[78-L] DVDs made to order ^

[David Lennick]

The other week I mentioned that "The Group" was finally available on DVD, 
through Amazon. It's a DVD-R which is manufactured to order and it showed up 
this week. In fact my account wasn't debited for over a week, or till they'd 
actually manufactured it and had it ready to ship. The liner (front and back 
cover) is unbelievably cheesy..looks like a 19th generation reduction of a 
theater poster and is barely readable. I sampled a few seconds of the disc just 
to make sure it plays (they caution you that it might not work in computers and 
recorders). At the start, you're told that it's "from the best available 
sources" and..this is a weird one..instead of chapters, you're given the 
opportunity to press your >> button to advance the film in ten minute 
increments. It IS wide screen..if the VHS version was also wide screen, then 
all they've done is transfer from that master. And that's what you get for your 
$17.99 (but with one item added to my order, I qualified for free shipping!). 
Nice work if you can get it.

dl