Worst DVD's You've Seen

[tgpo]

What DVDs did you buy or rent only to find out that the video quality was sub-VHS and the disk contained no special features, and the disk was only full-frame? This is for the worst of the worst.

I'l go first. Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation.

The video quality on this disk was horrible. I know that horror movies are printed dark to begin with, but this movie was unwatchable. It was insainly dark and very hard to make out what was going on.

[Coop]

Do VCD's count?

I bought the Cure's In Orange concert from 1985 almost a year ago (before I got into capturing) and the quality was absolutely bad. I could have done a better job with purchasing it on VHS and making a DVD myself.

[WeedVender]

Bruce Lee movies..
The Chinnese Connection.

[Will Hay]

The four disk set of Blackadder.
Cost me £49.99 and the quality was shite.
One of my favourite UK shows - very disapointed
Will

[Marco33]

High Risk, got it off e-bay.

Looks like a professionaly pressed DVD.

It's a terrable capture of a VHS. Dark, blurry, lot's of ghosting effects. cost me $8.

I've made better captures on my machine. Matter of fact, I think I will cap it from a VHS.

[Bob W]

Somewhere in Time: A good story/movie but the DVD quality is grainy and the audio poor.

[DivXExpert]

The extras on The Holy Grail.

You know with the legos. And the how to use coconuts.

Horrible telecines.

PAL interlaced > Slowed down to 23.976 (without deinterlacing) > hard telecine to 29.97.

Check it out. Seperate the fields, and the fields are interlaced.

[Evil Twin]

The WORST stuff I have ever gotten was from this site
http://www.immortalvideos.com/

I order what was called 'dvd rips' I figured that would be dvds backed up to dvd-r or at worst to a VideoCD. After waiting three times the amount of time (they told me) to get them in. (Took over 2 months). These discs were horrible!! I got cheap generic cd-rs with avi files on them.
Seeing that I have done a number of VCDs and DVD-Rs myself, I was totally disappointed.
The video is terrible and out if sync with the audio.
There is no way that these came from a DVD source then transfered to avi. I think that they came from a video tape source then got transfered, very poorly I might add!
I cannot see how this site knowing sells these pieces of crap!!
I myself would be embarresed to give them away!

So stay away from the site, don't buy anything from them!

[simmons3d]

SCARFACE looks pretty bad. I don't know if they don't have any good film elements left, or they just didn't bother looking, but it sucks.....

METROPOLIS by Madacy Entertainment.

They looked for the worse copy on the planet, then made an EP VHS tape and then took the tape and put it on the DVD. If you look closely, you can even see the VHS tracking error of the tape on the DVD!

Piss of Junk...

[vitualis]

Is this "Metropolis" -- the relatively recent anime?

The Australian R4 release was very good quality...

Regards.

Is this "Metropolis" -- the relatively recent anime?

No, talking about the 1926 classic. Yes, it's old, but there are much better prints then the one they used. But come on, making a DVD from EP tape?! that's pure contempt for the movie and the costumers...

[disturbed1]

Short Circuit
Horrible video quality

Days of Thunder
Horrible video quality

Queen of the Damned
Bad video quality

Special features on Fast and the Furious
What a joke!

25th hour
Bad editting, scene changes are too fast, angles are messed up, all and all, just a bad film. Could be the director though, I've yet to see a decent film from Spike Lee

[andydd]

I got some from Hong Kong..coz they were very cheap..But quiality is awfull ..like a VCD. Worst is The Others..Uk version is nice but the HK one really looks bad..pity coz on some they have DTS sounds whereas the UK versions dont..Examples being Others and Dog Soldiers.

[freak_in_cage_10k]

One of the worst DVDs i have ever seen stars Kurt Russel and is called Soldier(not a bad actor, reasonable budget, shound be good right...) THINK AGAIN!!!!! Its a Universal Soldier Rip Off but is AWFUL!!!!! NEVER buy it!!!!

[rhegedus]

The quality on the Predator DVD is sub VHS standard.

Regards,

Rob

[birdygal]

Dreamcatcher from asia I've downloaded better quality from kazza

[Goatgod77]

Reefer Madness, found it for 5 bucks at my local best buy, and it's totally awful quality. Picture does not fit on the TV, sound cuts in and out, and the video is horrid looking.

[disturbed1]

Two more-

Jackie Chan's Shaolin Wooden Men (from 1976)

Yes it's old, but come on, digitally remastered audio? It's mono ac3, and clips like crazy. The video quality isn't all that bad considering how old it is, but Clash of the Titans, and Jeus of Naz. are old too, and look 10x better.


The Robotech series.
My DVCII does better VHS conversions than what they did

[gcutler]

METROPOLIS by Madacy Entertainment.

They looked for the worse copy on the planet, then made an EP VHS tape and then took the tape and put it on the DVD. If you look closely, you can even see the VHS tracking error of the tape on the DVD!

Piss of Junk...

