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I've been watching the Starz TV series, Spartacus: Blood & Sand on Blu-ray and it pales in comparison with the original. Of course, if you'd never seen the original S:B&S might seem OK. The Blu-ray set video & audio is extremely good. I made it thru disc 1&2 but it stretches out the original...

If you liked the 2010 release, you'll luv the later Blu-ray or the 4K UHD release, they are both from the same 6K master and a drammatic improvement.

Thanks for that reminder. I have an LG B8 OLED that does have DV, its good to know the TV is not a limitation to upgrading to UHD.

Thanks for the correction, I was going by pictures online. Is the lack of Dolby Vision on the UB420 a big deal? My casual impression is that more discs are coming out with Dolby. Or is it a case that all future discs will have HDR10 (as a minimum), so you're future proofed with the UB420? I...

Thanks for the advice. All the Panasonics are full width so I'm hoping Sony will introduce a half width player with remaining bugs ironed out. Another point I should mention, I'm not sure my vision is good enough for 4K, my ability to focus varies from morning to night etc. To realize the...

The x800 is full width (19"), x700 is medium width (15"), my Sony Blu-ray player is half width (9"), if UHD increases in popularity eventually they'll come out with a half width UHD player. Either that or have to re-arrange my AV gear and furniture, we'll see which comes first.

I saw the Spartacus (and Lawrence Of Arabia) 70mm restorations at the Charles theater in Boston on Saturday mornings. There were half a dozen people in the audience, so I got to pick the best seat in the house. Sad that there was so little interest back then however it motivated me to invest in...