Review(s): DVD Airport Terminal Pack (Airport/Airport '75/Airport '77/Airport '79 - The Concord)
airport terminal pack
very good on delivery i ordered the week before and it arrived the next week wonderful. in the pack airport is the only one which had 5.1 surround decoding. the rest of the films were decoded in 2.1 which was dissapointing. the picture quality was acceptional wouldnt say it was great.
having said that it was amazing to find the pack in the first place as it is not available in uk at all.
Will revisit.
My review will have to wait. Being in Australia I am having our player modifyed to play region 1 movies.
Regards Tim Matthews.
Airport Tereminal Pack
About time this came out on dvd I have seen all these movies except for Airport 79 was my first chance to see it, Compared to todays starnderds of movie making they do look a bit weird but they are marvolouse classics and well worth the purchace for such a time capsual
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