I'd call it more greed than simple economics... If companies like KINO
can bring out obscure materials on DVD which cater to a small but very
dedicated clientele, then the major companies should be able to do the
same thing.
I recall a story of their reissure of " Love Me Tonight" and how much a
fight it was to get the rights to legally reissue it. Whoever holds the
rights simply didn't want to be bothered to give KINO a license to issue
it. The copyright holder finally relented, but Kino probably won't go
after another Paramount title again because of the effort involved.
Sound Familiar???
BH
tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/29/2006 11:07:04 AM >>>
Hi Bob:
I think it's simple economics. Not enough market to justify production.
Some of that stuff might
turn up online one day.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hodge" <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, December 29, 2006 10:49 AM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] laserdisc
Hi Tom,
Titles which come to mind immediately are:
( Some of these may have slipped through my radar, but not many)
Golden Dawn
Whoopee !!
Employees Entrance
Skyscraper Souls
Madam X
Baby Face
If I had my modest holdings available here in front of me, I could
lenghten the list. I couldn't afford the technonogy when it was new,
and
the prices commanded on Ebay now mean I can't afford it now
( with some exemptions) otherwise I'd have much more as I would have
bought it when it was easily available .
Many,many many significant( At least to me) early sound Warner
Brothers, Paramount and MGM 1 and 2 reelers.
Yes , all are very vintage late 1920's mid 1930's subjects . The
transfers were done with first generation 35 mm materials,and not
from 4
th and 5th generation 16mm dupes and reduction prints, in most
cases.
I don't consider VHS to be an acceptable medium when the
infrastucture
exists to have a superior one.Many if not all of these titles were
once
available on VHS. Unfortunately , many people think that all early
film
sounds and looks bad. This is usually because the quality of the
print
they were watching was many generations removed from the orignal .
Sure, the sound quality isn't Dolby SR, but it isn't the tubby,
muddy
sound that exists on poor qualty 16 mm copies.
Most of this material isn't for the masses of this day and age. The
era
of laserdisc technonogy was during a period when people didn't find
such
material boaring and inane, and why so much great early film found
its'
way to laserdisc.
My 2 Bits...
Bob
tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 12/28/2006 4:41 PM >>>
Hi Bob:
I'm curious, what are some films that were out on LD but not on DVD?
Is
it all just Really Old Stuff
or Really Obscure Stuff or are there more recent or famous gaps in
the
DVD catalog?
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Hodge" <rjhodge@xxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] laserdisc
Darned right you should !! Or sell it to me...In that order.
Especially since MANY motion picture titles which were originally
transferred to laserdisc haven't been transferred to DVD.
And probably never will be.
No, you should hold on to it. I wouldn't sell mine either.
Bob Hodge
Robert Hodge,
Senior Engineer
Belfer Audio Archive
Syracuse University
222 Waverly Ave .
Syracuse N.Y. 13244-2010
315-443- 7971
FAX-315-443-4866
fbsdmd@xxxxxxxxx 12/28/2006 2:15 PM >>>
Should I save my Pioneer LD player?
--
Frank B Strauss, DMD