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Author Topic: New DVD and BluRay Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-22-2012 02:07 AM                        quote: Bobby Henderson IMHO, the primary thing holding back Internet speeds is smart phones. Various telecom giants like AT&T and Verizon are spending big sums of money upgrading their mobile phone networks and working at a snail's pace on upgrading residential Internet connections. Worse yet, they've been placing bandwidth caps on those residential Internet connections. And there is even a proposal in California (it was current on the local news when I was last there, though opinion seemed divided as to whether it had legs) to repeal the law that requires a landline operator with a licence in a given territory to provide residential service to anyone who wants to buy it. An AT&T spokesman was interviewed saying that it was more cost effective to provide mobile service to remote locations than to maintain landline infrastructure, and was therefore lobbying for the requirement to be for either statutory landline or cell coverage, but not both. If you live in a shack out in the wilds of Zzyzx Road I can see his point. But opponents of the proposal claimed that if this change in the law went through, that would be the effective end of any investment in landline communications infrastructure, even in densely populated areas; and high speed Internet would be the first thing to suffer. And agreed: charging for bandwidth, either by capping or on a metered basis is going to strangle IPTV and other forms of multimedia content delivery to consumers at birth. And furthermore, the problem is not just bandwidth caps, but some ISPs here are even throttling bandwidth from specific content providers. Earlier this week one of them was accused of throttling BBC iPlayer during one of England's European Cup soccer match as part of their ongoing dispute with the BBC over the amount of bandwidth its customers use watching stuff on BBC sites. The only way multimedia over the Internet going to be viable as a replacement for terrestrial TV and/or offline consumer media is if all-you-can-eat residential contracts become the norm. I'd be surprised if Hollywood isn't lobbying both ISPs and regulators very intensively on that score. quote: Joe Redifer There should be a cable channel that shows nothing but FBI warnings 24/7. There is already a sub-cult of enthusiasts who collect and trade offair recordings of test cards made in the middle of the night (I'm told that VHS tapes of Test Card F are especially sought after), so you never know - a piracy warning channel may happen!  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-22-2012 09:35 AM                        quote: Bobby Henderson I just don't expect that to happen anytime soon. Well....I said "by the end of this decade," which is over 9 years away, which is of course an eternity with this stuff. Think for a minute how different everything was in 2003.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-22-2012 04:20 PM                        Wow, this decade ends in 2022? Decades keep getting longer and longer.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-22-2012 05:33 PM                        Ooops, a typo there....since this decade ends at the end of 2020, should have been "over 8 years." Damn Film-Tech time-limited edit function!  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 06-22-2012 06:04 PM                        OH I know! I get that all the time read back through a few hours later and spelled Shoot Sh*t! OH MY WORD!  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-22-2012 07:01 PM                        Getting back on topic, Warners just announced the first 3-D Blu ray from the golden era of the format in the fifties. Alfred Hitchcock's DIAL M FOR MURDER is coming out on October 9th of this year. At the same, the master's STRANGER ON A TRAIN in 2-D will also be released. The release announcement had stated HOUSE OF WAX in 3-D will be next. Beside releasing these movies in 3-D on Blu Ray, it sure would be great if they would be released to theatres as part of Turner Classic Movie theatrical series for a one or two day showing. It is great to see Warner Home Video starting to release some of their classic 3-D films. Paramount H. V. had the opportunity to do so with HONDO recently but chose to release it on Blu Ray in 2-D only because they felt the small 3-D market did not justify releasing any of their 3-D films in that format at the present time. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-23-2012 12:35 PM                     Claude -- you seem to buy everything that comes out -- so I simply HAVE TO ask -- are you now, or have you ever been, a millionaire!?  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 06-23-2012 03:37 PM                        No! I do not buy everything that come out and no, I am not a millionare but it would be nice if I was. I used to buy more than I do now but I have kept spending on BDs and CDs to a minimum because of my semi retired status and almost fixed income. My taste in movies and other subject matter is very broad from classic films, music including opera, ballet and orchestral performances as well as a a wide range of movies covering all subjects. Some of the recent movies I had added to my collection include SCENT OF A WOMAN, HOOSIERS collector edition, EVITA, SISTER ACT 1&2, CASABLANCA all on Blu Ray. I will get THE ARTIST on Tuesday. