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I don't really want/need the Blu Ray disc that comes in a UHD set, but I would like to have all the extras that often come on a second Blu Ray disc - eg the 3 disc Blu Ray release of Star Trek. Having double dipped to get the UHD set here, there's only the extras on the 'film' disc, and no...

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For once, I agree with the publicity sizzle. "One hell of a ride!" - Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly While you'll learn little about world affairs, three-toed tree sloths, or famous people, what you do receive with the new XXX is 106 minutes of slam-bang, well choreographed stunts and...

Although Sony purported final film in the Resident Evil series, is being sold as just that, I find that it leaves the future open for yet another of Milla Jovovich's sci-fi adventures. As directed by Paul W. S. Anderson, his fifth film in the series accomplishes its task, entertaining those who...

I've now been able to view upwards of 100 4k UHD releases, both with and without HDR. Well over half, have been similar to their HD Blu-ray in quality, with the sometimes added benefit of HDR in their 4k format. More than a dozen will have you wondering why they're even released as 4k. Some...

Scott Hart Sony Announces Entry Level 4k HDR TV's Sony has announced a new range of XE70 4K HDR TVs that will enter at the affordable end of the budget spectrum when they're released in July 2017. There will be four screen sizes available to choose from: 43-inch, 49-inch, 55-inch and...

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I'm having a blast at NAB. I saw many of my Broadcast engineer and business development friends and learned a lot about ATSC 3.0 and HFR. We can expect to see ATSC 3.0 finalized and available in the market by the end of this summer. This will enable broadcasters to deliver UHD/HDR OTT, OTA and...

Hidden Figures was one of my top three films from 2016. It just makes me smile. It's a multi-faceted true story of mathematical wizards working for NASA in the early 1960s. The kickers to the story, and there are two, are first that the wizards are women, and secondly, that they're "colored."...

It's always interesting to be able to contrast and compare two films, especially a re-make. Delmer Daves' 1957 original, starring Van Heflin and Glenn Ford is a quality, beautifully photographed, black & white western. The wonderful Charles Lawton, Jr. was behind the camera. If you don't...

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Hi Gang, Looking for a bigger display. I have been reading about the LG 86sj9570, which looks pretty darn good. Anyone have inside info, reviews or alternate recommendations??? Thanks a bunch!

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It's quite an extraordinary concept. Bring together a group of well-known actors, who are just a bit older than their full-on starring days, sprinkle in a few other very well-known names as an investment toward foreign sales, and you've got The Expendables francaise. The films are precisely...

This is a review of a 4k UHD disc, so let's get the unimportant points out of the way up front. Underworld: Blood Wars is an awful film, with horrifically laughable dialogue, and hopefully that was it's purpose, as hewn from stone by director Anna Foerster. Ms Foerster has come to direction...

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Robert Harris A few words about...™ La La Land -- in 4k UHD Blu-ray & LaLaVision "Here's to the mess we make..." I'll make no bones about it. La La Land was my Best Picture of 2016, and in my humble opinion, possibly one of the finest uses of cinema thus far in this century. People seen...

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David Yates, who directed the first (of what will be, five) installment of Fantastic Beasts, and who had directed the last four of the Harry Potter films, as well has last year's The Legend of Tarzan, had a great eye, and a keen sense of pacing. Warner Bros. gave him just under two hundred...

What would life be without the small pleasures of another variant of Harry Potter for the home theater library. I honestly don't know how many we've been through. As far as I can recall, the series never made it to VHS, Beta, Laserdisc, CED, or HD, but there have been numerous DVDs and...

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Passengers is the real thing when it comes to 4k. Directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game), it's a film that places you inside a huge interstellar device, transporting people to a new colony far enough away that it takes over 90 years to get there. Problem is that during some sort of...

Patriots Day didn't work for me. And it's probably all to do with the script, which places Mark Wahlberg, front and center, at virtually every event that occurred during the tragedy. It got me thinking about Nicolas Koline, as Tristan Fleuri, who turns up in many sequences of Gance's Napoleon...

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David Ayer's Suicide Squad was shot on film, and competed as a 2k DI. I'd read reviews on this one, as it was suggested that I not waste my time, but went ahead anyway, and have had a chance to compare the Blu-ray with the 4k UHD version of the film. Suicide Squad has its moments, and watching...

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