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Re: Re: ALAS. after having viewed the whole film on the new DVD.....pity!I have a serious critic

I was sorry to hear about the DVD not being up to par. I visited my speciality DVD store yesterday and questioned them about it. The guy behind the counter said he couldn't understand why it would be uneven, with some parts of the film unrestored. He was willing to play it in the store for me but he did not have a rental available. He said he had never heard about that happening. I also wondered why they would include a before-and-after restoration feature if there were problems. Seems counterproductive. Anyway, I am now hesitant to buy it until I get some more critiques from Ginger and others. The packaging of the DVD looks quite nice though.

I might add that most of the restored films in my collection have been very well done, so I can't understand why this one is faulty.

Ginger, let me know what you find.

Jill

Re: Re: Re: ALAS. after having viewed the whole film on the new DVD.....pity!I have a serious critic

Jill, so far I've watched about the first 20 minutes and the quality has been very good, but I'll let you know more as I get further along.

Re: Re: Re: Re: ALAS. after having viewed the whole film on the new DVD.....pity!I have a serious cr

I've watched the first 50 minutes of the WASIMH dvd and so far haven't encounterd any problems at all. It's a beautiful quality picture.. so far...Phillipe, when did the film start giving you problems?...I'm just at the part where the plane crashes.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: ALAS. after having viewed the whole film on the new DVD.....pity!I have a seriou

Ginger,

Here follows a list of scenes which feature an obvious lesser image quality on my "With a song in my heart " official Fox DVD:

-last 15 seconds of the "Audition" scene: color changes and lesser qualiti of image definition (less shrpness)
-last minute of scene with Jane and Ron in theur aappartment with Susan in blue ensemble (about 28/29 minutes into the film) : loss of sharpness/definition and color.
-Susan/Jane singing the first notes of "the right kind" in her green decolleté shirt with Don accompanying her in her dressing room.....: color fades again and definition /sharpness too.
-Susan/Jane coming back from stage after performing the song : for about one minute again,images lose color and definition quality
-the whole segmeny of Susan and R.Wagner in "two for tea" at about 1 hour 28 minutes into the movie is totally unfocused,no sharpness,and it lasts about 2 minutes
-Next is Susan/Jane 's anouncement by USO camp director at about 1 hour 33 minutes into the film: totally unsharp /unfocused image for about 30 seconds

-Last is firs part of song "they 're either to young or too old": bad colors,lesser definition...compared with second part which is much better.


I have compared with anothe copy and I found the same mistakes....

Also I compared with the restored DVD version of "the Snows of kilimanjaro' issued by Fox earlier this year and the digital transfer from "Snows" is much better...

Don't get me wrong,I am quite happy with the DVD but i do not understand that FOX after all these years of waiting to release the DVD of "Song " did not come out with a perfect difgital transfer/DVD of such a beautiful classic.


What do you think?


Phil.