Recent content by Andre Bijelic

Actually, all of Warner's BDs so far have had extras in NTSC - even in PAL territories.

This was released back in the day when most theatres still had curtains covering the screen. I remember seeing this and the first "Star Trek" around the same time as a kid. The overture to both films came up, then the curtains parted and the films proper started. Edited by Andre Bijelic -...

Well, there are quite a few changes, which totally alter the pacing of the film: A slightly different opening, which shows the MacNeil's home in Georgetown, then cuts to the opening titles.The scene where Chris MacNeil screams on the phone includes a new music cue and omits the line "I've been...

Yes and no. While the vast majority of films are encoded as 1080p/24 worldwide, there are a few titles in PAL territories that are 1080i/50, which could be described as HD PAL. These discs won't play on the vast majority of North American players, even if the discs themselves have no region...

The problem is with the disc, not the player. Most blu-ray discs are encoded in such a way that doesn't allow for the resume function to work. Try it with a standard DVD and it should work just fine.

But both films were released theatrically at 1.85 - so the blu-rays can't really be considered wrong.

The blu-ray of "Planet Terror" has been opened up to 1.78:1 from 'scope. As has the Canadian release of "Hostage", the thriller with Bruce Willis. I ca't honestly belive that anyone considers the 1.85-1.78 thing an issue. Even with zero overscan, the difference is barely noticable, and you'll...

And the bad news is that it's a 1.78:1 transfer rather than the original 'scope ratio.

I'm not quite sure what it is that you're arguing here. Are you saying that a properly transfered, well-mastered, filmlike image would somehow look worse on smaller sets? Of course video, even HD video, is not the same as film. But video, especially HD, can very closely approximate the look...

This was on one of the movie channels in HD recently and it looked much better than the BD. I recorded it and compared it directly to my BD copy. The broadcast version was a bit grainier and sharper overall, with none of the smeary DNR look. I don't know if it was an older transfer, or if...

I just saw "Coraline" in 3D and agree with this statement 100%. It's been a long time, and I know memory can be a tricky thing, but it didn't seem appreciably better to me than the 3D films I saw in the 80s. I still think it's a fad - albeit one that keeps coming back every 25 years.

I certainly wasn't around when say the original "King Kong" appeared in 1933, but I'd like to see it the way that a contemporary audience would have - at least as closely as possible, so I don't see what sentimentality or nostalgia has to do with it. There's also the issue of when changes are...

There's no Netflix per se, but Zip.ca is its Canadian equivalent.