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  1. taoyue

    Star Trek films on Blu-Ray... what we know so far

    Oh, I hate these multilevel corporate family trees. Thanks for enlightening me.
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    A Passage to India Blu-ray

    I don't know how big an issue at the time it was to have Alec Guinness. But the times were already changing by 1984. That big uproar over the casting of the Engineer in the musical Miss Saigon came only a few years later. The novel A Passage to India was published decades before To Kill a...
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    Star Trek films on Blu-Ray... what we know so far

    Don't see a way to delete my post that didn't go through. Was just out that CBS and Paramount don't even share the same corporate parent anymore. CBS has been an independent company since it was spun off from Viacom on December 31, 2005. "CBS Paramount" is now known as "CBS Television...
  4. taoyue

    Star Trek films on Blu-Ray... what we know so far

    Paramount has nothing to do with it. Star Trek television is owned by CBS. While they have the same parent company, Paramount and CBS are separate companies. What Paramount spends on a Star Trek movie, has no relation to what CBS spends on Star Trek television properties. Doug
  5. taoyue

    Dear Warner Bros.: about BARRY LYNDON...

    Going by publicly-available metrics -- number of IMDB reviews, number of Netflix reviews, Amazon sales rank -- 2001, The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket are 5-20 times more popular than Lolita or Barry Lyndon.   There's nothing "unworthy" about the film. It's not a...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Spartacus -- in Blu-ray

    If I may take the discussion back to Spartacus rather than Zulu or some other Techirama film: Didn't Spartacus have some issues with the separation masters? I seem to remember reading about how the alignment had to be chosen on a scene-by-scene basis, depending on which part of the frame...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ North by Northwest -- in Blu-ray

    Since this thread was recently resurrected, let me take a stab at an old question from November: Only Mr. Harris can explain what exactly he meant by that tongue-in-cheek review. But I can guess. Considering the shape that the negative was in, the digital restoration of North by...
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