So, since 2012 any new restoration on WB DVD sets has the colors and brightness completely off. People started to talk about this in the Little Quacker thread, so I wanted to make its own.

The same problem was also on The Chronological Donald Volume 4, and the colors were off in the same way, which probably means the same team was behind both.

Pretty much in both the Disney and WB sets, sky blue turns into darker and over saturated blue, green turns into yellow and red is very dark. It seems also there's a lot of grain in the picture and different shades of colors get horribly merged together creating a visual artifact.





Now onto the WB sets



2012



1998



2015



1995

I really hope this problem will be fixed, even though WB seems to have no interest in new releases anyway.

Well, I do know that the WHV restoration budget just wasn't there to put in extra time for color correction or tinkering with the picture contrast/brightness.

I think we're getting a little too fussy on restorations.

I really hope this problem will be fixed, even though WB seems to have no interest in new releases anyway.

I know how it is, but it's maybe because of restoration budget costs.

That's not the case. The color correction is intentionally done in the same way to all the shorts. They all have the green turning into yellow and such. It feels more like they hired a new team or something, and considering how the same problem is on the Donald Duck DVD it doesn't seem to me a coincidence.

I personally prefer to watch the later released shorts with the older transfers, especially on Tom and Jerry.

@Cool Cat - you missed the screen of 1998 remastering of "Rabbit Seasoning".

No it's you

Nevermind them.

In other case "Light vs. Dark" (a.a.p. print, 1995 print, 2004 print and 2014 print) of "Slick Hare", 1947


a.a.p. print:


Turner 1995 print:


DVD Golden Collection 2 2004 print:


Blu-Ray Platinum Collection 3 2014 print:


The weird thing is that, more you can see on the Blu-Ray "Dark" print than in "Light" Turner and DVD prints of this cartoon.

What's with the over/under scan? was the frame zooming in/out during that scene?

It depends how much they zoomed into the reel. Usually in the mid 1990s Turner transfers you could see the edges of the reel but that's not the case of Slick Hare.

The PC transfer has at least a restored track, like all the dark transfers do.

On pre 48 shorts the dark ones still look better if they weren't previously restored on a GC, like Hop Look and Listen, and that's because Turner didn't have access to the original negatives.

Post 48s instead end up looking worse in the dark transfers. All the Hippety Hopper shorts except the first look much better in the late 80s transfers I recorded from TV weeks ago.

I think we're getting a little too fussy on restorations.

Yes yes yes. Especially when we know WHV doesn't have the money/motivation to do anything about it.