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...or just the usual "Crowdflare crashed"?

So I bought one of these at the thrift store... Its a Sony SCD-CE595 which was apparently their "entry level" model in the early-2000s back when the company was seriously pushing the format (which of course laid a goose egg anyway). Now the reason I was interested in it, despite only owning...

Title: Confess, Fletch Tagline: A dead body. A stolen Picasso. And this guy. Genre: Crime, Comedy Director: Greg Mottola Cast: Jon Hamm, Roy Wood Jr., Annie Mumolo, Ayden Mayeri, Lorenza Izzo, Kyle MacLachlan, Marcia Gay Harden, John Slattery Release: 2022-09-16 Runtime: 98...

This is the most complete black and white season in the archives (just two episodes missing out of 39) so no surprise its the first one to make it onto blu. THAT BEING SAID... this is going to be upscales of upscales of upscales. The Hartnell era was shot entirely in Marconi-EMI which was...

Title: Chip 'n' Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) Tagline: It's not a reboot. It's a comeback. Genre: Comedy, Animation, Family Director: Akiva Schaffer Cast: John Mulaney, Andy Samberg, KiKi Layne, Will Arnett, Eric Bana, Flula Borg Release: 2022-05-20 Plot: Chip and Dale are living...

So... for the second year in a row the Super Bowl will NOT be broadcast in 4k. Last year it was understandable as CBS doesn't record or broadcast ANYTHING in 4k. NBC, on the OTHER hand, has no excuse as they actualy DO air 4k sports. ...And by that I mean strictly Notre Dame football and the...

D+ just ninja'd this out. Star Wars clips without dialogue and music collected by themes. Perfect for surround sound testing (its in Atmos). Anybody else watch it?

https://scifibulletin.com/2020/11/25/bbc-release-doctor-who-season-8-on-blu-ray/ Abandon hope all ye who expect superb video quality here.

After a year and a half of dealing with a flaky soundbar I made the switch to this bad boy. Yamaha YHT-3930UBL, and lord was it a pain getting this thing set up as my living room isn't the most friendly environment. Still after weeks of trying to get something future proof (4xHDCP 2.2!) at...

https://www.diabolikdvd.com/product/robocop-limited-edition-arrow-us-blu-ray/ - Wow.

Surprised to see there was no thread about this show. Well that's fixed. Pretty strong start to Season 2 last night. Dat Meryl is bringing it.

So far its working out pretty well over ARC. Now its lossy so it only supports regular old DTS and Dolby Plus. This model also has something of a bad rap for turning off on its own but its only happened to me twice in isolated cases and both instances involved playing streaming content. Its been...

Since this is now becoming surprisingly popular thanks to Netflix, I've decided to compile a list of TV series shot with Anamorphic lenses as opposed to standard spherical ones. Not all these series were presented in their full ratios at broadcast and will be marked as such. Far from complete...

So I just got a new tv (a TCL 49s405) and unlike my old one it supports 24p video. However I'm surprised to see how blurry and smeary it is. Now its not the "soap opera effect" as this tv does not have motion interpolation built in so is it normal?

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July 11 in Region B. Considering this is one of those films that has always looked horrible on home video, I'm kinda interested if they can make a silk purse of it.

Inspired somewhat by the mono-stereo remix thread, I felt interested in doing a list on all the movies mixed in 5.1 PRIOR to the release of Jurassic Park (when 5.1 digital sound went mainstream since AFAIK Batman Returns, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Malcolm X were the ONLY Dolby Digital releases...

A couple years ago, it seemed like EVERY big summer movie was being shot in the Super 35 format but this year its the exact opposite. Panavision seems to be making a big comeback with Thor, X-Men, Transformers, Super 8, and Cowboys and Aliens all utitlizing it and Captain America was clearly...

Just recently I went through the rather exhaustive Hyperion Studios documentary on the Snow White blu-ray, and I was surprised to see that Disney had included in remastered 1080p several of their old shorts from the 20s and 30s. They were both stunning and disappointing at the same time...

I have a Sony DRU842A DVD burner that I got a little over a year ago (its out of warantee now, I'm sure) as a slave drive to my Memorex, and have used it sporadically since. Earlier this week, the thing made some funny noises when booting up my computer then would simply not turn on when I...

The latest newsletter cartoon is indicating Criterion is going to put out Guillermo Del Toro's "Cronos" this fall. This comes as a bit of a surprise to me.

So anyway I just recently picked up the MGM single disc of Cronnenberg's Scanners in the bargain bin at Big Lots, and while watching it on my computer using PowerDVD, at least three chapters won't play. Selecting them simply causes the film to skip to the web info on Title 2 of the disc. Anybody...

Ok this is what we know... The master film elements to the original pre-special edition Star Wars trilogy are in very poor shape. So poor that LFL had to reuse the old faces laserdisc masters for the 2006 2-disc releases. Heck the master negatives might have been junked for all we know...

So anyway I've been forced to delete my copy of PowerDVD's (ver 7) folder because the damn thing wouldn't let me uninstall itself with its own utility. Having done that and cleaning out its registry and installation file it should reinstall right? WRONG! It seems the program despite being...

So I'm looking through the coming soon section of Criterion.com when lo and behold I find a film I never expected to be on dvd from them: House of Games. This is an Orion title, currently owned by MGM which hasn't been involved with CC since the Voyager Company days, so I'm hoping this is the...

Hi, lately I've been busy creating color presets for DVDs using my ATI X800's video adjustment software. It's mostly being a success however I've been running into some problems with getting contrast levels right, namely on older Criterion titles like Brazil and ones that use the THX Optimode...

When this was released a few years ago, Paramount was taken to task for "mishandling" the elements of The Godfather films on dvd in an article for the New York Times. Could someone in the know tell me exactly what this was about and if the problem (whatever it was) was ever fixed.

Are there any plans for a new version of the original NotlD? The Elite Millenium Edition does have some nice extras but the transfer is really showing it's age. And I believe Anchor Bay now completely controls the rights to the "authoritive version".