I just got a copy of the Frighteners set that Garrett sent me and I must say that I'm extremely disappointed. Both the movie and the documentary seem to be made in quite a ridiculous way. It seems that whoever made these already had the two items on seperate DVDs, but didn't have a DVD burner. Rather, the person had a DVD burning deck (that acts like a VCR). So what did this person do? Hooked up their DVD player to the recording deck and duped it that way. This is apparent by the simple menus that these decks often empoy and the fact that if you skip to the end of each piece, you'll see the original menu (again, a menu from a deck rather than an actually authored DVD). What's worse, the 4.5hr documentary is on this disc as 5hrs. Know what the last half hour is? The playback DVD player's screensaver. Cyberhome, by the look of it. Of course, after all this, the image quality is nowhere near what it should be. The blacks are darkish grey at best. The fact that this laserdisc set hasn't been preserved in the proper way is a goddamn shame. So this is what I propose:

A few of us pool our money and buy a copy of the laserdisc box set. Recently, a copy has sold on eBay for $165, which is not too bad at all. If perhaps four of us went in and split the cost, then sent the set to someone who could encode it properly (this board is full of 'em), we would have exactly what we're looking for. Reply if you're interested and if there's enough interest, I'll make some sort of a seperate discussion place where the specifics can be figured out. If not... well, then, I suppose I might just have to plop down the $200 and get this set.