Originally posted by: pupil
SO, bearing in mind I'm generally a very positive chap, I'm hoping (and it sounds like) that what we get in September is a nice simple straight transfer to DVD of the same stock they used for the DC/Faces LaserDiscs (from what we are lead to believe with comments like "state of the art circa '93 quality", this sounds like what we are gonna get, no messing with anything, just straight from film to DVD... even they can't mess that up, SURELY!) For a fraction of the cost/time we are having to deal with currently, we get a MUCH BETTER RAW PRINT TO WORK WITH!
Or maybe I'm just being too optimistic
meh, keeps me happy 
SO, bearing in mind I'm generally a very positive chap, I'm hoping (and it sounds like) that what we get in September is a nice simple straight transfer to DVD of the same stock they used for the DC/Faces LaserDiscs (from what we are lead to believe with comments like "state of the art circa '93 quality", this sounds like what we are gonna get, no messing with anything, just straight from film to DVD... even they can't mess that up, SURELY!) For a fraction of the cost/time we are having to deal with currently, we get a MUCH BETTER RAW PRINT TO WORK WITH!
Or maybe I'm just being too optimistic
meh, keeps me happy Yes, I think really you are too optimistic. Because WHERE do you have any proof that they will use FILM as source? I find that highly unlikly becuase the DVD's will be non-anamorphic! Whatever shape the 35 mm film of the original would be, it WOULD benefit from anamorphic transfer. I believe that we will get DVD's from old composite masters (1"?) that was use for the LD transfer and that would not benefit the DVD too much. So the X0 project can still be better