Beware of sales!

Harj

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Hi,

I recentl purchased a few discs before xmas in the High St sales, (HMV and Virgin i think).

Amongst those I have had to turn off 3 discs as the picture and sound are so awful.

Leon (Big black bars)
Jacobs Ladder (really bad 5.1 mix, so tinny)
Glengarryglenross (4:3, pan and scan)

So if u see a few discs for about £3-£5 check the back and find out from other ppl if they are good transfers, just dont get excited like me and buy them straight off, 3 great films ruined.
 
the R2 of Leon is 2.35 non-anamorphic, hence the 'big black bars'
 
& if you read the back of GGGR you wou;d see that its AR was fullscreen.

But I kind of get what you are on about - just 'cos it's cheap doesn't make it a bargain
 
And im the sort of person that usually does read the spec, just got carried away in the sales, still i can always stick on ebay and get back my money:devil:
 
the GGR SE is superb, you can get it quite cheap on the net at the moment...
 
yeah, the shop 'sanity' that was in durham (luckily, its closed now, as it was sh*te...) sold a lot of films that were only 2 channel sound! when the films had 5.1 etc...but a lot of people wouldn't have checked this tho...
 
GGGR is £9.99 on R1 from Movietyme atm i think
 

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