calculus entrophy wrote:
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"if I would have known this release would have made this many people unhappy, I wish we would have passed this on to the second highest bidder."
Poor Kino. They are clearly an innocent, passive bystander, caught between the vicious, evil, release......and the "people", (usually referred to as "customers"), who are completely unhappy for unknown reasons.
I suppose this is sarcasm, but Kino most certainly what they were in since most of how they advertised this release was in "we're going to fix this !" and when it turns out not to be the case, well, that's just how things go.
Then, again, they could have fixed the color timing way more than they did.
domino harvey wrote:
Am I reading this right, Kino Lorber re-edited the film and inserted artificially created transitions to "recreate" a different (presumably unavailable) version?
If I have followed this correctly, they took the 4K restoration, removed the yellow tint, then matched the 1998 DVD cut, and then did a few other changes to try and replicate the original real original really real original TC.
Which would then be the "First Time in HD !" they advertised.
Ribs wrote:
Why do so many of the people who run the US boutique labels react like this to a controversial/problematic release?
It's not only in the US, believe me. I only know a few labels who take this kind of cases like opportunity for continuous improvement, and these reactions are usually so positively welcomed simply because they're so rare.
In the best case, the label is transparent in trying to fix things (and sometimes can and does).
In the worst, this is the typical reaction.
But most are just in the middle and simply don't react at all.