DVD Madness
Today I received the "Special Edition" of The Thing from Another World (due out Tuesday next, but what the hey). All I wanted was a replacement for my off-air videotape. What I've got are three versions of the same film. These consist of the original, in all its tatty glory, a colourised version of same (does anyone actually watch colourised versions) and a version that is also exactly the same but has been digitally cleaned. This is, I expect, the version we will watch, unless the cleanup has completely screwed the detail - though honestly, I doubt it nowadays. If they had screwed up the digital, why put it on the disc? If they haven't, why watch the scratched version?
Things do puzzle me.
The two Zenda films are on a double sided disc. Which is a pity, because otherwise you could set up a couple of TV's to watch the two films side by side, as the 1952 version is almost a shot for shot copy of the black and white version. I've heard about this method of running them, and would have liked to have tried it just once... As it is, we will go back to the black and white version,which is pretty near definitive.
Or I could watch the last episode of Primeval before it airs. Decision, decisions...
Things do puzzle me.
The two Zenda films are on a double sided disc. Which is a pity, because otherwise you could set up a couple of TV's to watch the two films side by side, as the 1952 version is almost a shot for shot copy of the black and white version. I've heard about this method of running them, and would have liked to have tried it just once... As it is, we will go back to the black and white version,which is pretty near definitive.
Or I could watch the last episode of Primeval before it airs. Decision, decisions...