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Well it ain't a Gene Krupa smilie...

Profound Desires of the Gods was robbed, but I'm glad to see the Vlacil collection up so high (even with the poll's boxset bias).

Surprised that Fantasia didn't get more love. Disney really did a wonderful job with it, and it looks and sounds glorious.

Alphonse Doinel wrote:Surprised that Fantasia didn't get more love. Disney really did a wonderful job with it, and it looks and sounds glorious.

It could have been better though, and maybe that played a part in the votes - the "Fantasia World" bonus feature that was cancelled (It could have sent this thing straight into DVDBeaver's top ten!), the supplements on BD-Live (a horrible idea in my opinion)... The deleted "Clair de Lune" segment in HD straight on disc should have been a no brainer, though I guess it was part of Fantasia World.

Hilarious!

Yeah, I can't move after watching that.

*puts hand on hip, turns slightly towards camera* "I have not seen acting so stilted...and wooden...since viewing...Hilary Swank's last movie (*over lengthy pause for comic cymbal crash*). Though it is...on a par...with Avatar"

"Yes. Is that the one also starring Jamie Foxx..out on a stacked BluRay?"

*turning to face interlocutor while keeping eyes fixed in the same position* "Hey now...that's right. Though the BluRay image is weak and I wasn't a fan. Pass."

After watching that, were it not for people's comments here, I would be concerned that someone spiked my water with PCP. Also, why does the male character pronouce blu-ray like a dirty frenchman?

Haha, that program is awesome, you can make any block of text into a really strange and stilted movie- the pronunciations are weird because it's a text-to-speech program.

That's the first time I've ever seen anyone use it for anything other than a joke, though.

I'd had never figured Gary for a guy that would bother putting that much gel in his hair every morning, but I guess you should never prejudge.

Well, looking at the Beaver release calendar, there's an absurd amount of stuff I would want coming out on blu-ray around the world in the next 3 months. For the sake of my wallet, I should just stay away from that calendar link. On top of all of the Criterions I won't be able to afford, there's Holy Mountain, Taking Off, Alice, L'Age D'or, Ozu, et al, on blu-ray?!? Fuck.

As promised, how to take accurate screen shots from DVD with VLC Media Player.

Step 1. Go to "Video" and choose "Snapshot".

Step 2. That's it. VLC will have output a .PNG file in your C:\Users\YOUR LOGIN NAME\pictures\ folder as a .PNG image, with decent quality scaling applied to "unsqueeze" the picture. I'm not sure where it will put the files on Mac or Linux systems, but hopefully you'll be able to find them.

VLC outputs PNG images by default, but it's fine to convert to high quality (low compression) JPEG. DVDBeaver have misunderstood this point in the past. Once again, JPEG is fine so long as it's not overcompressed, in fact, PNG would probably be overkill for DVD captures.

All I did was start VLC, pop in a disc, and take the screen capture. You might want to make sure any Deinterlacing or other Post Processing features are shut off, in case they interfere. Like I said - all I did was start VLC, load the disc, and go to Video > Snapshot.

I urge any other sites still taking (sometimes) blurred screen captures to use VLC so they can give readers an accurate idea of what's on the disc - it's free and so easy!

David Mackenzie wrote:I'm not sure where {VLC} will put the files on Mac or Linux systems, but hopefully you'll be able to find them.

I believe you can choose any save location you want in the Linux version (and perhaps other versions as well). If I'm making lots of screen caps for a film, I create a new directory (using a file manager) and then set the save location to the new directory in VLC. This setting is sticky -- so you have to change it the next time you use VLC, or any new screen captures will also go into the previously-selected directory).

I love these video newsletter recaps. What is a Snooki? ](*,) I wish I didn't know the answer to that question. Sometimes, ignorance truly is bliss.

Mr Tooze has the realisation that a lot of anime contains totally gratuitous T & A shots, and has the detailed screen caps to prove it!

While this is very reductive of anime, I sincerely hope nobody tells him about Plastic Little (I don't care what anyone says about that particular anime, I still think it is a touching display of female companionship and, yes, empowerment. OK, so there is the nagging feeling that more attention has been paid to the breast bouncing physics than to the plot, and the main character is unsubtly called Tita, but that still doesn't dilute its charms!)

Nice to see Laurel & Hardy and Ernie Kovacs in the dvd section...both excellent box sets and worth getting and "Araya" goes on my list as one of my favorite documentaries. Hope Universal will release "Touch of Evil" on region 1 blu-ray soon.

Any chance Universal will give Touch of Evil a decent treatment? I assume we can't expect six different cuts?

Universal's responsible for all the features on MoC's box set in the first place, I assume if they were to put it on blu they'd just upgrade the DVD set that's out now (with those same features and three different cuts but not the 1:33 aspect ratio.) Or maybe they'd just release a barebones copy of the reconstructed cut.

I thought Touch of Evil was listed as getting a DVD-only re-release in the new year for some reason.

Also, if you're a fan of the movie on Facebook, perhaps you've noticed that whomever moderates it posts random quotes from the movie on a monthly basis or so. The Citizen Kane page got activity when it was about to be re-released...fwiw

Minkin wrote:DVD/Blu of the year 2011

Hold up, is that the Thomas Clay in the poll there?

(It's thankfully not that Thomas Friedman.)

Best cover pick... gag me.

matrixschmatrix wrote:Universal's responsible for all the features on MoC's box set in the first place, I assume if they were to put it on blu they'd just upgrade the DVD set that's out now (with those same features and three different cuts but not the 1:33 aspect ratio.) Or maybe they'd just release a barebones copy of the reconstructed cut.

As Drucker pointed out, Universal's presentation of TOUCH OF EVIL for 2012 appears to be a single DVD issue (plus digital copy!) of the reconstructed cut with the "100th Anniversary" logo on the packaging. I hope they at least used the 2008 transfer in place of the 1999 one. Absurdly, the press release states that this reissue will present the film "complete and uncut with restored footage for the first time ever!"