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Originally Posted by oddbox83
Maybe someone has them and has good things to say but I'm not very confident. I'm pretty sure the DVD of Hammer's The Old Dark House I have was from Sinister and the compression was poor. Like Network before they improved their compression.
I've got about 3 European Hammer DVDs. Yes. Purely to avoid MOD but I've since gone download as well which is better in some cases like Hysteria where the download is in HD and coming from Warner you know it's legit. You can never be sure if they're legit or not from Spain or Italy. I'm much more confident buying German discs.
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I see on Roobarb the silly notion they can't be bootlegs because they are so good persists.
Obviously nonsense. Some of those Spanish bootlegs are very good quality.
As I said earlier, its usual practice for a licenced product to carry the movie owners logo on the case somewhere. The German Blu of Dracula AD 1972 for example has the Warner logo on the back in the same spot as any Warner release would.
Its very unlikely they would have deals with Warner, Universal , Paramount and Fox.
The addition of the bonus features kind of gives away the fact they're bootlegs of the UK discs.
If they were dirt cheap it might be worth a shot but they're not so I'd pay the extra and get the UK ones.
Even at £80 you should have a good time. They're all around 72 minutes so you're basically getting 13 new Hammer films you've never seen before.That chance doesn't pop up too often.
And if you don't like them you should be able to resell them without a problem or very little loss.
The reason the prints are so tatty is because they used the exact same masters that were used for the VHS releases in the 80's.
On some of the episodes you even get the Brent Walker Video jingle at the end of the episode.