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- From: hal@radio.wkar.msu.edu (Hal Prentice)
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- Subject: Re: A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim) [was Re: a laser christmas]
- Message-ID: <hal.59.724951960@radio.wkar.msu.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:32:40 GMT
- References: <1992Dec19.2021.1829@channel1> <1992Dec20.222301.23036@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec20.222301.23036@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer) writes:
- >From: hofbauer@csri.toronto.edu (John Hofbauer)
- >Subject: A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim) [was Re: a laser christmas]
- >Date: 21 Dec 92 03:23:01 GMT
- >> Yesterday I picked up the laserdisc version of what may be the
- >> greatest Christmas movie of all: A CHRISTMAS CAROL, starring Alastair
- >> Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. ...
- >>
- I purchased the Sim X-Mas Carol last year and returned it. The print was
- not great (as mentioned previously.) Even more of a defect was the audio.
- It sounds as though Dolby units were switched in the audio chain during the
- transfer even though the audio was not Dolby encoded. This led to serious
- pumping and significant level discrepencies (big time gating.) This
- happened with the original LD and tape issue of "Ghostbusters" (one channel
- decoded the other not causing bizaare image shifting.) The LD version
- of "Days of Heaven" also suffered from NR decoding problems similar to
- Christmas Carol. Anyway, I purchased the VHS Sim Christmas Carol which is
- probably as good as you are going to get for quite some time (it's cheaper,
- too.)
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