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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 05-18-2002 02:50 PM
The only time I get into DVD related talk is in terms of offering my review of a film I missed in the theater (such as "Mulholland Drive"). I think Film Handler's Movie Reviews is a good enough place for that.I think sites like Home Theater Forum do a good enough job on offering a wide variety of discussions on setting up hardware, reviewing DVDs and discussing equipment related to DVD Video, DVD Audio, HDTV and other items like that. About the only thing lacking there is a good discussion on shooting your own digital movies. Geez, one can do a good job with this for not all that much money. For under $10,000 you can buy a Canon XL-1s 3CCD camera with tripod, a Steadicam Jr., a good light kit, some basic sound gear (a couple lav mics and a DAT recorder) and perhaps a new dual CPU 1GHz MacG4 running Premiere, After Effects and iDVD 2.0 and you are all set for making videos that qualify as professional quality. Damn, maybe I could walk into the bank with a little business plan and get some investment capital......
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Leo Enticknap
Film God
Posts: 7474
From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000
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posted 05-20-2002 04:38 AM
I think a DVD forum would be a good idea. I take the point that lots of them exist already and that this site is mainly about film, but there have been times when, from the point of view of someone comparing DVD with film, I've wanted to know how good or not a particular release is before buying it, especially with rep titles.For example, issues like contrast and sharpness of picture, whether a film is complete or not, which one of a number of versions the DVD has been mastered from and other technical factors are things that I'd be interested in reading people's thoughts on, but which non-technical people just buying DVDs for entertainment probably wouldn't want to know about. Example: I recently bought a recent DVD rerelease of 'The Phantom of the Opera'. It was way too slow (around 16-17fps I'd guess), untinted, the two-strip Technicolor sequence was b/w, the transfer was generally shitty (from an umpteenth generation 16mm reduction print I'd guess) and there were a lot of other faults, all of which would have stopped me from buying the disc had I known about them.
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