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Tron Special Edition On Sale January 15th

Posted by chrisd on from the i've-gotten-2,415-times-smarter-since-then dept.

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"

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  1. Re:did anyone save anything? by AnalogBoy · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Tron was a cult classic to all computer geeks by Lemmy+Caution · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Even worse than you thing by chrisd · · Score: 4, Informative

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

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  4. A nice related article by Logic+Bomb · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  5. Wait, SUPPORT Disney?? by thesolo · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:Tron was a cult classic to all computer geeks by stripes · · Score: 3, Informative
    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.

  7. Links: love scene and video game by Ellen+Spertus · · Score: 3, Informative

    The DVD includes the cut love scene.

    The video game is available for MAME.