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cool stuff, the brother starts playing his harmonica and makes some of<br />
the puppets and toys in the room dance telepathically; meanwhile the bad<br />
guys are watching this over hidden camera in a room full of video<br />
monitors and stuff (I specifically remember a large reel-to-reel machine<br />
in that scene). On the <strong>CED</strong>, the scene fades out right when the kid first<br />
picks up the harmonica, I assume the song he played had some copyright<br />
snafu that made them delete the whole scene. This renders a following<br />
scene completely senseless- the next day the kids are confronted about<br />
their magic powers and are told "Don't try to hide it, we saw all that<br />
playing around you were doing" (I forget the actual dialogue there.)<br />
The way Disney does stuff nowadays, they'd probably take that scene out<br />
and deny it ever existed (like the altering the allegedly racist lyrics<br />
in Aladdin for the video release, and their Touchstone movie "The<br />
Program" had a major scene, the infamous "freeway scene" taken out in the<br />
middle of its theatrical release after someone was killed imitating it!)<br />
As for the DVD thing again, I'm afraid that any problems with it will be<br />
brushed off like it's no big deal; if you read some old magazines<br />
describing <strong>CED</strong>'s skipping problem I've seen a few comments like "this is<br />
only a minor annoyance, and this is still a great way to get your own<br />
video collection", in other words RCA paid us to keep our mouths shut<br />
about it! I had a letter published in Video magazine recently accusing<br />
them of doing something similar with DSS; someone had actually written "I<br />
did still see some motion artifacts but they were very subtle and I'm<br />
sure most people won't even notice them." Their big DVD article last<br />
issue was a major butt-kissing session; they even made a big deal about<br />
how great the built-in subtitle feature was, so you can watch a movie<br />
with the sound turned down when you have to keep the house quiet. Gee,<br />
what a revolutionary feature, I've never seen anything that can display<br />
what people are saying on the screen, ever. Oh yeah, except for those<br />
closed caption things, but otherwise this is totally new.<br />
Sorry I'm rambling, I've been up all night!<br />
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<strong>From</strong>: "H-n-C"<br />
To: <br />
Subject: saw a huge listing of LD's for sale in the current issue of Toy Shop<br />
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 19:40:09 -0500<br />
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check under the toybox section the guy had a bunch listed starting at $3!<br />
Hope that helps.<br />
Peace,<br />
Stephen "Always tell the the truth, it's the easiest thing to<br />
remember"...dMamet<br />
Cybershoppers CLICK HERE====> http://www.texasmart.com/hunters<br />
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 21:29:32 -0400
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