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We can still post random stuff on BluRay, right? I went to Walmart to pick up Doctor Zhivago and they only had DVD copies.  However, they had a whole stack of Close Encounters of the Third Kind for $15. It seems to be the exact same edition with the excellent slipcase, booklet, and poster, except with an insert added advertising newer discs like Nine and Planet 51. It was nearly $40 when it first came out in 2007!
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I found this gem on Sony's website: http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...98&N=4294953240 $700 for a decent mid-range notebook that doubles as a portable BluRay player is fairly awesome. Panasonic's portable BluRay player is the same price! Edit: Thanks FFD. Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 04:54 on May 5, 2010 |
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May 5, 2010 04:34
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Kino has details on Steamboat Bill, Jr. * Complete alternate version of Steamboat Bill, Jr., comprised entirely of variant takes and camera angles * Music by The Biograph Players presented in DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 * Organ score by Lee Erwin * Piano score by William Perry * Documentary on the making of the film * Stills Gallery * "Why They Call Him Buster," a montage of pratfalls * Two vintage recordings of the folk song "Steamboat Bill"
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May 8, 2010 01:13
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Looks like The Magnificent Seven is a winner, too. No boobs, but it seems like MGM did a clean scan without pumping in the DVNR. The softness can be attributed to the fact it's a 1960 color film, which means the negative was probably faded and MGM had to resort to color separations.
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May 9, 2010 18:23
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Well, I guess I'm going to cancel Spartacus until it goes to to under $10. It looks exactly like the HD-DVD captures. What the hell is going on at Universal?
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May 11, 2010 17:13
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Warner can appear to be slightly variable because they have the widest range of eras next to Criterion, but I have yet to see a disc from them with major problems besides the  192kbs Dolby Digital tracks on monaural audio. They seemed to have switched to at least TrueHD in recent months.
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May 12, 2010 02:02
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I don't get it, Universal has had some of the best DVD transfers out there. Even their DVD of American Graffiti from 1998 is flawless. Maybe this is fallout from the vault fire from a few years ago? Perhaps they lost the original unfiltered HD transfers and only have the processed masters.
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May 12, 2010 17:40
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Wow, my new Vaio displays BluRay beautifully. It's almost too bright... probably need to mess with the settings. It was delivered to my office (UPS usually doesn't come near my place regularly) and my coworkers were impressed with how nice The General looked. And it's only a 1600x900 res screen. But it's preinstalled with WinDVD, which happens to not have any new updates that allow for Avatar to play. The only option is to buy a $40 upgrade. Are there any free BluRay programs or am I stuck with buying software to play one title? VLC doesn't seem to have codecs yet. 
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May 13, 2010 02:24
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I don't get why both formats cannot be included so that everyone is happy. The idea of cropping 2.35:1 films to 2:1 can be good... you gain some definition at the cost of relatively minor reframing. If it's supervised by the cinematographer and director, I feel it's in safe hands and will be handled as good as possible. Still, why not just crop to 2.20:1 like the 70mm prints? Monitors with overscan would crop it further.
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May 14, 2010 01:09
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From https://www.in70mm.com ""Lawrence of Arabia" is being scanned at 8k toward the creation of a new preservation negative." 
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May 15, 2010 01:52
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What's wrong with Valkyrie? It's nothing special, but quite engaging for having such an obvious ending (Hitler isn't blown up  ).
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May 16, 2010 04:53
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/?tag=bluraynews-20 Amazon has the UCE of Woodstock on sale for $27.00 Wal-Mart had a "just the discs" release for a short time for $30. I cannot recommend this release enough... great film (regardless if you're into the culture or music), great presentation, and hours of extra performances.
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May 19, 2010 17:25
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Criminal Minded posted:DO! NOT! SEEK! THE TREASURE! everett my beard itches Yeah, I'd jump on a Blu on day one. It looked gorgeous in 35mm.
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May 27, 2010 01:26
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FitFortDanga posted:Egbert, I keep meaning to ask you what your avatar is from. Whenever I see it, I think it's David Lynch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92xSHRK6oCA It's E.C. Buehler, who also appeared in Speech: Using Your Voice. "Plenty of lip and tongue action."
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May 27, 2010 17:39
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At least studios spare the ULTIMATE COLLECTOR'S EDITION on films that would be inappropriate like Last Tango in Paris or Un Chien Andalou. The former would include a free Land O'Lakes coupon...
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May 31, 2010 03:32
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Brokeback Mountain includes a pack of Quench gum.
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May 31, 2010 03:49
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I have all my slipcovers in a box in my closet so I can resell them on the DVDTalk and Blu-Ray.com forums.
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May 31, 2010 04:26
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The Lucas posted:Continue to wait. MGM has so much debt that no one wants to touch them. Except for smaller video labels wanting titles to license from them for cheap. Criterion supposedly has a ton of films licensed from them (besides the already-released House of Games, Salo, and The Fugitive Kind) like Night of the Hunter and Paths of Glory.
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Jun 1, 2010 05:14
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The Lucas posted:I just meant that no one wants to purchase them outright. But yeah, that is true. Sadly. While they did reach progress in the last decade, the actual film library was treated like poo poo up until the early 1990s. Robert Harris has been trying to get The Alamo and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (both shot in 65mm) restored for years, but MGM can't afford it and no private investors are interested enough. I think he got enough investors for The Alamo to preserve the 6-track soundtrack, but that's it.
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Jun 1, 2010 05:43
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Gremlins 2 only had one edition and it's 16x9. Batman was one of the first DVDs and even that edition was 16x9.
