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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: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.

  2. 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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  3. 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.

  4. 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.