Year Of The Dragon picture quality?
Bill Vermillion
Theron Trowbridge <the...@aimla.com> wrote:
>I recently got the newly letterboxed Year Of The Dragon, and am somewhat
>annoyed at the poor quality of the tranfer in general. It was a pricey
>disc, too. It's not a BAD tranfer - it's just sort of mediocre.
>The first disc, however, in addition to the poor image quality, I see
>bands of white roll up the picture, especially in darker scenes. Disc 2
>(which is CAV) doesn't have this problem.
That's a bad disk not a transfer problem - unless they have
really screwed up :-)
>My question is thus: has anyone else observed this? Should I be bringing
>the disc back for an exchange, or will this prove fruitless?
It depends on whether the problem is in the master used for the
pressings or whether it is an individual flaw. Most of the
time a simple disk exchange will fix it.
>Kind of annoying, considering how long I've been waiting for a letterboxed
>version of this film...
I've had the p&s since it first came out. Martin & Porter
rate it as a turkey but I like it. How does the transfer
compare to the p&s?
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