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Help. Is there ok or clear and crispy coulor DVD out there?


I just bought the big 21 movie 18 disc "Cary Grant the movie collection", and one of my Cary Grant favorite is "Operation Petticoat", and I put it on right away, and for the first secund happy to see it was widescreen, but, but, but, then come the VERY BIG disappointment. (Read: Slap in the face)
This print is much worse then a 5 time reduped VHS tape. Actually you get dizzy to watch it together whit the bad mood it puts you in.

The ONLY two so so decent couler print movies in this collection is:

”Indiscreet” (WideScreen) is ok
&
“Charade” (WideScreen) is ok

The last four coulor film in this collection is so disdainfull, (or what you say in english), to us paying movielovers and to a big actor like Cary Grant in all. Thy should be ashamed, "and get punished", to make prints like that.

And the nominates are:

“Operation Petticoat” (WideScreen) is so very bad blured and unclear.

”The Grass Is Greener” (WideScreen) is so very bad blured and unclear.

”Father Goose” is so very bad blured and unclear, & FULLFRAME!

”A Touch of Mink” is so very bad blured and unclear, & FULLFRAME!

Can somebody help me to which print, and where, I can buy decent and/or crystalclear DVD's on thies movies, and please, especially, from this collection, where to get "Operation Petticoat"?

(Out off order off them direct coulorfilm in this collection is the coloured B&W movie ”Suspicion” which is horrible and makes you seasick. But that is to cope whit, cause the B&W original is ok).

And I hope it's not only on BlueRay, which I refuse to buy. And pay money for the third time, VHS-DVD-BlueRay, to the moneymaking companies. I find most of my dvd films, most "old" movies, just as great and clear on a HD screen, and many BlueRay overrated when I see it in other places. (But that is another subject, and not for here).
I think all movies one day will come on USB-stick ore some kind of chip anyway, after they have maked money on BlueRay, "them bastards". :-)(Some music is already on USB-stick) It should actually be like this already, and there are no hinder for that, but for the the moneymaking. (Shame on you :-()

The only little "good thing" about this "collectin" buy, is that it was so&so cheap on amazon.co.uk: £35.39 (57 US$)(297 Danish Kroner) for the many B&W one's.
But, and if there is any danish reading this, don't buy this collection in Denmark, cause the cost will be horrible and not worthy:
From wild 499 D.kr.(97 UD$)(laserdisken.dk) & 2 > crazy 719.95D.kr.(140US$)(dvdcity.dk)

The price on "amazon.co.uk" can be ok for the many B&W movies and too see if the coulored ones ar somthing to go for better prints, like I do here.
But if I was a normal "stupid" one, and haved bought this collection for the totally crazy "140 US$" at DVDcity, and found out to late to send back, I would be realy #%?¤§, man.

On amazon.co.uk they have put the same "Costumer Review":(However the poor focus on this transfer ruins the enjoyment of the film), in for all the versions.


Don't mention the spelling, from noone! If you have more than 2 braincells, you will know the point. And if you do, you have nothing to say but "bulls...".

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Good news. The blu-ray will be out on May 28, 2013.

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Indiscreet and That Touch of Mink always looked pretty bad as I am sure both movies were shot through thin gauze in order to help conceal the appearances of their aging female stars. Charade on Criterion blu-ray or dvd look incredible. Perhaps you got ahold of one of the many Charade public domain dvd's which do look dreadful. I now have Father Goose, Grass is Greener, Indiscreet, and the aformentioned Charade on their respective blu-rays, and all look fantastic.

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Bluray looks quite decent.

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I think you were victim of a pirated set.

I have a good number of those films on DVD, and they're all very clear and sharp on my computer monitor.

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On a computer monitor????
OMG.


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