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Yes!--Universal and Kino should definitely create a MILLIE Blu-ray--long overdue! However, STAR! is a Fox film, and I have had several message exchanges about it with Twilight Time. TT owns the rights to STAR!, and they intended to release the film on Blu-ray for the film's 50th...

Yes, regarding Star! my understanding is that TT is waiting for the elements to be made Blu-ray-ready, and I gather the process is currently stalled (though TT is pushing). Seems odd, though, since Schawn Belston and Fotokem already have done the heavy lifting, as per this 2008 posting...

Hi-- I'm interested in: Game of Thrones: Season 1 | VUDU HDX - $9.50

Thanks for your response. Just for the record, though, I wasn't wishing that TT had upconverted the roadshow Hawaii from SD 1:33 letterbox to full HD, but only to SD 16:9 anamorphic (DVD quality, but enhanced for 16:9 displays). I would assume that that upconversion wouldn't take up much more...

As the guy who asked the original question, I wanted to assure you all that I don't have "thinner skin than a skeleton," and I did not take offense at haineshisway's brief but perfectly legitimate response to my question. And yet I did appreciate Rob W's kind words; I'm glad that my post came...

I'm genuinely curious about this. Projecting on a big screen, I used my Blu-ray player's zoom function to enlarge the 1:33 window-boxed image of the roadshow Hawaii to the full 16:9 size, and it looked fairly decent--not HD, by any means, but very watchable. If my plain old Panasonic Blu-ray...

Yes, I figured the same. :( I was hoping that the rumor that Twilight Time could not release STAR! on Blu-ray meant that someone else was releasing it. I realize that STAR! was a famous flop, but it has finally found a pretty devoted audience...and heck, even the 1973 Lost Horizon musical made...

I appreciate the response from James Finn, but--drat!--the only film I really wanted to hear about was STAR! Enough people had asked about it that I didn't bother cluttering the thread with an additional question. I know that a fresh Todd-AO print with a digital soundtrack has been struck and it...

Mr. Harris, It appears that this PBS release was taken from a full-fledged 2K (HD) restoration undertaken by the BBC: http://www.bbcstudiosandpostproduction.com/blog/digital-media-services-puts-jewel-crown/ I can't find any indication of a UK release at all (nothing at Amazon UK other than...

Yes, the Blu-ray LOOKS better than the DVD, but listen again, maybe through headphones: unlike the DVD, which has excellent, nicely directional stereo sound, the Blu-ray's audio is MONO! Image Entertainment is notorious for making this error in remastering older titles; the 1925 Phantom of the...

Dear Mr. Harris, You're way ahead of me in technical knowledge! Your counting of sprocket holes is very impressive...and I'm puzzled that the initial U.S. releases of the the first 2 seasons of DA seem to have been converted from their original 1080 25p format in the same way. That's strange; I...

Actually, I'm afraid it's bad news that the U.S. release this time is 1080p. That means that the video and audio have been subjected to the equivalent of NTSC slowdown: i.e., as a British production, "Downton Abbey" is shot in 1080 25p (25 fps), and reprocessing it in Blu-ray 1080p, which is 24...

I own the R2 release of "Johnny," playable on my Oppo. It looks pretty good--a little out of sync but the elements seem fine for a film that age. --John

"Because the film was released in mono. Strange, but true." Does anyone have definitive info on that? The TCM website describes the soundtrack of "Hawaii" as "Sound: Stereo (Westrex Recording System)." I'd swear that when I was a kid I saw the movie in booming stereo sound...but maybe that's...

"...it was announced that they would not be the extended Roadshow cut due to the condition of the inserts." I think I heard that too, but it's a ridiculous reason. There are lots of DVDs in release in which the film elements are in much worse shape. It must be a length issue--the roadshow...

I know this has been discussed from time to time in this forum, but I was reminded of the issue by an eBay listing of the uncut and stereo "Hawaii" LD. As I've never owned an LD player, it's of no use to me, but this led me to search for uncut "Hawaii" DVDs; I realize that the Region 1 release...