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Yes simplythebestdvd provide a good service and they are cheap. However, Their website does imply that UK customers get orders posted in the UK but in fact they get posted in Spain but it seem fairly safe cos they can send the boxes and covers on separately from the UK.

But my main irritations are not principally simplythebestdvd'd fault. The content of some DVDs is just uninspiring and someone just lets the camera roll for about an hour and call it a porn film. The uninspiring DVDs were not even worth watching once and i selected them because of the tantalising covers you can view on the simplythebestdvd site which you can view enlarged and also the tantalising simplythebestdvd write up.

On top of the content sometimes being poor, i've bought 3 DVDs now with appalling picture quality - everything looking very washed out and swimming with a bright red colour. It was as if someone did a cheep and nasty copy from the video version and then dumped it on a DVD, still however with elaborate packaging.

Although simplythebestdvd are good in someways, it would be better if they were realistic abour describing the products they are selling. I'm sure some are very good but there is some crap mixed in there as well. The DVDs with poor picture quality shouldn't be sold at all.

I assume that simplythebestdvd are sending me original DVDs and they don't just copy rips to DVDs themselves but i don't know for sure as DVDs often only have the title in small print near the centre of the DVD and nothing else.

Another typical thing that irritates me is that i have got 2 DVDs from simplythebetsdvd involving spanking and all the participants are doing is tapping each other's bum with their hand and they scream in agony. I am not asking for anything extreme but tapping each other's bum is hardly realistic is it ?

It sounds like STB are taking the piss and copying vhs movies onto DVD. If it's not done right the resulting product can be much worse than a good VHS, so please don't get carried away thinking that DVD automatically means brilliant quality. If it is implemented properly it can be very good, better than the best VHS. But if corners are cut and the people producing the DVD havn't got the slightest clue what they are doing and don't care so long as they get your dough, then the results can be spectacularly bad. You must get away from the idea that DVD = brilliant quality. It is a highly compressed format that necessitates a lot of picture information being thrown away, if it is done properly you don't really notice, if it isn?t you may end up receiving some moody old DVD's from moody old companies.

Officer Dibble.

what titles did you order penbat?

Twas fetishy/femdom/BDSM/watersports type stuff. They weren't all bad quality but most were. More mainstream stuff may be more reliable.

Officer Dibble wrote:
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> It sounds like STB are taking the piss and copying vhs movies
> onto DVD.

I doubt it - the quality of original DVDs varies hugely as you say; so if some of the ones they are selling are poor, it does not follow that they are making them themselves.

It also depends on the source material. DVDs of classics created from the original celluloid and DVDs of post-digital-video tapes are often of superb quality, but DVDs where only a non-digital video tape original exists often look terrible. I've got one DVD (American) where the picture quality varies between shots depending on which camera was in use. Even with digital master tapes, though, the colour is often too red - on the tape and on the DVD.

For the old films the best companies are Nu-Tech in the States and Blue One in France. VCA and Colmax are also good. In Germany Goldlight and Tabu are good, but Ribu are poor.

Hmm. I've had some American DVD's that were appalling exhibiting digital artefacts and bizarre colour shifts - that's if they played at all. The content was recent American gonzo - 'Teen Bitch Cum Guzzling Debutantes Part Umpteen' or some other tosh. But the point is that it was all shot on digital video and the picture quality should have been at least reasonable. This led me to suspect they were shitty bootleg copies as the distributor was Nu-Tech and surely a top porno company would not offer merchandise that was unfit for it's intended purpose?

There's not much excuse nowadays for commercial movies to be "too red" I have more than enough computing power on my desktop to deal with this problem, never mind a big American distributor. If I can deal with it, they can. So, if DVD's turn up that exhibit appalling picture quality I suspect bootlegging by the technically ignorant or a cavalier disreagrd for the consumer by the producers and distributors. Officer Dibble's video and DVD productions are well cushty and don't exhibit any picture quality problems - in fact one of my DVD's was specifically commended for it's excellent picture quality in a recent bgafd review!

Officer Dibble.

Since you mention it, the DVD did indeed have an excellent picture quality, but I did notice in the same scene or parts thereof in the Carrie Potter video (the VHS tape that is), the colour was too red - perhaps a duping problem?

Possibly. Any duping is done by outside contractors, they have the same digital matser to work from, but there could have been a problem with one of their slave units that wasn't discovered until several copies had been run off.

However, the 'Carrie Potter' scenes would have had a warm reddish tinge anyway since they were silmply shot under domestic tungsten lighting. Will endevour to do better in future.


Officer Dibble.

Thanks for the explanation.

Hi Dibble,

You are a man of wisdom and expertise in your field. So can you tell me why companies such as (the ones your behind) continue to use "outside agents" as you put it. Does this mean the Your Choice arangement of people duping tapes in their living rooms on domestic VCRs is the future.

Get with it Dibble. Invest in some proper duping decks. The days of Fines & Closures are gone.

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