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New DVD - is it remastered?

posted 14 years ago by The Hoyk
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I saw the announcement that Virgil Films will be reissuing this classic collection of horror trailers, one of the first to hit the consumer market, and still funny in its cheap, amiable way.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003I6M0HO/thedigitalbit-20

Obviously, I'm aware that since the wraparound segments were done on consumer-grade video, they will still look kind of degraded compared to newer shot-on-video fare, and I'm fine with that. What I am really curious about is whether the trailers themselves will be newly mastered. I voraciously collect the Ban 1 Productions and Synapse 42ND STREET FOREVER compilations, which are all beautiful 16x9 transfers, so perhaps I'm a little spoiled, but I think it would be nice if the producers went back to the original film elements, be they 35mm or 16mm, and retransferred them so that they would look better than before, even if that would make them stand out from the other old video footage. Anyone know anyone involved with this project?

[–] jjbg324 14 years ago

Here's a look at the DVD: http://www.oh-the-horror.com/page.php?id=688

[–] Woodyanders 14 years ago

It's transferred from a muddy VHS print source and hasn't been remastered in the least, which I think adds to rather than detracts from this gloriously lurid comp's considerable scroungy charm.

1,000 mini-bios and I feel like I'm just getting started