Apprently, the lens adds even more of an offset to the image, so make sure your celings are high enough depending on your room dimension/screen size. darinp over on avsforum gave specific numbers on the offset caused so you might want to check on there.
There have been a whole bunch of awesome moments posted so far... for me, the first time I watched Kurosawa's High and Low (my first kurosawa moment), was wow from beginning to end. I couldn't believe I found a letterboxed, subtitled copy on vhs, before home vision released their version...
I've got a big-time, hardcore-from-the-old-school-days anime geek question... I used to live in an Arab country a while ago, and on TV, they'd show japanese anime, dubbed in arabic. Anyway, there was this one show abou soccer... it was abso-frickin-ly amazing. It was in the typical style of...
Ohayoo anime-senseis... any chance on Castle of Cagliostro being released in an anamorphic edition in R1? I love this flick, and if no re-release is in sight, I'm gonna have to break down and buy the non-anamorphic version, as it's quite good anyway.
sheesh.. just fudget the budget when it comes to graphics power. give me the gameplay, or i'm not buying even if you can render toy story 2 in real time.
thanks jeff... i popped this in (in OSL, of course). and enjoyed the heck out of it. Miyazaki's films are pure magic... now bring on nausicaa and totoro.
sigh... i still have my kiki DVD sealed coz of this thread. any chance disney will replace it(if that's what they decide to do) if I open it? i had to save up to buy these, and couldn't justify buying it again.
wow.. thanks for the most entertaining thread I've ever come across on HTF. I'm glad I didn't click over until today(once the fiasco was completely over). The suspense woulda killed me.
This is such an awesome movie, and is CRYING OUT for an anamorphic transfer with a DTS soundtrack. I still remember how impressed I was with the DTS mix I heard in the theater. THe beautiful visuals, combines with sotry/acting/direction that I thoroughly enjoyed, make me want this NOW!!! i need...