Warner Archives

This has possibilities.

The idea behind this is that you can order from Warner Brothers a custom made DVD of one of the over 3800 films in their library not presently available on a mass produced DVD for around 20 bucks.  Of that 3800, about 150 are presently available. 

For someone like myself this is a mouth watering possibility, especially when you take into account the availability of films like Tourneur's Witchita which I have only been able to watch in the most dire dvd that was transferred from a 16mm print that apparently was kept at the bottom of a well.

The idea here is that really anything would be better than the print that I saw but the question remains at how good will these prints be? I did notice that they will be in the original aspect ratio, always a good sign, but will they be remastered?

The info is probably on the website but as of this morning they were still working some kinks out of it and I couldn't find it.

Of course what this augers is a more "on demand" future where entire libraries will be on central servers and we will just pick and chose what we want. I am more than certain eventually we will be able to download Joel McCrea himself to give us a nice massage.

But, hey, this is a start.