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Everett
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Posted - Jan 3 2006 : 6:41PM
I know it's more than just transferring analog to digital but the details?
Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 3 2006 : 7:55PM
It's a term usually used with older mainstream movies. Prior to DVD, when movies were first transferred from film to video, the video was mastered in analog. It was a high quality analog, but analog nonetheless (BTW, even laserdisc was an analog format).

What they are trying to advertise is that rather than just transferring the existing analog copy to DVD, they went back to the film and started the video transfer all over again.

oatmeal
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Posted - Jan 3 2006 : 9:45PM
I think it loosely translates to "this time we paid attention"
GaySatyr
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Posted - Jan 3 2006 : 11:13PM
More correctly: "this time we paid attention (or we just might be trying to fool you)"

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TonyC
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Posted - Jan 4 2006 : 7:51AM
A record has three stages: recording, mixing, mastering.

"Digitally re-mastered" was coined when CD of older recording were being released, and what it means is that step three, mastering, was redone digitally, rather than simply creating a sub-master from the original analog master.

It might have some meaning in the context of a film shot on analog tape or film. (Might). It is virtually meaningless in the context of digital aquisition. We ran out (again) of "Marie and Jack", so I took the opportunity to make a few changes to the disc, and some very minor technical fixes to the film itself.

Strictly speaking the disc was "digitally remastered" because we remastered it digitally. Could have slapped a gold foid sticker on it. Maybe I should have. But I didn't.

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BigBobxxx
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Posted - Jan 4 2006 : 8:29AM
How about a scratch & sniff for the anniversary edition?
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Posted - Jan 4 2006 : 8:57AM
Do you really want to smell TonyC?
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Posted - Jan 4 2006 : 8:59AM
Hollywood loves to release multiple versions of every DVD. Never giving you the version you want (Lucas, Disney, etc). Bend over, here comes the Director's Cut.
Flash All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 4 2006 : 11:03AM
It just means the master for the disc was digital. For DVD it has to be digital. It means nothing about the A/V quality of the disc. I could take a 20 year old falling apart barely watchable VHS tape, digitally remaster it and then call the DVD digitally remastered regardless of the fact that the film is damn near unwatchable to to the source material.
Ordell
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Posted - Jan 6 2006 : 3:07PM
It rarely means anything any more. Warner made a big deal about the Police Academy DVD being digitally remastered and it looked like shit.
AztecGold11
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Posted - Jan 17 2006 : 9:05AM
Song of the South may be re-released this year for it's 60th anniversary.
It has never been remastered-what would they have to do to such an old film to get it up to par?


Edited by - AztecGold11 on 1/17/2006 9:18:30 AM

Bill All-Star Supporter
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Posted - Jan 17 2006 : 7:54PM
Of course it's been mastered. How else would there be a Japanese Laserdisc version otherwise?

If they decide to start from scratch, they will need to find and restore original film prints.

AztecGold11
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Posted - Jan 19 2006 : 1:47PM
The PAL version sold in the UK was not remastered-it was faded and grainy-so I never thought of the Laserdisc version.
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