Category Archives: DVD

Movies and DVDs Censored in Australia

Posted on July 23, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve just added to the DVD Links section on the Blog a link to ‘The Chopping List‘, which contains lots of fascinating information about which movie bits we Australians don’t get to see, thanks to Australian (and sometimes foreign) censors.

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Funny sound mix

Posted on July 20, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Dolby Digital, as I have pointed out, isn’t necessarily 5.1 channels. Many DVDs are two channels (2.0), quite a few offer one channel sound (1.0), and some odd ones even manage 3/1.0 (ie. three front channels, and one surround channel). But … Continue reading →

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DVD Audio Bonus Groups

Posted on July 19, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

I’m in the middle of reviewing a pentuplet of DVD Audio players and, thinking I knew it all, stumbled across something new to me: DVD Audio bonus groups. Now the DVD Forum, in its wisdom, chose to abandon the familiar Title/Chapter … Continue reading →

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Wow oh wow … but I’m still an idiot

Posted on July 15, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

Just a couple of days after I purchased an Australian DVD release of the silent classic Metropolis, I read of a new, restored version on James Lilek’s glorious ‘The Bleat’. Taking mercy on the man (and as just a tiny downpayment on … Continue reading →

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Screwing up PAL DVDs

Posted on July 11, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

PAL DVDs are better than NTSC DVDs in a couple of ways. One of those is higher resolution, and the other way is a cleaner sequence of frames — ones that do not produce interlacing artifacts. That is, of course, … Continue reading →

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Strange happenings with DVD+R and Philips DVDR890

Posted on July 6, 2003 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve noticed something strange about the way Philips’ DVDR890 DVD recorder burns DVD+Rs. Here’s the first couple of lines of a DOS DIR /S command, when a duly finalised Verbatim DVD+R is in my computer’s DVD-ROM drive: Volume in drive F … Continue reading →

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