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I recently was given the Panasonic UB820 4K Blu-Ray player as a gift. After a few weeks, I noticed that a feature I rarely use, single frame advance, doesn't work properly on 4K content. Here is what I found: -On 4K Blu-Ray discs, my UB820 will play forward in slow motion just fine, but it...

Even the new batch of HDTVs, very few of them seem to have 24p capability, at least as I see listed in the specs. Sony seems to be an exception. Why is this? EDIT: I will say I see "24hz" on a lot of them. Is that the same thing?

I finally was able to view some well-calibrated 120hz TVs at Circuit City today. They look beautiful, seeming to totally get rid of judder, which my eyes are really sensitive to, but... I have to say, they make film look like video. Both had feeds in from Blu-Ray players. One was showing...

This was SO BAD it was actually funny. Some man with a very thick, Caribbean-sounding accent just called me. There was a lot of chatting in the background, like he was calling from a telemarketing center. "Is this Brian?" he said (sounding like "Brrlian"). "Yes." "This is the Social...

I still haven't taken the HDTV dip, but I've come really close several times. I'm sure I'll buy one by year's end. But why does every HD display I've ever seen -- whether at Best Buy, Circuit City, Costco, wherever -- display a slighly jerky motion when objects move from side to side? Also, a...

They're a (fairly) recent download service offering downloads in Windows Media Lossless format. Being lossless, they're true CD-quality sound, unlike MP3s. Their selection is somewhat limited, but they do seem to have most major artists represented. Downloads are about 1/3 more than iTunes --...

The L.A. Times had an article today about the Museum of Television and Radio showing the "I Love Lucy Movie" Friday night. For those who don't know, it was cobbled together in the early '50s from three episodes of the show, plus additional linking footage shot specifically for the movie...

I suppose this is movie related. Go on Google Earth, click the "Fly To" tab in the upper left-hand corner, and copy and paste in these coordinates: 34 08 11 N, 118 20' 48 W Hit enter, and it will zoom in on Universal City. Then you can manually zoom in further, and you have an overhead...

Anyone else love What's My Line? I always catch the old reruns on Game Show Network at 12:30am, and I would LOVE to have them on DVD. While most game shows would never make a good season set, I think What's My Line is an exception due to the cavalcade of celebrities that appeared every week...

Some guy on MSNBC named Michael Ventre, who also writes for Variety, rated his "best" music-to-film crossover careers. http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5424186/ In the top ten: Dwight Yoakum and Mark Wahlberg. And relegated to "honorable mention" status: three-time Oscar nominee and one of the...

Damn, this is a great movie! I'd never seen it before, but I recently did some work on the DVD, which should be out sometime later this year from Warner. What puzzles me is how it can be such a camp-fest and still have the ability to draw me in and and shock me with its ending. I mean, the...

I mean English language films where a line here and there is overdubbed, but the line they originally spoke was clearly different than what is dubbed in. I can think of two examples, from two of the great films: In Citizen Kane, in the projection room, the newspaperman says, "How is he...

According to the web site VitaphoneProject.com which is dedicated to recovering lost Vitaphone films and their sound discs, several early Warner films are in the works, but with no release date set: The Public Enemy Little Caesar Gold Diggers of 1933 (With a bonus of two restored reels of...

According to a new article in "USA Today," all the remaining Best Picture Oscar winners are being worked on and should be on DVD in 2005. Among them: Cavalcade (Fox is working on a restoration, due in 2005) Cimarron (from Warner -- 2005) The Broadway Melody (Warner -- 2005) The Life of...

I've really grown to like PAL since getting a region-free player. I think it looks better NTSC. I want to pre-order the PAL edition a title that is a couple months off (Return of the King), but I want to make sure I get it by the street date. Any recommendations on the UK retailers with the...

Since the late eighties it's been rumored that the Cameo-Parkway recordings, owned by ABKCO, will be issued on CD. Its artist roster includes the likes of Chubby Checker, Charlie Gracie, The Orlons, ? and the Mysterions, Dee Dee Sharp. None of these artists' hits have ever appeared on legit...

A friend of mine just came home from New York with some old home movies of his parents' wedding and so forth... stuff from the sixties and seventies. He wants to get them transferred to DVD, but doesn't feel safe shipping them anywhere, as they are the only copies. Can anyone recommend a good...

Gary Ridgway, the accused "Green River Killer" from Seattle, Washington, is apparently planning to change his plea to guilty next Wednesday in exchange for King County prosecutors not seeking the dealth penalty against him. This will make him the person with the most murder convictions ever in...

I was surprised to run across this at the video store the other day. I think a lot of people don't know about it. The dubbed Pippi Longstocking movies were childhood favorites of mine, but I didn't know until I saw this DVD that the first two films (at least) were actually edited together...

Well, Dave Poland has posted his first Oscar column of the season on Movie City News, so I guess it's that time of year again. If you'll recall, last year Poland was the one who claimed there was a groundswell of "hidden" support for "The Pianist." Many thought he was crazy, but when Oscar...

I found some postings on a music web site I frequent from a man who is part of a group called The Vitaphone Project, whose goal is to collect the shellac soundtrack discs that accompanied the early talkies. Don't know his name, just his handle. Anyway, according to him, Warner is working on a...

DVD Price Search lists the Polygram special edition of "Dead Man Walking" as anamorphic, but not the MGM version. Can anyone who owns either version enlighten me on this? Also, everyone lists the US special edition of Good Will Hunting as non-anamorphic, while the Canadian version is...

I just bought a new DVD of a Discovery Channel special called "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science." The DVD is distributed by the company that produced the special. The package claims it is "widescreen - anamorphic 16:9." Okay, I have a standard TV. But when I play the DVD, the feature is...

From the producers of Chicago, no less. http://www.cinecon.com/news.php?id=0302275 I'd like to cast my vote for Harry Connick Jr. as Sky Masterson.

I've been able to find out through contacts here in Hollywood about a few DVDs that are close to being completed. Forgive me if some of these have been announced. This is just some info I ran across. The Right Stuff: Special Edition (16X9, full-length version) Giant (not sure if this is...

I have a cheap 27" Goldstar TV that I've had since '96 (no snide remarks, now), and I was trying to see if there was some control inside the set that would allow me to do vertical squeeze for the "anamorphic trick." My old RCA TV 27" that I'd had prior to this had vertical/horizontal knobs on...

Forgive the nostalgia, but another thread on the topic of DeNiro vs. Pacino got me thinking. During the 60s, 70s and 80s we had an entire generation brilliant young actors who were also great stars -- Nicholson, Hoffman, Pacino, DeNiro, Streep, Jessica Lange, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Vanessa...

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I'm considering buying the Kenwood HB-405. It seems to come quite highly recomended, both here and in the customer comments on the Circuit City web site, and I don't have the money for individual components or the patience to learn about them. But that "passive subwoofer" or "non-powered...

I don't know if this has been announced or not -- I searched around on the Internet and didn't see anything. But we're working on this at my video post production job. (And, frankly, I wish we weren't.) I have no idea when it will be released, though.