Concerning the recent posts about experimental work on DVD, Pip Chodorov offered the following response to my comments. It's passed along with permission. LT >Dear Lang Thompson, >I am not subscribed to Screen-L, but I read your comments. >The tests I did were done in France and Germany within the past twelve >months by experienced technicians. I chose films that work fine on VHS but >have trouble using MPEG (Fluxus, Fischinger, Scher, Lye, Jacobs, >Mekas...). These films pushed the techniques to their limit and the >technicians were well aware of the problems; they did their best. One >could not do better. We tried every bitrate and combinations of different >GOPs with and without filters. >Brakhage's new attitude is simply a devil-may-care passiveness. He really >doesn't care anymore to rant against anything and has no energy to argue. >We have spoken and he finds DVD worse than VHS, but he has moved to Canada >and is glad to receive some money from his work. >Feel free to post these comments, >Best, >Pip Chodorov ---- 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]