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    Value of DVD/Bluray Collection

    Exactly. "Sublimits." Do you mind sharing the name of your insurance company? One of the things I'm sussing right now is what companies are willing to do such a rider.
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    Value of DVD/Bluray Collection

    Bumping an oldie but goodie regarding this perennially nettlesome issue in insurance matters regarding valuation. Perhaps you've since made the move to a smaller house. Whether it be what you originally paid or what it would cost to replace the disc, valuation is likely going be negatively...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Is this the one? https://www.discogs.com/release/7688709-Camille-Saint-Sa%C3%ABns-Francis-Poulenc-Samuel-BarberPhiladelphia-Orchestra-Christoph-Eschenbach-Olivie Ironically, LA Phil is doing the Organ Symphony next spring and I'm doing some overdue boning up. Just bought this one (at CD...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Is this page outdated? https://www.apple.com/apple-music/apple-digital-masters/
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    Pre-Order SPHE Press Release: The Way We Were (1973) 50th Anniversary Edition (4k UHD Combo)

    Sure would have been fab if there was a tandem 40th anni UHD BD release of Yentl.
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    Pre-Order SPHE Press Release: The Way We Were (1973) 50th Anniversary Edition (4k UHD Combo)

    Yes. Precisely why I said "surmise": I'm wondering what the supposition "on another forum" about Vol. 4 supposedly not happening is based upon. "When [those] scamps get together [they're] worse than a knitting circle."
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    Pre-Order SPHE Press Release: The Way We Were (1973) 50th Anniversary Edition (4k UHD Combo)

    Happy to see Babs is opening the “vaults” for UHD BD releases. Wonder if she’ll ever agree to BD releases of The Television Specials. Is the surmise about Volume 4 not happening because each existing Volume was released in consecutive years, June has of course passed and we I think haven’t...
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    Columbo Coming to Blu-ray on November 21, 2023. See Post #55!

    Will add to my lengthy 3D-BlurayRental.com 'watch list.'
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    Who is Ais?

    Seeking any new intel on an old question.
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    Under Fire Blu-ray from Sandpiper Pictures?

    Any PQ comments comparing the Sandpiper to the TT? Debating flipping the TTs to enjoy iso score tracks and Julie's essays on this and TT's Eye Of the Needle and then getting the less-expensive Sandpiper releases.
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    All this Mahleria inspired me to finally get a high rez M7.
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    I have the M3 from that cycle. They needed more rehearsal. Workmanlike, I find. Having said that, Lenny gets a lot of attention for starting a decades-long crescendo of attention being paid to Mahler. But my understanding is that those Abravanels with, excuse me, Utah are the first...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    I just checked pricing on this and holy moly Amazon has DVD-A copies for as cheap as $4 (yes, four dollars and change). Time to check out that jetliner! :) (A bit of pushback on the CD preference, DBK: There's def something to be said about surround sound and Mahler, especially for the...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    All this Gustav talk got me amped up. I went looking (again!) for the Chailly/RCO M2 DVD-A. It's always been pricey. I found it locally near "lovely downtown Burbank," close enough for me to go pick it up. $22, natch. If you hear The Great Call on the horizon, it's probably me listening...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    All Sony DualDiscs do NOT contain high rez audio. The corporate thinking on that was that including high rez would compete with their SA-CDs. All Universal Music Group (UMG) Duals--from Mercury (Bon Jovi) to Interscope (Keane) to DreamWorks Records Nashville (Toby Keith)--do indeed contain...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    ManW_TheUncool et al.: First of all, there’s something wrong with you if you find M1 boring. ;) And the cure to what ails you is Gustavo Dudamel’s Inaugural Concert perf, available on DVD and in HD on Amazon (no BD, dammit DG). Gustavo and my LA Phil burn down Disney Hall and then build it...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    (GregBright is another Mahlerian who might hopefully chime in.)
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    ManW_TheUncool et al.: More responsive reply later after I organize the best way to respond. But I've had a lot to say about my man Gustav over the years so if inclined do search the thread for my posts and ask specific questions.
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    One of my high rez packaged media obsessions lately is what's trending with regards to hardware, specifically UHD BD / DVD-A / SA-CD players. If next spring brings another CES with no new (UHD BD) players announced by the majors, I think I'm gonna buy a (hopefully still available then) Sony...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi DVD-A Little Feat - Kickin' It At the Barn DVD-A Emmylou Harris - Producer's Cut DVD-A Carole King - Tapestry SA-CD - I wanted to hear the m.c. mix so I got the Sony release instead of the MFSL but am interested in hearing from anyone with comparative SQ comments...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    I was knocked out by a broadcast (thanks as always to KUSC) a few years ago of Jarvi conducting the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra (and an arsenal of additional players) doing the "1812." So much grandeur and IMO perfect tempi choices. I've decided to therefore get Jarvi's complete Tchaikovsky...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Thanks again, David. More on Sinatra in another post later. Looks like the last few pop/rock BD-As I've been seeing for over a year with about four to eight copies available on Marketplace are starting to dwindle further. Finally got Stevie Wonder's Songs In the Key Of Life. Surprised how...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Thanks, David_B_K, for the Sinatra comments. I bought Point Of No Return since my last post on March 21. Still in preliminary listening phases. I figured what you say about Swingin' Affair being something of a SFSL twin would be the case, which I why I de-prioritized it. I'll eventually get...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Bryan Adams' Reckless BD-A. Flipped a copy of the Super Deluxe Edition when it first came out to read the interviews in the booklet, watch the music vids and listen to the Odeon show. But decided I didn't need to retain all those goodies--fine with "just" the single-disc BD separate release...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Goddess I love the serendipity of cruising through my Amazon Wish List or otherwise finding out something that was either out of my budget or not available has become within reach. I love this wonderful video the Phil posted yesterday in honor of (WDCH architect) Frank Gehry's 90th birthday...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    I'm less than interested in derailing the thread with this topic, Chris, but I tend to disagree with your analysis regarding Sony's P & L about which frankly neither of us know the hard numbers. More importantly, we get into dangerous waters when one starts representing opinions as factual info...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Thanks, gents. I'm aware of Sony's current UHD BD player offerings. It's their history I'm looking at as a point of departure to speculate about the future. If the company can't even consistently support SA-CD (and I'm referring to the totality of their player output since the beginning of...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    Vexing and laughable, all this "sky is falling" writing in pop and even some tech press about how Samsung's exiting the disc player markets signals a packaged media death knell (although Fox not releasing The Favourite on 4K UHD BD is perhaps a troubling sign for at least the Fox/Disney future)...
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    What Hirez Discs Have You Purchased Recently?

    It's way past time for me to get a BIS Records release. Just purchased one of their SA-CDs (in prep for hearing our grand Los Angeles Master Chorale do the Durufle "Requiem" at Disney Hall next month): https://www.hraudio.net/showmusic.php?title=3490
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ In the Heat of the Night re-dux (Criterion) - in Blu-ray

    Nice. Have been considering the MGM BD for a while. Will rent one of the prior releases just for what appears to be the only supplement that didn't get ported over ("The Slap Heard 'Round the World") and move on with buy this Crit. Given the number of A-list titles MGM-via-Fox has licensed...
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