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  1. jcroy

    The Great HTF Music Challenge

    A similar parallel are the songs Metallica "The Four Horsemen" and Megadeth "Mechanix". Mustine was credited as the songwriter on both versions. Metallica - The Four Horsemen Megadeth - Mechanix The first officially recorded version was "The Mechanics" on the Metallica 1982 demo...
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    Variety article on demise of DVD: estimates sales will fall below $1B in 2024

    In early-mid 2018, Sony DADC Terra Haute's previous clients signed agreements to outsource their disc manufacturing to Technicolor's giant disc manufacturing plant in Guadalajara, Mexico. https://indianapublicmedia.org/news/sony-disc-plant-terre-haute-laying-375-workers-138096.php For...
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    Variety article on demise of DVD: estimates sales will fall below $1B in 2024

    Sony DADC in Terre Haute, Indiana no longer manufactures any cd/dvd/bluray/4Kbluray/PS4 discs. https://www.insideindianabusiness.com/articles/sony-terre-haute-aggressively-turning-the-titanic-around Sony's manufacturing facility in Salzburg, Austria and ones in Japan, are the big ones still...
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    Variety article on demise of DVD: estimates sales will fall below $1B in 2024

    Similar sentiments here too. Most of my disc purchases are gereric network tv shows, which are rarely ever released on bluray. If dvd ever dies for generic tv shows, it will likely be the absolute end of the line for me in terms of regularly buying optical discs. The only titles I insist on...
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    Variety article on demise of DVD: estimates sales will fall below $1B in 2024

    (Excluding AI methods). I was using the MadVR renderer with media player classic. The developers behind MadVR went all in hardcore into driving the hardware of cutting edge graphics cards (which the hardcore videogamers and cryptominers buy) to do upscaling 480i -> 1080p or uhd. Though it...
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    Variety article on demise of DVD: estimates sales will fall below $1B in 2024

    It is not back to laserdisc prices (yet), either nominally or inflation adjusted.
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    Variety article on demise of DVD: estimates sales will fall below $1B in 2024

    The only definitive sign that the dvd/bluray market is dead, is if hardware manufacturers stop manufacturing new dvd/bluray players and discs. Especially after all the relevant patents are expired. (Over the next year or so, a standalone dvd player will be largely patent-free in most of the...
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    Disney & Sony Ink Deal For Sony To Take Over Disney's Physical Media Production

    Determining how reliable/unreliable that quoted $71 billion figure is.
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    Disney & Sony Ink Deal For Sony To Take Over Disney's Physical Media Production

    According to official American government mandated SEC 10K and 10Q filings dating back to 2020, the final price Disney paid for 21st Century Fox was around $69.5 billion. Of that $69.5 billion, Disney paid $35.7 billion in CASH (ie. cash-for-stock transaction) while the remaining $33.8 billion...
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    The Official Disney Movie Club Blu-ray Exclusives Thread

    It is not even hidden. The profit motive is in plain sight, especially for the C-level suite upper management. Below the upper management in the hierarchy, everything more likely resembles "throwing spaghetti against the wall" to see what sticks.
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    The Official Disney Movie Club Blu-ray Exclusives Thread

    Great conspiracy theory here ! :popcorn: Back in the day, this was the type of "conspiratorial" storyline I would have imagined being standard fodder on shows like X-Files , etc ... Now all we have to do, is bring in the billdebergs, space aliens, skull & bones, etc ... pulling the strings...
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    The Great HTF Music Challenge

    A symphonic heavy metal band from China, doing a cover of a theme song from an early 1990s wuxia movie "The Swordsman". The band's english name is something like "Mysterain", while the song title is something like "A Laughter In The Vast Sea" (approximately translated to english)...
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    Pre-Order Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Final Season (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Hmmmm ...... The season 4 bluray amazon listing appears to have disappeared (linked in the first post of this thread). Though the complete series bluray amazon listing is still there. Very strange.
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    Warner DVD's not working thread - watch to make sure they still play

