DVD Review On the Threshold of Space DVD Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

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On the Threshold of Space DVD Review

The baby steps necessary to prepare the United States to enter the space race via its NASA Mercury program are recounted in eye-opening detail in...
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[Bob Furmanek]

An ancient pan and scan master of a CinemaScope film released on DVD? Yikes!

 

[Josh Steinberg]

And I would have easily bought it in widescreen. What a shame.

 

[Bob Furmanek]

Ditto!

 

[Matt Hough]

An ancient pan and scan master of a CinemaScope film released on DVD? Yikes!

And when we met with Fox last year, they seemed rather ashamed when we expressed displeasure about pan and scan transfers in the 21st century and led me to believe they were going to try their best not to do this any more. Boy, was I fooled!

 

[Josh Steinberg]

And this really is absolutely the kind of movie I love to discover - I love all of that early space age stuff and gladly would have forked my money over blindly on this if it were OAR. Or even if it was an open matte flat film (but I'd probably never admit I did it). But not for a pan and scan version. Sigh. Really really would have loved to have seen it.

 

[Everett S.]

I would never watch a pan and scan print. I just sent an email to Starz about doing this on their Western channel.
I got a fairly good reply about bringing this up during an upcoming meeting.Nothing burns me up than starting to watch a widescreen film ,and after the credits it goes Pand Scan !

 

[John Sparks]

I have the beautiful one sheet but I guess we'll never get the movie, what a shame!

 

[Twilight Time]

And when we met with Fox last year, they seemed rather ashamed when we expressed displeasure about pan and scan transfers in the 21st century and led me to believe they were going to try their best not to do this any more. Boy, was I fooled!

It was one of the first titles we licensed from Fox - and then had to give back when we discovered the elements weren't up to snuff!

 

[Josh Steinberg]

It was one of the first titles we licensed from Fox - and then had to give back when we discovered the elements weren't up to snuff!

My disappointment knows no limits...