What I've read and seen is that most every Spielberg DVD release is very bad quality and I have to concur that most ones I've seen lack a lot of clarity. Granted, these are old films that didn't just come out and don't get the special treatment but even then, modern ones don't get that great releases anyways.
It's sort of like Williams. Once he's released an album of the score he's done. Of course I'm happy to have the album, but I'd be happier to have the full score... and in most cases, the albums are very dead sounding and very quiet too.
Similarly, the first releases of most speilberg films are grainy or blurry. JP, for example, has a great deal of blur and grain at times, especially CG'd scenes such as the "first sight" scene.
But I'm not here to argue that...
I'm here because the more detail we can see the better. You would be bored if I tried to explain all the things we've learned through careful and intent study of both the fullscreen and widescreen versions of the film and how each taught us something different and how minute the details were. And as such, I'm interested in getting a higher quality version if not just for myself, and my site... but for the mod as well.
So, if you have something to rant about, make a thread ranting against people who don't like blurry transfers... but please,leave this thread to its original intent.
As for the sound mixing I don't mind it. I think it's a lot clearer though musically... the music could probably be ripped rather cleanly. The dialogue being different angers me...
Gennario says "Oh Jeeze!" instead of "Oh Jesus!"... which doesn't make sense because 4 minutes latter, we hear him praying the "Hail Mary" in the bathroom... so to change one but not dub the other is completely ludicrous to me...
And I love though, that they leave "God" but take out "Damn." But whatever lol... that's just the quirkiness which is the generalized American populous.
But the whole thing has been sped up slightly for the television broadcast. You can tell when the sound slightly warbles in and out. I've only noticed it on AMC... so I think it's just something they do.