Jeff
Supporting Actor
- Joined
- Jun 30, 1997
- Messages
- 949
I'm almost positive there are problems with pixilation on Apocalypse Now. I remember complaining about the PQ on that disc and preferring my old laserdisc copy. I haven't seen it in awhile so I don't know for sure. Now it's possible that by getting another DVD player, that the brightness, contrast, etc, were different and thus the pixilation could not be seen with the new one. I just got yet another DVD player recently, and I had to recalibrate my TV as the colors, contrast, brightness, just about everything was different on it, than my last one.
Now I'm not disagreeing with what people are saying about equipment generated pixilation, but out of the 15 (or so) DVD players I've tried since 1997, I have never found one to generate pixilation. This includes some very cheap varieties. Of course, I don't have a gigantic display like some posters here do.
By the way, my new DVD player is a $70 US Toshiba. It out performs all the others I've owned including some very high end ones that were over 10x the price. In other words, you don't need to spend more than $87 to have a good DVD player.
Jeff