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The newly-digitized and restored soundtrack for THEY GO BOOM! had slipped out of synch during the compression process (this can happen with DVD--and you can't even tell that it has done so--and this happens more than one would think). But, the disc has been completely remastered and the soundtrack of THEY GO BOOM! is now perfectly in synch as it should be.

i think they are so funny can anybody tell me the name of the film where they have to get a piano up loads of stairs (does it really matter if the sound is not that good)

Volumes 1, 2, and 3 are excellent. This one has a mojor problem. "They Go Boom" is WAY out of sync. Word has it that these discs have been recalled and a new corrected one is on the way. Wait for it!

I must admit that it's a great DVD, but I disagree with the other reviewer that the new sound on "They go boom" is a revelation. They replaced the optical soundtrack with the original sound-on-disc soundtrack, but I think the optical one should have been better, because now the sound is terribly out of sync. And that's a shame, because otherwise I should have rated this DVD 5 instead of 4 stars. Nevertheless I think it's a great DVD.

This latest Laurel and Hardy disc releases some of their rarest material for the first time. The audio for THEY GO BOOM has been re-recorded from the original sound discs and digitally cleaned, contains the original music and is a revelation. ON THE WRONG TREK is a singing-dancing Charley Chase short from 1936 and is SOUND not silent as indicated in the rundown. THE DISC IS NOT REGIONALLY ENCODED AND WILL PLAY ON ANY DVD MACHINE. The Production Company is Hal Roach Studios, not Image Entertainment.

This item has no spoken dialogue. Disappointed....