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  1. Ken Wilson

    Kolchak: The Night Stalker

    A famous line: Paramafait is gonna' gitcha!!!! ;)
  2. Ken Wilson

    Kung Fu Season Two

    Well, I'm about half-way through Season Two, and I'm enjoying it a lot. The picture quality is beautiful, although sometimes it gets a little soft or out-of-focus. (Maybe some of the actors/actresses had that written into their contract for close-ups! :) Most close-ups are clean and detailed and...
  3. Ken Wilson

    HTF REVIEW: Kung Fu - The Complete First Season.

    George and Terry, Like I have said already, as others posting above, we do support OAR, but we're not fanatical about it. The reasons we bought this set are quite clear, and we don't need to be criticized about it. I suggest, again, that you aim your energy and criticisms at Warner Bros...
  4. Ken Wilson

    To Warner Bros. re: Kung Fu DVDs

    There are a couple of threads, from Dec. 1993 and Herb Kane's new review of Kung Fu Season One, on the "HT/TV shows on DVD" forum, regarding this new release. It's a 4:3 TV show that has been released on to DVD in a "Modified Aspect Ratio" for widescreen TVs, and that's creating a lot of...
  5. Ken Wilson

    HTF REVIEW: Kung Fu - The Complete First Season.

    Mr. Anderson, (Where have I heard that before? :wink: In the December thread about this issue (click on the "here" in Herb's review, in the paragraph about Randy Salas's photos, to get to it, someone posted a link to get to Warner Bros. Customer Support. I'm going blind trying to get to...
  6. Ken Wilson

    HTF REVIEW: Kung Fu - The Complete First Season.

    Like Herb says in his review, you have to choose your battles. It's too late to whine about the MAR release of this series' first season. It is a TV series with limited audience appeal and not a super popular 2.35:1 widescreen movie that has been severely chopped-up into 1.33:1. I am not going...
  7. Ken Wilson

    Does anyone remember Davey and Goliath?

    Hi, Ya, I remember it.....but Gumby is better!! ;-)
  8. Ken Wilson

    Kung Fu - Season 1 (March 16th) is not OAR

    Chas_Michael said: "Whats so hard about NOT accepting a MARed release? DON'T BUY IT! They will fix it if NO SALES are madeDon't let your fears get the best of you. Be strong DEMAND a repress! Someone please start a petition." Calm yourself lad! Besides, the chances of getting this old...
  9. Ken Wilson

    Kung Fu - Season 1 (March 16th) is not OAR

    Jeff said: "What's the difference? Both are MAR." There's a big difference in the amount of picture cropped-off going from 2.35:1 to 1.33:1 than there is going from 1.33:1 to 1.77:1. I know that's it's still an objectionable procedure, but some are more objectionable than others. To...
  10. Ken Wilson

    Kung Fu - Season 1 (March 16th) is not OAR

    Hi Randy, Thanks for the brief preview. Not OAR?! Man this is killing me!! I watched every episode when it came out in the 70's; it was an excellent show. I'd given up hope of ever seeing it in a retail format. I met and talked to David Carradine in 1992 when he was on a book tour. I had my...
  11. Ken Wilson

    Five monoblocks, or a 5-channel amp? Same price.

    So far, everybody has missed a very important point regarding the advantages and reasons for having monoblocs. There is the potential to have a monobloc very close to each speaker, with a long interconnect going to each, and very short speaker cables to each speaker. Long lengths of shielded...
  12. Ken Wilson

    Hooking up

    Your Sherbourn converts composite video to s-video, but no component converts composite or s-video to component. And, unless you have two sources with component video outputs, there's no advantage to running a component signal through the Sherbourn first, then to your TV. As the other poster...
  13. Ken Wilson

    HTF REVIEW: "Legends of the Fall" SUPERBIT (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) (with screenshots)

    http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/ebert_...01/960430.html ;) Ken
  14. Ken Wilson

    HTF REVIEW: "Cat People" (with screenshots)

    Hi! I just watched this on TV the other night; I couldn't resist it because it had been a long time since I had seen it. I saw a couple of scenes that had me wishing for OAR. And yes, Nastssia is beautiful, but it would be a serious ommission not to mention Annette O'Toole in the locker...
  15. Ken Wilson

    Banana Plug Suggestions?

    Hi Dan, QED makes a "Qudos Air Loc" banana that cold crimps on to wire with a special tool. The bananas come with 4mm and 6mm openings. The wire will not pull out either; it's molded to the banana at something like 1500lbs pressure. The problem with bananas is that there is no standard for...
  16. Ken Wilson

    Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare. = When?

