On 28 Jun 2008 19:24:03 GMT, ms wrote:
>
> There is nothing wrong with the small TV monitor, or the connections as
> it plays other movie dvd's fine. As in my OP, I was playing a dvd, not
> using a VCR tape recorded copy or anything else.
>
> After wa****ng, the movie looks the same, from the opening credits
screen.
> the movie is alternately light and darker. The initial 20th Cen. Fox
> video and no copy screens are perfectly stable, only every movie screen
> is a problem.
>
> This is the usual commercial dvd, "20th Cent Studio Classics, etc. ".
>
> But the film quality sure looks just as you described.
>
> A comment on above?
Sure. It's a pirated movie. The "initial 20th Cen. Fox video and no
copy screens are perfectly stable" because _that_ section of video can
be copied from _any_ valid DVD (ergo: Good quality) -- then the pirated
contents are spliced on past that (ispso facto: Crappy quality.)
IIRC, way back in your OP you memtioned you bought it at either a yard
sale or flea market -- the favored outlet for pirated material in
countries where pirated and counterfeit items are more at risk in store
front slaes.
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