Recent content by Todd Stout

I watched the Olive Films Blu-ray of the Charles Bronson film "Kinjite Forbidden Subjects" last night. The fidelity was decent for a movie from 1989 but it was definitely mono. Watching the end credits confirmed that the sound was Ultra-Stereo. My old MGM DVD is stereo so I assume the...

I've noticed that there isn't a printed Best Buy ad every week in my region of Southern California for some reason. The newspaper hasn't had them at all since probably December and the local stores don't have them either quite often anymore. I'm guessing they're trying to save money.

Wow. That ad predates the first Best Buy in my area by two years. We got our first one in 1996. Several more followed.

Should I be looking for MGM or does Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment still distribute MGM titles? I looked for contact information for MGM Home Video and found a phone number but no email address.

That's what I was afraid of. I did some snooping around online and couldn't find any place that had legitimate MOD DVD-R copies for sale. I was going to contact Ebay and let them know but I figured I'd ask first. Had I read the listing a bit more closely, I wouldn't have bought it.

A couple of weeks ago I ordered a copy of Shag: The Movie on DVD through Ebay. When it arrived, I noticed that the artwork appeared to have been printed with an inkjet printer and the disc was a DVD-R with what appeared to be inkjet printed artwork on it. I went back to the listing on Ebay and...

I finally got a response from them today. WOO HOO! Perhaps they were busy.

I sent the same email to Universal using my GMail account and haven't received a response yet. This is getting a bit frustrating.

Thanks for the heads up. I was using a Yahoo account both times. I'll try with my GMail account and see what happens.

Has anyone had any luck with the disc replacement program? I sent an email to Universal on June 4th and never heard anything back from them. I emailed them again, just as instructed, on Monday and so far I haven't heard anything yet.

I was just looking at my Simon & Simon season two set that was released by Shout Factory and the first disc does include the Magnum P.I. episode "Ki'Is Don't Lie" so I guess I do have it elsewhere. The fourth disc of the original Magnum P.I. season one set also included "Echoes of the Mind"...

I bought Magnum P.I. - The Complete Series at Costco yesterday for $75. I figured I'd pick it up to replace the the original DVDs that I bought as they were released several years ago since the new discs are single sided and the packaging is more compact. Well... I tried to locate the Magnum /...

This is a post from what I see people referring to as the "other forum" made by ditcin: I have the image Laserdisc and the surround mix that is encoded on the 2.0 PCM audio track sounds deliberate. If it was done after the fact, it was done very well. I have read in multiple places however that...

Nope. I received my copy today and Meteor is DTS-HD MA 2.0 mono. That is the only audio track that is included on the disc. I was really hoping to at least get the same 2.0 stereo track from the Laserdisc.

I see both 20th Century Fox and MGM logos on the back. I bet that Kino Lorber just put out what they were given. What a shame.