On the plus side, at least it's uncut. The cinema version was trimmed to a
PG and the fullscreen videos have remained as a 15-cert until widescreen ones
came out last year rated 12.
The teeth of the sea. Not in 3D.
Presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen (not 16:9 as stated on the back of
the box), the print is way too dark and muted most of the time and underwater
scenes look particularly murky. It's certainly in need of a remastering.
At least the sound's in surround, but there's nothing unexpected here and
the few moments that do use the rear speakers don't last long.
As the lack of effort into making the film sank, so did the same for the extras.
This DVD contains just the 4-minute Jaws 2 trailer plus the teaser
trailers for Jaws 3 and Jaws: The Revenge.
There are 16 chapters to the film which isn't enough, the menus are
static and silent and subtitles come in 6 languages: English for the deaf and
hard of hearing, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Finnish.
DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV
connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and
played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.
PC games reviewed by the editor are on:
Since Nov 2005: Intel Pentium D 830 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 128Mb nVidia GeForce 6700XL, Windows XP
Since Aug 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.66Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb GeForce4 MX440 graphics, Windows XP
Since May 2003: Intel Pentium 4 2.6Ghz, 512Mb RAM, 128Mb ATI Radeon 9600TX graphics, Windows XP
Since Jun 2002: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, 64Mb ATI Radeon 8500LE
Since May 2000: Intel Pentium III 600Mhz, 384Mb RAM, Windows 98 SE, Voodoo 3 3000 AGP
