VHS / DVD

I don't know about y'all, but I find I'm much more forgiving of bad videotape transfers than bad DVD ones.

A Cult Alley Theatre disc of Enzo G. Castellari's pimps-cops-and-hookers update of The Iliad, known by one title as Hector the Mighty, is an appallingly pan-and-scanned affair. I couldn't finish it, and it wasn't with the low quality of the film itself. And yet I find that if I had the same transfer on VHS, if it were all that were available to me, I'd probably convince myself to be resigned to the experience, maybe even romanticize the idea of the shaky, murky nth-generation dub.