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i think it's funny how "remastered" has come to be this term of quality. if something says it's been "remastered" well it must be good right? of course something can be remastered well or remastered poorly.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

I also hate the way DVDs always list "interactive menue" as a special feature. Like what's so fucking special about it?

― Huk-L, Friday, 10 September 2004 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Aside from the superfluous E.

― Huk-L, Friday, 10 September 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

scene selection!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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.

but maybe they were transferred to VHS or laserdisc previously? would still count as remastering?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favourites was the DVD of Norm Macdonald's Screwed which boasted an "informational booklet!"

― Huk-L, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Spaceballs mastered the art of cinematic comedy at home when it came out on video, and now that it's out on DVD, it's totally going to remaster that shit.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

"a remasterpiece!"

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:21 (twenty-one years ago)

but maybe they were transferred to VHS or laserdisc previously? would still count as remastering?

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 (twenty-one years ago)

remasters of the universe

the remaster and margarita

(sorry)

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

"remaster and servant"

(sorry again)

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

remaster and commander?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

let's not do 4000 of these

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

featurettes!

― sexyDancer, Friday, 10 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Interactive menus are nothing to sneeze at. I mean, you could have a DVD with a non-interactive menu, but then you'd need a waiter to ask you questions and play the part you wanted. It would take fifteen minutes to select a scene, and he'd keep pushing you to watch one of the special features instead.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

*featurettes!*

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 (twenty-one years ago)

my interactive menu always challenges me to a game of checkers.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Friday, 10 September 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually I think the cute thing about "remastered" as a term of praise is that it carries this sort of 50sish technological optimism, as if the techniques and possibilities of mastering have just now reached some unprecedented apex, such that watching a film mastered anything over three months ago is the equivalent of listening to wax cylinders.

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 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, it's sort of "hi-fi" of the 'naughts.

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread = remaster-bation

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

(well, not really, but i love obvious jokes).

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.zonnet.nl/forum_spam2/user_related/obvious/images/0673.jpg

― amateur!!st, Friday, 10 September 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

someone photoshop my face onto that pic ASAP!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't want interactive entertainment. I want to sit on my arse and be entertained. Why should I choose the camera angle? So they don't have to pay an expert to do it for me? They want me to choose the camera angle, they can pay me standard cameraman rates. This is my philosophy.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

As for remastering, that just means, 'we compressed everything".

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen a DVD that actually has that 'different camera angle' option. I've got a button for it on my remote though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 10 September 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

it's for porno

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The ads for these things would have you believe they astral project the viewer into the middle of a boxing ring or rock concert - still clutching his remote. For it is always a man. And the remote is a symbol for his manhood. Or, rather, boyhood, for this whole approach is obviously designed to tap into boyish oedipal fantasies of omnipotence and power - above all, the power to actually join in.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The remote is his penis, and the screen is his odeipal phantasy screen, on to which he projects the primal scene of his parents making love. In the boxing ring or on the sports field, he defeats his father, and marries his mother. All the while clutching his tiny remote.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

As for remastering, that just means, 'we compressed everything".
-- the music mole (colinsbarrowREMOV...), September 10th, 2004.

OTM.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

People are so naive about compression. I'm just talking about the music/soundtrack component of remastering here. They hear something ultra compressed and go, 'Wow, that sounds so much better!' Even A&R people and high end music industry people get sucked in by this. It's only after the aspartame rush of hearing everything LOUD wears off that they start going, 'er, wait, actually it sounds really crap, like sardines squished up against a plate of glass'.

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:24 (twenty-one years ago)

well you can't make a dvd w/o compressing it all like crazy

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 10 September 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

BEWARE THE 5.1 REMASTERED SOUNDTRACK!!!
The 5.1 mix of "Stalker" has different sound effects. They added ridiculous bird-chirping "outdoor" sounds to half the scenes and even the music is different.

― sexyDancer, Friday, 10 September 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

"miklos jancso"

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 (nineteen years ago)

seven years pass...

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 (eleven years ago)

nine years pass...

the “you can talk to me part”

― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:28 (one year ago)

oh wrong thread, beg your pardon <3

― brimstead, Thursday, 23 November 2023 00:28 (one year ago)

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