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It's an interesting coincidence to me that about 8 years ago Criterion released a beautiful restoration, on Blu-ray, of 1 of my personal top 5 favorite westerns: "One-Eyed Jacks", a film that focuses on a relationship between two characters who were obviously created by a writer being inspired...

Scott, like you, I've also been very happy with Panasonic's UB820 UHD 4K BD player. Since early 2021, have had a UB820 in our basement's dark theater room, paired with a Sony Master Series 77 inch OLED. And since September 2022, we've also used a second UB820 in our living room's setup. The...

Want to re-watch a film I've had on DVD for more than 17 years, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer". I highly recommend "Henry" to any fellow HTF member who'd like to experience a type of horror movie which is both chilling, and even disturbing, since rather than it involving any sort of...

BTW folks, from this point in time, going forward here on our form, I'll NOT again make comments, or criticisms concerning discs or movies that I've not personally SEEN myself! Though it's my hope that fellow forum members understand why I thought that my opinion offered here about a disc I...

Thank you very much Joshua, for just confirming the point I made in the first place, which seemed to offend a few folks here, that was just my conclusion that the Giant 4k BD's PQ, simply can't come close to that of the BEST discs of the 4k UHD BD type, for those EXACT reasons that you gave. I...

Good evening to you there in Michigan, Robert. Hope that the smoke from the Canadian forest fires isn't negatively affecting air quality where you are, as it is in so many areas of our country! Regarding your response to my post, it should have occurred to me that my statements explaining why...

Malcolm, I've honestly not yet seen ANY 4k version of Giant, but I do appreciate your appropriation of my "canny fans" phrase. However, what I don't appreciate is the sub-par quality of the 1080p BD of "Giant", the PQ of which is so easily surpassed by dozens of the 1080p Blu-rays in our...

Robin, that was also my exact reaction, in deciding to wait for Columbia to offer a FHtE 4k UHD BD as an individual release, rather than allowing my great admiration for the film to goad me into paying for a couple movies that I don't even like! But kudos to RAH for keeping us fans of "From...

And such a low-ball price for the 4k UHD Blu-ray of "Giant", seems indicative of the disc's relative quality among 4k UHD Blu-rays of what were big budget Hollywood blockbusters. So right off the bat, canny fans of such classic Hollywood big budget productions as "Oklahoma", "The Bridge On The...

I'm thankful for being reminded that James Wong Howe was the cinematographer for PTM. And for those HTF members who have not seen it, I'd sure recommend that they see the absolutely stellar cinematography that Mr Howe did of a largely night time New York City, for 1957's "Sweet Smell of...

RAH, I very much appreciate your description of Jean Simmons having been a wonderfully kind and slightly bawdy lady. Since your comment supports what I'd hoped that the late actress was actually like off screen. Anyway, regarding her onscreen work, I've always been a big fan of the way Miss...

I'm sure hoping that RAH will do one of his A Few Words About reviews on the 4k UHD Blu-ray of "Raging Bull". Since I'm certain that many HTF members, besides myself, want to know if Robert would rate Criterion's UHD BD release of RB as being a significant enough PQ improvement over the Blu-ray...

Adam, your example of where 1 movie ticket has the outrageous price of $20 just for the "privilege" of seeing a flick 1 time, and maybe not even seeing ALL of a long movie, if a need to use the rest room arises, makes me glad to be living in this "Golden Age" of Home Theater, that allows many of...

Thanks Josh! Until you let me know that, I'd had no idea that 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea had ever been out on Blu-ray in our country. Was it a quality release? And maybe, was that Blu-ray out just a relatively short time until Disney put it back into the vault, so to speak? Because as we all...

Absolutely, Anthony! In having just viewed this beautiful movie on Blu-ray, 4 hours ago, with my wife, as well as with an old friend, I know that we'd all certainly agree with you, as well as with our fellow forum member, Jeffrey D, that the gorgeously rendered images created by cinematographer...

Gee Captain, once we get Invaders From Mars on Blu-ray, the only title on your list of color Sci-Fi films of the 50s that we won't have on disc here, is 20 Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (which badly needs a quality Blu-ray release!) It's a real mystery to me why Disney has never created a...

RAH, I'm assuming that your humorous imagining of seeing " amoebae munching on grain" is an indicator of the sad reality that since the original Texas "Massacree" flick was only shot on 16mm film, the capacity of a well produced 1080p Blu-ray should certainly suffice for being able to present...

You make a good point Yes, Panasonic pulling the plug on production of their 4K Blu-ray players would really feel like it was hitting home here, since the only 4K players that we've ever had, are the 2 Panasonic UB820 players that are used in our basement theater room, as well as in our living...

Thank you SO much, Clint! And I appreciate you referring me to Rtings. That explanation of chroma sub sampling from the folks at Rtings should be quite interesting to me. Thanks again! And I'm glad to have discovered this thread, and the discussion of UHD Blu-ray players that you and other...

I hope that you're correct about development of new models of 4k UHD BD players continuing into the future for another 2 or 3 years, at the very least. Because though I've been generally satisfied with the Panasonic UB-820 player that was purchased in early 2021, when also acquiring a Sony A9G...

I hear you Robert, as it appears that I've been the chief offender in that regard. So when my copy of The Banshees of Inisherin Blu-ray (that I ordered on Amazon through this site) arrives on Friday or Saturday, then after my wife & I watch it this weekend, I expect that will be my next valid...

Ronald, your mention of the Avatar 3D made me curious. Because I wonder if your enjoyment of 3D may indicate that you use some sort of DLP type display for the playing of 3D material. I ask that because the first HD display that we ever had here was the 73 inch Mitsubishi DLP rear projection TV...

Gee, I should be hitting the hay, after having just finished my long response to you. But just seeing what you'd written while nearly turning off my laptop, just had to state something that relates to your point of PERCEIVED sharpness. About 14 or 15 years ago when Pioneer still made plasmas...

Thanks very much for such a quick reply, RAH. I'd have responded more quickly myself, to your answer, if not having gotten involved with responding to a fellow member in Norway, and having just finished that at about a minute after 5 in morning. (We're on Eastern Time, here in Ohio, and the Mrs...

Kevin, I can see exactly what you're saying. But though you are certainly accustomed to viewing an image at home with your DLP projector, that's MUCH larger than that of a flat panel TV, you'd easily notice that a flat panel like a 77" or 83" Sony or LG OLED, when displaying that same Blu-ray of...

RAH, thank you for your review here of a movie that I've been looking forward to be able to finally introduce my wife and myself to, via a disc release. But this review having these words "when viewed at a normal distance", a phrase you've included in a number of your reviews, reminded me that...

Robert, RAH's point that in some cases, 4k UHD Blu-ray movie releases have resulted in 4k that went "FAR beyond any perceived technical benefits over a high quality Blu-ray derived from the same master element", then led to you making this indisputable statement: "That point is taken, but it’s...

RAH, I really like this line that you wrote in your review: "Maniac made a number of critics cranky, if not horrified, when released theatrically in 1980". That was so appreciated by me, because its degree of understatement inspired some laughter here, as it revived a memory of one critic saying...

That sounds about right to me. But I do wish that our old 73" Mitsubishi Diamond Series DLP rear projection TV (that claimed to be a 1080p unit, and came very close to it via pixel shifting), which we bought in fall 2007, when it came out, hadn't died on us 6 years later. Because that DLP, in...

But RAH, though I've not seen "Babylon", something I heard hinted about some elephant behavior above a person, in the movie, which sounded like it could be a trifle overwhelming in Dolby Atmos!