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PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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Sharon&Susan said:
Theatrical cuts of the Original Star Wars Trilogy.
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Rich T

Rich T

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PiratesMansion said:
The problem with Disney+ is that when Netflix (especially) or Hulu flood with content, Disney+ content drips.

It's not entirely their fault, as they haven't been able to film as much new content as was planned, but you would think they would at least move faster on getting some of the older stuff out that is just sitting in the vaults. Will most people care? No, but it's something. As opposed to their current "well we'll release four TV episodes a week total and that's just fine" model.

The Muppet Show is probably the last big thing that's still in the vault, and only for another month or so. Then what?

I get that there's always going to be an audience of parents who need to entertain their kids, and those kids might be fine watching the same content over and over again, but if they really want to grow their audience (and keep it, once those sweetheart signup deals run out), they need more. If they can't create new, then they need to dig into the vaults.

Then again, it's very much the WDW strategy of parsing out the bare minimum to lavish praise and it seems to work just fine for them in both cases, so...
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In addition to the thousands of hours of classic Disney TV that’s still stupidly locked in the vault, there’s the entire remaining library of animated shorts and a LOT of quality programming for younger kids....Like, why is Bear in the Big Blue House not there?

And what I would LOVE to see are the great shows from the early, classy years of the Disney Channel: Five Mile Creek, Avonlea, the Wind in the Willows (the British stop-motion series) and the rest. Heck, I’d love to see reruns of EPCOT Magazine!
 
PiratesMansion

PiratesMansion

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Rich T said:
In addition to the thousands of hours of classic Disney TV that’s still stupidly locked in the vault, there’s the entire remaining library of animated shorts and a LOT of quality programming for younger kids....Like, why is Bear in the Big Blue House not there?

And what I would LOVE to see are the great shows from the early, classy years of the Disney Channel: Five Mile Creek, Avonlea, the Wind in the Willows (the British stop-motion series) and the rest. Heck, I’d love to see reruns of EPCOT Magazine!
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They undervalue so much of their own history and just lock it in the vault (unless, of course, it's the "correct" property or they perceive it to be marketable). There's SO MUCH buried in their archives for no reason.

For whose benefit?
 
Mac Tonight

Mac Tonight

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Rich T said:
In addition to the thousands of hours of classic Disney TV that’s still stupidly locked in the vault, there’s the entire remaining library of animated shorts and a LOT of quality programming for younger kids....Like, why is Bear in the Big Blue House not there?

And what I would LOVE to see are the great shows from the early, classy years of the Disney Channel: Five Mile Creek, Avonlea, the Wind in the Willows (the British stop-motion series) and the rest. Heck, I’d love to see reruns of EPCOT Magazine!
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I'd probably watch the heck out of Under the Umbrella Tree and yes... even Welcome to Pooh Corner.
 
PiratesMansion

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DrAlice said:
I think I have watched almost the entire library of National Geographic shows on D+. Not all of them are worth watching, but that didn't stop me.
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Maybe I've chosen the wrong ones, but the ones I've seen just don't hold a candle to the BBC docs that used to be all over Netflix.

Which National Geographic series/specials do you recommend?
 
Sharon&Susan

Sharon&Susan

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1HAPPYGHOSTHOST said:
The original cuts no longer exist. when they made the special editions they updated the original negatives.
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I really doubt that, why would they keep the original (higher quality than any of the ones currently available) print for the Holiday Special, but not the original prints of the Star Wars trilogy.

Especially when the plan was always to keep updating them which would've required possibly tweaking the Special Edition updates as seen with Jabba.

This sounds more like an excuse George made so he didn't have to give the Library of Congress copies of his "embarrassments".
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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Sharon&Susan said:
I really doubt that, why would they keep the original (higher quality than any of the ones currently available) print for the Holiday Special, but not the original prints of the Star Wars trilogy.

Especially when the plan was always to keep updating them which would've required possibly tweaking the Special Edition updates as seen with Jabba.

This sounds more like an excuse George made so he didn't have to give the Library of Congress copies of his "embarrassments".
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They really did cut up the original master to make the Special Edition, but other high quality copies do still exist.
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1HAPPYGHOSTHOST

1HAPPYGHOSTHOST

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Sharon&Susan said:
I really doubt that, why would they keep the original (higher quality than any of the ones currently available) print for the Holiday Special, but not the original prints of the Star Wars trilogy.

Especially when the plan was always to keep updating them which would've required possibly tweaking the Special Edition updates as seen with Jabba.

This sounds more like an excuse George made so he didn't have to give the Library of Congress copies of his "embarrassments".
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The original prints are gone. that is why they had the final video release back in the 90's before the special editions because the original versions were no longer going to be available ever again because they were changing them.
 
Mac Tonight

Mac Tonight

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Really disappointed with Ready Player Two.

In hindsight, I can’t even say I’m surprised. I should have learned my lesson after reading his other two books, but saw it available through my library’s e-book section and curiosity won out.

Ugh.
 
smooch

smooch

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Sharon&Susan said:
Theatrical cuts of the Original Star Wars Trilogy.
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In case you aren't aware, you should look into Star Wars Despecialized. There are fan made remasters of the closest you can get to a high quality version of the theatrical releases of Star Wars. There are a few projects along these lines, another one being 4K77, where people go and take scans of original theater reels of the movies and clean up the footage quality and create high definition versions of the Star Wars movies in their original forms. I have a 720p folder of all 3 of the OT but I also have a higher quality, I don't think 4k but a high definition copy of A New Hope, but that is 17.8 GB alone, where as the 720p collection of all 3 films is only 5.2 GB. I don't ever watch the OT on Disney+ since I have these bad boys downloaded and ready to go!
 

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