I don't think this is a general problem with the whole adult industry, maybe an uninformed viewing choice though.

Forums like this have handy reviews and other information which help fans pick what they want to view and avoid what they don't.

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IF companies would take the time to re-master old footage, inform you that the DVD is a compilation and ID the scenes you're getting, I think there are many of us who would kill to get our hands on our favorite scenes from early in our porn lives.

Problem is, when we go back to our old VHS tapes, if we even still have them, the production quality is almost unwatchable. For those of us who are old enough, lots of great stuff we saw on film in theatres never made it to VHS, much less DVD, unless it was a "classic" (and many of those have been released as inferior hack-jobs).

So, yeah, enough deceptive crap already.

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I generally only get compilations if they have a special theme that I want to watch. The generic ones (example: "Chicks That Like To Fuck!") are not worth much to me.

In response to BigBobXXX:

There is some older material that has never been released on DVD that I would like to have. Some of this material will probably never be available on DVD for various reasons, even though it was released on VHS in the 1990s.

I sometimes find that when older material becomes available on DVD, it is not as good as I remember. I think this is because I have become spoiled by the technical quality of recent porn. Also, back when I originally watched this older stuff, I would fast forward through a lot of it because I was only renting it for a scene or two. In addition, I was more easily impressed because I had not seen as much porn.

Sorry if I have derailed this thread. I am in a rambling mood.

Back to the thread topic, deceptive compilations suck!

Edited by - Walter on 2/21/2007 1:40:55 AM

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I had an old VHS copy of "Suzy Randall's Stud Hunters" and through the years it was lost. When I finally found it again on DVD, it looked worse than I remember the VHS tape being!

Part of the problem with this particular one is they just grabbed the first copy of the film they could get their hands on for the transfer. Had they gone back to the master, I'm sure it would look much better on DVD. So much for product integrity.

Caballero has been issuing some nice clean re-mastered stuff in the past few months.

DVD Movies Direct (an "adult dvd marketplace" seller) lists about 300 classic titles from Caballero, and they're all around $5 to $6, so I've been slowly building up a nice collection.

Edited by - BACMUSA on 2/21/2007 5:12:18 AM

Edited by - BACMUSA on 2/21/2007 5:12:42 AM

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It really is a shame that these videos are still hidden from the marketplace.

I would really love to see them brought back with the extra footage of cut scenes and out takes as extra bonus features. I think it would sell myself.

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The industry has been passing off repackaged stuff as new for as long as I can remember (20+ years). Some companies, such as Leisure Time (aka Leisure Slime) have made their owners very wealthy repackaging. If a significant portion of consumers didn't buy the crap for something inexpensive to aid their compulsive jacking off, the crap-producing companies wouldn't put out the crap.

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I've seen compilations where the box cover shows a current pornstar, and her scene may even be a recent one, but the rest of the DVD contains old, badly filmed scenes of a bunch of unknowns.

Compilations can be a bit of a gamble to purchase, but just occasionally you can pick up some good scenes among all the rubbish, I recently was lucky when a compilation DVD had one of my favorite scenes with Alicia Monet that I used to have on VHS.

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I don't buy these any more! It saves me alot of disappointment and frustration.

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