Sign this petition if you understand the need for quality DVD transfers!

[Deja Q]

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Universal Studios recently announced an August DVD release, the first season of the 1970s TV series "Rod Serling's Night Gallery." Despite concerns from the DVD-preparation staff within the studio, who showed decision-makers a night-and-day comparison between an old print and a newly restored print, the marketing department decided to move ahead with the transfer to DVD using the old prints. Some episodes in the old mastering have music cue omissions and other errors that are now to be transferred permanently, for posterity, to silver disc, with substandard picture quality. With the new wave of high definition DVDs on the horizon, what does this executive decision say about this studio? They want your cash, but they couldn't give a rip about offering you proper value. This is merely the latest offense in Universal's string of DVD-release fiascos: Steven Spielberg's "Duel"--postponed twice, presumably for quality control issues--and the defect-ridden releases of Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" and the "Back to the Future" trilogy.

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I should seek out one aimed at Columbia Tristar video, the DVD releases for TV shows is pretty much shite too. x(