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I have Disney's "Runaway Brain" Mickey Mouse short on the 2004 DVD, Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse in Living Color, Volume 2. Recently I picked up a used copy of "Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection" (2015) in blu-ray + DVD. After buying it I learned that when new it had...

I have a Sanyo FW65R70F TV and a Sony BDP-S360 blu-ray player. When I play Disney's 1946 "Make Mine Music" DVD ("Gold Collection", 2000), it plays zoomed so that it fills the 16:9 screen side to side, and the top and bottom of the picture is cut off. This problem doesn't happen with other 4:3...

I asked this on the Roku community forum but no response, so I thought I'd try here. On our Roku TV, when we reach the end credits of a streamed movie, sometimes it goes to a small window, and the rest of the screen becomes an promotion for some random other movie. When that happens, how do we...

We've had our Tivo Roamio Plus since 2015, watching it on an HD DLP TV, and all was well. Recently we upgraded the TV to a 4K model, the new Sanyo FW65R70F. On the new TV, streamed HD content upscaled to 4K looks great, and blu-ray disks in our old blu-ray player (we still don't have a 4K disk...

How do you access the mini-movies on the Despicable Me blu-ray? I have the blu-ray and dvd from the "3 Movie Collection" box set of ~2016. The mini-movies on the Minions and Despicable Me 2 disks are easy to find, but I don't see them on the Despicable Me disks. I've looked on both the blu-ray...

I have a ~20 year old 5.1 surround sound system buried in the back of a storage room. It predates HDMI; the receiver's best audio connection is optical. My television set has an optical output (Sanyo FW65R70F). Before I become a human backhoe and go dig it out, any thoughts on whether it would...

Will jog/shuttle dials ever make a comeback on disk player remotes? I used to enjoy stepping back and forth a frame at a time examining animated films on laserdisc. Are there remotes today that work well for that? Back when DVD arrived, I read that it wasn't possible with DVD because each frame...

How is your DVD upscaling to 4K? I just got a Sanyo FW65R70F, and I'm viewing disks from an old Sony BDP-S360. Upscaling from blu-ray looks great, but upscaling from DVD, though in places impressive for 24x upscaling, is sometimes swimming in artifacts. I tried setting the blu-ray player to...

I'm still using an HD Toshiba 62" DLP which I bought used for $100 a few years ago. I hadn't planned on going to 4K until I could find a great deal on a used one. But yesterday I noticed that Best Buy had the 65" LG LG 65UM6900PUA for $530. I looked for user reviews and found over 4,000 on...

I've just picked up a used Toshiba 56HM195. It has a "Auto Aspect Ratio" feature (page 74 of the owner's manual), which when enabled should display windowboxed (black bars on all four sides) 4:3 images in "TheaterWide 2" display mode, which zooms in to eliminate the windowboxing. We have some...

We have a Philips 60PP9601 HDTV. It was working fine for years but recently both HD inputs have gone dead -- no picture. It has two HD inputs; component and VGA. The standard-def inputs are still working, but not well. I would guess the problem with them started at the same time as the HD...

I've had a Philips 60PP9601 TV for ten years. The HD input seems to have stopped working. I see no signal at all when I attach a blu-ray player or TivoHD to it, but I do see video from same devices if I attach them to the 480i input. Can I replace the HD input myself? Thanks, Greg

I'm using an older (~2001) HDTV (Philips 60PP9601) that has two HD inputs: -- Component Video (Y/Pr/Pb) -- VGA/SVGA Ever since a few weeks after I got that TV, used, in early 2003, I've used the component input with a Panasonic DVD-XP30, a progressive-scan DVD player. Today, I set up...

I bought a copy of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow from an Amazon.com private seller, and I suspect it may be a pirated copy. How can I be sure? Here's what makes me suspect it's pirated: -- On the back (data side) of the disk, the inner and outer rings are purple. Doesn't that...

My 60PP9601 had been working fine, but all of a sudden this evening I'm getting no picture on the Aux 1 - 3 and Ant A & B inputs. (The sound works fine.) The Aux 4 & 5 inputs work fine, both picture and sound. (Aux 4 & 5 are the HD inputs.) Also, on Aux 1 - 3 and Ant A & B, I now can't...

Our house was broken into and among other losses our Panasonic DVD-XP30 was stolen. I paid $169 (new) for it about 1.5 years ago, and I'm startled to find that it's now selling for much more than that used on eBay. eBay's history shows that 6 of them have sold recently, for $249 - $316! I...

Can digital camcorders take advantage of HDTV resolution? Or do they only display at NTSC resolution, even on an HDTV? If some digital camcorders can take advantage of HDTV resolution, what about the Sony TRV730? The TRV730 has 690,000 effective video pixels, which is more than NTSC(345,600)...

I just picked up a used DVDO ISCan Plus V2. My TV, a Philips 60PP9601, has a VGA input I want to use (my progressive-scan Panasonic DVD-XP30 is connected to its only other HDTV input). I see that Monster VGA cables are a whopping $200 (I haven't looked for best price, but still...). I have a...

Now, first let me say to any purists who are about to jump all over this thread that we're not recording to the VCR for our own viewing. My wife records to VCR for her friend who is living in India for a few years and has no other practical options. Recording from analog cable to VCR was...

We just got our first Tivo and I have a few questions: 1) On best quality, live action looks pretty good; I only see occasional small compression artifacts. But I was surpised at how bad The Simpsons looks. Large, obnoxious compression artifacts abounded, and I thought I noticed bad some bad...

My Panasonic DVD-XP30 progressive-scan DVD player arrived today. I haven't been able to get progressive-scan output from it. It works fine with composite output (interlaced). The component cables work fine with my old progressive-scan DVD player (Toshiba SD-4700) on the same TV, so it...

I recently got my first HDTV, a used Philips 60PP9601, and just yesterday got my first progressive-scan DVD player for it, a Toshiba SD-4700, replacing our old Panasonic DVD-RV30 interlaced DVD player. The Philips' internal line-doubler is notoriously bad (I'll be adding an iScan external...

I'm looking for suggestions on which used iScan model to look for. I recently picked up my first HDTV -- a 1-year-old used Philips 60PP9601. Yesterday my used progressive-scan Toshiba SD-4700 (only $102!) arrived and it looks great. Now I'm looking for a used iScan, for laserdisc...

I may soon be buying a used 60" RPTV from an individual in my area. Over 200 lbs. What's the best way to transport it to my house? Piano movers? I have a 5 x 8 utility trailer, but I'm concerned that it might be too rough of a ride for the RPTV and break something in it or something. Also I...

Was the Toshiba Cinema Series 50AX60A (50" 4:3 HDTV) a good set? I have an opportunity to buy a used one locally in good condition for $1,000. Is that a good price for it? Thanks, Greg

My wife and I are considering getting a Sony KV-40XBR800. She watches a lot of television and neither of us care much about seeing black bars (while watching letterboxed movies, which we do a lot), so a big 4:3 direct view is an attractive choice. My only concern is that for that kind of...

My monthly (basic analog) cable bill just went up by about $5/month, and I'm thinking about having a good rooftop antenna professionally installed and ditching cable. My question is: supposing I'm able to get great reception with the antenna, how does OTA resolution compare to cable resolution...

What exactly is a transfer?

Apologies if this has already been posted: Studios Go to War Against Video Retailers: Link Removed The gist of the article is that studios are considering going to sell-through pricing only.

Is there a compatibility problem with "Q, The Winged Serpent", on Toshibas? When I put it in my Toshiba SD-9000, all I get is the last frame from the previous disc that had been in the player, and none of the buttons do anything except stop or eject. However, the disc works fine in my...