Dvd Etc. Magazine Poll: All Members Please Respond (1 Viewer)

[Bleddyn Williams]

1. Saving Private Ryan (preferably DTS). The definition of what home theater surround sound can do.

2. In the Mood For Love - French release. The menus, extras, and package design continue the feel of the film into a wonderful united whole.

3. Toy Story Toy Box. An easy choice, but a great example of providing extras that welcome both the new DVD owner and us "old lags."

 

[Wayne Clark]

Toy Story Ultimate Toy Box. Great transfers, great audio, great extras.

Terminator 2 Ultimate Edition. Show off menus, seamless branching, (Easter eggs)

Saving Private Ryan DTS- outstanding audio.

(Above all else, buy what you like. Don’t buy to show off. There will always be a better show off disk coming down the pipe. It’s the nature of this hobby. I happen to love all of the aforementioned movies)

 

[Maurice McCone]

Saving Private Ryan - best DTS, great film

Gladiator - best for extras and sound

Terminator 2 - good extras, the complete DVD.

 

[RichardAshbaugh]

Fight Club - Awesome movie, awesome disc, awesome packaging.

Beastie Boys: Criterion Collection - Probably the absolute best use of multi-angles and multiple soundtracks. Simply amazing.

Boogie Nights - Great disc, best movie ever.

 

[Jeremy Conrad]

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace - A great Dolby Digital track, great special features.

Toy Story & Toy Story 2: The Ultimate Toy Box - Stunning range of supplimental material and an excellent transfer.

Gladiator: The perfect disc to show off your new DTS 6.1 system.

 

[Stefan Mariasson]

No question.



a. Fifth Element. Great transfer and entertainment.

b. Matrix, not to be missed with extra good sound.

c. Molin Rouge, one of the best films ever.Fifth Element

 

[Gordon Moore]

1.Saving Private Ryan DTS (Sound)

2.Snow White (overall package-sound, picture, menus, extras)

3.T2 UE(extras,seamless branching, commentaries)

 

[Kyle]

Saving Private Ryan audio

Toy story 2 Video quality

Star Wars Ep 1 audio

 

[Rod Martin]

1. Bugs Life CE : Phenomenal transfer

2. The Matrix : Excellent visuals

3. Citizen Kane : Unparalleled restoration

 

[Kieran Coghlan]

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
- Great sound, great picture, more extras than you can shake a stick at, over the top menus and features...
North by Northwest
- Great classic film, and an excellent example of what the DVD format can do for old movies. The restoration done for both the audio and video of this film on DVD is simply amazing. This DVD has a reference quality picture from a 43 year old film.
AVIA
-Because no self-respecting owner of a dvd player should be without a good audio/video calibration DVD.

 

[Ricky Hustle]

Saving Private Ryan - transfer, sound

Fight Club - Packaging, sound

Ultimate Toy Box - Transfer, sound, packaging

 

[Larry Sutliff]

SUPERMAN-Great transfer,incredible sound,excellent extras,great film.

STAR WARS EPISODE 1:THE PHANTOM MENACE-Great soundtrack, the best features I've ever seen on a DVD, a fun movie.

MOULIN ROUGE-Superb audio and video,excellent features, a very entertaining movie.

 

[Mark F Hall]

Seven Samurai (my favorite movie) superb restoration, commentary

The Godfather Collection superb restoration, commentaries, deleted scenes.

Se7en: Platinum Edition superb video and audio (DTS-ES Discrete), commentaries, video ehancement demo.

 

[Martin Rendall]

1. T2:UE. Great picture/great movie

2. Haunting DTS: Great sound

3. Fifth Element Superbit: Great picture

Personally, don't care about the extras, menus, or all that other crap.

Martin.

 

[Warren_Sc]

1) Matrix - great movie, great sound, a reason to own a DVD player

2) 5th Element, superbit. This movie shows the potential of the DVD format. The picture and sound are improved over the already well done standard edition

3) X-men. good transfer and fun extras

 

[Checkmate1996]

- Matrix - Excellent Demo DVD - Lots of great scense for quick demos

- T2 Ultimate Edition - Same as above

- Tron - Excellent movie for originally ground breaking CGI effects, quality and extras

 

[Robert_eb]

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace: Sound; Great making of documentry.

Saving Private Ryan dts: Best sounding dvd I own. This should have won Best Picture (what was the academy thinking)!

Roger Waters In The Flesh: Pink Floyd tunes in 5.1

 

[John Berggren]

1) Contact - Excellent Picture, great sound. 3 commentaries. Particularly Jodie Foster's commentary.

2) Fried Green Tomatoes - Great Picture. Jon Avnet commentary is excellent. Isolated Score. Poster Gallery. DVD Rom capable.

3) Atlantis : The Lost Empire CE - Beautiful picture. Amazing DTS soundtrack. Full of special features. Everything you could possibly want to know about the making of an animated film.

 

[Julie K]

3. Brazil - A great movie with great extras. A fascinating look at how studios can butcher a film.
2. Evil Dead: Book of the Dead edition - The most unique packaging I've ever seen. Chock full of extras and a hilarious commentary by Bruce Campbell.
1. Bad Taste: LE - Because it's my favorite movie. And that's more important than any number of extras.

 

[Peter Hollandare]

1. Saving Private Ryan (R1) dts
Reason : Superb transfer, reference sound, realistic movie.
2. Haunting (R1) dts
Reason : Worlds greatest movie. Sound and picture is top notch reference quality. Despite the lack of blood in this movie - the sound will scare the living shit outta anyone
3. Peacemaker (R1) dts
Reason : Superb reference sound, great action movie.