Sorry, but this is an amazing piece of film music and the treatment it has received for the Star Wars DVD is not acceptable. This probably doesn't make much sense to most people, but I'm a much larger fan of film music than I am of films in general. I'm not a huge fan of Star Wars, but I...
Is Columbia Tristar going to ever lower the price of Obsession? I probably would have bought that by now, but the MSRP of $24.95 sets the price a bit higher than I'm willing to pay.
Well it sounds like I'm probably going to be waiting until HD-DVD to see Star Wars in its proper aspect ratio. Until then I'll be continuing to watch my VHS dub of the pan and scan CED. Mistakes are mistakes, they are not "deliberate creative decisions." Somebody messed up the mix and now the...
I don't really care if it's THX-certified or not. I have plenty of THX titles (e.g. Moulin Rouge, The Sound of Music) that clearly could have used more quality control, but THX still took their check and allowed their logo to be slapped on them anyway. It's a useless logo and it means nothing...
I just don't understand why Sony determined that we needed to switch between color and B&W on the fly. Doesn't that lower the bandwidth available to both video streams?
Bruce Botnick claims that Star Trek: TMP is the first digitally recorded score. John Barry and Dan Wallin claim that The Black Hole is. I had never heard the claim about Star Trek: TMP until Botnick asserted it in the liner notes of the Nemesis SACD. The latest Star Trek: TMP CD from...
I bought the "purple" version of The Omega Man at Borders. The packaging states both pan and scan and widescreen versions are included, but the disc inside was clearly the new, single sided, widescreen-only version. I certainly have no complaints with it.
Sadly there isn't an isolated score track on the Anchor Bay release. This is the first digitally-recorded score and the one that got me interested in film music in general, so I'd love to see Disney allow somebody to release it on CD. Can anybody determine if this is the same 5.1 mix that...
If you enable Prologic decoding on this "stereo" track, the audio signal fills all speakers (dialog, music, effects, everything on it.) That's evidence to me that it's simply a pseudo-stereo out-of-phase job made using the mono soundtrack. If this was something different, the dialog wouldn't be...
I think the sound is just rather poor, but I don't remember it getting significantly worse during the finale sequence. I find the video jitter to be more annoying than the sound. It seems that Fox didn't want to spend the money on a remix or all of the sound elements simply didn't exist. The...
From the back of the DVD: "For the first time ever, this documentary reveals the secrets of former Fox News producers, reporters, bookers, and writers who expose what it's like to work for Fox News. These former Fox employees talk about how they were forced to push a 'right-wing' point of view...
How about Annie (1982)? That was originally put out in widescreen, though it was badly misframed in some scenes. Then Columbia silently fixed the problem and never told people how to get a fixed copy. Zoom ahead to 2003 and the widescreen release is deleted as they they re-release Annie in pan...
I finally picked this up a few weeks ago and it looks great. The only nitpick I could find about the video is that whatever digital magic they applied to the film seems to have messed with the fades. Instead of smooth fades to black, they're more of a flickery process as if a computer was...
I think the problem is that they're going to implement the discs with two angles so that viewers can flip between the colorized and b&w versions on the fly. I can't understand why they decided to do it this way, because it seems like it's going to lead to more compression artifacts.
The only station that regularly broadcasts movies in their correct aspect ratio in the USA is Turner Classic Movies. Other channels, even many HDTV 16:9 channels, usually modify the aspect ratio to fit the 4:3 (or in the case of HDTV, 16:9) screen.
I took a look at my Goodtimes version of Airport 1975 and compared it to some of the screen shots in this thread of the Universal release. The Goodtimes version doesn't appear to be stretched. But I'm a bit confused... I've never taken frame captures before and I'm using a really old version...