For those of you who can't figure the economics of colorizing the Stooges shorts.....here's what colorization guru, Shelly Jacobs says......(via Classic Horror Film Forum)....
Total cost for SONY to colorize all STOOGES:
18 min. [avg.] x 190 = 3,420 min.
3,420 x $4,374 @min. hi-def colorization & misc. =
$14,959,080
meaning, in the area of only $15 million SONY gets:
1. New 95 year copyrights.
2. New appraised balance sheet asset value.
3. New worldwide audiences for DVD, television syndication, download subscription for any device, i.e., PCs, DVRs, DVD recorders, VCRs, memory cards, PVPs [Portable Video Players].
4. DVD MPEG-2 issuance, followed by another sale, BluRay DVD issuance.
5. And let's not forget the new PlayStation Portable that will play video, including full length movies, i.e., ideal demographic for STOOGES, being that millions of these units are expected to be sold at est. $250, initially, then improved with the new SONY PlayStation 3 chip, known as the CELL, rated 10x faster than your highest end PC processor of today.