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Well, this is what Warner said about international sales from Warner Archive during the last chat: So why don't they just get the best existing element and do a new transfer without any digital restoration? That would produce a better looking transfer than using something 15 years old. That's...

When Criterion releases a Fox title like Bigger Than Life on DVD and Blu-ray, it has to pay Fox a substantial licensing fee for the film. If Fox were to release it, as they did in France, they don't have to pay themselves a licensing fee. It simply doesn't make sense that Criterion, via its...

Probably involves heating the discs for various periods to simulate normal ageing.

The solution to DVD-Rs is simple, back everything up that you buy to ISO images using DVD Decrypter. Hard discs are now less than $100 per Terabyte. A 1 TB drive can hold about 230 single layer DVD-R images, assuming the entire capacity of the DVD is used (which sadly with Warner Archive discs...

But that's a pointless comparison. There's no analog home video format that can present films in DVD let alone Blu-ray resolution.

It's quite possible that if people demand anamorphic transfers, they will just take their non-anamorphic transfer crop the letterboxing, then resize the image and re-encode it. It won't actually increase the resolution of the image, and it may reduce quality due to all the re-encoding.

Well, I'm under 30 but won't buy digital downloads that have copy protection. If I could buy downloads that could then be converted to DVDs I'd do so. But I'm not paying to download a file that may not play in a few years because I don't have the right license key on my computer.

At least if/when that happens then they will have to start competing on price. I doubt they would all stick to charging $20, they would realise that whoever cuts their prices will probably get more of the sales.

Tell Them Willie Boy is Here is currently AUD$9 at most Australian department stores. I'm glad I have the Anchor Bay version of Blue Collar. I still don't understand how Criterion can profitably release Eclipse boxes that feature new transfers of films from the best available element on pressed...