Re: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-10 Thread Patricia Ruocco
viewing (Gangwer, Valerie) -- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 21:39:08 + From: Patricia Ruocco Subject: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing To: "videolib@lists.berkeley.edu" Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1&

Re: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-10 Thread Gangwer, Valerie
In any case, DVD-R suggests a burned copy, not a master-pressed disc and yes, it may be more likely to have playing issues in older DVD players or some computers. I would go for the Kino-Lorber to avoid any region issues, and a lot of people still do not have Blu ray players. Val G. On Tue, Feb 9,

Re: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-09 Thread Dennis Doros
The American expert on Mario Bava is Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog. He would have a good opinion on this. His email is pr...@videowatchdog.com Looking at the information, the Arrow Blu-ray version from England seems to be the best, but that might be region-blocked (though I doubt it) and you're look

Re: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-09 Thread Bergman, Barbara J
ect: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing I am looking into purchasing the movie "Black Sabbath" with Boris Karloff for our public library's DVD collection. Midwest Tape lists two versions: one that just says DVD, and a newer one that is a DVD-R. My inclination is to get t

Re: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-09 Thread Jessica Rosner
There is a widescreen regular DVD out there from Kino so you might check with Midwest tape as I know they buy from them Jessica On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Patricia Ruocco wrote: > I am looking into purchasing the movie "Black Sabbath" with Boris Karloff > for our public library's DVD coll

[Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-09 Thread Patricia Ruocco
I am looking into purchasing the movie "Black Sabbath" with Boris Karloff for our public library's DVD collection. Midwest Tape lists two versions: one that just says DVD, and a newer one that is a DVD-R. My inclination is to get the DVD, but it is fullscreen where the DVD-R is widescreen. We us