MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA (05/27/85)
From: Mark Crispin <MRC@SU-SCORE.ARPA>
Tower Video is having a video blowout sale, and I picked up
a copy of TESB in Beta HiFi for $19.99. Unlike the LaserDisc
version which was compressed to 120 minutes, the videotape
version is at the original speed and so is 124 minutes.
The audio quality difference is SUBSTANTIAL. CBS/FOX, in
their attempt to fit it on one instead of two discs, completely
destroyed TESB in the LV version. The damage to the soundtrack
is the most noticable, but after a while the speedup in the video
becomes distracting.
The videotape version, on the other hand, has great sound
and okay video (I wish they did something more artistic than
shooting down the center).
I am tempted to write CBS/FOX demanding that they make
available a two-disc version of TESB, and that any CAV "collector
version" be three discs. I suggest other LV users do the same.
LV should be the top-grade format for movies, and we should not
tolerate economizing measures which destroy the artistic quality
of what we watch.
-- Mark --
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