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post #31 of 42
11/17/08 at 7:28pm

Re: Ray Harryhausen Collection

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Originally Posted by Jesse Blacklow
The B&W movies look fantastic, and of course you are given the option of original or colorized. I doubt most of us will look at the colorized versions for more than a couple of minutes, but they are available if you want to check them out.
How many minutes of the colorized version may I watch before being banished from the HTF?
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post #32 of 42
11/17/08 at 8:24pm

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"minutes"...? Seriously? I don't think it can be quantified with such a lengthy unit of measure. Maybe in parts of a second but not minutes.

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post #33 of 42
11/17/08 at 9:25pm

Re: Ray Harryhausen Collection

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Originally Posted by Chris S
"minutes"...? Seriously? I don't think it can be quantified with such a lengthy unit of measure. Maybe in parts of a second but not minutes.
It's a good thing I asked.
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post #34 of 42
11/19/08 at 1:06pm

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My rule of thumb is that you can play it long enough to say, "Look what they've done, these monsters! My God!" And then you need to go back to the black and white.

I suppose optionally you can add, "They've raped my childhood." But NO MORE.
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post #35 of 42
12/2/08 at 5:08pm

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Ok, I've watched Earth vs. Flying Saucers and It Came from Beneath the Sea from the set. After watching both on my 46" Samsung, I don't think EvFS benefited much from HD. ICfBtS, however, did seem more detailed, more interesting.

I made an astounding discovery. After starting ICfBtS, last night and powering off the player mid-movie (got sleepy), I started it up today and it resumed where I left off and with the commentary still on. I then hit the stop button and then play and it did the same thing. This is the first BD disc I've discovered that does that.

Is this because there's fewer bells and whistles on the disc or because they got the act together?

I also discovered that the Angle button toggles between the b&w version and the (gasp) colorized version. The picture pauses for a short moment and than resumes in the selected mode.

Edit: When I first watched these movies 50 years ago, I didn't get sleepy in the middle of them. Was that because I was watching them in a Saturday matinée with a couple hundred noisy kids (myself included) or is that because of those additional (sigh) 50 years?
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post #36 of 42
12/2/08 at 7:54pm

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Johnny, i had asked that question a few months ago. It seems if a disc has JAVA that needs to load, the disc cant, or wont resume.
You know when a disc is full of JAVA, it takes a few seconds to minutes to load it all.
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post #37 of 42
12/3/08 at 7:58am

Re: Ray Harryhausen Collection

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Originally Posted by Johnny Angell
Edit: When I first watched these movies 50 years ago, I didn't get sleepy in the middle of them. Was that because I was watching them in a Saturday matinée with a couple hundred noisy kids (myself included) or is that because of those additional (sigh) 50 years?

Probably a combination of both, and I've noticed that phenomenon too!

Doug
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post #38 of 42
12/3/08 at 2:34pm

Re: Ray Harryhausen Collection

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Originally Posted by Doug Otte
Probably a combination of both, and I've noticed that phenomenon too!

Doug
Ah. I'm not alone. Good to know
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post #39 of 42
6/24/09 at 11:55am

Re: Ray Harryhausen Collection

I have a Samsung BD-P1500 player and have been watching It Came From Beneath the Sea (as a rental) but the Angle button display, which is used to toggle between the B & W and colorized version stays on the screen all the time throughout the film. I assume it is not meant to do this?
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post #40 of 42
6/25/09 at 6:07am

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Originally Posted by Douglas R
I have a Samsung BD-P1500 player and have been watching It Came From Beneath the Sea (as a rental) but the Angle button display, which is used to toggle between the B & W and colorized version stays on the screen all the time throughout the film. I assume it is not meant to do this?

It's a flaw in the way Samsung codes their software. Search around for a 1500 thread. Maybe somebody found a workaround.

Doug
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post #41 of 42
6/25/09 at 6:17am

Re: Ray Harryhausen Collection

Thanks, Doug. I have indeed found the answer on an AV Forum. On the remote I have to press the Popup button, then Info button, then Popup button again and the Angle icon disappears from the screen.
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post #42 of 42
6/25/09 at 11:24am

Re: Ray Harryhausen Collection

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Originally Posted by RickER
I wonder how long it will be before they break the set up, cause i wont rebuy 20 MMTE, and i am not interested in Sinbad...but i am in for the others!

Available individually from Amazon. UK:

Earth vs The Flying Saucers [Blu-ray] [1956]: Amazon.co.uk: Hugh Marlowe, Joan Taylor, Donald Curtis, Morris Ankrum, Charles Evans, Larry Blake, Thomas Brown Henry, Harry Lauter, Grandon Rhodes, Ray Harryhausen, Fred F. Sears: DVD

It Came From Beneath The Sea [Blu-ray] [1955]: Amazon.co.uk: Ken Tobey, Faith Domergue, Donald Curtis, Robert Gordon: DVD
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