I love the few DVDs I have that just play the movie when you load it. I can't remember all the titles, but one is a "pan and scan" of Full Metal Jacket. No extra crud. Load it and it plays. What a novelty! And it's a good movie that needs no "value added". I can't stand all that bonus junk. I wonder what percentage of folk listen to the director's commentary, the 2nd, 3rd and 4th languages, read the umpteen subtitles, watch the deleted scenes, the biography on the "best boy" and "key grip", hear the music transposed down to the correct key, with original instruments, with sackbuts in surround, "smell-o-vision" (AKA Aroma-Rama), and....the best feature of all...multiple angles? For the life of me, the only genre I could think of that could use multiple angles is porn, for the great acting of course.
Phillip
----- Original Message ----- From: "Angie Dickinson Mickle" <angie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] VHS and Beta (was Re: [ARSCLIST] Longevity)
Special features and the Main menus. The menu volumes drive me nuts!
Angie Dickinson Mickle Avocado Productions www.avocadoproductions.com
David Lennick wrote:By the way, can anyone tell me why most DVDs are mastered at such low levels?
Then you go to the special features and burst your eardrums. $1 DVDs tend to
have normal audio levels as well.
dl
"joe@xxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:
I love movies in 5.1, and since I installed the sub woofer, I hear things I
did not hear before. I've had no problem with dialogue being obscured.
js
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