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I don't want to nitpick here, but if we are are going to quibble about the look of grain in a transfer, we might as be accurate about aspect ratios -- and to be fair, this is a mistake that is CONSTANTLY being made even by people how should know better. I've seen it on the back of DVD...

If you are looking for inexpensive poster frames with a plastic "window" to protect the poster as well as backing board and hook hardware, the cheapest I have found was at Michaels.com -- their 27inX40in 1sheet frame is about $20 and is the cheapest I've seen so far. Be careful tho, because...

Oh you'd be surprised what Disney will tolerate before The Rodent feels any shame. I once booked CINDERELLA and they send a print that was cropped with a bastardized aspect ratio, instead of the original 1.37:1, it was cropped to 1.85:1, and vertically scanned throughout to keep things from...

Everyone in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. True story: John Wayne's one line as the Centurion soldier at the foot of the cross says (in a Texas drawl, no less) Surely this must be the Son of God. Director Stevens was unhappy with Wayne's delivery and so after many takes, and many feet of...

Unfortunately, the rule of thumb that used to drive the studios about their older libraries was to rush older titles out to disc before the people who saw them back in the day get too old to drive the market and/or die off. You have to remember that the heyday of that genre was as you can see...

Yah...well that's Disney's business model: hide it in the value...hide it in the vault...hide it in the vault.

My mum tell me she took me to see DUMBO and always recounts how I had nightmares for days after. But I have no memory of it, so I can't really say it was the very first movie I saw. What has been burned into my brain however, as wildly memorable were the Saturday Kiddy Shows where they ran 6...

A word about the 1.37:1 vs 1.85:1 aspect ratio framing -- this film was shot in 1955, a period when Hollywood was transitioning from the Academy ratio (the near-square screen image) to wide screen. Once those theatre owners paid the big bucks to put in CinemaScope screens for THE ROBE, there...

From what you show in the photos, if you goal is just to get some music playing, you do have components that could make that happen -- how good or not it will sound is a "coin toss" (an American term that means "who knows." 1) The NAD preamp (assuming this and all the rest of these components...

While I understand the disparaging tone -- yes, cropped wide screen was indeed the poor man's CinemaScope and CinemaScope was poor man's Cinerama, and you are right to scoff -- cropped wide screen as a process (it's really not a process per se, but just a way to cheat a wider picture out of the...

The college uses DVDfab to make protection copies to a NAS server in the event a DVD or BRD is damaged. DVDfab makes identical copies in two ways -- a direct copy of the directory structure and all the files on the disc or an ISO. Is there an advantage one over the other? The tech says the...

The first word that comes to mind is Discerning Old Man.

Kudos, Mark! Great review. In line with the old adage, "you learn something new everyday," this is the first time I've heard of dubbing taps audio. And Roxy... ...are you saying that Nelson had someone else dub his taps, possibly Kelly, OR Nelson had his taps dubbed like Kelly had his taps...

I'll say!! I kept hearing him saying, "The body of CHRIST COMPELS you...the body of CHRIST compels you!...oh wait, that's me!" And yah, those cameos -- they were so distracting you could hear people snickering in the screening room. Then John Wayne appears and the snickering gets even louder...

You might be of a certain age as I am where you grew up during the Golden Age of the Movie Palace where even the lowly neighborhood theatres had a screen curtain and curtain lighting that started the each show. At my first job at the State Theatre in Austin, TX (Interstate Theatres), they...

Just a general rule of thumb that has served me well over the years and thru many theatre installations: whenever you are pulling cable thru tough places, behind walls or in conduit, in ceilings, etc., we ALWAYS pull double lines on speaker cable, CAT5e, 6, and even some low voltage cables...

Yes, you can't read it enough -- manufacturers' contrast specs are pretty much useless. Each reaches those numbers however they want to make their projector look more attractive to the buyer. And if your room environment has controlled ambient light and you are keeping it dark for movie...

While this is fascinating information, either method (painted ceilings or fiber optics), I decided the work involved with either method is beyond my pay grade. Me, I bought a star projector by Sega called Sega HomeStar Planetarium. It projects a beautiful starfield; the starfield moves in a...

Sorry...we would NOT require students to have to pay for rentals when a film is required for class. And thanks for the heads-up on the Amazon scope version. If they have it, there must be a master authored. The fact that they don't respect the work enough to release it on disc says volumes...

Actually, we are streaming everything remotely via our own IT servers processing our library DVDs to the server, so we can only use what is in the library. I was aware of the Amazon scope version but when remote started with covid, we made the decision that we would require students to have to...

Just pulled a DVD from the our college film library shelf, Fred Zinnermann's A HATFUL OF RAIN, beautifully shot in CinemaScope by Joe MacDonnald and released by Fox, only to find to my horror that it's authored as a Pan&Scan atrocity. How they were authoring DVDs in P&P after VHS's demise is...

"It’s not trying to do any magic to improve your projector’s image… that’s not its job. It’s simply reflecting what you shine on it unaltered while also letting sound pass through unhindered and uncolored." FINALLY someone telling it like it is. The reason why you NEVER see grey or dark color...

Wow, Murray -- my mouth is watering. I am blown-away by that incredible beauty and style of your theatre. You are aware that it has my class than most of those multiplex dark, dank, black holes-in-the- wall And we certainly are on the same page with the idea that cinemas today still put...

Ah Murray, a man after my own heart. I too have worked in the movie business (exhibition) since I was 19yrs, and was 13 when they installed CinemaScope, so I too know that fondness for a curved screen. The original CInemaScope spec specified a curved screen as Zanuck at Fox was determined to...

I have in my head exactly what I want in my Home Cinema, but while they are simple elements that would create a cinema environment, evidently not a lot of people incorporate them into their setup because finding manufacturers is a real challenge. I am not talking about the obvious -- speakers...

Does anyone know if that image stabilization process is done by some computer AI magic or is it done by human eyes, aligning frame by frame?

And here's how much I hate LG for discontinuing 3D capability in their OLED TVs -- they could offer this 77in for $1000 which has no 3D capability, and I'd tell them they can shove it. So for those of us who still love 3D, we HAVE no choice but to look to front projectors to give us that visual...