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Iron Crowned posted:I found this inside The Peanut Butter Solution (on the back of the recipe card for the titular peanut butter solution): Ohhhhh nooooooo ohhhhhhhhhh fuuuuuck oh noooooooooooOooOOOoOoooOOOOOOOO Our cities' art gallery did a nuclear cinema season and I did the double session of Threads and When the Wind Blows.
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Grizzled Patriarch posted:Huh, I hadn't looked in a while but region-free players have really come down a lot in price. Are those sub-$200 Sony 4k UHD models actually any good? I hung onto a lovely early DVD player for an unreasonably long time because some of those early models were easy to make region-free with technician codes or backdoors into the manufacturer settings, even though ChazTurbo posted:Some of the lgs and Sony models are older ones with issues reading multi layered discs iirc and it played merry hell with a number of equally-early double-sided and multi-layered discs.
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I still own the only two strictly-DVD players I ever bought. The first is a bulky as hell RCA from 1998 that takes forever to load discs and has no region hacks. In 2001, I upgraded to the Philips DVP642, which was like the holy grail of region free players. That thing can play anything you throw at it.
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Origami Dali posted:I still own the only two strictly-DVD players I ever bought. The first is a bulky as hell RCA from 1998 that takes forever to load discs and has no region hacks. In 2001, I upgraded to the Philips DVP642, which was like the holy grail of region free players. That thing can play anything you throw at it. Back when you could buy cheap 30 dollar DVD players in places in Walgreens it turned out that most of them were region free for some reason. I knew someone that had one and he told me it would just play any disc.
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Yeah, I had a dirt cheap Toshiba that I bought because it had component inputs and it would be anything, even Chinatown VCDs
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Chinatown VCDs are the most likely thing to play on DVD players because they stick to standards and are silver pressed discs. SVCD a little trickier (generally as I don’t think there much if anything in the way of official releases so would always be burns), then odd homebrew-y formats like mDVD and CVD were on the outside edge. I had a region modded Panasonic player that could do a really good job of weird formats as well as progressive component outputs and rca 5.1 output too. I remember the days of having to buy specific brand blank discs in order for them to work.
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The Angel Collection came in. This movie does indeed rule. If I could change one thing it would be I'd have made the killer that incel dork from school, but that's more just watching it through modern eyes.
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Movies Anywhere code for Joker: Gone! Vince MechMahon fucked around with this message at 18:36 on Jan 8, 2020 |
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Vince MechMahon posted:Movies Anywhere code for Joker: Grabbed it. Thank you so much!!
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Very important news to a very specific group of people: Just One of the Guys is apparently coming out on Blu-ray for its 35th anniversary.
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They need to do the Corey Haim film “Just One of the Girls” film too and make it a double pack.
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caligulamprey posted:Very important news to a very specific group of people: Just One of the Guys is apparently coming out on Blu-ray for its 35th anniversary. I suddenly had an urge to get Sleepaway Camp on blu as well.
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I just got a 4k tv and blu ray player. Picked up the UHD of Annihilation and was very impressed with it. What are some of the most visually impressive 4k discs out there right now?
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clockworkjoe posted:I just got a 4k tv and blu ray player. Picked up the UHD of Annihilation and was very impressed with it. What are some of the most visually impressive 4k discs out there right now? 2001 Pacific Rim The Martian Apocalypse Now First Man The Shining Casino
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Cemetry Gator posted:2001 I'll throw in blade runner+sequel, starship troopers, ghostbusters and hot fuzz. Edit- also space adventure cobra if you don't mind anime. Edit 2- the og suspriria also looks gorgeous Edit 3- how could I forget hell boy 1 and 2 ChazTurbo fucked around with this message at 00:15 on Jan 11, 2020 |
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clockworkjoe posted:I just got a 4k tv and blu ray player. Picked up the UHD of Annihilation and was very impressed with it. What are some of the most visually impressive 4k discs out there right now? I was super-impressed with Alien. Someone upthread said Wizard of Oz should be your 4K demo disk, and it looked very good, too. e: n-thing The Martian and Pacific Rim
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Evil Dead 4k and Halloween 4k were both eye openers for me.
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Boinks posted:Evil Dead 4k and Halloween 4k were both eye openers for me. I'll throw in Christine as well
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ringu0 posted:I was super-impressed with Alien. Seriously, I expected it to look decent given it's never looked bad on digital and Warner's usual A+ remastering quality, but it really is jaw-dropping. And that's just on my normal-ish 60" display. It must be like a religious experience on a quality projection system. Some recommendations: Phantom Thread 2001: A Space Odyssey (from 8K scans of the 65mm camera negative and other elements) Apocalypse Now The Dark Crystal The Big Lebowski Casino Superman '78
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Boinks posted:Evil Dead 4k and Halloween 4k were both eye openers for me. Carpenter or
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I just ordered 2001. Too bad there's no 4k version of the Qatsi trilogy. Thanks for the suggestions!
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clockworkjoe posted:I just ordered 2001. Too bad there's no 4k version of the Qatsi trilogy. Thanks for the suggestions! Probably a bit unlikely since there's a lot of 16mm in Koyaanisqatsi and Naqoyqatsi is supposed to look distressed (even stretching 4x3 video to 16x9 was on purpose instead of just laziness). The Criterion set looks and sounds incredible, though. I'm surprised Baraka and Samsara aren't out yet considering they were scanned in 8K for the Blu-ray versions.
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clockworkjoe posted:I just got a 4k tv and blu ray player. Picked up the UHD of Annihilation and was very impressed with it. What are some of the most visually impressive 4k discs out there right now? Tammy and the T-Rex. Vince MechMahon posted:The new Batman 89 4k looks great too. Are the Prince videos in 4K?
