Tron Special Edition On Sale January 15th

Muddie writes: "OnVideo.org reminded me that on January 15 , Disney is releasing the "Tron 20th Anniversary Collector's Edition" (1982) on DVD and VHS. Directed by Steven Lisberger, the film stars Jeff Bridges, Bruce Boxleitner and Barnard Hughes. The 2 disc DVD set contains the remastered film with commentary by Lisberger, producer Donald Kushner and visual effects supervisors Harrison Ellenshaw and Richard Taylor, a new 75-minute "making-of" documentary "The Making of Tron", deleted scenes, original soundtrack music deleted from the film and more all for $29.99. Check out all the happy details at Amazon's link"

Comments

Even worse than you thing

[Codex The Sloth]

Is it me or does the Amazon link have a "refer" parameter in it. Saaaaay.... you wouldn't be posting this to boost your Amazon Associate sales would you?

"Al Gore... This guys a real visionary. His favorite movie is tron for Christsake!" -- Dennis Miller

Re:Even worse than you thing

[chrisd]

That was not my intention, I may have done it when I checked the link out though.

Re:did anyone save anything?

[AnalogBoy]

You get to see the making of blacklights, the concepts behind such things as the MCP and I/O Tower, and the physics behind that scanner-laser thingie! and don't forget the touchpad desktop, still coming in the not-so-distant future. Also, see a light tank whup the hell out of an Talibani (?) battle light-donkey.

As an added bonus, the case will come in a limited-edition blacklight-glo scheme. Removing the DVD will involve de-rezzing the case.

Re:Tron was a cult classic to all computer geeks

[Lemmy Caution]

Ha. In the talk given by the director after the screening a saw yesterday, he said that he viewed Flynn/Tron as Bill Gates and Microsoft, freeing the computer from the mainframe model of IBM, who was represented by the villain, and bringing the power of the PC to the end-user. Those of us in the audience were horrified.

A nice related article

[Logic Bomb]

I submitted this article from the San Francisco Chronicle about the anniversary last week (rejected, naturally). It has a nice discussion about the film's creation and influence.

Wait, SUPPORT Disney??

[thesolo]

You know, you'd think with Disney's constant backing of DRM, as well as basically funding the SSSCA, that /. would encourage a boycott of them, and not encourage supporting them, regardless of what products they have to offer.

I would love Tron on a collectors DVD as much as the next geek, but until Disney starts respecting our rights, I won't be buying it. Mod me down if you want, but I feel that /. can and should be a place where actions start. If anyone else feels the same way, please make your voices heard, or at least contact me.

One of the deleted scenes.

[owenferguson]

One scene you may expect to see on the new DVD is shown here: http://www.tronfan.com/deleted/ds1.html Also, this answers the "no sex" complaint posted earlier...

Re:$29.99?!?!

[denofslack]

so buy it elsewhere...personally, I always use these guys. right now, Tron is only $21.59, a 39% savings.

Correction: Neuromancer (or concepts therof)

[Demonix]

Actually, The concepts set forth in neuromancer (which, in the copy I have, shows the earliest publishing date as 1984) were first introduced in his short story works, notably "Johnny Mnemonic" and "Burning Chrome", of which at least one was published in 1978 or 79. I cant find my copy of that particular collection, unfortunately, but I'm fairly certain that is the case.

Besides, the concepts set forth in Tron weren't exactly what we would call cyberspace...it was really just a personification of all those 0s and 1s (main character aside).

Re:Tron was a cult classic to all computer geeks

[stripes]

Unix (or Multics, or whatever they had back then running on mainframes) was the system that denied users access to the system.

Unix ran on those little wussy minicomputers, and sometimes midframes. Mainframes ran VM/CMS, I dimly remember an OS/MVT, but can't recall if that was a mainframe OS, and um, now I can't remember what Unisys had. I don't think Unix ran on mainframes until the mid-80s when Amdahl announced UTS which was (I'm pretty sure) a SysV port. Well, I assume it ran before then as an experiment, most likely on IBM 360 or 370s since you could port a new OS to VM while using the machine for other things.

Multics only ever ran on a relatively unpopular GE machine, and was (as far as I know) pretty much just a research system. I could be wrong about that mostly because I only read research papers about it.

Re:Correction: Neuromancer (or concepts therof)

[Proteus Child]

Johnny Mnemonic was published in 1981. New Rose Hotel was probably published between 1981 and 1983 (the book doesn't make it clear). Burning Chrome was published before Neuromancer, I think, which would put it before 1984 (Neuromancer's date of publication). That would put Johnny Mnemonic before Tron, but Tron before Burning Chrome (Gibson's first description of cyberspace) and Neuromancer (when he wrote more about the imagery, though the actual descriptions themselves were a little thin).

Source: Burning Chrome, 1987 edition published by Ace.

Links: love scene and video game

[Ellen Spertus]

The DVD includes the cut love scene.

The video game is available for MAME.

what about buffy?

[Suppafly]

What no mention on /. about the release of the Buffy the Vampire Season 1 dvd's coming out on Jan. 15?

Re:Umm....

[LeftHanded]

Actually, Tron was about computers, but used standard cinematic special effects. There was no CG used in Tron at all, which was one of the funny things about the movie. Despite looking like there were computer graphics everywhere, there were actually computer graphics nowhere.