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That's very fishy. Is the computer able to read the discs at all?

Most archive TV is 1.33:1 (aka 4:3). Really old stuff is 1.25:1 (5:4) as this was the shape of the original TV tubes. Both ratios are derived from film formats. Modern 35 and 16mm film is 1.37:1, although in the case of 35mm this is often soft- or hard-matted down to 1.66:1 or 1.85:1 (one's...

Um...DVD+ and DVD- are recordable formats. I seriously doubt that Disney are running off commercial releases with a DVD burner ;-) If your Mac cannot play the TMS discs, there is something wrong.

Which leaves two questions... - are they planning releases in any other countries? - will MCC be the extended version or the theatrical?

Actually, TMM is open-matte. I have a copy. I don't know about GMC or MTI, but MCC looks like it *might* be open-matte too. I have three different copies of this: the UK DVD release, the US letterboxed laserdisc, and an anamorphic broadcast from UK TV. The framing on the laserdisc is...

Disney simply don't get it. They never have. I've sat in meetings with these guys, and they have an unbelievably unrealistic view of what consumers will put up with these days. Oh well. My hopes weren't high.

No, hence the "NTSC" :-P I have a functioning PAL machine (actually, it's a multi-standard, but its NTSC capabilities are shot).

Hi all...this is a bit of a long shot, but does anybody have a working NTSC Betamax video they'd be willing to part with? :-) I've been looking for one for a while, but they're kinda hard to come by... Thanks!

We shall see. If they do re-transfer MCC, let's hope they use a better print than the last time around - that one was 'orrible!

Actually, that's promising. If they're adding new material to the MCC and MTI releases, then they aren't simply re-issuing the original discs, which increases the likelihood of the movies being re-transferred in widescreen.

Depends on how it's done. If they have all the original sound elements available - dialog takes, music, effects, etc - then a decent 5.1 is perfectly feasible. If not, then the best that can be achieved is a faked-surround remix, which is never a good idea.

With all due respect, if you're finding that you're having to do that then there is something amiss with your setup. I wouldn't necessarily agree about 5.1. None of the early movies were made in that format, so the 5.1 DVD soundtracks are not the original mixes anyway. I'd prefer to hear...

It's almost certainly a genuine error on Disney's part. The two sketches were added to the show some time after it was originally edited together - the tape that Germany broadcasts omits them, for example, and the second one was rather sloppily edited in. It seems likely that Disney were...

Yes it was, which was rather my point! :-P

That's the normal procedure, yes, so long as you can demonstrate that you've made every reasonable effort to track the rights holder down.

It was released in France, though, so it's possible that Time-Life just hadn't got around to it. It's also possible that the rights were available for France, of course.

Not quite :-) They own the rights to the shows; they likely do not own the rights to any non-original music or lyrics. I wouldn't have thought that the cost of restoration would have anything to do with it. Apart from anything else, there is no reason whatsoever to suppose that they had to...

There are three obvious possibilities: 1) The rights situation has changed since Time-Life's release was negotiated, and the rights are now either much more expensive, or unavailable. 2) Time-Life was willing to pay more than Disney were for the rights. 3) Time-Life screwed up and...

Also, their original performers left, which didn't help :-P

Unfortunately not. I have some of the airdates, but by no means all, and matters are complicated significantly by the fact that different regions aired the shows on different dates (or not at all). The dates I regard as 'definitive' are the ATV ones, since it was an ATV production. For...