Just an FYI:
Digitally Remastered is essentially a meaningless term now which has lost all vailidity because of overuse and abuse as a trendy advertising catch phrase.
All it really means (and has ever really meant) is that an audio or video source has been copied into a digital format.
It does not mean (although it has been mis-used to imply) that any sort of restoration has been performed on that source material.
For example, you could take your scratchy, beat-up vinyl LP of the Beatles Rarities, copy it onto CD from your turntable to CD burner and -legally- slap on the magic term "Digitally Remastered" because that's exactly what you've done. You've made a digital master copy from some other source.
The same holds true with DVD releases. Any backroom DVD producer can take a boxful of old public domain TV prints or VHS tapes, copy them onto DVD and mass market them with the term "Digitally Remastered."
"Restored," carries some legal weight, but there is so much wiggle room that it, too has lost validity. Look it up in the dictonary and you will see that there are many different definitions that a slick ad man can hide behind in order to claim that they have "restored" a film without doing anything more than putting it on the market.
'Whatta ya mean,' the PR man would say. 'It was out of print; we restored it to public view!'
See my point? Unless they give specific, verifiable, concrete details as to what they've done, don't believe that digitally restored/remastered means anything.
"If you don't know the answer -change the question."
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