s Outer Limits. All that hot 90s Canadian nudity, lost like tears in rain.
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Aug 26, 2019 20:23
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Music publishers will ask for ridiculous amounts. The 2008 animated feature Sita Sings the Blues, which was made primarily by one animator (Nina Paley) in Flash, had some 1920s jazz songs with recordings in the public domain. It turned out the publishing rights had not lapsed and the publishers wanted close to $250,000 to use 11 songs. Paley ultimately negotiated it down to $50,000; but had to take out a loan since it cost more than what it did to actually make the film.
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Aug 26, 2019 21:10
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Look, all I want is for Disney to buy everything so we can get the uncut Muppet show. Okay. Is that too much to ask?
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Aug 26, 2019 22:06
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Wait, the gently caress, Married with Children is missing the theme song on the DVDs? What? That show just feels wrong without that song.
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Aug 26, 2019 23:37
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Wait, the gently caress, Married with Children is missing the theme song on the DVDs? What? That show just feels wrong without that song. Adding insult to injury, I think the cheap complete DVD set is from Mill Creek.
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Aug 27, 2019 00:43
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https://twitter.com/CriterionCast/status/1166032653860007936 This reminds me that I haven't seen Paranoia Agent since it ran on Toonami back in my high school days and I've been itching to rewatch it. I can't believe it ain't streaming anywhere.
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Aug 27, 2019 00:52
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CPL593H posted:Adding insult to injury, I think the cheap complete DVD set is from Mill Creek. I mean, that tracks, I'm just amazed they would bother if they couldn't get Love & Marriage.
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Aug 27, 2019 03:39
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I'd rather have a B&B set that cuts out the music videos, which is the only time licensed music plays in them, than nothing. E: Similar to Married with Children, that lovely Birds of Prey TV show also doesn't have it's theme song. The weird thing is the song is by a woman who didn't go on to do anything, and the album the song was meant to be on never even actually go released. And Constantine, the show, which came out well after DVD and blu-ray were a thing, is missing a Sex Pistols song integral to the climax in the second or third episode. So what the gently caress happened there.
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Aug 27, 2019 03:41
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Oddly enough, there's never been any issues with Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising despite having a wall-to-wall soundtrack of early-60s pop songs. Apparently, Anger's licensing deal in 1964 (which cost him only $20,000 at the time) included rights in perpetuity. Likewise, the final episode of The Prisoner uses All You Need is Love in its entirety, but apparently it was licensed as a favor because the Beatles were fans of the show.
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Aug 27, 2019 04:03
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In video games, Alan Wake was pulled from digital stores for a while due to music licensing issues. You still could redownload it if you already owned it, but no new purchases were allowed for a year or two.
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Aug 27, 2019 04:57
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The DVD sets of House use a Massive Attack knock off theme song, in Australia at least. It never aired here with the original Teardrop credits either, so when I tried watching HD rips it was an actual surprise when Massive Attack started playing.
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Aug 27, 2019 05:00
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Iron Crowned posted:I like this post, and it just hammers home the fact that I really do want a documentary about the restoration process of film from start to Blu-Ray. Agreed. I would watch hundreds of hours in as much detail as possible about this process.
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Aug 27, 2019 07:26
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Iron Crowned posted:I like this post, and it just hammers home the fact that I really do want a documentary about the restoration process of film from start to Blu-Ray. It's not extensive or anything but there's a How It's Made segment about digitizing film and it talks a bit about restoration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4aZ5fCqLf8
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Aug 27, 2019 07:47
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There's good restoration docs on these releases: Lawrence of Arabia (Deluxe Blu-ray set) The Godfather Trilogy The Apu Trilogy All the Cinerama releases from Flicker Alley Most of Kino Lorber's classic 3D releases (some are even in 3-D)
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Aug 27, 2019 13:25
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Hoping to grab a copy of Apocalypse Now at Best Buy after work, we'll see how it goes. Always an adventure at Best Buy!
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Aug 27, 2019 14:31
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Basebf555 posted:Hoping to grab a copy of Apocalypse Now at Best Buy after work, we'll see how it goes. Always an adventure at Best Buy! Looks like mine will be waiting in my mailbox today. Too bad I can't really take advantage of Dolby Atmos tracks yet. Just for fun, I looked at some of the receivers and speakers... a bare minimum set up (7.1.2) would cost something like $2000.