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Jun 2, 2010 01:57
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Neo_Reloaded posted:If he's not, he should be. I've heard the negative is gone for The Third Man - not surprising considering it was popular, had "split custody" ownership, and was shot on nitrate. But as shown in the first edition DVD's restoration comparison, even the unrestored image looked great. The usual dirt and scratches, with a tears. Seriously, film grain looks beautiful on a big screen. It's like the image is alive and lithographed onto silver.
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Jun 3, 2010 01:28
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If it smears, then we can kill it.
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Jun 16, 2010 01:35
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Just bought The African Queen, There Will Be Blood, and Bonnie and Clyde from Amazon. The first is $16.49, the other two are $15.49. Also got Doctor Zhivago for $21.99 and Gone with the Wind (3-disc Scarlett Edition) for $26.99 from Deep Discount. I normally don't like double dipping this much, but there's not going to be deals this good for a while.
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Jun 16, 2010 02:01
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Criminal Minded posted:gently caress, do you know how long those prices will last? I start making money on Thursday and I've been waiting for a reasonable price on There Will Be Blood ever since I started buying. Blood has been hovering around $16 for at least a few weeks, so you're safe. However, it's listed as OOP on DVDTalk's out of print page. Then again, so is Zodiac, yet it's still for sale everywhere. Probably just Paramount's goofy rotation system with titles going OOP just for a new cover. Deep Discount's sale ends on the 20th, though.
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Jun 16, 2010 04:18
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It's an OK price, but I'd spend the same amount of money on getting only the Connery films. And I didn't think Thunderball was that great.
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Jun 17, 2010 05:49
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Criminal Minded posted:Off topic, anybody know any reputable sites to sell DVDS to in bulk for cash? I can't tell which of these sites I can trust. I'd try SAMart here. I'm about to put up about 1/3 of my collection for sale there.
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Jun 17, 2010 12:53
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Why would anyone want the films individually?
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Jun 23, 2010 17:12
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Max22 posted:It's a pretty badly cobbled-together approximation of what Richard Donner's cut would be like; you'll basically be paying 14 dollars for a special feature. Yeah, it would have been more effective to make a feature-length documentary worked around the deleted and alternate scenes. As a whole, it works surprisingly well until the lame ending that's a rehash of the first movie - worse, it's largely constructed of reused takes and out of place stock footage.
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Jun 24, 2010 02:56
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Even better, The Twilight Zone is using new HD transfers instead of the 2004 transfers used for the Definitive Editions. I'd imagine they were perfectly fine if 1080p, but that's awesome they're re-doing from scratch just to get that extra level of quality.
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Jun 25, 2010 17:41
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The mere mention of DVNR at Sony results in bewilderment and confusion. Why can't all studios keep such a hands-off approach on catalog titles?
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Jun 26, 2010 06:24
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http://www.hometheaterforum.com/forum/thread/301882/lionsgate-press-release-the-third-man-and-delicatessen-blu-ray Specs for The Third Man via Lionsgate. Doesn't look like a total loss, but there's a major error that sums up Lionsgate for the most part.
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Jul 1, 2010 06:05
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I said come in! posted:I thought there was one coming, or what movie am I maybe thinking of? Or did something just fly over my head just now? Sony is having it digitally re-restored at 8K from the original 65mm elements.
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Jul 2, 2010 18:07
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Bambi posted:A pretty negative review for Steamboat Bill Jr. which came out today via Kino. Though I heard a lot of the same complaints about The General and still thought it looked great, so I guess I won't know for sure until my copy arrives on Thursday. Looks fine to me: http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film3/blu-ray_reviews51/steamboat_bill_jr_blu-ray.htm There's an interview with Kino's producer Bret Wood on Doblu... it seems that The General was captured directly from a 35mm print made from the negative, while Steamboat Bill Jr. was from a print off a duplicate negative. That accounts for thicker contrast and higher grain levels. But it at least looks like the source... Kino probably could have been more generous with black levels, though. Also looks like Fox didn't put The Fly through DVNR hell... http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews33/the_fly_blu-ray.htm
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Jul 7, 2010 04:32
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Steamboat Bill Jr. arrived today. Rest assured, this is another A+ Kino effort. The screen captures don't do justice to the appearance. It looks perfectly film-like in motion, no worse than The Third Man or Stagecoach.
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Jul 9, 2010 03:46
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Brief Encounter seems to be a DVNR wreck like The 39 Steps and Henry V.
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Jul 9, 2010 17:21
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How long is the B&N sale supposed to go on?
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Jul 12, 2010 17:29
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TheDigitalBits posted:In announcement news this morning, Warner Home Video has revealed that its long-awaited Mutiny on the Bounty: 75th Anniversary Edition will street on Blu-ray Disc on 11/16 in Blu-ray book packaging. This is the original 1935 version, starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable. Among the extras on board will be the Pitcairn Island Today featurette and a period Academy Awards newsreel. Before you scoff, this is a terrific film. I'm surprised WB isn't pairing it with the remake, but worth a rental at least. They must have found a new film element since the DVD's transfer is kind of scratched up and hazy.
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Jul 19, 2010 17:54
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Walmart has some good Blu deals. Lots of Fox $15 2-movie sets... I spotted Patton/The French Connection, Walk the Line/Butch Cassidy, Kingdom of Heaven/Master and Commander, among others.
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Jul 21, 2010 01:46
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I thought WB was over their $50 trinket boxes. 
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I like how New World/Shout Factory and Troma are putting the majors to shame with their remasters. Not demo material, but they simply leave the source alone. It's so simple. Watched Black Narcissus tonight... first time seeing the film and it's magnificent. Great film, beautiful photography, and the remaster is nearly perfect. I can't wait to see The Red Shoes again... just from skimming a few bits, it's flawless. Also worth pointing out that the trailers on both discs are 1080p remastered. Nice touch - usually trailers are kept from ugly 480i masters.
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