Earlier tonight, I watched the laserdisc of FLAMINGO ROAD, and while I was watching, I realized how far we've come in becoming discerning about our home video quality.
For years, I have thought this a perfectly acceptable video of this film, but tonight, I started noticing all the speckles, splices, what looked like water damage, and other debris as the movie unfolded. It didn't spoil it exactly, but it made me realize how much my standards have been raised since DVD has raised the stakes in our expectations of what constitutes a good video transfer. If this were on DVD in the same shape as it is on laser, I'd be screaming from the rooftops, and I suspect a lot of other people would, too.