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Yeah, UHD shines w film-based movies. Everyone already said what I’d recommend, but The Shining can’t be recommended enough. The opening helicopter shots are just insane.
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The Shining was the most recent one that stood out to me. At first I didn’t think it was that special, but then I realized I was squinting anytime the camera showed a window with sunlight streaming in. There’s not any wizzbang special effects in the movie so nothing jumps out at you, but the overall presentation is so natural that the next thing you watch will look noticeably worse. Saving Private Ryan is another one that hasn’t been mentioned yet. The contrast of the bright small fires with the dim grime everywhere at the end of the movie was amazing. Also I remember the interior of the Nebuchadnezzar in The Matrix looking great; those overhead lights really popped. ChazTurbo posted:I'll throw in blade runner+sequel, starship troopers, ghostbusters and hot fuzz.
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ringu0 posted:Carpenter or Yeah the original. I have the new Halloween 4k but haven't watched it yet.
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david_a posted:I’m gonna have to disagree about Ghostbusters... The presentation of the material might be top notch, but the movie itself is extremely grainy and any of the composited special effects shots (which there are obviously a ton of) have an even more noticeable drop in film quality. I wouldn’t use this disc as showcase for the format unless the person is, like, heavily into film preservation or something. I don't know, I like that Ghostbusters looks like Ghostbusters personality.
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Iron Crowned posted:I don't know, I like that Ghostbusters looks like Ghostbusters personality. I’m just saying it wouldn’t be my pick for a UHD showcase. Apparently the picture quality isn’t that much of a leap from the good Blu-Rays because there just isn’t that much more you can get out of it. Like with T2, the main reason I got it is because I didn’t already have the BR.
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Also, The Shield boxset rules. The packaging is a lot better than I was expecting. And I can’t believe how good it looks. Like The Wire, I think they had to go through and really touch-up stuff to make it work.
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CPL593H posted:
No, they're not even 1080. They're only on the bluray. And you still only get the short version of Party Man. If we can have Total Eclipse of the Heart in 4K, we can have the Party Man video in 4K.
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Cemetry Gator posted:No, they're not even 1080. They're only on the bluray. And you still only get the short version of Party Man. Wow that's bullshit. Why even bother if you can't get the Prince videos? And by the way i'm going to need to see this remaster of Total Eclipse of the Heart.
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CPL593H posted:Wow that's bullshit. Why even bother if you can't get the Prince videos? The 4K package has a remastered Blu-ray as well, and that's where all the extras are. But still. SD Prince is like taking the Mona Lisa and setting it on fire. https://youtu.be/W6hknFigMSI And prepare yourself to face... I don't know. Ninjas, greasers, football players, and people with lights for eyes.
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Man, I wish more '80s/'90s music videos shot on film would get HD upgrades. My favorite is probably The Barnes and Barnes video for Love Tap where Bill Paxton gets the poo poo kicked out of him.
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Cemetry Gator posted:The 4K package has a remastered Blu-ray as well, and that's where all the extras are. Those aren't greasers they're leathermen.
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CPL593H posted:Wow that's bullshit. Why even bother if you can't get the Prince videos? The handling of Prince's videos since his death is the biggest misstep his estate has made. They've put most of them up on YouTube, but not remastered and not all of them. Honestly if they got them all up to even 1080 there are plenty of people like me who would buy a disc full of them.
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I wouldn't be surprised if I was way off but I figure the problem would end up being that a lot of the videos while still being shot on film were being edited on video so they'd have to go back to the original elements, re-edit everything and possibly even add updated HD effects, Star Trek: TNG-stlye? I just want an archival-quality copy of the Batdance video in my collection, is that too much to ask?
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caligulamprey posted:I wouldn't be surprised if I was way off but I figure the problem would end up being that a lot of the videos while still being shot on film were being edited on video so they'd have to go back to the original elements, re-edit everything and possibly even add updated HD effects, Star Trek: TNG-stlye? You're not too far off. Some videos were shot on tape, like 1999. But most were shot on film, and it's going to vary from video to video whether it is edited on film or tape. It's also something that costs money, and it depends on what material survives and who owns it.
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Cemetry Gator posted:You're not too far off. Some videos were shot on tape, like 1999. But most were shot on film, and it's going to vary from video to video whether it is edited on film or tape. I know it's been scoffed at here a few times when the subject of remastering from tape sources for blu-ray comes up, but it really does make a difference. I don't know the technical stuff behind it, but I've seen restorations of video derived footage on blu-ray and they look the better for it. Obviously we're not talking about reference quality footage here but it's the best things these have ever looked. Considering how much stuff Prince held onto and how fiercely protective he was of his work it's entirely likely his old videos were in his possession. I wouldn't be shocked if Warner Bros or whoever is cooking up a music video collection considering how much of his stuff has been rolling out the last couple years.
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CPL593H posted:I know it's been scoffed at here a few times when the subject of remastering from tape sources for blu-ray comes up, but it really does make a difference. I don't know the technical stuff behind it, but I've seen restorations of video derived footage on blu-ray and they look the better for it. Obviously we're not talking about reference quality footage here but it's the best things these have ever looked. Considering how much stuff Prince held onto and how fiercely protective he was of his work it's entirely likely his old videos were in his possession. I wouldn't be shocked if Warner Bros or whoever is cooking up a music video collection considering how much of his stuff has been rolling out the last couple years. There's so much when it comes to remastering. Video can be upscaled, color grading can make a huge difference, and you can get better encoding. You can mock it in principle, or you can look and see and make the right call based on each release.
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