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Post by ScoobyAddict on Feb 25, 2023 7:57:37 GMT -5
Maybe they’ll upload everything to Boomerang once they decide to remove all Scooby from HBO Max. 🤞🏻
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Post by wileyk209 on Feb 25, 2023 13:20:31 GMT -5
Maybe they’ll upload everything to Boomerang once they decide to remove all Scooby from HBO Max. 🤞🏻 Provided Warner Bros.- Discovery decides to do something with Boomerang again...
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Post by Ark on Feb 25, 2023 23:46:01 GMT -5
It's odd to me that companies think they don't need to update a service that people pay monthly for. Even re-runs on television at least got new bumpers and programming blocks.
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Post by elemage on Feb 26, 2023 18:28:28 GMT -5
I mean... At least we still have the Boomerang catalogue? Even though they haven't updated The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?, and they're still missing like half of the movies. Yeah, but sadly the Boomerang streaming service has not been updated for TWO YEARS now. The last time something was added was on February 25th, 2021 - as of tomorrow it'll be exactly two years - when the "Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?" episode "Dark Diner of Route 66!" was added. Warner Bros.- Discovery seems to have forgotten it exists. They dumped the rest of the show on HBO Max for "Scoobtober" 2021. Plus, while some shows and movies do use the stunning new high-definition restorations (like "Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!" and certain "Looney Tunes" and MGM cartoon shorts), others still use old standard-def TV prints (like the 80s Scooby and Scrappy-Doo stuff and the other Looney Tunes and numerous other Hanna-Barbera shows), compared to HBO Max having virtually all of them remastered in HD. Are all of the shows even available in HD? I heard Pup doesn't exist in HD which is why the Boomerang rips are just so godawful. And yeah, going two years without an update is just horrible. Boomerang was never their priority but now I don't even think its on their radar. Which honestly, is probably a good thing. Means they can't ruin it. I don't know about the Amazon store, but as for the iTunes Store, they do have the entire catalogue of movies and shows, but most of them are in horrible video quality that it's not even worth it to buy them IMO And now thinking about Scooby-Doo is reminding me of Holiday Haunt and Haunted High Rise and I'm sad again.
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Post by Ark on Feb 27, 2023 13:50:33 GMT -5
If you want all HD stuff, I was keeping a list here of all the scattered copies. I have no idea why WB thought it was a good idea to scatter them all around various mediums. Also, it would not surprise me if TNSDMysteries, APNSD, and Reluctant Werewolf were all digitally colorized at 360p-ish quality and that's all that exists in color now. On the flipside, HB may not have had the money to finish them otherwise since they were relying on a computer program to speed up the coloring process during a tough time for animation in general.
It looks like you already saw the list, but for anyone else curious:
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Post by wileyk209 on Mar 1, 2023 23:18:36 GMT -5
Also, it would not surprise me if TNSDMysteries, APNSD, and Reluctant Werewolf were all digitally colorized at 360p-ish quality and that's all that exists in color now. On the flipside, HB may not have had the money to finish them otherwise since they were relying on a computer program to speed up the coloring process during a tough time for animation in general. Yep, H-B's computer system was VERY innovative for its' time. One of the first (if not THE first) American animation studios to use digital coloring and compositing, albeit on only some of their shows and movies. But of course, this was well before high-definition TV, and the shows were still edited and distributed on analog videotape. I also originally thought the system could only export to a 320x240 resolution, but someone told me otherwise it actually output to a 640x480 resolution, but it's still not HD. In 1990 or 1991, Hanna-Barbera sent the computer system overseas to Wang Film Productions in Taiwan (as H-B still had some ownership in Wang at the time), and they used it on a few productions, H-B and non-H-B alike. (One of the last times it got used was on "Scooby-Doo in Arabian Nights" in 1994, and the computer system was REALLY showing its' age by that time.) Unless Warner Bros.- Discovery finds a way to upscale and clean up those digitally-colored H-B shows and movies (and it COULD be possible with the right know-how), this is what we're stuck with...
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Post by Ark on Mar 2, 2023 18:41:31 GMT -5
Hold up. Doesn't Arabian Nights have an HD remaster though? This is really interesting information.
