aargh, new Tartan DVD sucks!!

I was really excited to see Tetsuo finally being reissued since the original DVD is crazily out of print... but when I finally got my paws on this new Tartan "collector's edition", I was very underwhelmed. Nice packaging, but the quality of the transfer blows... there are trails all over this thing, and the sound is all washed out. A friend of mine, who is more well versed in the lingo of film than I am, told me this is because it was probably transfered from a PAL source, so then the frames don't line up right... Don't quote me, but I think he said something like one frame of film gets cut out every second (note: this would explain some peoples' concern about the running time being just short of the VHS version). I've kept my VHS copy handy because, even though my VHS is getting a little old now, it actually looks and sounds much better than this DVD..... Hell, a friend of mine has a bootleg DVD that looks and sounds better than this Tartan DVD, AND it actually has bonus features and extended scenes, which the Tartan "collector's edition" DVD lacks entirely!! Aarargrhghgh.............


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