title | reason why |
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Babe | not LBX, full frame except effects shots |
Basic Instinct | not directors cut |
Blade Runner | no irritating side break like the LD, but it is 192 kbps AC3 |
Blazing Saddles | LD has ?better? picture |
Brazil | 192 kbps AC3 |
Dangerous Liasons | digital artifacting "real bad too" |
Dawn of the Dead | authoring problems, lots of artifacts |
Death Becomes Her | not LBX |
Fargo | 192 kbps AC3 |
Halloween | authoring problems, Anchor Bay strikes again |
Highlander THX | bad MPEG2 encoding, the blockiness is terrible |
Karate Kid | both are P&S, but LD has more picture (it is less zoomed in) |
La Femme Nikita | authoring problems, video artifacts, but it is 5.1 |
Ladyhawk | "noticeable, even dramatic, MPEG2 artifacts in several scenes" |
Outland | authoring problems, horrible picture, picture bounce |
Robocop | not directors cut |
Rock, The | "Criterion to be slightly sharper than the DVD. Also, the color appears to be more accurate (probably due to Michael Bay's direct participation on that LD)" |
Scream | not directors cut, the LD PCM mix is better (more
alive with ambience and detail) |
Silence of the Lambs | 192 kbps AC3 |
Substitute, The | LD has ?better? picture |
Terminator 2 THX | not directors cut |
Timecop | not LBX |
Tombstone | 192 kbps AC3 |
Trainspotting | not the Criterion directors cut?, but it is the UK cut? |
True Romance | 192 kbps AC3, the LD's audio is more dynamic |
Usual Suspects | 192 kbps AC3 |
title | reason almost why | reason why not |
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Conan the Barbarian | grainy picture on DVD causes mild artifacting |
the film transfer on the DVD is better than the LD, the mono sound on the DVD
is better than muffled LD audio. |
Crow, The | some scenes at the start of the film are too
bright and washed out | The rest of the film is fantastic, a dark
film like The Crow really benefits from DVD's very low video noise, the 5.1
audio also rocks! |
Godzilla vs. Mothra | washed out colors and "huge amounts"
of MPEG artifacts, "Simitar release is an unmitigated disaster" |
one source has said the artifacts are NOT that bad. Also the Toho LD is P&S
and analog mono. The Simitar DVD is LBX and digital mono, don't listen to the
5.1 its bad. While the DVD is has its share of flaws so does the LD. |
Groundhog Day | 192 kbps AC3 | the audio and the
music originally wasn't that spectacular, I love the film but still not much of a loss |
Sleuth | excessive compression artifacts, Anchor Bay | The artifacts are mainly at the start then and not too bad after that. The old LD has been out of print for more than 5 years and was incredibly rare. This is the only pressing of Sleuth the HT crowd can get. |