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is there still alot of mpeg artifacting in the dark scenes? do they still subtley "scroll" from top to bottom?

ok i'll take the blame for being "semantically incorrect" about this "ok transfer" (which i still think is BS) if Pioneer would take the blame for releasing a completely substandard dvd TWICE!!!!

so your gripe with my original comments about it being a bad transfer were based on what? i don't get it. you're parsing words and picking apart little parts of what i said. this is a bad transfer, a bad print, a bad dvd. it's all very cut and dry.

oh i thought you had intentionally added pixels to that one screenshot as a joke - i see what you were doing now. my bad.

sergio :-) what's sad is that it's not far from the truth

PS - Joshua - the "new" special edition La Femme Nikita in some ways looks worse than the FIRST mgm release. the edge enhancement is some of the worst some of us have seen. PS to Vincent - sorry if i sound angry but your rebuttals have come across as rather rude. and since your argument...

vincent - you're wasting your time writing these long posts since you obviously don't understand the underlying FACTS - THE PIONEER DVD WAS NOT TAKEN FROM THE LASRDISC MASTER!! the LD master was MUCH nicer looking!! So let me clarify for you AGAIN - the "transer was subpar 5 years ago, as...

steven page - he is comparing the dvd to a vhs copy of THE SAME MOVIE!!!! i can't believe some people's reluctance to accept this is a SUBSTANDARD dvd.

the main problem is the aforementioned compression issues and the analog/tape-type distortions. looks like a bad LD transfer....even though the previous LD actually looked BETTER.

yet another reason why a reissued rehash of the same old transfer is ridiculous. from what it sounds it's the same exact disc...no 16x9 enhancement, no re-encoding with better compression, no use of the corrected print.

Vincent - what kind of display are you watching this dvd on? it was "questionable" on my 27"...but even then the scrolling that can be seen in the blacks REALLY bothered me. Now on a 40" the dvd looks like a joke. So yes, this was subpar 5 years ago and inexcusable in 2003. What...

PS - a transfer is definitely SUBPAR if you can see black, slow scrolling bars in the blacks of many dark scenes. those are artifacts of VIDEO interference somewhere along the way, not an artifact of 16mm film, which i have no problem with.

vincent - have you read all of the posts in this thread?? Pioneer used THE WRONG transfer for the DVD. All of the work done for the LD was lost on the dvd. What's on the 19998 dvd (and apparently the new reissue) is what amounts to a workprint.

that stinks. it was a subpar transfer 5 years ago and it's near unwatchable on my current setup. they could have at least given us 16x9.