I thought they had filmed it in a theatre like those new movie bootlegs. I agree that was the worst. I burned a DVD of my legit Gorgio Moroder updated Metropolis VHS and it was much nicer.

[Raen]

The classic anime series Robotech. Good seres, but they did absolutely zero clean up on it. It is the same quality as a vhs copy of it. I was very disappointed that it wasn't cleaned up at all.

[EddyH]

"Beautiful Creatures"... a friend wanted to show off his new DVD drive in his PC (a couple years ago, when they were new and expensive)... so he got this from the rental store hearing it was a good film.

I would say that at best, it had been transferred from a fairly worn tape from the same store, at some high-street video transfer shop (you know, like "your old 8mm films on VHS or DVD HERE!") that couldn't afford very good equipment. Fuzzy, low contrast picture that wasn't always very stable, full frame, and low, buzzy, probably mono sound. Yuck. We we'rent too impressed by that and he was kind of embarrassed by it all.
"Luckily" we also got Jackie Brown as well.. which went well, nice widescreen pic and stereo sound, until it stopped halfway and asked us to flip the disc

Yep, DVD got off to a shaky start round our way. Can't say I've seen too many bad ones of late though, apart from the odd lacklustre rental with no features at all and a locked 4:3 fullframe pic (or on one occasion, locked 16:9.. with our 4:3 TV - this also happens with Gladiator, if you use a PS2!). On the subject of which, Leon, great film, good transfer, but has absolutely no extras. Bit hard to think of exactly what it would have though, save for a commentary and/or director interview..

I've still got a cheap cash-in DVD from xmas unwatched, will be interesting to see how good - or probably awful - it is. "Spiderman once upon a time the superheros" (indeed).. a Spidey/XMen/general Stan Lee documentary that some confused relative thought was the movie

Now, how about a discussion of really rotten VHSs as well.. far too many fullscreens around.. people need backsides whipped.

[rhegedus]

A good point raised above: many films were made before DVD was thought of and hence the idea of 'extras' didn't even cross the directors mind. Admittedly, you don't have to have extras connected to the film but there's only so many bios and alike that you can flick through before you get bored!

Regards,

Rob

[Greg12]

neything that has full screen can't be the worst.


The worst DVD was armagedden. Doesn't even play in all my dvd players, the picture is so widescreen u can't hardly see what's going on.

[cellardoor]

Red Dawn. Worst DVD of all time. Shitty TBS like video and audio is extremely low and muddled.

[csautter]

"They Call Me Trinity"

Awesome movie but the DVD quality is real bad, both video and audio. I guess that's part of the reason it is a cheap one to buy.

Christopher Sautter
Tucson, Arizona

[ChrisX]

The NTSC version of "Gettysburg" purchased from a Parramatta "Grace Bros" store in Sydney. The quality not the best as pixels can be seen and the interlacing.

The disc was also found to be defective and I have to return it for a replacement. This was the third defective DVD found this year. It was cheap as well and this is what you get.

The "Gettysburg" DVD is a great film, however the picture as sub standard due to being an American telemovie. This is why the interlacing appeared, a TV movie.

[silas]

The recent releases of both Grease and Saturday Night Fever

Picture quality is VHS at best and the sound absoloutly STINKS on both discs.

These are supposed to be 25year 'special' In 25 years they could have done a better job,more like done in 25 minutes.

[jtoolman2000]

The NTSC version of "Gettysburg" purchased from a Parramatta "Grace Bros" store in Sydney. The quality not the best as pixels can be seen and the interlacing.

The disc was also found to be defective and I have to return it for a replacement. This was the third defective DVD found this year. It was cheap as well and this is what you get.

The "Gettysburg" DVD is a great film, however the picture as sub standard due to being an American telemovie. This is why the interlacing appeared, a TV movie.


I own the Director's Set of the Above movie and it is EXCELLENT. YOu obviously have a crappy knockoff!

[ChrisX]

The NTSC version of "Gettysburg" purchased from a Parramatta "Grace Bros" store in Sydney. The quality not the best as pixels can be seen and the interlacing.

The disc was also found to be defective and I have to return it for a replacement. This was the third defective DVD found this year. It was cheap as well and this is what you get.

The "Gettysburg" DVD is a great film, however the picture as sub standard due to being an American telemovie. This is why the interlacing appeared, a TV movie.


I own the Director's Set of the Above movie and it is EXCELLENT. YOu obviously have a crappy knockoff!

The DVD disc was handled by staff, this means taken out of the box. I am not happy with this and I prefer to purchase it as untouched in the box from the manufacture.

During purchase, I noticed the shop assistant put her fingers on the disc, so the disc was soiled with finger marks. I'll never go to that shop again. I just done another look on the disc, obviously not mint.

I may have to order another copy from the US. No, I don't think I'll order another copy as this would be a waste of money and plays ok in beautiful color and sound, just the interlacing can be seen on a TV too good.

Anyway, just an interest, the DVD is multi-region as region 1 and region 4.