AUTHOR: Dave Sypniewski DATE: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 ----- BODY: I'm madder than Frosty the Snowman flying to the North Pole and getting stuck for two hours in Las Vegas on a layover! Consider this the same as drawing a mustache on "The Mona Lisa" or removing the torch from Miss Liberty's arm and replace it with a cell phone as a 3-D billboard for Verizon. You just don't mess with certain things no matter how good your intentions may be. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a good example of someone in a production studio that after all these years, "Rudolph" needs a little celluloid surgery in order to attract a new generation of kids. The must be kidding me! Leave the gosh darn thing the way it is, even the couple flaws and glitches sprinkled throughout. There's no need to remaster this masterpiece just for the sake of selling DVD's! This is kind of the same scenario that was played out in the early 1980's when CD's were introduced. People such as myself, with hundreds of vinyl records were left in the dust. Sure, in some cases the record would skip and crackle and be full of static, but there's still something magical about being able to go back and listen to "Cheap Trick Live at Buddhakon" scratches and all! "Rudolph" has also been converted to HDTV for the dozen or so people that can actually AFFORD the $2,000 to have an HDTV set in their living room. Sen. John McCain recently was able to extend the deadline for HDTV to become the new standard in television. You may not like the guy but, he just saved you a few thousand bucks on something you won't need until 2009. Missing scene? Another "blink and you'll miss" couple of frames kind of like the re-re-re-re-release of all the "Star Wars" films. The average Joe Schmo won't even notice. I'm sure a lot of money was spent on the "Rudolph" project to bring it's value up to 21st Century standards. Personally, I think this is as nuts as Ted Turner when he "colorized" The Three Stooges as well as the B&W portion of The Wizard of OZ. When was the last time you saw either of those two things on TV? EXACTLY! Let all the flaws in "Rudolph" stay the way they are! When the new and improved version airs on television tonight, I still have my mitts on the old VHS copy, and THAT'S the way I'll be seeing it! -------- Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!: Re-mastered, missing scene, converted to HDTV? RUINED!

Squealing Pig WORLDWIDE!

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Re-mastered, missing scene, converted to HDTV? RUINED!

I'm madder than Frosty the Snowman flying to the North Pole and getting stuck for two hours in Las Vegas on a layover! Consider this the same as drawing a mustache on "The Mona Lisa" or removing the torch from Miss Liberty's arm and replace it with a cell phone as a 3-D billboard for Verizon. You just don't mess with certain things no matter how good your intentions may be. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" is a good example of someone in a production studio that after all these years, "Rudolph" needs a little celluloid surgery in order to attract a new generation of kids. The must be kidding me! Leave the gosh darn thing the way it is, even the couple flaws and glitches sprinkled throughout. There's no need to remaster this masterpiece just for the sake of selling DVD's! This is kind of the same scenario that was played out in the early 1980's when CD's were introduced. People such as myself, with hundreds of vinyl records were left in the dust. Sure, in some cases the record would skip and crackle and be full of static, but there's still something magical about being able to go back and listen to "Cheap Trick Live at Buddhakon" scratches and all! "Rudolph" has also been converted to HDTV for the dozen or so people that can actually AFFORD the $2,000 to have an HDTV set in their living room. Sen. John McCain recently was able to extend the deadline for HDTV to become the new standard in television. You may not like the guy but, he just saved you a few thousand bucks on something you won't need until 2009. Missing scene? Another "blink and you'll miss" couple of frames kind of like the re-re-re-re-release of all the "Star Wars" films. The average Joe Schmo won't even notice. I'm sure a lot of money was spent on the "Rudolph" project to bring it's value up to 21st Century standards. Personally, I think this is as nuts as Ted Turner when he "colorized" The Three Stooges as well as the B&W portion of The Wizard of OZ. When was the last time you saw either of those two things on TV? EXACTLY! Let all the flaws in "Rudolph" stay the way they are! When the new and improved version airs on television tonight, I still have my mitts on the old VHS copy, and THAT'S the way I'll be seeing it!

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