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  1. Yohan Pamudji

    Weekly RoundUp 11-27-2018

    Mike, hope you and yours had a wonderful Thanksgiving! After picking up 20+ 4K discs over Black Friday, I think I'm on a buying moratorium until next year! I do have 2001 and Schindler's List on my wishlist though, so maybe Santa will bring me just a couple more to round out an outstanding 2018.
  2. Yohan Pamudji

    What is your 2018 4k UHD Wishlist?

    The Abyss - did this even get a BR release? Urgent! If I had to pick 1 it would be this. Ben Hur Lawrence of Arabia The Ten Commandments - not mainstream enough? Godfather trilogy Lord of the Rings trilogy Alien quadrilogy Rogue One - now that Disney are doing Star Wars movies in 4K, not gonna...
  3. Yohan Pamudji

    Weekly RoundUp 10-16-2018

    Asked this in a previous thread with no reply, but hopefully since everybody is talking about Ant-Man it'll get a response. Any word on the 1st Ant-Man coming out in 4K? They released all the previous Avengers movies in 4K when Infinity War came out on disc, but I haven't heard of Ant-Man...
  4. Yohan Pamudji

    Weekly RoundUp 9-25-2018

    Any word on whether the 1st Ant-Man movie is getting a 4K release anytime soon? I was hoping they would continue the back catalog 4K treatment for Ant-Man like they did with the 2 previous Avengers movies when Infinity Wars came out in 4K, but I can't find any mention of them doing so for Ant-Man.
  5. Yohan Pamudji

    4k…Okay, Now I Get It!

    I can completely sympathize with projector owners clinging onto 1080p. For real 4K you have to go north of 5 digits--anything else is simulated in ways that have their drawbacks--and I believe HDR is still a pipe dream for affordable projectors. But if you are on an emissive display and have...
  6. Yohan Pamudji

    What is your final format ?

    Surprised to see so many stop at 1080p on an A/V enthusiast forum. Is that because there's no 4K 3D or is 1080p simply good enough? 4K is glorious when done right. 1080p upscaled is very nice, but 4K feels to me like the final step. I don't think 8K will make a discernible difference for my...
  7. Yohan Pamudji

    Weekly RoundUp 4-3-2018

    Ooh, is there a page that lists the qualifying titles or is that all 4K discs?
  8. Yohan Pamudji

    Weekly RoundUp 4-3-2018

    Blade Runner 2049 4K is $19.99 on Amazon right now. I would post the link but it's been a while since I've posted a deal and can't remember if there are restrictions on links to retailers, so I'm leaving it out just to be safe.
  9. Yohan Pamudji

    Weekly RoundUp 9-26-2017

    Mike, I haven't been an HTF regular for a while now having settled on an HT system (I haven't bought new hardware since 2008!) and having both time and money diverted by family, so I haven't been keeping up with things here. I remember you running this weekly roundup in the early-to-mid...
  10. Yohan Pamudji

    Weekly RoundUp 2-7-2012

    Mike, I dropped in to check out the deals on Lady and read about your recent health issues. Really hope you get better soon. I don't hit up the forum as much as I used to back in the day, but it's comforting to see your weekly roundup is still a fixture here. Thanks for keeping it up so faithfully.
  11. Yohan Pamudji

    Featureless Rental copies?

    Sorry for resurrecting an old thread, but there's some good discussion here and I thought I'd stick my $0.02 in an existing discussion rather than start a new one. I just rented Bridesmaids from Blockbuster and it's a feature-less rental version. This is my first experience with an...
  12. Yohan Pamudji

    STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY - FALL 2011

        Wow, that's just nuts. 1.5/5 stars for LOTR Trilogy Theatrical Editions on Blu-ray. Sheer madness. All of those people complaining that it's not the Extended Editions surely know that the EEs are coming. Why blast the TEs when the product roadmap clearly contains EEs eventually...
  13. Yohan Pamudji

    STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY - FALL 2011

    Do you have a link for that quote? I've never seen it, but it certainly falls in line with his handling of Star Wars. I think this is how a lot of artists feel--directors, visual artists, musicians, writers, etc.--but very few (none?) have taken it to the extreme that Lucas has.
  14. Yohan Pamudji

    STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY - FALL 2011

    That's all you had to say, man. I can live with that!
  15. Yohan Pamudji

    STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY - FALL 2011

      Nobody (well, at least not me) is begrudging him financial success in and of itself. Saying so only serves to build up your straw man. It's when commercial concerns significantly impact the integrity of art that it starts getting icky. Feel free to debate where the line is there, but...
  16. Yohan Pamudji

    STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY - FALL 2011

    Just that one.
  17. Yohan Pamudji

    STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY - FALL 2011

    As upset as I occasionally still get if I stew over what Lucas has done to Star Wars (and now Indy too), this makes me sad. I'm sad for him that in the 70s he was, as you said, a "once-promising young director who wanted to escape the confines of the studio system", but now is exactly what he...
  18. Yohan Pamudji

    STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY - FALL 2011

    Actually we do, straight from the mouth of Gary Kurtz who parted ways with Lucas because Lucas wanted to make toys more than he wanted to make a good movie...
  19. Yohan Pamudji

    STAR WARS ON BLU-RAY - FALL 2011

    Quote: I saw this article last night after posting here and thought about putting it up. Glad somebody did. It's always nice to be vindicated by true insider information. I think the statement "George Lucas cares mostly about the money" is pretty well factual instead of opinion at this...
  20. Yohan Pamudji

    Blu-ray Review HTF BLU-RAY REVIEW: Up

    Quote: I haven't been a regular here for quite a few years now (wow, they sure spiffed up the place, didn't they?), but it's good to see that this running joke is still going strong! Some things never change.
  21. Yohan Pamudji

    Blu-ray Review HTF BLU-RAY REVIEW: Monsters, Inc.

    Quote: I agree. A Bug's Life is apparently one that gets a bad rap too, but I also don't consider it a bad movie. To me, arguing which Pixar movie is the worst is like picking the Olympic 100-meter sprinter who will finish last--they're all great, just to varying degrees. In my view, Pixar...
  22. Yohan Pamudji

    Your first real "Wow" moment with BD

    Planet Earth for me, only because it's the first title I bought and watched on BD. It has since irked me with it's switching back and forth between HD and SD, as well as various picture quality problems. Still one of the must-have nature documentaries if you're into that genre, but PQ isn't the...
  23. Yohan Pamudji

    Godfather Blu-ray Confirmed

    So do I get my Godfather fan club card revoked for not knowing this release was coming? Yikes! Doubly embarrassing: I found out by browsing the Best Buy weekly ad. Talk about a serious faux pas. Haven't had much time for HT in the last couple of years, but a PS3 and HDTV have slowly changed...
  24. Yohan Pamudji

    A&E DVD Sale for the New Year!

    When Deep Discount DVD was running their bi-annual 20%-off sale last month, I got a copy for $47.97 shipped. If you can wait another 6 months or so, you'll get it cheaper from them than from A&E's store. Mike, Once again nice find. It'll save some money for folks who can't wait another 6...
  25. Yohan Pamudji

    DDD 20% off sale Now Extended until 11/23/06

    A bit off topic, but aren't there content integrity issues with this release (missing content)? I didn't even know about this newer release until just now but did a bit of Google-ing and found some info on it. Back on topic, my wife and I probably spent over $700 at DDD during last year's...
  26. Yohan Pamudji

    Dual Layer Media Deals

    Anybody know if Taiyo Yuden plan on making dual layers anytime soon? I've used their single-layer DVD+R discs exclusively and have yet to burn a coaster after many, many discs. I can even burn their 8x at 16x with no problems.
  27. Yohan Pamudji

    Weekly RoundUp 6-27-2006

    I think we should canonize a new shopping phenomenon: the "Deep Discount DVD week-after-biannual-sale-slump" :) I imagine brick and mortar execs will be perplexed as to why DVD sales are so low this week. We could even turn it into a verb, as in, "You've just been DDD-ed." You know, similar to...
  28. Yohan Pamudji

    Criterion in September

    A bit late to the party, but just wanted to join in the ecstatic celebrations regarding Brazil finally coming out in anamorphic. This is one of the few remaining movies that I've (painfully) refused to buy because of a non-anamorphic transfer (Young Frankenstein, anybody?). Great news, and good...
  29. Yohan Pamudji

    DeepDiscountDVD 20% discount begins 6/17 to 6/25

    Use as many codes as you want. Many of us here have :)
  30. Yohan Pamudji

    DeepDiscountDVD 20% discount begins 6/17 to 6/25

    Boxsets, here I come!!! :D Good on ya, DDD, for having the sale despite rumors to the contrary. Is it just me, or are some of their prices inching upwards a bit in anticipation of the 20% off? The promo e-mail I received said that Sopranos Season 5 is $59 and change, but on their site it's...
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