MarcFBR wrote:BlazingFiddlesticks wrote:The sad thing is, there really is no way to market a second remastering process without admitting the original run was inferior, either by design (Which is was) or by virtue of the fact that their doing a second cut in any case.
Not true at all.
Plenty of fantastic films have been remastered more than once...
Standards have changed, as has the quality that can be given to the consumer. When many older remasters were done it was done with the knowledge that best case scenario was DVD or highly compressed HDTV.
I realize now that that statement was speaking more broadly than I had thought. I was not referring to the process of multiple remasters in general, so much as for this franchise, which your reference to classic movies only makes easier to highlight.
Using the example of Star Wars, Return of the Jedi is approaching 30 years old (It was 1983, correct?), and the series has maintained its popularity and profitability long enough to merit multiple releases across multiple video formats- nothing wrong with this, the movies are still loved and profitable, there's a certainly a videophile charm in seeing special effects and puppetry brilliant thirty years ago seriously reworked to be worthy of new technology (On top of the usual "They were
filmed at a higher res than 1080p" factor). The difference is that Star Wars, to my knowledge, spaced out its releases reasonably well. We got the Special Editions in 1997, again in 2004, we're getting the Blu-Ray in 2011. Good distance between releases, as it implies both that Lucasfilm knew better than to simply drop a straight 1080p version of the movies around the launch of the Playstation 3, and that thought and time would be and is being given to the presentation of the movies.
Dragonball Z, by contrast, has had four releases in the past five years, and unlike Star Wars, it isn't a property that merits Blu-Ray releases for the massive improvement of its visual quality, unlike most older movies rereleased, only for their profitability. After all, if most of us here are satisfied with the Dragon Boxes, than that renders
three consecutive remasters/modifications next to worthless, only aggravated by the age and production of the show and their all being released in quick succession. I recall VegettoEX's Kai review bringing up that at times he was reminded that the show was never meant to be viewed in High Definition, and sentiment I often share. Granted, I expect Funimation's release to change my mind for the better, as it will lack Kai's color corrections that only reminded me how old the show was rather than enhance it.
Then we have the issue of audience; the DBoxes satisfy the Daizex crowd, the Season Sets did it for many others, and Kai's got the new dub, which has no doubt satisfied some dubbies somewhere. Sure, there were folks explicitly waiting for Blu-Rays or those who will buy anything with DBZ on it, but rational thought has to catch up at
some point. I'm not in either category, which would be why I'm bringing this up in spite of the fact it can be hand waved away with "Casual fans will buy it again because its DBZ".
DemonRin wrote:
VLC media player on my computer has a real-time image filter.
I go in, turn the brightness down 10%, and mess with the hue slider just a taaaaaaad... and I get
this and
this. And it looks this way, in motion, in real time.
Downloaded, and wow, it really works. Now to begin my short and futile quest to make an Orange Brick look presentable. So you turned down the brightness to match NTSC-J?
