Well I'm feeling in the mood for a rant.......

Well DVD's have been around for more than a year or two now (as have widescreen TV's) so you'd think the studios were well past the point of pushing out crappy DVD transfers.

In the last few months I have unwittingly (well, ok - it was my fault for not checking) bought 3 DVD's that were either 4:3 or letterboxed (non-anamorphic) widescreen transfers.  The 3 offending items are Muriels Wedding (4:3), The Arrival (4:3) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (non-anamorphic) -- all Region 2.

Yeah, I should have checked the back of the box - it's not like the information wasn't there.  It's just that these days I've come to expect anamorphic transfers as a matter of course.  I'll probably end up buying all 3 films again when they are re-released as 'Special Editiions'.  More fool me, I guess 

Ok, rant over.....    

Andrew

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Well I'm feeling in the mood for a rant.......

Well DVD's have been around for more than a year or two now (as have widescreen TV's) so you'd think the studios were well past the point of pushing out crappy DVD transfers.

it still seems there is a demand for crappy dvds in America by some who don't understand wide-screen formats and Studios wanting to save money etc etc.

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In the last few months I have unwittingly (well, ok - it was my fault for not checking) bought 3 DVD's that were either 4:3 or letterboxed (non-anamorphic) widescreen transfers.  The 3 offending items are Muriels Wedding (4:3), The Arrival (4:3) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (non-anamorphic) -- all Region 2.

Yeah, I should have checked the back of the box - it's not like the information wasn't there.  It's just that these days I've come to expect anamorphic transfers as a matter of course.  I'll probably end up buying all 3 films again when they are re-released as 'Special Editiions'.  More fool me, I guess 

Ok, rant over.....         Andrew

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Quoting andrewmk:

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Well I'm feeling in the mood for a rant.......

Well DVD's have been around for more than a year or two now (as have widescreen TV's) so you'd think the studios were well past the point of pushing out crappy DVD transfers.

In the last few months I have unwittingly (well, ok - it was my fault for not checking) bought 3 DVD's that were either 4:3 or letterboxed (non-anamorphic) widescreen transfers.  The 3 offending items are Muriels Wedding (4:3), The Arrival (4:3) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (non-anamorphic) -- all Region 2.

Yeah, I should have checked the back of the box - it's not like the information wasn't there.  It's just that these days I've come to expect anamorphic transfers as a matter of course.  I'll probably end up buying all 3 films again when they are re-released as 'Special Editiions'.  More fool me, I guess 

Ok, rant over.....    

Andrew

Good lord, man, everyone of these titles are YEARS old ( and I do mean YEARS we are talking 8-10 years ago) and have not yet been re-released. Now why did you buy them...because the price was righ...you got all of them cheaply. So you have no reason to rant. The fact that you got them cheaply might indicate two possibilities (1) the titles are OOP and once gone they are gone...for now at least or (2) drastic priice reductions are also a common way to clear the shelves in preparation for a new release.

Skip

what do they mean by this?
"Zabriskie Point"

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4:3 Aspect Ratio
16X9 enhanced
Average Bitrate: 8.12 mb/s
PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s

seems to contradict it self?

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My point was I kinda assumed, wrongly, that we were past the point of having to check for these things.

Yeah, but since (as Skip pointed out) these DVDs (not the movies) are old releases and haven't bee re-released since they first came out 8ish years ago, you still have to check just like you did when those exact releases came out back then.

I know it's not easy to know release dates for all movies out there, just pointing out that the passage of time won't automatically make old releases better.

KM

Not OROGINALLY and i thinlk that was the marked down release for the same UPC#. If it was re-releaed in some other form then it would have a NEW UPC. Nice try. In point of fact, that version of Muriels' Wedding was released in 2003, with  an anamorphic presentation of 1.85 :1, it was re-released via markdown in 2006. But neither of those were the ORIGINAL release for Muriel's Wedding and would not likely be the one he picked up.


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