>Re:Voir has released over 40 VHS cassettes of experimental films >(http://re-voir.com), but have no plans to release DVD due to poor >quality. The problem with MPEG compression, designed for natural and But this would only apply to certain kinds of experimental films and usually the ones that suffer from any kind of translation to video, not just DVD specifically. I'd imagine a good bit of experimental maybe even the majority would work just fine on DVD. But the claims in Pip's statement have also been debated recently because some of this testing appears to have been done a couple of years ago before many technicians had learned to handle the medium fully, sort of the same situation as the very earliest CDs which often had a harsh sound. More careful transfers and planning can alleviate many of the compression problems (one example would be the higher bitrates used on the Suspiria DVD to handle the film's use of color, which limited the amount of extras that could be included). Not that this will solve all the problems because some experimental work will always be problematic by nature. As an example of the change in attitude is the double-DVD set from anti-video ranter Stan Brakhage. ---- To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF Screen-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]