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Yeah I think if they sold some of these classics with the same enthusiasm that they sell Transformers, I think they could re-release them in theaters and they would do quite well. Doug

I'm going to agree with you again Stephen. I think the reason that catalog titles don't sell well, is that Hollywood has never figured out, or simply hasn't tried, to really market their history. Doug

Agreed! Once they seriously start to market and package content this way, I think many people who are skeptical now will be pleasantly surprised. Doug

I find myself buying fewer and fewer movies on disc. It has to be a really special movie for me to actually spend money on it. I actually watch streaming more than just about anything else now. In fact I have canceled my cable TV and have gone exclusively to streaming and what I can get over the...

Personally I don't care one way or the other. A movie is a movie if its on disc or streaming over the internet. Surely there are some issues with films vanishing because the studio has pulled it, but I think those issues will go away as the market becomes more main stream. Doug

Oh yeah absolutely, but those were gone when way back when suddenly there was a Blockbuster , and Hollywood video on every corner. That was back in the early 1990's. But like anything else, this is just a paradigm change. It used to be that people shopped at a little corner market, and they...

In Chandler Video Paradise is still up and running and doing a healthy business. They use to have a huge laserdisc area, which of course is now all DVD, but they rent blu-ray now too. Doug

Yes but more often than not, those errors are because the optics of the player are out of alignment, or the disc writer being out of alignment , not because the data itself is corrupted. Now it is possible for very small portions of the data to be corrupted, and corrected for, but anything...

Its the same as if someone snuck into a theater and watched a movie with out paying. Yes the owner doesn't physically lose anything, except the revenue that that person would have paid had he bought a ticket and watched the film legally. Now if you are saying that that person wouldn't have...

A miss read or a flaw in the actual surface of the disc would be considered a failed copy. I've done mass copy of DVDs for my business, and typically you get 1 failed disc in about 500. The other discs are in fact perfect copies of the original. Is not like analog where every copy will look a...

You can make a bit for bit direct copy of a DVD or blu-ray. There is no degrading, as it is just a transfer of data from one place to another. (assuming that you are transferring it at the same size and not reducing the bit rate). It costs under a dollar for a DVD and around $5 for a blu-ray. To...

The legal decision says nothing about the quality of the copy. Its perfectly legal to make a copy of any movie at any resolution. Its only illegal to break the digital copy protection. Doug

Interestingly, because of the Betamax ruling, its not illegal to copy a movie for personal use. It is however illegal to tamper with, or crack the copy guard software. So in order to perform a perfectly legal act, you have to break the law. Seems contradictory to me. Doug

Nether did Starsky and Hutch....just adding. Doug

Magnum almost invariably had a new hot chick every week. Who needs a regular? :) Doug

That is exactly what it was. 24fps was the slowest they could move the film, and still get quality audio. Doug

I'm watching season 2 of Mission Impossible in HD on Netflix right now. Looks just beautiful! Doug

16mm film shot for UK television is 25fps. And yes its possible to shoot at just about any frame rate. Its simply a matter of adjusting the motor speed. The camera isn't the problem, its the projectors that only have one speed. However in the UK, film chain projectors run at 25fps, hence PAL...

Until very recently, it wasn't possible to shoot video at 24fps. Video in the U.S. is 60i and 50i in the U.K. And in the U.K. they mixed film and video for budget reasons. The video cameras were far to bulky to take on location, and it was too expensive to shoot a whole show on film. So as a...

I supposed frame blending is possible because its going to be scanned out to film anyway. But 48fps was chosen deliberately because of its divisibility with 24fps. Doug

There is another aspect to the higher frame rate that is really no concern of the audience, but clearly is to the film makers. Traditional set and prop construction techniques show up as clearly phony at higher frame rates. Again just look at a day time soap opera and you can instantly tell that...

If I remember correctly, MaxiVision is a 3 perf system for both filming and projection. Doug

But as someone else in this thread already said, producers of filmed television shows could have been shooting at 30fps from the start. In fact it would have been much easier to broadcast film shot at that frame rate, with out the requirement for 3/2 pull down. I believe they choose to shoot at...

I was thinking of Disney's contemporary competition in the children's market at the time. The most popular children's show of the day, when Disneyland and The Mickey Mouse Club started airing in 54 and 55 respectively, was Howdy Doody, which was shot live on video and kinescoped for syndication...

Actually its also being shot in 3D on the Red Epic camera system. Anywhere it shows digitally it will play at 48 fps. Of course they choose 48 fps because they can print every other frame to film for non-digital theaters. The problem with that is because of the high shutter speed, its likely to...

I've seen both MaxiVision and Showscan. I wasn't particularly impressed with either, other than they would be good for theme park rides. I wouldn't make a feature film with either of them. Doug

I wasn't talking about Disney animation. I was talking about live action like The Mickey Mouse Club that feature Spin and Marty and The Hardy Boys. Or the live action Walt Disney Presents. And of course Zorro. I was never terribly interested in the animation. Doug

Its not JUST because its what we have always used. Its because it presents a particular look that we seem to like. There is a reason that about 90% of television commercials are shot at 24fps. Because that look is associated with high quality, high class, big budget productions. Higher frame...

If it were not for the "art" Sony would not have spent millions of dollars to develop a 24fps digital camera. They already shot at higher frame rates. Only 24fps delivers the desired look. Doug

Actually I do.....I HATE the look of 60fps. Its okay for the evening news and sporting events, but little else. Doug