something i've noticed recently are dvds that say they've been "remastered" when in fact they've just been *mastered*, that is, transfered to digital from a film element for the first time. "remastered" would imply an earlier, probably unsatisfactory master. i think i saw some preminger film on dvd that was labeled "now remastered for the first time!" d'oh!
anyway it's interesting to see a neutral technical term become a term of quality, and then become nearly divorced from its original meaning.
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 17:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 10 September 2004 17:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Huk-L, Friday, 10 September 2004 17:34 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:11 (nineteen years ago) link
but maybe they were transferred to VHS or laserdisc previously? would still count as remastering?
― Huk-L, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:21 (nineteen years ago) link
that makes sense, if only because some video companies (facets for example) actually use their old, crappy VHS masters for some of their dvds.
(actually the example i was thinking of--a film by miklos jancso put out by some canadian company-- had never been on commercial video before. also this company has the worst design ever. they wrapped text around an image but made you read across the image to finish each sentence.)
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:24 (nineteen years ago) link
the remaster and margarita
(sorry)
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:25 (nineteen years ago) link
(sorry again)
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:37 (nineteen years ago) link
The "To Live and Die in LA" DVD has The Crappy Ending They Made Us Shoot and The Crappy Ending They Made Us Shoot Featurette.
― weather1ngda1eson (Brian), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Also as sort of a tangent I think they should re-release the Star Wars movies every twenty years, in Lucas style, so that by the time your great grandchildren see them they'll have the World Trade Center in the background on Hoth and Mark Hammill will be digitally replaced by a robotic Latina woman.
― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:55 (nineteen years ago) link
― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 19:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:03 (nineteen years ago) link
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― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 20:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:06 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link
OTM.
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― sexyDancer, Friday, 10 September 2004 22:09 (nineteen years ago) link
Saw 'The red and the white' DVD on sale the other day (on second run). anyone like him?
There is another old Czech film (from '68) called 'The cremator' that looked interesting..
― xyzzzz__ (jdesouza), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link
Dexys last album is 'remastered' in this wee package http://www.dexysonline.com/view-7-45 the original album only came out in 2012!shortest gap between something coming out and then coming out again in a remastered form?
― piscesx, Thursday, 31 July 2014 14:23 (nine years ago) link
the “you can talk to me part”
― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:28 (four months ago) link
oh wrong thread, beg your pardon <3