Two Falcons for the price of one
I pre-ordered this the moment I saw it offered,and,for the most part,was quite happy with this release.
Being a grumpy you know what,though,I must complain about the drawbacks.
Warner archives is charging full DVD prices for no frills DVD-R releases that have absolutely no extras and can't even bother to put a Falcon themed menu on the discs,either.
A static shot of the Warner Bros. lot is on all these archive discs.
The retail price of $44.99 is outrageous for DVD-R and I wouldn't have touched it if not for the much more reasonable Amazon price.
The discs are also not burned very well.
Disc one and two are dual layer (disc 3 has only one film,so I assume it is a DVD 5)and have scratches and also show signs of being burned at multiple speeds,which can sometimes cause playback problems.
Is there even any quality control on these archive discs,or do they crank them out as fast as humanly possible?
Three of the seven films have 'sticking' problems...
Oh my! And I really wanted to love these. Save the packaging too!
I've seen these movies many times and love them all. But I must very reluctantly agree with other reviewers these are mediocre prints of very, very good 40's detective movies. From WB yet! I was hoping for some outstanding cleaned up and stabilized discs. No such luck. Not much more to say. Oh yes...keep your packaging material there was only one disc in the box (yes they shorted me a disc, I can't believe the sloppiness, as I said...from WB yet!!). Well I won't be buying any more that look and feel like this rendition. I wonder if they outsourced the manufacture and the OEM just doesn't care?
DVD-R junk!
I was initially excited to see this (and the companion release, the Saint films with George Sanders) - they really are great fun from a bygone era of clever and classy, low-key mystery movies - but I groaned out loud when I saw that they were not just DVD-R junk, but dual-layer DVD-R junk at that. Warner should know that the many true fans already have DVD-R's (made from TV broadcasts) of all of these films, and based on the one Warner Archive DVD-R I've seen, homemade DVD-R's are hands-down better than the ones Warner is trying to sell - for one thing, it's been my experience that homemade DVD-R's will play on any device, while Warner's DVD-R's seem to play only in dedicated DVD players of the type one hooks up to a television. Truly, Warner - like Sony, Sears Craftsman, etc., amazes me with their moronic quest for brand dilution by making junk rather than quality products befitting their good name. I know something of the DVD business, and I assure you that they are saving pretty...
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