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-23-2012 10:51 PM                     The first sequence of EVITA is beautifully constructed -- image as well as music -- it nicely contrasts the smallness of her father's funeral to the grandness of hers -- and great use of dynamic range and frequency response in the sound.  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 06-26-2012 10:04 PM                        Like Claude, I have slowed down my purchases of titles given that most of the stuff I love, I have already purchased in many formats and permutations, sometimes buying titles 5 and 6 times. But more to the point, there are fewer and fewer films that come out that I actually have any desire to own. I mean like practically none. My feeling is, if I can get most of my favorites classics on BluRay and project them on a curved screen with a JCV D-ILA 3D projector (HOUSE OF WAX and DIAL M FOR MURDER at the top of the 3D list, although even THOSE I already purchased at GREAT cost in SVHS sequential 3D back in the 80s), then I can retire and watch anything I really love anytime I want and show them to anyone I want. Then if and when something comes out that REALLY catches my fancy, I might buy it. But as I said, there's not a lot of passion for today's Hollywood output.  |  IP: Logged Manny Knowles "What are these things and WHY are they BLUE???" Posts: 4247 From: Bloomington, IN, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 06-26-2012 11:06 PM                     I sold my entire collection of DVD's when I moved back to Los Angeles, so my collection suddenly became super-tiny. And it still is, since I've been doing most of my viewing via AppleTV or Netflix for the past 3-4 years or so. Our libraries also have enormous collections of stuff on DVD (and, yes, VHS). I recently started buying Blurays -- but I'm waaaay more picky than I used to be. I definitely don't buy movies "sight-unseen" anymore. I only want the ones I love. The ones I'm likely to watch over and over. The ones that "deserve" high-definition (in my opinion, of course). And I watch for bargains. $7.99 and $9.99 are the magic numbers for me! I used to buy movies that had "good sound" but I now seem to choose movies that have "good story" as the main priority. (If they have interesting sound, it's a bonus.) But still -- we're only talking about something like 15 movies and a few TV shows. The TV shows are the original "V" series, "Twin Peaks" and the first season of "X Files" -- those are all standard-def DVD's which is fine since that's how they were made. Unless there are cut negatives to go back to, I don't see older TV shows gaining anything on Bluray.  |  IP: Logged Ron Funderburg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 814 From: Chickasha, Oklahoma, USA Registered: Nov 2007 posted 07-18-2012 05:27 PM                        I have several BluRay release's coming up that have caught my eye. First is Airport in September then Ice Station Zebra in October. Also there is the House of Dark Shadows and Night of Dark Shadows which will be in October as well. Of course Johnny Deep's Dark Shadows is at the same time. My wife loved the recent Dark Shadows I can tolerate it so I guess that is on the list as well. The drawback on the Night of Dark Shadows is the original theatrical release which was missing about 25 minutes of what they intended to have. Recently they put the footage back in and re-created the audio, using surviving cast members and voice actors that could sound like those that have gone on. I guess that version will follow at some point down the road. I don't know why they have to do that kind of release stuff, I guess to make more money.  |  IP: Logged John Lasher Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Newark, DE Registered: Aug 2001 posted 07-18-2012 05:44 PM                        I bought a $2.99 BD of some direct-to-video shlock, just to see what a $2.99 BD would look like. Picture obviously shot on film, probably 35mm short ends from the look of it, but just upscaled from a SD (probably Betacam SP) transfer, and stretched to 16:9 from 4:3. Curiosity satisfied.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-18-2012 05:55 PM                        Ron, It would be great if AIRPORT will me replicated from the original 65mm source but I had learned it will be from 35mm. I already have it on DVD and I will just live with that . for some reason AIRPORT did not receive a wide 70mm release after it was premiered at New York's Radio City Music Hall in 1970 in that format. The movie was photographed in Todd AO I have always loved the film music of Alfred Newman and the music for AIRPORT was the final score he composed. I still have the sound track LP album but nothing to play it on. -Claude  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-18-2012 08:26 PM                        "Airport" would be a good movie for a remake. They'd have to figure out some creative way for the guy to get the bomb onto the plane....oh how I miss the days when you could just walk onto an airplane like they do in that movie.  |  IP: Logged

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