Posted by Geena Phillips on 09/20/06 15:12

Alotta Fagina wrote:
> You wrote:
>
>
>>Aaron Lawrence wrote on [Sun, 17 Sep 2006 23:55:38 +1200]:
>>
>>>On a pleasant day while strolling in alt.video.dvd, a person by the
>>>name of Venger exclaimed:
>>>
>>>>Folks...
>>>>
>>>>Buy 'em. You have received the all clear. Perfect? No. Lazy? Yes.
>>>>Worth it? ABSOLUTELY.
>>>
>>>I don't think it is that clear cut. On OriginalTrilogy.com, about 50%
>>>of people are saying they have bought them.
>>>
>>>It is marginally better than the best bootlegs.
>>>
>>>On the other hand it introduces one small, but stupid new problem - in
>>>the infamous cantina scene, the subtitles are off the screen if you
>>>have (as normal people do) zoomed the picture to full width.
>>
>>zoomed them in? You mean zoomed the widescreen in to lame-o cheapo p&S?
>
>
> Since the films are 2.35:1 the subs should still be on the screen.

'Fraid not. I've got the laserdiscs these transfers were originally made
for, and the subtitles are below the 2.35 frame, in the letterboxed
area. They simply didn't reposition them for the DVd release.


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