joe wrote:
Looking at the original 1981 Magnetic Video release of Phantasm [4066-80], i notice i have the cover as described in the ratkins notes:-
'Known MVC versions include U.S. and Japanese pressings on 1-disc/2-sides. The Japanese disc is found in an American jacket with "Made in Japan" sticker. There also exists a Japanese printed jacket that has 'MAGNETIC VIDEO' on the cover, instead of the 'MVC' logo.'
I have the cover not pictured, the MVC version with a 'Made in Japan' sticker on the back and an 'MVC' logo bottom right on the front cover, instead of 'Magnetic Video'.
Is it possible to create an 'alternative cover' on any relevant release with multiple covers.
Obviously there are many discs that were re-issued with different artwork, ie when a title was released by 20th Century Fox and then re-issued by CBS/FOX... but how many 'alternate covers' are out there??
JULIEN... is it possible to create alternate covers on any relevant page?
Not only were there different variations of jacket artwork for the same release but the catalogs would often picture a jacket that, as far as we could tell, never existed in real life - and they didn't appear to be mock up's, but actual jackets that just never were used. US MagVid jackets and the later Fox labels are really guilty of this.
Ron (Ratkins) took the Phantasm info from our LaserVision Landmarks site - he's an official partner in the site, BTW. The early days of LaserDisc were weird with jackets because they often had variations within the same title. As we run across them, they'll be documented on the Landmarks site.
As a side-note, the MagVid LD release of Phantasm has the best rechanneled (not remixed) stereo I've ever heard - they only rechanneled the music and FX tracks, the dialog was run straight down the center in mono so it doesn't have that weird phasey sound that fake rechanneled stereo often suffers from and it sounds right when ran through a surround decoder. 9 to 5 is an awful rechannel job with all the even frequencies on one side and the odd frequencies on the other, like Capitol Records used to do.