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My disc of Polanski's 'The Pianist' played fine when I got it six months ago. Now the picture freezes at the layer change and the disc stops. I have tried it on two DVD players and my Macintosh computer and it freezes identically with all of them.

Sorry, the 72" was a typo for 27". I won't have a problem if I can ever get a 72" set. In the meantime, I'm tending to not buy as many 2.35:1 films on DVD. It's just that I have often found them disappointing on my TV, particularly when the transfer is not great (eg The Sound of Music). I...

I guess this is not worth a detailed mathematical debate. Comparing the two versions of the film, the Super35 frame has been cropped top and bottom for the widescreen version and on each side for the full-screen version. But the cropping on the sides is much less severe than it would be if...

I realise I may be setting the cat among the pigeons, or among the sacred cows, but I would just like to give my impressions of viewing the recently released DVD of 'Nicholas Nickleby' starrring Charlie Hunnam. When I received the disc, I watched it in its original ratio (2.35:1), as I have...

Does anyone have any information about the state of the original elements for Giant? I saw the restored theatrical print a few years ago and some scenes looked like they had been retrieved from a 16mm print.