From: weary flake 

There seems to be some mistakes by journalists about the Warners
Archive DVD project.  They are DVD-Rs, they say "Download" on
the DVD-R itself, and the hype, of course, is all about downloading,
exclusiveness of the website, etc.  Not true.  The DVD-Rs seem to
be showing up directly at amazon.com/dvd after a few months or so,
though I've seen no reports about this anywhere.  Does anyone know
if there is an explicit policy to release *all* the Warner Archive
DVD-Rs to Amazon, and how long it is scheduled to take?  I'm
talking about fulfillment directly by amazon, and not by third
parties.  For instance, the Warners Archive DVD-R Who's Killing
The Great Chefs Of Europe (1978) and The Sea Hawk (1924) can be
bought direct from amazon.com/dvd, which wasn't true just a
few months ago.  Amazon is more reliable (for titles they stock)
than ordering directly from Warners, which is slower and doesn't
do returns in a jiffy.  This is all vital information for our
sweet, sweet friends from Britain, Germany, and all the other 
non-american countries because Warner Archive refuses to ship
outside of the USA.

Haven't watched the Sea Hawk (1924) yet, but have seen the
chefs movie, which is a funny "foodie" movie, and I don't recall
problems with the video quality, despite what some of the amazon
reviewers say.  (related subject matter, The Simpsons season 11
episode where Homer becomes a fat food critic.)

The Four's a Crowd (1938) Warners Archive DVD has transfer errors
in it, starting about half way through the movie (i forget the
exact timings) and shows itself as movement showing itself as
if there were frames dropped and the previous frame repeated,
"robot movement", I don't know what the exact technical term
for this sort of distortion, but there is a mild case of it
here; it is exclusively a transfer fault, not a source fault, and
is super retarded.  The movie itself is of interest, for instance,
with the character who is sort of the "Mr. Burns type" and his 
favorite statement is "release the hounds" and then the snapping
hounds chase away the rascally errol flynn.

By the way, an inferiority of the amazon.com/dvd website compared
to the amazon.co.uk/dvd website is the "advanced search" on the
UK website allows search by Studio, while the domestic amazon
forbids searches by studio.

--- Internet Rex 2.29