Post by Mighty Jack on Jul 24, 2010 0:08:18 GMT -5
I know for some people these ‘glitches’ don’t bother them, and that’s fine, but they do bother me, and it does bother me when I spend money on a set, but still feel compelled to hold onto my home made DVDs.
It’s a trade off, I get a clearer resolution with the commercial releases, but the pops and lines and whatnot do distract and make it difficult for me to enjoy the episode. Yes, I know and understand that the movies themselves on MST aren’t in good shape – but I don’t need the extra glitches fluttering across the screen during film or host segments.
We all knew up front about the problems with Lost Continent – but that’s not the only episode with flaws.
To a lesser extent even Crash of Moons had its defects (to name 2: When Cleolanta and Bavaro meet, a few white blocks pop up in the lower left part of the screen, extending into the shadowrama – and later when Cleo demands to speak to her people a white strip appears on the bottom, through the shadowrama)
Worst than that was Yucca Flats – it got so annoying I had to turn it off. I put on my home copy and watched both simultaneously, only the commercial copy had the defects.
A few screencaps:
The first host segment: As Tom says he put the kibosh on a type of wallpaper (we also get lines when Forrester announces Proposition Deep 13) – Granted these flash by quickly but I wanted to post these as proof that it wasn’t all in my imagination,
During the Money Short, there’s an audio stutter when Ben talks about Bob and “His, His” budget – and again, we get more visual glitches
And the film itself, the scene at the car with the couple is strangled suffers a lot from these
At about the half way point into the episode these glitches lessen up on Yucca.
I haven't watched Jack Frost
I understand that fixing these would be is costly; I understand that video degrades – but I feel like I wasted $40. I loved the extras but if this is the shape of things to come, I gotta ask myself a hard question – why buy these discs if I’m only going to end up watching my home copy instead?
It’s a trade off, I get a clearer resolution with the commercial releases, but the pops and lines and whatnot do distract and make it difficult for me to enjoy the episode. Yes, I know and understand that the movies themselves on MST aren’t in good shape – but I don’t need the extra glitches fluttering across the screen during film or host segments.
We all knew up front about the problems with Lost Continent – but that’s not the only episode with flaws.
To a lesser extent even Crash of Moons had its defects (to name 2: When Cleolanta and Bavaro meet, a few white blocks pop up in the lower left part of the screen, extending into the shadowrama – and later when Cleo demands to speak to her people a white strip appears on the bottom, through the shadowrama)
Worst than that was Yucca Flats – it got so annoying I had to turn it off. I put on my home copy and watched both simultaneously, only the commercial copy had the defects.
A few screencaps:
The first host segment: As Tom says he put the kibosh on a type of wallpaper (we also get lines when Forrester announces Proposition Deep 13) – Granted these flash by quickly but I wanted to post these as proof that it wasn’t all in my imagination,
During the Money Short, there’s an audio stutter when Ben talks about Bob and “His, His” budget – and again, we get more visual glitches
And the film itself, the scene at the car with the couple is strangled suffers a lot from these
At about the half way point into the episode these glitches lessen up on Yucca.
I haven't watched Jack Frost
I understand that fixing these would be is costly; I understand that video degrades – but I feel like I wasted $40. I loved the extras but if this is the shape of things to come, I gotta ask myself a hard question – why buy these discs if I’m only going to end up watching my home copy instead?
