Warner Feb. Releases including My Fair Lady, Mutiny on the Bounty, Mrs. Miniver & more (1 Viewer)

[Robert Crawford]

David,
It's another old Paramount title that now belongs to Universal.




Crawdaddy

 

[Ken_McAlinden]

I will probably pass on MFL only because I am satisfied between the current release and the laserdisc box set. I am all over the other announced titles, though. Thanks, WB!

Whether a transfer of a large format film is from a reduction or not is academic to me. There are more than one ways to skin a cat in making a superior low-rez video presentation, and there are a lot more noticeable things that can be wrong with a transfer than any artifact of a single generation downconversion to 35mm.

I believe Vertigo is probably the only Vistavision film that has ever been transferred from a large format source for a home video master (a windowboxed element created from the Vista to 65mm restoration), but I don't plan on boycotting other titles because they did not make a 65mm element from the VV negative for transfer. Let them make the video master however they like and I will judge it based on the results, not the method.

Regards,

 

[Andy_G]

I think the real problem occurs when a film is transfered from an OLD reduction element.

 

[Carlo_M]

Bill, thanks for the 411 on the transfer situation.

I am now more excited about this re-release (if such a thing is possible) than I was before I read your post!

Keep 'em coming WB and I'll keep putting $$$ in your coffers!

 

[Robert Crawford]

George,
Your most wanted, "Goodbye Mr. Chips" is up for preorder at our forum sponsor, Lasersedge.

Goodbye Mr. Chips





Crawdaddy

 

[PaulP]

George, in case you missed it, the cover for Goodbye Mr. Chips is posted at http://dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=6052, along with The Great Ziegfeld and a 3D look at the My Fair Lady set.

 

[george kaplan]

Thanks. I just got to thinking when 5 of the 6 were posted here.

 

[David Von Pein]

Hadn't noticed this specification heretofore: BOTH the 1940 and 1944 versions of "Gaslight" are to be included on the dual-sided disc. Not bad.

 

[oscar_merkx]

that is great news indeed