Warner Archive Collection experiences?

Cafe Society
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Anyone here ever order DVDs from the Warner Archive Collection? Like, dislike, or any experiences to share? Is it similar in quality to Amazon.com’s made-to-order DVD program?

For those who haven’t run across it before, it’s a service that makes made-to-order DVD-Rs of Time/Warner-owned films/TV-movies (typically those that already have masters made for broadcast on Turner Classic Movies) that are deemed to not have a large enough commercial demand to warrant a normal DVD release; lots of early stuff, especially lesser-known movies with big stars. I wandered over to pick up a DVD-R of the Peanuts Motion Comics from a link on a Peanuts DVD page, discovered they had a release of The Fox (a movie I’d been waiting for, first on laserdisc then on DVD, for nearly 20 years), and ended up browsing and being interested in a few dozen more. I purchased the Peanuts DVD, The Fox, Urgh! A Music War, and a set of Dogville shorts from 1930/1931. While I wait for my order, I’m wondering what I should expect, and wondering if there are any gems anyone would recommend, or bombs I should avoid in the future.

As an aside, I recall seeing Urgh! a number of times in this forum over the years, often in the context of “I wish they’d release this on home video,” so I suppose this serves as a notice to those folks that it’s available…

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Bah, could a roving mod add an appropriate space to the subject title?

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Happy to do so. Keep in mind that you can now report your own posts (click the triangle with the exclamation point), which will generally get you a faster response – mods don’t necessarily read all posts in their forums. (A passerby reported this one for you.)

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Cool, good to know in the future. I think that was the first time I ever wanted my own post modified from above, so I’m not too hip.