"All The President's Men": DVD Doesn't Seem Right....?

Got this DVD last week and am wondering.

ISBN 0-7909-3295-5 above the bar code and 12569 10182 below.

Bought it at a major retailer so already I suspect that
my doubts are misplaced.

Having said that:
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- It has plenty of "language", but no PG dialog in the beginning.

- It has no warnings/threats about unauthorized copying.

- When I put it into a player, it just shows the movie... (geeze,
what a novelty...)

- Although the picture quality isn't atrocious enough to suggest
something that was filmed by hand inside a movie theater, it's
definitely a few notches below what I've come to take for granted
in a DVD movie.

 

(PeteCresswell) wrote:

This is one of Warner's early releases. When you put the disc in, it
just starts playing the movie. It has a menu, but you have to select it
with the remote. Don't you wish every disc worked this way!

 

IIRC, Warner since revisited the title with a "real" 2-disk version, if
you want more professional-looking disk mastering.

Derek Janssen

 

Per Derek Janssen:

Would the video quality be any better - or is that some artifact of the original
film?

 

Just about ANY recent Warner 2-re-disking looks better--

Think of Warner's early birth-of-DVD disks like Disney's "Limited
Editions"...Back then, they thought all you had to do was put the
videotape copy into a new shape.
(Need we mention, the new version also has menu and extras.)

Derek Janssen

 

The original version also has a menu, it just doesn't come up first.