JackBurton

Yes they were.

coli

Good find! I stand corrected.

Mr. Cinema

The official site says 5-disc set and only mentions Raiders being given a full restoration.

Indiana Jones: The Complete Adventures

Walmart mentions this on their listing: "Bonus Disc with Over 6 Hours of New and Previously Released Content."

E Unit

That's all I care about really. Just please get Raiders done correctly.

JackBurton

Granted, the individual releases didn't come out until almost 5 years later.

Solid Snake

wait..how is it that ToD and LC aren't getting a full restoration? That doesn't make sense. So wtf print are we getting?

Mr. Cinema

This is how it's worded:

RobLutter

That says to me that they are going to use the previous transfer done for the DVDs (probably 1080i 2K for the time it was done) for ToD and LC. Just run them through, make them progressive, and color correct digitally.

Sounds like they're spending the farm on the RotLA restoration though.

I bet the actual film prints of all the films are looking rather rough and a proper restoration of all of them would've been cost prohibitive. I know I saw a print of ToD a few years back that looked like it had been dragged under a bus.

Josh Z

No studio masters films at 1080i. The Indiana Jones movies were first released on DVD in 2003. Those masters would have been at least 1080p (or more likely 2k).

DVDs and Blu-rays are not mastered from film prints. They're mastered from interpositives, internegatives or (in some cases) the original camera negative.

RobLutter

I'm just imagining a worse case scenario. 1080i masters in 2003 weren't out of the question when the only HD delivery medium was TV broadcast (720p/1080i)

So, :-P

Josh Z

The masters were still progressive even if the broadcast medium was interlaced.

The reason that only Raiders is credited with a full-blown restoration here is probably just that it needed the most work. For one thing, Spielberg was never happy with the brightness of the opening scene. That would be excuse enough for him to go in and redo the whole thing.

Was there anything specifically wrong with the DVDs of the other two? If not, there was probably just no need to redo them.

Solid Snake

was he never happy w/ it from when it was shot and released or never happy over time w/ it? major difference.

Josh Z

The scene was photographed too dark during production. Attempts to "push" the film stock exposure in post-production made the scene grainy and washed out, which was worse, so they left it dark. This can be better fixed digitally now.

Yes, it's a revision, but hardly a Lucasian change.

Mabuse

Which part of the opening scene? The Hawaii locations or the indoor stuff on a set?

Drexl

Maybe not, but we've seen how masters that made for good DVDs may not hold up well for BD. For instance, although it was a couple of years after Citizen Kane, it's possible that they could have removed too much grain. But, for now I'll assume they're fine if Spielberg felt they didn't need to redo them.

Josh Z

The exterior jungle stuff.

What I read on another forum yesterday is that all three movies have in fact been rescanned for Blu-ray. The first one has received extra frame-by-frame TLC that the other two didn't require, but (if this info is correct) they should all be new transfers.

Solid Snake

well if they didn't require it...I'm assuming they're fine. I'd assume.

Mr. Cinema

E Unit

I believe you were trying to post this.

Mr. Cinema

Yeah, it was showing up when I originally posted it. Looks like another book package.

Rizor

It looks like they feature the same disc art as the Star Wars Saga!

badlieut

Crap. UK boxset here I come.

Spottedfeather

What is the UK set like ? And is it region free with USA playable extras ?

badlieut

It is a region free set which is prominently advertised as such on amazon.co.uk. Honestly, I'm not sure what the set is like. I'm going under the assumption that it won't be this book style since they avoided that with the Alien set, the Star Wars set, etc. Hopefully we see their packaging soon.

Artman

Regarding the extras disk...think they can fit the roughly 2hrs of KOTC HD stuff plus the first three's SD extras onto it? I'd be nice if they included some of it on the movie discs as well, but we'll see. As long as it's close, I'm hoping to gain some shelf space by trading in the DVD set and KOTC BD....