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Yet you still want what you want when you want it from them. Classic. Anyways, let's get back to Casino before the "old man tells [us] . . . to walk away." Here's hoping U announces a Casino HD DVD soon and thereby solves (or exacerbates?) your problems.

One of the Church Lady's famous lines just came to mind.

Well, as Paul A. alludes to above Andrew, you're getting into personal preference . . . understandable to be sure, but personal preference nonetheless. But having said that, if you have your lawyers fax over to Craig Kornblau's office and to U biz affairs a proposed DVD participation deal in...

Thx for the link, Andrew. And check out Cees' "practical" comments. Tell that to DTS! ;)

This smaller matter paled in comparison to the edited docu issue you mention. I think it depends on who you talk to as to whether U's early, separate DTS/DD releases caused confusion. I think most consumers got the DD and perhaps weren't even aware of a separate DTS release. More problematic...

Thx for the additional context, Eric. We're straying a bit here but I'm curious as to whether you've noted any relationship/overlap between U titles that had playback problems of the type being mentioned herein and those (older) U titles which stopped playing at all . . .?

I'm hardly a studio defender (particularly when it comes to a studio that released an "Ultimate Editions of Patch Adams and not Jurassic Park), but this is the same Universal that replaced a disc in the Back To the Future box and re-released the DTS Jurassic Park. Many of you guys likely have...

Problems on multiple players, Will?

Perhaps. Actually, probably. But I wouldn't be one of them. -p

I hardly think vid quality is the reason U decided not to include DTS on this release. And doing a combo of supps and part deux of the pic on disc two would address/ameliorate that issue. -p

I took a closer look at the 30th anni Jaws tonight at Costco after watching most of the edited docu this past weekend and, in the interest of balance, I must say that this release--with the significant caveat that I think U should have done it right the first time--is commensurate with what I...

I didn't say "supplant" or "death knell," Colin. Broad market trends are rarely presaged by what "the average consumer" is doing. And I won't even again get into the problematics of analogies to hi rez audio. Perhaps we, too, can agree to disagree. We may very well read some of the same vid...

That's what's so pathetic, Marco: the standard def DVD era has come and arguably gone and, eight years in, some studios have still not pulled their heads out entirely. Some movies will never get the standard def treatment they deserve. Ugh. -p

This sounds like Colleen Benn studio apologia to me. We'll have to agree to disagree on this. And I don't buy that what, say, Warner is doing somehow compensates for what U is not. What New Line releases does little to make up for Di$ney still not having released anamorphic transfers of...

For whatever my perspective's worth, Marco, I haven't had much to say about Jaws. At the time of its earlier release, I chalked the issues up to it being yet another fakakta Spielberg DVD. There have been issues with practically every single (U) one. I was used to it by then I think...

Thx, Frank--I largely concur with your perspective. The only thing I'd add is that the Casino reissue does have a new transfer that many are saying is an improvement over the original release. I also think it bears repeating that Universal has already announced two of the four titles you...

I don't care for the menu music in that IMO it's not appropriately period. It feels much too contempo/Ocean's 11. I would have preferred a medley of snippets from the myriad of 70s pop songs on the s'track. Hell why not even be really grand and use "Matthew's Passion" on the movie side and...

Although I'll be picking this one up for $14.99 at Costco 'cuz I love the movie, fwiw Doug I wouldn't agree with this. Disappointingly, none of this recent spate of Universal re-releases include DTS and, in the case of 12 Monkeys, there are no new supps on the re-release. The new Casino even...

Thx for the link to that DVDTalk review, Frank. -p

Gordon: Thx for the post/info. Indeed, amongst other things, this SE has me very curious about--not unlike the sopohomore weekend box office of a pic sometimes being the most telling--what the second slate of Universal HD-DVD titles is going to be. -p

Yeah, Robert, that is kinda lame, huh? And the image of Ace in the menus has him wearing clothes that I don't think he ever wears in the film . . . -p

PaulP: You're confusing (high def) video and film. Film as a medium is inherently "high definition." This is not to be confused with the video formats, say, George Lucas used to shoot Episodes II and III. Simon: Be careful there. Thanks for the information about the photographic processes...

Gordon et al.: Call me skeptical/cynical but "Newly Remastered Picture" may mean the equivalent of what Warner did on the Heat SE, namely a new encoding of the same transfer from 10 years ago. By the by, titles amongst Universal's recent flurry of SE announcements overlap significantly...