    It appears each of Technicolor's disc pressing plants, were all run independently of one another. The IFPI 2U** plant (in Olyphant, Pennsylvania) which was pumping out all those defective cd and dvd discs, no longer exists. A lot of equipment from the Olyphant plant was auctioned off in...
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    Disney & Sony Ink Deal For Sony To Take Over Disney's Physical Media Production

    The term "catalog" has not been precisely defined in any official manner by Disney, Sony, etc .... (At least not in any legally binding manner). So "catalog" can mean anything, in our wild speculations. For example, is the "Oppenheimer" film considered catalog today ?
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    Warner DVD's not working thread - watch to make sure they still play

    (On a more general tangent, as a long offtopic rant). The Technicolor (formerly Cinram) plant at Olyphant, PA with IFPI 2U** mould code, was also pumping out crappy audio cd discs. Not just Warner mid->late 2000s era dvds. There is a list of just about every audio cd disc manufactured with...
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    The Great HTF Music Challenge

    This brings back memories of the early 1990s when this song was played repeatedly on music channels/shows. Another Soul Asylum song from that time period, which wasn't overplayed as much is "Somebody to Shove".
  18. jcroy

    2024 Wishlist

    The soundtrack to the VH1 movie "Out of Sync" from y2k. (This film was later released on dvd under the title "Lip Service"). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0242747/ Three of the songs in the movie, were by Karen Leblanc. The music has not been released officially. Kelly Brock - "Desperate...
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    Articles written by AI and the death of magazines

    It would have to be something more convincing than an AI version of "Q Anon", which can even fool highly intelligent + skeptical folks.
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    Articles written by AI and the death of magazines

    Going back several decades, there was the inexpensive handheld calculator. Since its introduction, mental arithmetic is a lost art to many folks under age 50.
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    Pre-Order Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Final Season (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Hmmmm ..... 4Kbluray-mod for final season. If I had to guess, it is a small run of pressed 4Kbluray discs from Paramount's standard go-to disc manufacturer (ie. Sonopress/BMG in North Rhine Westphalia, Germany), and not burned 4Kbluray-r discs ? Has Paramount done many recent 4Kbluray-mod titles?
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    Articles written by AI and the death of magazines

    An AI designing a killer virus with no effective vaccine, and unleashing it in densely populated regions.
  23. jcroy

    2024 Wishlist

    (This is likely buried in the archives of a record company, if it even still exists). The official entire recording sessions which the Kevin Elson produced songs came from on the first Terminator movie soundtrack by Tahnee Cain & Tryanglz. (Three of the tracks appeared in Terminator 1: You...
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    2024 Wishlist

    (I don't know if these even exist anymore). The original demo recordings of the Fastway songs written for the Trick Or Treat movie from 1986. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trick_or_Treat_(Fastway_album)
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    Pre-Order Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Final Season (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    I don't read his columns regularly. Of the times I have read his then-current articles over the past decade or so, as far as I could tell they looked like it was summaries of then-new press releases and whatever information could be culled from searching through non-yet-released titles on...
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    Pre-Order Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Final Season (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Nevertheless, my remote interest in this show is to see how Jack Ryan was turned into a silly "Jason Bourne" type of action character by the show's writers. :popcorn: I liked the original movies from the early -> mid 1990s. The 2014 movie with Chris Pine wasn't quite as good. Over the past...
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    Pre-Order Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Final Season (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Just like my first response on this thread, this assertion also reads like idle speculation. (I don't know whether Bill Hunt has any significant reliable insider sources at Paramount Global in the home video division).
  28. jcroy

    Pre-Order Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Final Season (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    In contrast, the seasons 1 and 2 4Kbluray sets were released in 2022, much later the original dvd and bluray variants in 2019-2020. As to why the final season 4Kbluray and complete series 4Kbluray sets' listings have not appeared yet (officially), is not entirely clear at this point. Though...
  29. jcroy

    Pre-Order Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Final Season (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    Unless Bill Hunt has very good insider sources at Paramount/Viacom in the home video department, otherwise this assertion sounds like idle speculation.
  30. jcroy

    Pre-Order Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan: The Complete Series (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    In principle Viacom could release it later, similar to what was done for the seasons 1 and 2 4Kbluray sets of amazon's Jack Ryan show.
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