Posted by Gunther Gloop on 09/21/91 11:33

DH wrote:
> Gunther Gloop wrote:
>> pickles_james@hotmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> just reading about them, intruiging..... anyone have any comments on
>>> them?
>>
>>
>> No such thing. They are all dvds. *NOBODY* can make better quality
>> dvds than everyone else.
>> Columbia Tristar (owned by Sony), I believe, is the company that
>> choses to label some of its titles as "superbit", which basically
>> means "the picture might be a little better than the crap we gave
>> you on last release, but there are no extras with this and it will
>> cost you a fiver extra... and the picture from this dvd is by no
>> means better than most other dvd releases from almost ever other
>> supplier." In short, it's a scam.
>>
>> -Kevin.
>>
>>
>
> errrr, in a word Kevin - Criterion ??
>
> They are generally accepted to be a tad better than most arent they ?
>

They were. Mainly for extras though. Lots of other companies release dvds as
good, if not better, than those (comparing like with like). Some Criterion
releases have also been released by other places, with a better picture than
Criterion did.

> But AFAIK, SB is not even a tad better. I have MIB or MIIB (cant be
> RRsst to look) & 5th Element in Superbit and cant really see any
> improvements over the old ones. (These were pressies.)
>
> Crits are really nice though....
>

I do agree with that. Most of their stuff (especially earlier releases of
older movies) is above & beyond what was available anywhere else. Nowadays
their prices rarely justify the results.

....but anyway, they never claim that they're able to get a better picture
out of a dvd than anyone else can... a slimey marketting-lead "Superbit"
tool to fool tools.

-Kevin.



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