Nick, The new remastered, Singin' in the Rain, is fantastic. It's out & well worth it. Try a general laser disc site that will lead to reviews such as. http://www.ping.be/~ping1439/laserrel.html Stephen **************************************************************************** ********** At 11:06 PM 11/18/97 -0500, you wrote: >I have the opportunity to pick up a number of movies that I am interested >in on laser disc. My question is: how do you find out about the quality of >the disc / transfer, particularly when there are competing versions. For >instance, there is an old Criterion Singing in the Rain, but I seem to >recall they remastered the movie fairly recently - should I wait for a disc >of the re-release? Etc. > >Is there are a good guide or source of reviews on the quality of particular >laserdiscs? > >_____________________________________________________________________ > Nick Chapman [log in to unmask] http://www.umich.edu/~nwc > Program in American Culture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI >48109-1027 USA > > There can, of course, be no apolitical scholarship. -- Chandra Talpade >Mohanty >_____________________________________________________________________ > >---- >Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the >University of Alabama. > Stephen O'Riordan, Curator Film & Video Library Geisel Library Univ. of Calif. at San Diego 9500 Gilman dr. La Jolla, CA. 92093-0175Q ph - (619) 534-7981 fax - (619) 534-70189 e-mail - [log in to unmask] FVL Web - http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/fvl/FVLPAGE.HTM ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite