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Has anyone with the DC noticed a problem with the picture at the 1 hr 50 min. mark, when Crockett is using his satellite phone. For a few seconds, there is some horrible horizontal banding interference - they best way I can describe it - visible in the sky. When the camera angle changes, it goes...

Just ordered the DC :) Favourite quote in the film (possibly of all time :) ): J.

Just watched the new TCM 2-disc movie, with the DD5.1 track. The change that was really noticeable for me was that the radio news broadcast, which plays over the zoom out over the graveyard corpse, carries on over the opening credits at the same volume. You get to hear some random news items...

On the subject of mastering, has anyone noticed any glitches on the R2 disc? I am on my second copy - both have choked at the following points, all in the middle of songs - sometimes resulting in a momentary sound drop-out (although the DTS flag on my amp stays on), other times resulting in...

I know it doesn't ease your pain much, but get yourself a multi-region/multi-standard player, and all these problems disappear :) Annie, Snow Dogs, Natty Gann etc. are all available in widescreen in R2. -- J.

I bought this when it came out, having seen it at the cinema. I thought it was a great film, stylish and absorbing. I admired what the director was trying to achieve with his first movie. In the booklet that comes with the R2, Matthew Vaughn is quoted as saying that he shot the film in 2.35:1...

I want to hear George Lazenby's commentary for OHMSS... he's got some stories to tell :) -- J.

This sucks more than anything has ever sucked before. -- J.

Oooh, that looks good! I already have the bare-bones anamorphic MGM R2, but I might have to get the R1 CE :) Surprising how well this film did in the US compared to the UK. Those Weinstein brothers know a thing or two about marketing :) A.

Is there any news on whether there will be a Return Of The Pink Panther re-release or SE? I'd buy this in an instant to complement the boxset. IMHO the only thing that spoils the boxset is having one film (and one of the funniest) missing. J.

I have the Enigma SE, and the picture is perfectly acceptable. Note that the transfer is at the correct AR of 2.35:1, unlike the R2 and R4 versions which are cropped to 16:9. -- J.

Wasn't the 2-disc SE of Se7en mastered from the camera negative? I remember reading an interview with David Fincher where he said that he wasn't happy with the results he was getting from the inter-positive, and managed to sneak the original negative out of the vault :D I imagine the...

I wonder how they're going to achieve the picture-in-picture effect on the 4:3 version? -- J.

Is it possible that Columbia have saved money by using a 16:9 transfer prepared for HBO or some other channel that routinely crops 2.35:1 material? I suspect this is why we got a 16:9 Enigma in the UK... hopefully the upcoming SE will fix that though :) -- J.

Just to be picky, shouldn't CCBB be framed at 2:20, since it was shot in Super Panavision 70? This is assuming a 70mm print is available for the DVD mastering, rather than a 35mm down-conversion. -- J.

Has anyone had any more problems with this? I've just ordered the Canadian DTS version, so fingers crossed :) -- J.

Whoops, didn't see that - sorry :) Still, it deserves shouting from the rooftops that P&S is dying/dead in at least one territory :) -- J.

As the subject line... visitors to the HTF last year may remember reading in the Harry Potter-related threads that Warners had put out a separate P&S version of Philosopher's (or Sorcerer's :) ) Stone in the UK, and that this was the first time a separate P&S DVD had been tried in the UK...

Hi, Could someone confirm whether Training Day was shot in Super 35 or with anamorphic lenses? IMdB says it's Super 35, but I watched the film last night and elliptical highlights were clearly visible. I thought that these are artifacts introduced by anamorphic lenses? -- J.

No complaints with the DTS track here either :) -- J.

You hear this? This is the world's smallest violin playing just for Blockbuster. :D -- J.

Hi, I just picked up GGR. In common with a lot of people, I've only ever seen this on TV. It looked OK, like your average TV movie, and I was surprised to hear that it was shown theatrically at 2.35:1. I wasn't sure why the director wanted to use such a wide ratio for a film that was mostly...

Sounds like your disc had the Key2Audio system, developed by Sony disc manufacturing in Europe. This is a pretty basic form of protection, and works by mastering the CD with two TOCs - one good one at the start of the disc, and one deliberately bad TOC at the end. Audio CD players will (or...

Is everyone here buying and playing these CDs with no problems? I'm referring to the latest UK/European versions of discs by Foo Fighters, Phil Collins*, Lighthouse Family* etc. - they all apparently have the latest version of Cactus Data Shield, the protection method that caused all the...

Uh... it sounds like you're watching a non-anamorphic 2.35:1 transfer :) For some info on what an anamorphic transfer means, check out this site -- J.