Thanks for responding. My thoughts exactly about 35/8 being optimal.
Screening is at The Egyptian. Being advertised on the TCM site as
WORLD PREMIERE RESTORATION COURTESY OF WARNER BROS. CLASSICS
Restored by Warner Bros. in collaboration with The Film Foundation.
d. John Ford, 119m, 70mm...
TCM Film Festival is screening a restored print of Ford's The Searchers in 70mm. It was shot in VistaVision. I'm sure a few here can explain why this would be an optimal theatrical viewing experience. Or is it? Is this blown up from 35mm negative?
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Craig
Yes it's nice to see film in a theatrical setting. But the 'romance' of a vintage print wears off quickly after a couple reel changes which are torn up at the head and tail of each reel as well as scratches, etc. A nitrate print of Laura was screened pre-pandemic in Los Angeles and it was...
Other than being 4K enabled, what does my Oppo UDP 205 run as far as HDR? DV enabled? It may have locked up once on 4K but honestly have not sampled a lot of 4K. Have a few issues going back and forth from Region 1/Region 2.
Is there any difference between the two releases on dvd for Cabin In The Sky? 2006 release against the MOD re-release?
Is there a generalization about MOD's that one can state?
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Craig
Is Ned Price still at WB Home Video? If not who would have taken over that position?
Trying to find out if an End Credit card has completely disappeared from the reconstructed
re-release of A Star Is Born.
Thanks.
Craig Holt
Currently I have an Oppo UDP 205 running through Rotel RA 1572. L - R speakers are B & W CM10 S2.
TV is Sony 77" A9G OLED.
My question: Do the 5.1 audio mixes (e.g. District 9) playing through my decidedly 2 channel set -up simply mix down automatically?
Dialogue seems to be favored in the...
Haven't seen this in a zillion years but I recall a low key yet masterful earthquake sequence. Slavko Vorkapich gets a credit up front for Montage (Sequence?)
Just ordered The Bakers Wife. Hoping for the same treatment some day for CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS. Haven't seen it since the 70's but I recall the same slightly bawdy interplay described for Baker's Wife.
'The Harvey Girls' does look terrific. And I also noticed color shift/saturation shifting beginning around 12:25 until about the 25:00 mark. EQ on these discs seems pretty good. Wasn't sure if it was my 75" A9G OLED. But they were present on second viewing.
I'll second almost everything this review asserts. Had the DVD for years and it wasn't all that awful. But the new Blu - Ray is a vast improvement. Especially the sound. The weakest link for me is Jeanette MacDonald. But the rest of the cast really sparkles in one of the great musicals. Hoping...
Now that I have an All Region blu ray player (modified my Oppo), been investigating slightly obscure (to me) labels. Kind of difficult to parse which different restorations are superior without definite guidance. Any thoughts on Indicator/Powerhouse "The Big Heat' over Twilight Time? 'The Chase'...
Was looking forward to a real stunner as this is a favorite movie. Can't say I was knocked out by a number of washed out close-ups or the very dupey look generally. In any event, my guess is that this may be the best it will ever look. The 1939 'Hunchback" is a totally different look, but when...
Thank you David. Definitely check it out.
Youtube has led me through some otherwise daunting procedures.
Or maybe I can find someone here in southern California.
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Hi Again
Pretty sure I’m not ready to do this but a qualified tech could perform this. After the board is installed is there a function to perform or player chooses which Region and board to choose?
After I asked Oppo customer service why the players were not Region Free or multi region I was...