Mark Broadhead wrote:
I have to disagree with a lot of comments here. It sounds like people aren't getting what this actually is. Here's the main points:
- This transfer isn't affected by analog noise like the old transfer, since it was scanned digitally from the film itself. Any "noise" you see in this new release is from the 35mm film grain.
I guess the bottom line is if you don't think this is worth the $60 then save your money and play your old DVD. There's no one forcing you to upgrade. And complaining about it will not change the fact that people who understand what this is are very happy to see it.
I think that was kind of my point. The original film wasn't of that great of a quality. We are talking about a 25 year old, low-budget animated feature-ette. Mind you the animation itself was great because it was a bluth flim, but the colors, film recording, ect... not so much. Better than saturady morning cartoons at the time, sure, but it's not disney. Ramping up the res to capture all the grainess on a grainy film doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
Don't insult us here. I know exactly what this is. Dl is trying to squeeze another 60 bucks out of it's very loyal fans who have practically kept the company in business by buying the same two titles multiple times. Like I said, I think it's great that they are finally getting around to making a nice, true to life transfer, but that doesn't excuse the 10 or so imperfect attempts they release literally once a year.
I could see the orignal cdrom releases, and then again when dvd came out (due to the fact that cd-roms can't hold enough data) and then a third time now that pcs can handle hd video. If this is the last Dragon's Lair release they ever do you'll never hear another word from me on this. Come on though, you know they'll release it again a year after this version comes out, buy doing something sneaky like intentionally not making it vista compatable or something. I'll say it once more, this release by itself, if you were to ignore all the re-hasing they've been doing in the past, it's great. But come on, even you've got to admit they are kind of wearing out the titles.
An a final note... 60 bucks? Holy crap 60 bucks? You've got to be kidding me. I'm a hardcore laserdisc game fan, I wouldn't be here if I wasn't, but 60 bucks for a glorified choose your own adventure game? And a 25 year old one at that. Remember, this isn't a feature film we are talking about here, this is a little over 20 min of footage. For that price Bluth would have to come in personally and re-draw all the frames by hand.
p.s. On that star wars note:
Actually, to me at least, it is wrong. As you said, special editions aside. People didn't see Star Wars in crappy, one speaker theaters. Lucas literally re-built theaters across the nation with his (then new) thx, multi-channel sound systems. Star wars is a bad example in that respect because it was shown in high quality originally and an occasional re-release due to the fact that home technology wasn't as good as the original experience is expected. That is, up until now when lucas starts releasing super-duper special editions, once a year, not to restore the movies, but to run them into the ground and steal every last buck from the poor loyal fan, who can't control himself.
You can't compare it to any laserdisc game, because they aren't a film, they are games. You don't sit back and watch em, you play em.