Hmm, didn't know about the audio/video quality compromise. I guess that's why theres those superbit versions of some films, like Desperado something that really bugged me about watching the Sopranos on DVD, Tony is wearing thin diagonal striped shirts (I think) a bunch & you can really notice a blurryness or something, whatever it is you can tell it looks really artificial. -----Original Message----- As for DVD picture quality, I read an interview with Neil Young about his Greendale release, and how he wanted to do a DVD, but complained that a compromise is involved - you can have either superb video quality or superb audio quality, but not both. I can see flaws in DVDs that make them look cheap - gradiation lines in shadowing of skin tones, the way smoke dissipates in the air looks like bunches of tiny squares, and in really dark scenes there is little black definition. Forget watching soccer on sattellite tv too, the players and cameras move, but the field stays solid... Why couldn't they just use the same format as laser disc? Gavin