solaris - russian version

[TheLastManWithBetamax]

Great film but the silliest DVD set i've ever had instead of putting the film on one disc and the extras in another you get half the film on one and half the film on the other, with extras split over the two discs as well

weird!

 

[lonely boy]

Yeah I think the Artificial Eye Andrei Rublev is the same, this is intended as both films are supposed to be presented in two halves including an intermission!

 

[Big Chris]

TheLastManWithBetamax:Great film but the silliest DVD set i've ever had instead of putting the film on one disc and the extras in another you get half the film on one and half the film on the other, with extras split over the two discs as well

weird!

IIRC. The 'Starship Troopers' DVD I rented many moons ago had to be flipped over half way through. Stopped me buying it.

Of course, the L.O.T.R extended editions are spread over 2 discs each. But I guess they can be forgiven for the length of them, plus the 6.1 DTS soundtrack.

 

[ElectroMan]

Laserdiscs were virtually always double-sided!

 

[TheLastManWithBetamax]

I've still got my laserdisc player (you might detect a theme with me and my user name etc) it kind of reminded me of playing and LD, only use it to play CD's these days, because i've never heard a better CD Player.

Some LD films i have are on 1 and half discs, 3 sides of data and one blank side.

 

[ElectroMan]

I remember the message that displayed if you accidentally tried to play a blank side (something about no program being recorded on it)!

I still have a Sony LD player, which was not great with LD as the picture was quite noisy. Must try it with some CDs ...

 

[D.J.KRIME]

If you dislike the movie being presented in its 2 halfs as it would have been presented in the Cinema then I recomend hunting down a copy of the Criterion release as the movie was on disc one with disc 2 containing all special features and IMHO the Criterion release has the best PQ and does not suffer from the minor cropping that all other versions suffer from due to being from a differant master. The Criterion disc is also presented in the original mono sound track.

 

[D.J.KRIME]

If you love this movie as much as I do you can get the Criterion version HERE and dont worry if your DVD player is not multi-region as the disc is region free

 

[ElectroMan]

I will keep my Artificial Eye DVDs until it is released on Blu-ray!!!