There's no way I'll pay some of the prices I see on Ebay for the original Region 1 release (there's one now w/ a Buy It Now of $80!).
I saw it came out for Australia as a Region4 PAL disc.
For anyone that has it - how is the copy/sound/etc?
I've seen some reasonably priced, but before I pay shipping from Australia, I want to be sure it's going to be worth it.
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It's worth getting because it costs less than 10 bucks and the picture and sound are much better than VHS. Picture is full frame open matte and is perfectly fine. Audio is clear and audible. It's an officially released dvd from Sony, so its not a bootleg and you can be assured its a quality product.
shareI got the DVD in the post from Aus yesterday. It works on R2, and possibly therefore R1 players. Picture quality is comparable to VHS, not great, especially on a big TV. Sound is OK stereo. Looks like it was made from a VHS copy. Very cheap, and a worthwhile buy nonetheless.
shareThe R4 is exactly as the Old R1 Release which was Full Frame too. The quality is actually quite good, I just wish for a widescreen DVD. I think somewhere in Europe there might be.
Worth the price.
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Ahem... for all of you that screams over the "cropped widescreen"... Have you considered that the standard procedure usually is to crop top and bottom of the 1.33 ratio negative to produce the 1.85 print, or rather, ship a 1.33 print and at the cinemas matte the projector to 1.85? I'm a bit puzzled as to what you want. If it's cropped, it's probably as it was seen in cinemas and the full screen would be the non-matted print in it's entirety.
That is, if the 1.33 print weren't a pan-scan(cropped sides) of a widescreen print in the first place, and that that print then got cropped top-bottom for widescreen for the DVD. But that's just silly...
Wich one to prefer? well, I would go after the "intended ratio" wich is for me right now unknown. I'm guessing 1.85 cropped... and that's easy to do with most viewing setups.
But then again, picture quality... since I have neither dvd version I'm going to stay out of that one...
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