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Originally Posted by retablo
Again, you're assuming - for some reason - that TT somehow knows what the original shod look like. Why should they? They are a distributor. They are selling a product given to them by a studio. It should, by all intents and purposes, be correct at this stage. There's no reason they should have to go check every frame of every film they release to see if the color matches a previous DVDm which in itself may or may not be "director-approved" and correct. They are talking about refunds, which is all they can really do.
Who's supposed to be saying it looks correct? TT didn't tweak the color. Sony did. Therefore, why should TT have to say anything? They aren't responsible for whatever changes were made during the mastering. You're placing blame in the wrong place.
And I never said anything about anything "looking correct". I said, quite correctly, that the only ones who really know what's correct are the original filmmakers. Just because people on the Internet saw an old DVD version doesn't mean they know what's correct, either, because not every DVD had the correct color timing.
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It's amazing how many Blu-ray transfers are damned because it doesn't look like the DVD. As you correctly state, many DVD transfers were done overly bright and don't look anything like they should - but it's not what people are used to, what with most people's experiences with films that are pre-1990 only based on home video, and even if they'd seen the film during its release, their "hundreds" of home viewings would supplant any memories of the original release - that's why people swear and stomp their feet and scream that they absolutely saw the "To be continued" card when they saw Back to the Future in the theater. Many DVD transfers were taken from fading elements but if that's what people are used to when they get the correct color they scream bloody murder. Well, they don't really have the right to, do they, given that the real color is finally being presented correctly? I mean, they will, but they shouldn't, but they have no frame of reference.