Mission Impossible: The Original TV Series Arriving on DVD Release Date: October 6, 2015 SYNOPSIS The original TV action drama centering on the activities of The I.M.F. (Impossible Missions Force) was a sensation from the beginning. The inspired cast, fast-moving plots, neat gadgets, pre-recorded tapes that self-destruct – all […]
Visiting Criterion Collection
For show notes, please visit our corresponding discussion thread. Full Criterion visit documented in the podcast episode, available via the audio player below. Sam Posten and Home Theater Forum Co-Owner Ron Epstein visit Criterion Collection in New York. Sam interviews Technical Director Lee Kline, Producer Abbey Lustgarten and Audio Supervisor […]
Austere releases slim 8K HDMI 2.1 cable
Portland-based Austere has introduced a new 8K HDMI 2.1 cable for “discerning” customers. This is the latest addition to the company’s portfolio of home entertainment accessories, and Austere promises the new cable is engineered to meet the highest standards of 8K UHD specifications, including a bandwidth of 48 Gbps and […]
Warner Archive Press Release: Tex Avery Screwball Classics Volume 1 (Blu-ray)
TEX AVERY SCREWBALL COMEDY CLASSICS-VOLUME ONE Run Time 138:00 Subtitles English SDH Audio Specs DTS HD-Master Audio 2.0 – English Aspect Ratio 1.37:1, 4 X 3 FULL FRAME Product Color COLOR Disc Configuration BD 50 *Tex Avery Screwball Classics Collection, Volume One is Intended for the Adult Collector and May […]
Criterion Press Release: Destry Rides Again (Blu-ray)
Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of the genre it is having fun with. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart […]
VIZIO unveils SmartCast 4.0 and Voice Remote
VIZIO has announced SmartCast 4.0, the latest upgrade to the smart TV platform for streaming, system control, and entertainment sharing. The update should bring a faster, more personalized experience to SmartCast users allowing quicker access to entertainment options. The company is also introducing a new push-to-talk Voice Remote to make […]
Countdown Blu-ray Review
Countdown takes a premise good for a short film and drags it out to a 90 minute preposterous feature film.
Underwater! (1955) Blu-ray Review
The photography is quite lush and appealing, but the thrills that accompany it are rather tame and predictable in John Sturges’ Underwater!
Portrait Displays announces Calman calibration support for Panasonic HZ2000 TV
Portrait Displays has announced that it has introduced color calibration support for the 2020 Panasonic HZ2000 OLED TV. At CES in Vegas, Panasonic introduced the HZ2000, the successor to 2019’s GZ2000, Panasonic’s flagship OLED TV. The HZ2000 supports all formats of HDR, along with a new filmmaker mode, illustrating that […]
Airplane/Airplane II Double Feature (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder
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THX: when the audience was listening
“We are the art gallery curators,” announced Tom Holman at the first home cinema dealer training I attended at Skywalker Ranch in Marin County, CA in July of 1995. Many readers will know that the mastermind behind THX (whose initials formed the ‘TH’ of the three-letter logo) probably contributed more […]
LG wowed CES delegates with OLED ‘Wave’ and ‘Fountain’
LG continued this year at CES with what it now considers to be a “tradition” by showing off its OLED ‘Wave’ in the welcoming area to its huge booth, and in the process, made show attendees stop and marvel at the impressive display. The construction was comprised of an array […]
Ad Astra UHD Review
Marketing for Ad Astra appeared to suggest the central driving premise was baked around the search for life beyond the stars and a world-threatening event, but that isn’t really what the film is about. The threat to the solar system is a foundational layer upon which and entirely different journey […]
20th Century No Longer A Fox
Disney announced that it is dropping Fox from the names of the studios it recently acquire. Logo will also change. It will become 20th Century Studios. Not to be confused with 20th Century Pictures the studio that merged with Fox Films back in 1935. I would guess if they change […]
Room at the Top Blu-ray Review
The film that ushered in a new era in British filmmaking with its frank dialogue, earnest examinations of the class divide, and depictions of a looser sexual climate that was imminent in Western civilization was Jack Clayton’s Room at the Top.
All About Eve – Criterion Blu-ray Review
Few directors in Golden Age Hollywood were as literate as Joseph L. Mankiewicz. The younger brother of screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz, Joseph paid his dues as a screenwriter and producer for Paramount and MGM before arriving at Fox and getting the chance to direct as well. All About Eve, coming right […]
Criterion Press Release: Destry Rides Again (Blu-ray)
Marlene Dietrich and James Stewart ride high in this superb comedic western, both a boisterous spoof and a shining example of the genre it is having fun with. As the brawling, rough-and-tumble saloon singer Frenchy, Dietrich shed her exotic love-goddess image and launched a triumphant career comeback, while Stewart […]