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Thanks for the tips!

Can anyone recommend a good HT store in Manhattan or Brooklyn, one that would give me a good demonstration of LCD TVs? I'm looking to buy my first one and I'd like to bring a stack of DVDs with me to test the waters, so a place that's especially friendly to the specific needs of a buyer is a...

Thanks, Guys. These were the kinds of sober--and tidbit-filled--answers I was hoping for. Can anyone recommend a good HT store in Manhattan or Brooklyn, one that would give me a good demonstration?

I don't know what else to call this thread and I feel like such a Johnny-come-lately to this technology and discussion. I'm due to buy my first TV in 10 years. I'm very brand-loyal, at least with TVs, so that means I'm looking at a Sony. As for my viewing tastes, I like old films, mainly from...

Thank you, Joe!!

Please clarify something for me before I go insane. I remember there being one, perhaps 2 trailers on the laserdisc of All the President's Men, with one being constructed largely from still from the film and dialog over top. Is that true? It's a really trailer and yet it ISN'T on the new double...

I believe only one other, "Le Notti Bianche" has an audio book for "White Nights", the Doestoyevsky story that inspired the film. I know that was the first and still may be the only other one.

Does the Jaws II DVD come with a trailer only or both the theatrical and the teaser? If it has a teaser, can anyone describe it to me? Thanks!!

I'm only halfway through the second episode and so far so good. In fact, it's great. I'm prob. more lenient than the average post-er when it comes to video quality, but I agree with David when he says that the show never had a pristine look in the first place. I'm just amazed it is as good as I...

It would be great if Ford's silent version became available. It would have been great to include that on the 1948 version DVD. (As you can see, I'm really into these DVDs that include A/B versions of films!) It's also been made in as a Japanese anime, called "Tokyo Godfathers" (2003)...

Uh-oh. You got me there. I can't beleive I can't find the program from that series, seeing as it was where my wife and I went on our second date. (Yeah, when she suggested that we see 2 versions of the same film in one day, I knew it was love!) I only remember there were six and the...

Has anyone ever heard of this 1930 film coming out on DVD? I believe it’s the second filming of the Peter Kyne story “The Three Godfathers” and arguably the best. Visually stunning and unsentimental as you can get (just the title change alone hints to it’s rough edges). The ideal DVD would...

Thanks for all that info, Michael! I frequently show that trailer when we have guests over since it scares the hell out of them. I've heard stories about Friedkin and the music for The Exorcist (I believe this is the was the film where he asked Bernard Herrmann to give him a score as good as...

This reminds me of the couple of Radio City Music Hall festivals from the mid-90s (one year there was a week of WB films, 2 years later there was a week of Universal films). Whenever possible, they had the 70mm prints (i.e. My Fair Lady). Everything looked amazing--but sounded horrible...

Why not?! That kills me when something like that gets away. Hell, they own it and it wouldn't make sense to have it anywhere else. Even if they lost it, would it be that hard to locate? As someone who was raised on Steve--as I imagine a lot of us were--every little glimpse of him back then...