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    Vudu Aspect Ratios for Streaming

    I used to complain about 1.85 movies being "expanded" to 1.78 as well. But then I saw that Robert A. Harris wrote and said he was perfectly okay with it. And if "Sir Restorian" is okay with it, then so am I. One thing to remember is that we almost never see a completely accurate frame...
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    How many times do you watch a TV series you have bought on DVD/Blu-ray?

    I no longer purchase ANY Blu-rays unless I think that I'm going to watch them at least three times, if they're also available on any of the streaming services that I subscribe to. I've got hundreds of discs that just sit on the shelf taking up space and mostly collecting dust. While there's...
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Tarzan the Ape Man -- in Blu-ray

    In the 1960's, Ballantine and Ace re-published all of the Tarzan (and most of the other Burroughs) novels in paperback. I gobbled them up. And while as a kid I enjoyed the movies, I was always frustrated that they deviated so much from the Tarzan in the novels. After the 1932 film, which...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - JFK -- in 4k UHD

    Not quite. Half of the top 10 films in the U.S. of 1991 were over 2 hours. Films over 3 hours were always rare. Terminator 2: 2:17 Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: 2:23 Beauty and the Beast: 1:24 Hook 2:22 The Silence of the Lambs 1:58 JFK 3:09 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear 1:25 The...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One -- in 4k UHD

    Sometimes the IMAX sequences are nothing more than more top and bottom with nothing of significance in that space and as long as the screen was large enough, seeing the film in 2.4:1 AR really wouldn't have been a different experience, except for it feeling closer in what had been the IMAX...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - American Graffiti -- in 4k UHD

    This film was shot in 2-perf Techniscope. I seem to remember grain the size of golf balls. That was probably because of the budget which was only reportedly $778,000 (Just $5.4 million in today's dollars). That's nothing. There are TV spots that cost that much to produce.
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    Best Buy To Exit Physical Media Business In 2024

    That's nonsense. Your one Best Buy didn't kill off Virgin, Virgin killed itself. There are no North American Virgin stores and there haven't been since 2015. All 23 Virgin Megastores in the U.S. as well as their locations in Europe and elsewhere (except the Middle East, Saudi Arabia...
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    I’ll give you a topic: Is Digital before Physical a Good Thing? Discuss!

    Even if the best presentation will always be on disc (and as per others, that's debatable), the fact remains that the broader market is abandoning disc and any look at disc sales will tell you that as they're in free-fall. And (unfortunately), 4K never captured more than a few percent share on...
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    Are people still blind buying physical media ?

    One example is an anecdote, not data. Some people are collectors and have money to burn so they don't care. I've seen posts on FB from people who are fans of reel-to-reel tape recorders. Some of them have a room with ten tape recorders. Why? If one isn't mixing or doing multitrack...
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    65 (2023)

    Alien dinosaurs? Other planets??? I thought this movie was about collecting Social Security (which at some point in the future, might be fictional as well).
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    Is TCM in trouble?

    That's not what it means at all. It means that they want to recover the fee (and earn a return) that they have to pay WB per subscriber. Note that the way cable works, the MSO's (your cable company) have to pay a fee to each channel for each subscriber to the tier, not just the number of...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Rebel without a Cause -- in 4k UHD

    I was wondering. I was about to give a lot of praise to Lyonne and Sevigny. Someone want to let me in on the joke? I know it's probably a Russian Doll reference, but that's it.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Babylon -- in 4k UHD

    IMO, many aspects of the story were so over-the-top as to be completely ridiculous (unless early Hollywood was far more wild than anyone else has ever legitimately documented). And I think those over-the-top aspects really undermine the movie as it makes none of it believable. But the look of...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Apocalypse Now Final Cut — in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    It was the first film in 70mm Dolby Split Surround. It played In 15 theaters in that format. I also saw it at the Ziegfeld. But there were not stereo surround speakers "on both ends of the screen". The surrounds were in their normal positions on the walls of the theater and in those days...
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    When will Apple give us a Blu-ray of last year's Oscar-winning CODA?