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Egbert Souse posted:Too bad I can't really take advantage of Dolby Atmos tracks yet. Just for fun, I looked at some of the receivers and speakers... a bare minimum set up (7.1.2) would cost something like $2000.  (I'm only half kidding. Got one for work and it's loud)
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FilthyImp posted:You could always get a Dolby Atmos Sound Bar! Interesting to see them cram it all into a soundbar and remote surrounds. My current soundbar setup is normal 5.1 and handles well. From a quick look at my collection, I have only about 25 titles max with 7.1, Atmos, or DTS X (about 18 if I don't count some unnecessary 7.1 remixes on monaural films), so I don't know how much of an enhancement it would be.
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I, Butthole posted:The DVD sets of House use a Massive Attack knock off theme song, in Australia at least. It never aired here with the original Teardrop credits either, so when I tried watching HD rips it was an actual surprise when Massive Attack started playing. Streaming in the US gets you the knockoff, too, but the subs still say Massive Attack is playing
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So I put the first episode of Invader Zim through my digital upscaling workflow. I'm... not really sure if I like how it came out. Waifu2x and Adobe's algorithm both seemed to produce kinda jank results, but Adobe at least let me just let it run for 12 hours while I slept instead of making me babysit it, so it won that battle. Premiere also tried to eat the sound from my original source, so that wasn't good.
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Hm. At least watching on my phone, if I didn't know that was upscaled I'd think it was true HD. Since I did know, I was looking for the telltale signs and definitely saw them. So, mixed bag, but ultimately a success in the end. Well done!
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https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/status/1167441323827302400 November Arrow announcements are up. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (UK) Apprentice to Murder (US/CA) Flowers in the Attic (US/CA) Hitch Hike to Hell (US/CA/UK) Robocop (US/CA/UK) https://twitter.com/ArrowFilmsVideo/status/1167440283031789569 Pretty decent looking steelbook for Robocop
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Those robocop discs are dope, but I can't imagine the scan is different or better than the last release
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Aug 30, 2019 16:06
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That RoboCop will make a septuple-dip for me. I regret nothing.
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Probably the same 4k scan as before. Here's the bonus features: https://arrowfilms.com/product-deta...xkvjGiwfnAo1UI8 quote:LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS Also, crossposting this because I've been waiting for these to go on sale (not the hideous steelbooks specifically, but for this price I'll take it): FancyMike posted:Best Buy exclusive 4k Matrix steelbooks are on sale right now. FancyMike fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Aug 30, 2019 |
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Aug 30, 2019 16:26
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I've got an older Robocop blu that I think is very bare bones, I don't even know if it's the director's cut or what. I'll probably pick up that steelbook, it looks nice.
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Aug 30, 2019 16:36
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Couldn't help myself. Preordered Robocop
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Aug 30, 2019 16:42
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gey muckle mowser posted:I've got an older Robocop blu that I think is very bare bones, I don't even know if it's the director's cut or what. I'll probably pick up that steelbook, it looks nice. The director's cut has been on every home release since the original Criterion DVD.
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Aug 30, 2019 16:56
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I've never bought Robocop on home video because the early Blu-rays were supposed to be garbage. So I'll probably grab it. That's always what's infuriating about collecting movies. You'll have something that just about everyone wants, and you gently caress it up the first time with a lousy transfer and/or no special features, then wait years to do it right. Back when DVD hit its stride every garbage movie under the sun had hours of special features. Then by the mid-2000s they figured out that most people didn't care, and that was the end of that.
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It's cool that Arrow did Robocop, but I'd most likely never watch any of those special features and a bunch of them are probably on that old blu-ray. I never got the more recent blu-ray which I really should, but it can be had for like five bucks so I don't feel the need to pay thirty for a fancy box.
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Casimir Radon posted:. Early DVD was wild. Bounce got a 2 disc special edition
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Aug 30, 2019 17:45
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The Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition DVD was loving bonkers. That was the first DVD I got too.
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CPL593H posted:The Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition DVD was loving bonkers. That was the first DVD I got too. I had that one but got it too late to get the metal slipcover. My friend got the Extreme Edition that had a god drat 1080p copy of the movie on the second disc. This is 2003.
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