one pound or a hundred pound,
a cropped, noisy dvd is a cropped, noisy dvd.
I went back and checked it, and it is still pretty bad but not as bad as I remembered, but it does look worse when moving on a TV where the noise is more obvious.(see 1, also notice the film noise black lines on the left)
Also I thought it was a 2.35:1 film cropped to 4:3 due to the lack of headroom, but now I'm thinking it looks more like it should be 1.77:1 but has been shot with a hard matte, like Return of Swamp Thing and Not Of This Earth.(which also suffer from being cropped to 4:3 in the UK.
Which makes more sense as the cropping doesn't look bad enough.(see 3)
Point is I think the film could look a hell of a lot better than this DVD.
I mean if Deathrow Gameshow can chance like this:
Anything's possible.