bobafred

Today is the greatest day in the history of DVD (that might be a stretch). Let me explain. As far back as I can remember, before I had a DVD player, I always felt that Goodfellas would be the first DVD that I bought. Then I started reading sites like The Digital Bits and DVD Review.com and I learned what a “flipper” was. What’s a flipper? Its a disc that you have to flip over halfway through the movie. And Goodfellas was one.

You see, back in the good ol’days of DVD there was only what was known as DVD-5 (single-sided, single-layered) or DVD-10 (double-sided, single-layered) discs. Since Goodfellas was longer than what could fit on a DVD-5 disc, it was on a two-sided DVD-10. Enter more recent times and the introduction of DVD-9 (single-sided, dual-layered) and DVD-18 (double-sided, dual-layered). Now a long movie can span across 2 layers on one side of the disc. What happens is that the laser reads until the end of the first layer, and then refocuses and reads a second layer of information on the same side. Have you ever noticed a slight pause in the middle of a movie on DVD? That is the layer change. Some discs are better about hiding it than others. Now you have Goodfellas without having to flip the disc. Pretty neat.

This turned into a much longer post than originally planned, but it is about damn time that Warner stepped up and gave us Goodfellas in a respectable release. Thank you.

Also a Candyman SE came out today.