Visions of Light (1992) [5993-85]

Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography was produced by the American Film Institute and NHK.

I will keep this short: the LD is roughly on par with the DVD for video quality, and should exceed the DVD's compressed audio quality.

DVD screenshots courtesy of DVDBeaver, and compared with my LD screenshots (the brighter ones are the DVD):
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http://s1.postimage.org/6zzqrg2nz/beaver_04.png

I don't know the reason for the color bleed in my Citizen Kane frame. It's from the previous frame, I can tell you that.

The highest price for the LD on the shops here is $25, as compared to the lowest price for the NTSC DVD being $49 for a copy without the original cover.

The PAL DVD from BFI is altered to be 1.78-compatible (i.e. the 1.33 clips are pillarboxed), but they stupidly encoded it as non-anamorphic (so the 1.33 clips are actually windowboxed). It is also standards-converted from the NTSC version, with field-blending artifacts.

A great disc! I got my copy from Duff's Flix last year from his $1 disc collection - he had several sealed copies of it for a buck each.

The color bleed in your pic looks like either a 3D comb filter was being used or a recursive digital NR system was processing the picture. Is the color bleed there every time you still-step through those frames?

I'll have to take a look. My setup is the same as I listed in another thread, running composite out into a DMR-E20. So yes to 3D comb filter, but I don't know about DNR. Don't have the remote for the thing.