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>>...Royal Bank of Scotland...<<
Nein - Deutsche Bank! :o
TCM, I meant. Actually, I haven't watched WZ there recently. My TCM-timeshifted VHS tape was probably 5-6 years old, and I imagine TCM's source was a videotape. The original LD got rave reviews for clarity from LaserDisc Review (? - I think that was the pub's name), and the review was published about 4 months before the LD actually became available to the public. I was advised by Ken Crane's in LA that the LD Review often got tape versions of LD product and reviewed those instead of viewing an actual DVD. Since what I saw on TCM clearly bore the Roan restoration credits and was in all ways but quality identical to the LD and DVD, and TCM was still tape-reliant back then, I'd imagine that's what they were doing also, using a VHS which was printed from a decent (minus one note) master which was then bungled when transferred to LD/DVD.
As I've never run into the quality problems with any other LD, and only with a few cheap DVD-Rs, that I did with the WZ DVD, I can only believe that if there was any technological problem, it was on their end and not mine. They may have the best version available but hardly the best possible, and, again, I'm most invested in injecting some objectivity into the discussion as there are far too many people who present the Roans' WZ (both LD and DVD) as if it were infallible, and react when challenged as if they - the Roans and their version of WZ - are sacrosanct.
They aren't, and it would be extremely useful for someone to do some searching for a better source print which, as I said, there used to be in the late 60s-early 70s from a (name-forgotten) 16mm dealer. There surely must be one copy surviving out there *somewhere* which could be turned into a marketable, and superior, DVD product.
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