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Originally Posted by Boone_Carlyle
How would the transfers be accidentally turned green? That makes less sense then asking why they would intentionally do it.
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Not neccessarily - Steven Spielberg is known to be particularly fastidious when it comes to home video releases of his films, because (as he says) that is the way the majority of people will see them. He is famous for personally overseeing the transfers, and yet, despite all this, Saving Private Ryan made it to market with an awkward audio sync error causing a later recall.
As far as color timing, Roy Disney oversaw the digital restoration of the True Life Adventures (as they were close to his heart, culturally important, and historically groundbreaking and influential). And yet an entire short True-Life feature - Prowlers of the Everglades - came to market with an accidental mastering error in which the entire cyan layer of the color film was left out, causing the film to have an unnatural, red tint. Red alligators, red swamp water, red cranes - no one could have seen it without realizing something was wrong, but the accident made it to disc. Disney later quietly replaced the discs for those who comlpained.
I'll say again, I think Jackson is a very busy man right now, and was even hospitalized earlier this year. The magenta tint was discussed in a documentary regarding the former incarnation of Fellowship. It sounds for all the world that Jackson heard all the complaints about the visual quality of the theatrical Blu-Ray version of Fellowship, ordered a new master, and whoever performed it saw the magenta, and thought it was either a mistake or disagreed with it, and "corrected" it, along with lowering the contrast, and here we are today.