DVD Luddites
NYT Magazine argues against DVD extra features.
What’s most damaging to ”E.T.” is the way Spielberg has tampered with the movements and facial expressions of the eponymous alien itself. A team of computer wizards has labored mightily to make E.T. cuter — an undertaking that, as even those of us who admire the picture would have to agree, has a distinct coals-to-Newcastle quality.
I wonder his feeling on Pixonics’s backward-compatible high definition DVDs: pHD.