SilverWook said:

Cuchulainn said:

SilverWook said:

A lot of those early DVD's were warmed over Laserdisc masters approved by Kubrick back in the day before widescreen tv sets were common. It would have been different had he not passed away before DVD really took off.

Yeah, he would have loved the format, I think. Particularly with the new TVs that are out these days, and BD of course...

Going wildly off-topic here (and I promise I won't make a habit of this) but has anyone got the BD of Excalibur? The DVD was woefully mis-framed and I was wondering had this been corrected?

I have it on HD-DVD, and the framing looked all right to me. Some people have issues with the grain, but that's simply the way it was made. Not sure if Warner's used the same master for the Blu Ray or not.

I may take a risk on it. I had the widescreen VHS and it looked marvellous, but both the R1 and R2 DVDs were overmatted or something and there were tops of heads chopped off and just shitty framing issues whatever they did with it...It's a movie that deserves better, IMO...