I just got the Silence of the Lambs DVD and....

[yokem55]

Its the R1 special edition version and the quality is simply aweful. First, there's mpeg artifacts galore. In dark scenes, the dark areas are just a dance of grey and black macroblocks. Two, its blurry, and in areas of some scenes it looks like it was run through a watercolor filter. Also its VERY noisy, film artifacts are common. Is this what others experienced with this dvd, or did I just get one from a bum transfer?

[Slogra]

Screenshots?

[rmatei]

Yeah, screenshots would be nice. I was thinking about getting that DVD. Reviewers (http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/read.php?ID=2506) don't have any problem with the quality, so I don't know.

BTW: it can't be one from a "bum transfer". All DVDs are the same, and if yours had physical problems, then it would show up as freezes or nasty errors, not encoding artifacts.