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  1. RoyM

    Best Way To Store A Large DVD And Blu-Ray Collection

    Just curious, about how many disks can you fit into that space? Personally, I've found the most convenient combination of storing DVDs with all their original packaging to be heavy duty plastic five-tiered utility racks (ie - "gorilla racks") that can be found at Home Depot, etc. I keep all the...
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    A&E Baseball dvd releases

    I'm with you guys. A big fan of these A&E releases (and other vintage sports broadcasts on DVD). I own all of the current releases from the 75 Reds set through 1988 Dodgers. I'm not really interested in too much of anything they've released post 1980s, but I own the Phillies 2008 set (as a Phils...
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    Vivendi and RHI Press Release: Laurel & Hardy: The Essential Collection

    A bit late to thread, but absolutely excited about this news! As a long, long time fan of L&H, I have waited on pins and needles for literally the better part of the last ten years (since I've been building my DVD collection) for a comprehensive L&H release in R1. I have deliberately avoided the...
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    Monsters (80s/90's syndicated horror anthology series)

    Count me in on both Monsters and Circle of Fear/Ghost Story. To me, those are really the last two memorable horror anthologies that have yet to get a DVD release, and I think they were both great. I would be on board for every season released of each. In general, I've been very pleased with...
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    ALLIGATOR ('79) & ALIEN FROM THE DEEP Coming To DVD

    Shawn, I'm pretty sure this is what you are thinking of (THE WORLD BEYOND - 1978): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0235068/ A great made-for-TV pilot that a lot of horror fans have been looking for for years. Granted, I also saw it as a kid when it first aired in '78, but my memories of it...
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    MOD Programs: The Official HTF "Pros & Cons" Discussion Thread

    Well, there you go, the next logical progression in the new frontier of MOD - the "premium" DVD-R, with premium content at a premium price. It was only a matter of time until the studios with MOD programs did begin to include extras with these releases - for a steeper price. As for the MOD...
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    More Sgt. Bilko?

    Is this another show that Paramount has abandoned after one season? I really want to get the remaining three seasons, and at that short of a run (only three more releases), you would think Paramount would be more inclined to finish it. It is one of the few genuine TV "classic" sitcoms that...
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    THE NESTING (DVD Details & Artwork)

    Always glad to hear whenever more schlocky 80's horror is being released. I'm a huge fan of the sub-genre and less and less of it is making it out these days. The good side of that is that the vast majority of well and lesser known titles have made it to DVD by now, but there are still several...
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    Sony Archive MOD

    Deep Discount has become essentially worthless to me. Part or all of my last several orders with them have taken weeks to months to ship... some of that due to items that were suddenly out-of-stock at DD just after I ordered them (but readily available everywhere else) being on back-order for...
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    Taxi Season 4

    Quote: Well, that's a major bummer. But I can't say I'm surprised, given that I predicted as much. I guess we can at least be grateful to be getting the rest of the shows from this season (presumably) intact. One ruined episode vs. never getting the other shows is the trade-off, I guess. I now...
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    Korda's THE JUNGLE BOOK (1942) - let's have a restoration!

    Amen, Dick... I've been waiting seemingly forever for even a decent release of this fine film on DVD. I bought one of the PD releases several years ago and was horrified at the condition of the print used for it. I had owned a PD VHS back in the 1980's that looked ten times better than the DVD...
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    Midnite Movies

    Yep, I can also verify that the original TV airings had the quicksand death. I definitely remember it when I first saw FROGS in the late 1970's on the late show. Years later when I got the DVD and watched it, I immediately noticed the scene missing and wondered if somehow the DVD was edited. I...
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    Taxi Season 4

    And season 4 had the episode that used substantial portions of Billy Joel's "Vienna." It is my personal belief that music rights costs to both of these songs are what have kept seasons 4 and 5 of Taxi from being released. I presume that the sales and profit margins on the first three seasons...
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    Warner Archive Discussion Thread (FEEDBACK)

    Perhaps I am the only one concerned about this particular issue, but while the less than great mastering is problematic, I have dozens if not hundreds of sub-par transfers in my collection. I find that I can live with those well-enough, if I regard them through the prism of how I often saw the...
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    MGM; Please release the rest of your horror library

