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Twister Review

Studio: Warner Brothers
Formats: Side 1 pan & scan, Side 2 Letterbox (2.35:1)
Features: Production Notes, Cast bios, theatrical trailer, English & French sound tracks, English, French and Spanish subtitles
Cost: $20 (introductory price, normally $24.95)
03/29/97
The trailer for Twister is in PCM audio only. Because I use an external decoder, I must switch the receiver to listed to the PCM audio for their trailer. At least its not an incompatibility with my decoder!
03/24/97
This version looks much better than the Twister I saw on the Panasonic DVD Demo disc. I noticed a little artifcating. The biggest drawback was the trailer, which has garbaged AC-3 audio. The audio basically drops out very other frame so a stuttering effect is heard. The audio in the movie (both formats) is fine.
We have not watched the entire movie, but I must say for $20 is pretty darn good. Sure, there are some digital artifacts here and there, but this is a first run disc. Compression software and artists will only get better with time.
The disc is THX mastered (which must mean before compression takes place)
The interactive menu was a little confusing, and I think this will be a problem with DVDs in general. Every disc will have a custom user interface.