Originally posted by: Commander-Dan
Well, I recently broke down and bought one of the boots online in order to get this film on DVD. I'm tired of waiting on Disney to make up its mind regarding a release.
The thing is, I'm not sure what "version" I ended up with. The disc contains the movie, the 1972 TV trailer, the 1946 Radio show, and the Coal Black cartoon, and that's it. Here is a screen capture of the menu:
Menu
I was rather disappointed in the picture quality of the movie, as the fan preservations I have seen of the original Star Wars trilogy were much better in comparison. The movie looks as if it was dubbed from a video tape, and the audio is out of sync (lags behind the video). There are also no chapter stops on my copy! Here are a couple more screen captures:
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I would be most curious to see and/or get a copy of one the transfers mentioned in this thread, and though I am somewhat tech-savvy, I don't claim to know anything about torrent downloads and such. Any help and/or advice would be much appreciated.
Well, I recently broke down and bought one of the boots online in order to get this film on DVD. I'm tired of waiting on Disney to make up its mind regarding a release.
The thing is, I'm not sure what "version" I ended up with. The disc contains the movie, the 1972 TV trailer, the 1946 Radio show, and the Coal Black cartoon, and that's it. Here is a screen capture of the menu:
Menu
I was rather disappointed in the picture quality of the movie, as the fan preservations I have seen of the original Star Wars trilogy were much better in comparison. The movie looks as if it was dubbed from a video tape, and the audio is out of sync (lags behind the video). There are also no chapter stops on my copy! Here are a couple more screen captures:
Image 1
Image 2
I would be most curious to see and/or get a copy of one the transfers mentioned in this thread, and though I am somewhat tech-savvy, I don't claim to know anything about torrent downloads and such. Any help and/or advice would be much appreciated.
Heh, my copy I got off BitTorrent once that looked a lot better than this. I would say it looked like a decent master (not so much VHS), but it was obviously an NTSC conversion from a PAL source otherwise.
I also have one that was a direct copy from a airing on BBC2, though it looked like a PAL conversion from NTSC (similar blur effect I couild expect).
Then I have my original Japanese laserdisc of SOTS as well, despite being a tad darker in the picture and the subs over the song moments.