Page 1 of White Specks On Jaws 25th Special Edition....BAD TRANSFER?

Bought the Jaws Special 25th Edition R2 from HMV for 12.99

Opend the seal wraped disc, inspected it perfect not a mark on it, put it in my Sony and it loaded the quality on all the modern stuff was perfect, selected "play movie" and then you get the original Universal logo, which has white specks on it, you also get them through the film, the beach scene at the start of the movie is where there most noticable ( so - far, not watching till weekend) .

You can see that they are caused by dust and dirt on the original film, you see it on films in the cinema, there not a major problem but I was told that the film had been digitaly remasterd, also they are not on my widescreen copy I Taped of the BBC a few years ago!

The quality of the film is superb , colours and genral picture quality, except for these little white bits of dropout caused by dirt and s*** on the original film that they copied off.

PS Its the only DVD I have seen this on , has anybody else seen them?
Yes the film is 26 years old and pheraps I am being super critical?

I know what you mean, I brought this subject up a while back too, but nobody seemed to know what the hell I was talking about.

But yes the dust specks are they, and they are alittle annoying, but its quite an old film, and dispite this flaw, the picture is brilliant, much better than an TV broadcast.

I`ve also noticed these dust specs in The Mummy, Fight Club, Terminator even the Matrix.

You can see that they are caused by dust and dirt on the original film, you see it on films in the cinema, there not a major problem but I was told that the film had been digitaly remasterd, also they are not on my widescreen copy I Taped of the BBC a few years ago!


You don`t notice it as much on VHS because:
1) VHS is one 250 lines
2) The source prints for VHS have delination filters applied to remove any details smaller than a certain size (to prevent alising)

You don`t notice on tv as it`s an analogue format and most broadcasts are filtered before being transmitted to hide anything like this.

The downside of DVD`s superior quality is that you see the things that were not normally visible

Well watched it all and apart from the odd dust particle it was superb, Iv`e lost count of the times I have watched this film, but the DVD just gave it an extra dimension. worth every penny! God I love this film.

PS. Thanks for the info lads!

Saw Jaws a few months ago on the Beeb and was a little shocked at how, I thought then, how badly it had dated; it just seemed tired and badly edited. I`d seen it in the cinema all those years ago and was blown awa, yet here it was again on TV and it seemed so...old.

I`d had Jaws DTS on order, but they screwed up and I wasn`t too fussy when it didn`t arrive after seeing it on TV. Then Future Entertainment had it on offer recently and I thought `what the hell...`

Seeing it on DVD, in the proper aspect, with a beautiful looking print (white specks and all...) just brought it all back again. There was just so much tension; I even jumped when Dreyfuss found the head, although I knew it was coming!

The Beeb`s showing was in the wrong aspect and the print was dreadful; washed out, yellow and grainy. I didn`t believe that it could make so much difference.

Oh, and by the way, a DTS soundtrack helps...