Michael Mann on Blu-ray

[James Luckard]

Originally Posted by klauswhereareyou

Is the image on the Australian DVD at least marginally better than the bootlegs out there (or the old widescreen laserdisc)?

I found it to be a perfectly decent DVD. It's a legitimately licensed transfer direct from Paramount. I have no idea how it slipped through the cracks and reached the market in Oz, since Mann has blocked any US release.

I've never owned any of the boots, I only ever had a rip of the laserdisc, which I guess they were sourced from. It's certainly MUCH better than that. There was also a widescreen version streaming on Netflix once, very briefly, about a decade ago. I don't know if some boots are sourced from that master, which I would assume is the DVD master.

The DVD is NTSC and region-free, has a reversible cover without the hideous Australian ratings logo, and is available from Amazon US, so it's totally American-friendly. Dunno where you're located.

I can try to do a few caps of the Aussie DVD tomorrow.