Edit: IT... DOESSS! So what does this mean if it has an HD remaster on Vudu/iTunes? They CAN upscale it somehow? What does that remaster look like? Anyone seen it?
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Post by wileyk209 on Mar 3, 2023 10:42:49 GMT -5
Hold up. Doesn't Arabian Nights have an HD remaster though? This is really interesting information.
Edit: IT... DOESSS! So what does this mean if it has an HD remaster on Vudu/iTunes? They CAN upscale it somehow? What does that remaster look like? Anyone seen it?
I hope they were able to improve it! I remember those horrible pixellated-looking pan and zoom effects, looking even worse than in H-B's 1980s output using that computer system! Maybe this means they'll also finally remaster "Tiny Toon Adventures" and "Animaniacs" in HD? Of course, those were entirely produced using hand-painted cel animation, to better emulate the classic Warner Bros. cartoons, so it should be easy, provided they can still find the original animation negatives, the way they did with the old Looney Tunes shorts, "Batman: The Animated Series," "The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries," "Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island" and maybe a couple others. (I say this because of how very "Animaniacs"-esque "Arabian Nights" was, aside from the really wonky animation.)
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Post by elemage on Mar 4, 2023 0:39:18 GMT -5
They always say deaths come in threes. Mystery Pups has been scrapped at HBO Max. Thankfully, this one wasn't a tax write-off, so it's being shopped around in the hopes that it'll still air somehow.
But Holiday Haunt, Haunted High Rise and Mystery Pups have all fallen. Aside from Velma's second season, I truly don't think there's any Scooby-Doo media coming in the near future. Well, not counting the comics.
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Post by ScoobyAddict on Mar 4, 2023 15:05:53 GMT -5
We have nothing Scooby related coming as of now. And if they make more stuff like Velma, I’m not sure they should continue making Scooby shows. Someone at Warner Bros. hates Scooby!!
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Post by elemage on Mar 4, 2023 18:02:52 GMT -5
Someone at Warner Bros. hates Scooby!! And they have NOT been shy about it. - Cancelling Scooby Apocalypse due to it straying too far from the original IP (which was the point). - All the executive demands on both Return To Zombie Island and Curse of the 13th Ghost. - The triple cancellations of Holiday Haunt, Haunted High Rise and Mystery Pups. (Four if you count the Krypto Crossover movie, which seems dead in the water since we haven't heard about it in months.) - The comics becoming extremely reliant on stock art and doing less and less experimental stories. Either someone hates Scooby, or more likely, they hate anything experimental about Scooby. Because all Scooby media in the past decade has strictly followed the confines of what people THINK Scooby-Doo was in the Where Are You era. But they've made it more candy-colored, less atmospheric, less scary, less ACTUALLY paranormal, and extremely bland.
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Post by ScoobyAddict on Mar 4, 2023 18:45:23 GMT -5
The Scooby-Doo Krypto movie has supposedly leaked online. Someone posted it on their Google Drive account. Very weird timing!
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Post by barneynedward on Mar 4, 2023 18:50:40 GMT -5
The Scooby-Doo Krypto movie has supposedly leaked online. Someone posted it on their Google Drive account. Very weird timing! Are you in If it was Able I’ve been walking for oven here in aboutcomplete enough to be able to leak, maybe that’s a good sign it wasn’t canceled. Come to think of it trick-or-treat Scooby Doo kind of snuck up on us too.
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Post by barneynedward on Mar 4, 2023 18:51:31 GMT -5
The Scooby-Doo Krypto movie has supposedly leaked online. Someone posted it on their Google Drive account. Very weird timing! Are you in If it was complete enough to be able to leak, maybe that’s a good sign it wasn’t canceled. Come to think of it trick-or-treat Scooby Doo kind of snuck up on us too.
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Post by Doo on Mar 4, 2023 18:55:12 GMT -5
The Scooby-Doo Krypto movie has supposedly leaked online. Someone posted it on their Google Drive account. Very weird timing! Yeah, the full movie was leaked online and the leak is legitimate. I am thinking maybe somebody at WB finally had enough with all the cancellations and the Mystery Pups news was the last straw for them, so they leaked it.
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