I tried all the big stores Tuesday and none of them had Dick Tracy or any of the new BV releases. I finally found one copy at another store. The transfer could have been more colorful, the LD I think looked better. The 5.1 sound was decent. Can anyone confirm if the rumors of an SE coming out...
In their article on the Lord Of The Rings dvd event they said they talked to a Paramount guy who said the high def transfer was just done and it would be a two disc set due in the fourth quarter.
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TNT/TBS seems to show two different versions of The Goonies. If it's listed as running 2 hours, its the theatrical version(of course pan and scan,edited for content) but it's edited for time- I'm pretty sure the scene with them messing with the water pipes is cut and when Andy kisses Mikey- and...
Heres my guesses-
Alien series- New Special Editions
Romeo and Juliet- same as above
Speed/Speed 2- same as above
Apes,Castaway,Abyss,ID4- They will probably make the same special editions available just with new covers that have widescreen banners since their will be P&S rereleases.
Anyone who has HDTV is really lucky! ABC will be airing Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Temple of Doom in High Def with 5.1 sound on February 17th and 18th. Wonder if the dvds are coming soon?
3 times Predator is released and still only a special edition in region 2 and no release of it's sequel in region 1. That makes no sense. Fox, a special edition of Predator and a dvd release of Predator 2 would both sell a lot more then a full frame edition of Predator.
The Warchoskis would not let WB release a pan and scan edition. I remember reading this somewhere. Same with Hannibal, MGM wanted to put out seprate OAR and full frame versions on dvd, but Ridley said only OAR on dvd.
Studios should do what Dreamworks did with Shrek and Universal did with their Ultimate Edition line. If the movie requires dual layer and has a ton of extras put the widescreen version of the movie on the first disc with the commentary and DTS audio and the subtitles. The second disc can contain...
Morgan Creek does their own work on their dvds. Warner just distributes them, Morgan Creek has the say on the content of the dvd. As for The Lost Boys, I doubt Warner is reissuing this anytime soon. They have other films to rerelease first(like Batman and all those flippers) which need a reissue...
E.T has been running on TNT for the past 4 years or so, CBS use to show it(the movie took 6 years to come to video, I'm not sure if it was shown on pay cable). The special edition might run on Starz next year since it is a new Universal release(I haven't seen The Exorcist SE run on HBO/Cinemax...
The premium channels only have a limited license. Usually it's two one and a half year runs of each title. For example-
Heat has been running on HBO lately. It came out theatrically in '95, ended up exactly a year later ,like most movies, on HBO- HBO then played the movie for a year and a...
The problem with buying into a DVD recorder now is that they have not settled on a standard recording format yet. Their is DVD-R,DVDram,DVD R-W(I think thats all of them). When they finally settle on a format and when the price goes down(which should be at 500 sometime in 2003 like Ron said)...
The 5.1 sound is simply amazing on this disc! It's one of, if not, the best sounding dvds I have ever heard. When Arnold punches a guy the subwoofer rumbles. The transfer is pretty good but suffers a little from a low bit rate(It's a 2 hour plus movie on a single layer with 4 audio tracks and a...
I read an interview with the president of AMC or someone high up at the station and he said "they were trying to attract more viewers by showing newer films and adding commercials". They have been showing films like Desperatly Seeking Susan and The Fly 2, so much for classics. AMC has become...
Does anyone know any specs on this release? Amazon lists it with a msrp of 19.99 and a street date of 4/2 but has no specs on video/audio formats or special features. The region 2 dvd from what I know is anamorphic widescreen, but Beatty prefers it to be seen full frame since he shot for 1.33 to...
I wonder if TCM will be using the new widescreen master of the "Back To The Future" that will be used for the eventual dvd, since the transfer on the widescreen laserdisc is not that good. NBC showed the film back in September and it looked remastered(all though it was full frame :frowning: ).
On his site the guy says that widescreen tvs will get rid of the black bars- what is he talking about? On 2.35 dvds you still see small black bars, and on nonanamorphic widescreen dvds. He really has no clue what he is talking about. Then the guy insults S-Video cables saying something like "the...
I could do a better job then that guy explaining dvd players, but he is the one being paid for it and on national television. I remember last year Howard Stern was complaining about the black bars because the Sorpranos was in widescreen. You think he could afford an HDTV with his salary to watch...
Yesterday The Today Show had a segment on dvd players and they had some tech editor explaining about dvd players. Then the host complained about those "black bars" and he told her she could make them go away by selecting the pan and scan option in the setup area(which is not true, so far their...
I had to do a persuasive speech for English class, so I did one on convincing people why widescreen is better. I made a tape that showed the pan and scan clip of Ghostbusters 2 when you only see half of the GB's, then I showed the widescreen clip where you see all of them. I then explained why...