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From their FAQs, I clicked "Can I suggest a film?", but Kino replied ambiguously. https://kinolorber.com/faqs[/URL

Kino's not always so good with replying, and they never did when I submitted this request a few weeks ago. I'll give it another shot later month.

Strangely, the show was also called Universal Star Time Theatre of the Stars https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Hope_Presents_the_Chrysler_Theatre BUT as I posted above, when this reviewer saw the episode he had to arrange to view it at the Paley Center in New York...

If Rod Steiger and/or Michael Pataki who played his character as a younger man, had been guilty of "overacting" in some scenes, it hardly detracts from this fine story by Rod Serling and Steven Bochco, which debuted on what was the Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theater TV series. Playing older...

A shame he's not going be doing reviews anymore; loved reading them and VERY useful for deciding for/against a purchase.

Kino's BD Edition of Columbo series: Are ALL episodes the UNCUT versions? Are all the isolated score tracks in lossless DTS-MA format?

As there are too many Season DVD sets to purchase, and each with only ~ 7 or less liked episodes, I borrow them from local public libraries. None of the sets have episodes lists, thus no episode descriptions. Wikipedia was always my on the fly go-to source to quickly find the episodes that I'd...

Okay, I stand corrected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Digital_Audio_Disc_Corporation#Sony_DADC_Plants But neither Sony's nor Universal's optical discs are hardly just made in China. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonopress https://www.sonopress.de/en/products/film/ And perhaps for some...

If that were true then what motivated Sony to do this? https://www.hometheaterforum.com/co...ver-disneys-physical-media-production.381885/ So, it looks like they're keeping their DADC facility going after all. And specialty vendors like Criterion, Kino, VCI, Warner Archives, Arrow, Eureka...

Perhaps, perhaps not. But consider that like all technologies, the time to author and press BDs have both dropped perhaps nearly as much as it was for DVDs a decade ago. Thus, the cost of issuing, even an obscure vintage TV series, is now much less-and because BD has > 7X the storage space as...

For collectors, the loss of the DVD format, at least regarding all important A/V quality, presents no great loss, compared to BD. I didn’t read the Variety report, but whenever the end comes for DVD with events like this it looks like collectors will continue to enjoy BD, and perhaps even new...

I only recall parts of a few scenes. I remember it as especially uncomfortable to watch because you could sort of feel the fear the mole people had being so different from terrestrials, even as Superman and Lois had their backs. But that first season was very special, wasn't it? But let's be...

Criterion, Kino, VCI, MPI/Dark Sky, ShoutFactory, Arrow, TwilightTime PowerHouse, Scorpion Releasing, Imprint, Eureka, Cult Films and at least a half dozen other boutique distributors who have released many of your favorite popular and not so popular titles, superbly restored on BD, and with...

Hello Bob, and thanks for all of those Capitol Legendary Masters and Collector series CDs, as many are still among the best sounding transfers of music from artists of the 60s. So, regarding the Superman TOS, not much chance of Warners commissioning you to do restorations for a BD edition? I'm...

At least the film negatives weren't trashed but they might as well have been since the DC Comics wing of Warners, like all the majors, are highly covetous of any of its properties, and unlikely to consent to any such restoration efforts unless it could be assured of fat profits. And maybe not...