    Hi Bjorn, Please don't interpret my earlier comments to mean that I only like movies that stick to the book story. It's just that some books don't lend themselves to that sort of tinkering with screenplays, and I think Ice Station Zebra is an example of that. After I posted earlier, I went...
  17. Ken Wilson

    Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare. = When?

    Hi! Where Eagles Dare, Guns of Navarone, fine, but Ice Station Zebra?! They totally f*ucked-up the story in that movie; it was hardly recognizable as I recall. Anyway, that's the way I felt; I read every book Alistair McLean ever put out back then, and I just remember being very offended by...
  18. Ken Wilson

    Any reviews for the Great Race (1965)?

    Never mind that you Great Leslies of the video world you! I want....SPLAT!!! mmmm.... brandy! ha ha ha! More brandy!! ;) Ken
  19. Ken Wilson

    video stores with P&S only versions!!

    Hi, I looked for a thread on this, and on the Harry Potter 4:3 problem, but there's so many threads, many that go off on tangents, that it would take me all night just to find the appropriate one to post on. So with apologies to any other similar posts.... My wife and kid came home tonight...
  20. Ken Wilson

    What is your favorite music format?

    Although it's irrelevant to people who can't shell-out the big bucks for the best CD players...companies like Audio Aero, Musical Fidelity, Meridian, etc. all make CD players that sound better playing red book CDs than ANY of the SACD players out there playing the SACD layer of the same music. I...
  21. Ken Wilson

    What is your preferred way of listening to music?

    Two channel. I like surround stuff IF it's presented properly, which isn't too often. The latest incident of my hopes dashed: The Last Waltz. The 5.1 mix put some instruments and voices in the rear channels, and there I was in the middle of the band - again! I dropped it into two channel, in...
  22. Ken Wilson

    conspiracy between audio companies and magazines?

    It should be no surprise that you don't find bad reviews on products in the A/V mags. The magazines (print and website reviewers), hardware and software manufacturers all need each other to survive. It would be unwise and irresponsible for a magazine to publish a bad review of a product. If...
  23. Ken Wilson

    Disney - phone drive is 99.9% in favor of Pan and Scan!!!

    Hi, Okay, I'm in. I spoke to the lady at the 1-800 number, and I sent the e.mail. I also told them about a big Sony show I attended in Toronto yesterday. It was a training seminar, media day and new product display. A very large room was ringed with all of the Sony TVs, and the vast...
  24. Ken Wilson

    question for Rotel RSX965 owners

    Thanks Carl. The 5.1 input by remote is good news. It would have been nice to have an RF input, but I'll just hang on to my RDA980 and connect through the DB25 in to the RSX965. Now, all I have to do is figure out how to take advantage of all those extra channels of amplification I'll have...
  25. Ken Wilson

    question for Rotel RSX965 owners

    Hi! I have four year-old Rotel gear, including the RSP980 5.1-ready processor, the RDA980 Dolby Digital Decoder including an RF input for my Dolby Digital laserdiscs, and a Millenium DTS decoder (and the RB985 five channel amp). I'm trying to upgrade my Rotel gear without going crazy, and get...
  26. Ken Wilson

    Rotel DVD players - info please

    Hi, I'm researching the Rotel RDV995 and 1080 DVD players. I would appreciate receiving any information y'all may have about them. I'm aware of the basic differences between them; I'm looking for info about their performance, etc. Thanks. Ken
  27. Ken Wilson

    Selectavision VideoDiscs

    Hi again, Thanks Kenny, that is a great site! Thanks for your reply Jesse. That sound$ right from what I've learned. I've also learned that I don't have the Motherload here, the "Great Lost Discs", whatever... :frowning: The only "uncommon" one I have, according to the CED Magic...
  28. Ken Wilson

    Selectavision VideoDiscs

    Hi Kenny, Thanks for the info. I'll check those spots to see what the value might be. That would be as in MONEY, which I see that Jesse left out of his "offer" :) C'mon buddy, if you own 1100 of these things, you must be able to tell me what they're worth. Don't fib now; I'll find out...
  29. Ken Wilson

    Selectavision VideoDiscs

    Hi! I was helping an a/v retailer clean out an old warehouse, and we came across a box full of the old style "laserdiscs" (?) (1981 era). Those are the ones that were in a large plastic cassette that was inserted into the machine. (I'm not even sure how the system worked!) There are some...
  30. Ken Wilson

    Best Buy buys Future Shop

    Hi! Ya, I just read about that......I don't know what to expect. I'm kinda' worried about pricing for DVDs. When I go into a Best Buy in the USA, I see that they're charging the same or more in US dollars than we pay in Canadian. I'd hate to see Best Buy jack the prices to increase their...
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