Recent content by Frankie_A

I don't want to nitpick here, but if we are are going to quibble about the look of grain in a transfer, we might as be accurate about aspect ratios -- and to be fair, this is a mistake that is CONSTANTLY being made even by people how should know better. I've seen it on the back of DVD...

If you are looking for inexpensive poster frames with a plastic "window" to protect the poster as well as backing board and hook hardware, the cheapest I have found was at Michaels.com -- their 27inX40in 1sheet frame is about $20 and is the cheapest I've seen so far. Be careful tho, because...

Oh you'd be surprised what Disney will tolerate before The Rodent feels any shame. I once booked CINDERELLA and they send a print that was cropped with a bastardized aspect ratio, instead of the original 1.37:1, it was cropped to 1.85:1, and vertically scanned throughout to keep things from...

Everyone in THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD. True story: John Wayne's one line as the Centurion soldier at the foot of the cross says (in a Texas drawl, no less) Surely this must be the Son of God. Director Stevens was unhappy with Wayne's delivery and so after many takes, and many feet of...

Unfortunately, the rule of thumb that used to drive the studios about their older libraries was to rush older titles out to disc before the people who saw them back in the day get too old to drive the market and/or die off. You have to remember that the heyday of that genre was as you can see...

Yah...well that's Disney's business model: hide it in the value...hide it in the vault...hide it in the vault.

My mum tell me she took me to see DUMBO and always recounts how I had nightmares for days after. But I have no memory of it, so I can't really say it was the very first movie I saw. What has been burned into my brain however, as wildly memorable were the Saturday Kiddy Shows where they ran 6...

A word about the 1.37:1 vs 1.85:1 aspect ratio framing -- this film was shot in 1955, a period when Hollywood was transitioning from the Academy ratio (the near-square screen image) to wide screen. Once those theatre owners paid the big bucks to put in CinemaScope screens for THE ROBE, there...

From what you show in the photos, if you goal is just to get some music playing, you do have components that could make that happen -- how good or not it will sound is a "coin toss" (an American term that means "who knows." 1) The NAD preamp (assuming this and all the rest of these components...

While I understand the disparaging tone -- yes, cropped wide screen was indeed the poor man's CinemaScope and CinemaScope was poor man's Cinerama, and you are right to scoff -- cropped wide screen as a process (it's really not a process per se, but just a way to cheat a wider picture out of the...

The college uses DVDfab to make protection copies to a NAS server in the event a DVD or BRD is damaged. DVDfab makes identical copies in two ways -- a direct copy of the directory structure and all the files on the disc or an ISO. Is there an advantage one over the other? The tech says the...

The first word that comes to mind is Discerning Old Man.

Kudos, Mark! Great review. In line with the old adage, "you learn something new everyday," this is the first time I've heard of dubbing taps audio. And Roxy... ...are you saying that Nelson had someone else dub his taps, possibly Kelly, OR Nelson had his taps dubbed like Kelly had his taps...