    A small company releasing titles may be satisfied with a $ million a year in revenue. But a large company would not be. As per my other post, Apple's strategy is to get as many subscribers as possible. If they start releasing in physical media, they get fewer subscribers. So it doesn't...
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    When will Apple give us a Blu-ray of last year's Oscar-winning CODA?

    The argument is that Apple doesn't care about releasing physical media because Apple's primary audience doesn't care about physical media AND because Apple wants subscriber revenue. A subscriber is worth $60 a year to them and unless they could have gotten someone to buy at least four BD's a...
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    When will Apple give us a Blu-ray of last year's Oscar-winning CODA?

    That's true and it always annoyed me a bit, but isn't watching a Blu-ray on a 16" computer screen (at best) and with built-in computer speakers sort of missing the point of Blu-ray?
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ -Nightmare Alley (2021) -- in 4k UHD

    There were a number of other 2021 films that were serious films for adults that got pretty much ignored at the box-office such as Belfast, The French Dispatch, Licorice Pizza, Last Night in Soho and King Richard. I think this is a major problem for the theatrical industry. The kinds of...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Eternals -- in 4k UHD

    No, he wound up making the 2016 Ben-Hur of comic book movies. I never thought that Heaven's Gate was that bad a film. I even bought and watched the Blu-ray (although I doubt I'd ever watch it again).
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Ghostbusters: Afterlife -- in 4k UHD

    IMO, the film was okay, but it was more "The Goonies" than "Ghostbusters" and I think it missed the point of the original film. The point of the original film was not the ghosts - it was the wiseass and quirky original characters and the relationships between them and the fact that a large...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About While we wait for a few words about...™ The Godfather(s) -- in 4k UHD

    Unfortunately, the AMC theaters in my area either pulled the film early or didn't intend to play it an entire week and I wound up missing it. I did see a trailer for the film in a theater and maybe it was just the trailer, but the level of grain was really high and it didn't look good to me...
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    Criterion's / A Hard Day's Night 4K UHD Mistakes !

    I don't even get how this could possibly happen. They're not (or they should not be) re-editing or re-conforming the films.
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    SVS PB-1000 Pro Review

    That's not my problem with buying online. My issue is that every time I've bought something without hearing it first, I was unhappy with the sound and returning things is a pain. When I called one company and told them I wanted to return the speakers, the company person sounded absolutely...
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    Earth to Whoever Is Still With Warner Archives...

    I got an email today from this site stating, "Here's what you missed.." But they had an excerpt of the first post instead of the last post and it scared the hell out of me, even though after reading the subsequent posts, it wasn't completely clear if WAC was abandoned or not. I kind of always...
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    Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

    I think those trying to rationalize that Marion wasn't a "child" are doing just that - rationalizing so that there's no blemish on the hero character. However, while I don't know what the laws were in the 1920's, even today, age of consent varies by state and is only age 16 in 32 states and if...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ King Kong (1976) – in Blu-ray

    Great cast, horrible film (IMO). I almost wish it didn't have a great cast because I've always felt sorry for them. I know that Jessica Lange complained about spending weeks in Kong's hand and she apparently hated shooting the film, even though her acting was fine. I have a vague...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ All I Desire & There's Always Tomorrow – in Blu-ray

    Somewhere along the line, the HTML special character codes aren't getting recognized.. ’ is supposed to be curly single close quote. (A straight apostrophe is ').
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    THX: When the Audience Was Listening

    That was one of the problems with THX. In spite of the certification, there was still great differences between cinemas that were certified. For example, in NYC, screens 6 and 7 at the Chelsea Cinema 9, a screen at the Encore Worldwide 6 and a screen at the Loews Orpheum VII were all THX...
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    A Few Words About A few words about...™ Joker -- in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Frankly, I think that's a rationalization by people who don't want to believe that this is . If the movie had failed, the studio would have done the same. In the end, almost everything gets rebooted, so it might well be because it might be more marketable for future films to believe that it's...
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    Could Physical Media Extend To USB

    As the physical market gets smaller, they won't. You're an executive at a studio. Your job and bonus is based upon achieving revenue and profit targets. The streaming market is getting larger and larger. In North America, the physical video market has dropped from $11 billion in 2009 to...
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