• My Rhino Tormented disc is rotted

    From Pluted Pup@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 23 13:59:05 2025
    So my Tormented DVD from the Rhino 11
    box set rotted and I can't access any
    part of the episode after 68 minutes.
    It's said this was manufactured by
    Warners and a lot of Warners DVDs made
    from 2006-2008 rotted.

    So I bought the Shout Factory version,
    so that's going to be my next episodes
    to watch.

    The last episodes I watched were Night
    of the Blood Beast and Attack of the
    Giant Leeches, as they were extras on
    a Blu-ray from Film Masters I got.
    The MST3K episodes on that blu-ray
    are substantially lower quality than on
    the regular DVDs, through bad processing,
    making the movements jittery. The main
    program of Night Of The Blood is also
    wrecked by noise reduction, and there are
    pulsating backgrounds like I've seen on
    bad bootlegs. Attack is in better quality,
    though now I don't remember.

    So I take it that "Film Masters" is the
    same as Film Detective in that their
    products are muffled by so-called "noise
    reduction". It's this intrusive re-engineering
    that spoils so much video and audio.

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