    I second everything you said, Alan... As a matter of fact, I was watching the recent Sony Icons of Horror/Hammer release last night and thinking what a nice package of four pretty good old-school horror films. And all of this from Sony, no less - not exactly the best studio typically when it...
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    Sci-Fi from Warner

    Complainer! :P
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    Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6--This Is The End

    Well that's certainly good news to hear, Dave. Thanks for the up-update! I presume then we will either be seeing a similar grab-bag format, but on smaller volume collections as part of the future releases. Or if there are single character oriented sets, one would assume they might concentrate...
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    Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6--This Is The End

    I agree with the above posts. I'm okay with no more Golden Collections, as long the next generation releases DO NOT overlap content on the previous sets. I second the notion that a lot of people who have collected all the previous sets will be very annoyed if Warner goes in that direction...
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    problems buying Paramount / Legend DVD's from Best Buy?

    Just to clarify, I'm pretty sure only the four horror titles (MAN, BEES, PHASE IV, SENDER) and FRAMED are Best Buy exclusives. Granted, those seem to be the most desirable titles for many people, so it probably doesn't alleviate any of the frustration. But the other second wave titles can be...
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    Kiss of the Spider Woman (Two Disk Collector's Edition) - 7/22/08

    Apparently, an Amazon.com "exclusive": Amazon.com: Kiss of the Spider Woman (Two-Disc Collector's Edition) (Amazon.com Exclusive): Raul Julia, Sonia Braga, and José Lewgoy William Hurt: Movies & TV Also, a Blu-Ray version is supposed to be coming that same day.
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    FANNY (1961/Leslie Caron) coming April 2008?

    All of which brings up the question (for me): Why in the heck is Lili not yet on DVD???
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    Universal Fire

    The most potentially depressing aspect of the fire for classic film lovers is that while original negs and/or prints of many if not all of the prints lost still exist elsewhere (according to the information we've been given so far), the net cost of the fire most likely means that any perceived...
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    "Earrings of Madame De..." coming from Criterion

    Sadly, Letter From An Unknown Woman is an Artisan/Lionsgate property, and they have been dragging their feet forever in releasing it. A release was "officially" announced three or four years ago, and then simply vanished into the ether. So I'm guessing it's probably a no-go for a Criterion box set.
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    Hell Just Froze Over....

    Good information, Eric and glad to hear someone checked. Now I won't have to knock myself out hitting all of my local Targets in a fruitless pursuit. It does seem odd that they would TM these in out-of-the-way stores. Obviously, the majority of us won't get a crack at this batch of releases...
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    hammer releases??

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    Paramount & Music Clearances

    From what I understand, the first two seasons were released in R2 with original music intact, but that was also the case for R1. Somehow the word got started that the soundtracks in R2 were unchanged - I recall hearing that speculation, as you did. This was possibly due to the fact that the R2...
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    Paramount & Music Clearances

    I'm of the same mind. I'm completely resistant to going multi-regional, even for films that I love and that aren't available here, for the PAL and other issues. But if it was a certitude that I could get my favorite shows (such as Northern Exposure) with complete original music intact, I would...
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    Hell Just Froze Over....

    Richard, I will second that DESPERATE CHARACTERS is a marvelous film. Very much in the style of other low key minimalist dramas of the 1970's such as SCARECROW or FIVE EASY PIECES, so anyone who enjoys the more literate style of 1970's era Hollywood films should really pick this one up. I bought...
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    Saturday Night Live: Lost & Found In The '80s

    I would personally be on the fence about buying any 1980-85 sets. There is undoubtedly some good material in those seasons, and even (sporadically) some memorable entire shows. But by the same token, individual releases of these wildly uneven seasons would also entail delaying the release of the...
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    More Hammer coming from Sony...

    According to DVD Drive In: "No exact street date has been confirmed, but this Summer, Sony will release a box set of Hammer Films’ costume adventures originally released theatrically by Columbia Pictures. The films in the set include Terence Fisher’s STRANGLERS OF BOMBAY, TERROR OF THE TONGS...
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