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> {quote:title=musikone wrote:}{quote} > *Don't bet on it!* > > What do you expect to replace it? > > Blu-Ray? This is a laugh :-) *Classic movies* (whatever this may currently mean) are generally of a video quality which gains little, if anything, from Blu-Ray, which was developed to handle the technological demands of preserving high-definition video on a disc which superficially resembles DVD but contains a great deal more information. > > The current high cost for this information is not going to drop very much when things like classic movies, for example, are promoted in conjunction with Blu-Ray technology. Nonsensical and expensive. > > Now then, tell us the basis for *your* claim. Thank you. > > > musikone > > Al is in Wonderland! > where things are definitely not what they seem to be. > all hail to super marketeering--at our expense Sigh, more misinformation. That whole statement about *Classic movies (whatever this may currently mean) are generally of a video quality which gains little, if anything, from Blu-Ray* is so incredibly ignorant. I am still surprised by those who don't have a clue of what is currently going on or make side-by-side comparisons of DVD to Blu-ray, which I did a few years ago here on the message board. And I am equally as stunned by people who don't seem to care about seeing the best quality picture and hear the best quality sound...and color and capability to do all better on one disc than DVD ever could. To those of use who have Blu-ray, sticking with DVD PQ is like watching only standard definiton programming on an HDTV...why? I've said it before, watching SD is like you are sitting in a moie theater watching a film where the projection sharpness is off. You want to see it at its sharpest, right? Yet people say, "No, DVD is good enough." But I don't know of anyone who has given up Blu-ray after getting it. I was just thinking about some classic films to show you, and the first that came to mind was "Zulu." Take a look at the screen comparisons. http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare/zulu.htm Older? Okay, how about "An American in Paris"? http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews42/an_american_in_paris_blu-ray.htm Older, and in black and white? Okay, The Maltese Falcon http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDReviews25/maltese_falcon.htm Older? Gone With the Wind http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare6/gonewiththewind.htm Older? City Girl http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews49/city_girl_blu-ray.htm Older? The General http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompare5/thegeneral.htm When you have a great original, you can have an excellent DVD...but you will have a better Blu-ray. I know there are some on the board who are resentful of Blu-ray, thinking that studios stopped releasing classic DVDs in order to concentrate on Blu titles. The actual fact is that studios had cut way back on their classic DVD output before Blu came along. Others think they have to rebuy their whle libraries again. Not true, not every film needs to be on Blu, particularly. Heck, I think there are a lot of films out there that never needed to be released on DVD, either. There are still people who say,"Oh, Blu-ray players cost way too much." Take a look around online or in a brick and mortar store, and you will find you can get a Blu-ray player from Sony or other major producer for about $100 now , and they often come with internet capabilities, so you can stream movies. And, oh, yeah, "the cost of Blu-rays are too expensive." Again, another look around will reveal that many titles are released about the same price as DVDs. That's been discussed at length here.

CM, Here's the article on A-M. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-classic-hollywood-20110425,0,6836602.story By the way, if you would like a ride to the Academy, send me a PM with your cellphone number. I will be dropping into the Rooosevelt Wednesday afternoon and we could hook up there. From my experience, we should already be in line by about 5:30, so I would suggest leaving the Roosevelt by 5. filmlover

Hi, CM, I lok forward to seeing you again. As to Ann-Margret, the Times had an interview with her yesterday, talking about the film. And if you are planning on attending the Bye Bye Birdie event, I hope you have your ticket already because it is sold out. (There will be a standby line.).

Wednesday, April 26th, 1939

Don Juan is back in.

Amazon has a sale on several Criterion titles. You pretty much have to search through various titles in order to spot the bargains, but here are some Sweet Smell of Success DVD $17.99 Blu-ray $18.49 America Lost & Found DVD 41.99 Blu 52.99 Seventh Seal DVD 14.49 Blu 17.99 Red Shoes DVD $17.99 Blu 18.49 8 1/2 DVD 18.49 Blu 17.49 Breathless DVD 17.99 Blu 17.49

Amazon has a sale on several Criterion titles. You pretty much have to search through various titles in order to spot the bargains, but here are some Sweet Smell of Success DVD $17.99 Blu-ray $18.49 America Lost & Found DVD 41.99 Blu 52.99 Seventh Seal: DVD 14.49 Blu 17.99 Red Shoes: DVD $17.99 Blu 18.49

In watching "Gettysburg," I am again made aware that after Ben Johnson, I think my favorite western character actor is Sam Elliott. That grizzled look, those hard eyes, and that great voice. He just seems to bring authority to everything he plays.

Really, really sorry that Shirley Jones isn't doing Carousel. I was so looking forward to that. I did notice that Marge Champion is set for That's Entertainment. I have a feeling that despite all of my good intentions to prepare ahead of time, I am going to be checking the schedule at the Roosevelt on a regular basis.

Wow, went away for a short vacation and this is still going on? Anyway, generation, the thing is by converting 4:3 to 16:9, you are cutting picture information from the top and bottom. You are losing about 1/3of your picture.

The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes are ion TCM in Monday. Here's a Mad satire

Sorry for the delay, but got back from Las Vegas a short time ago. Tuesday, April 25, 1939

Monday, April 24th, 1939

Happy Easter

Easter Sunday, April 23, 1939 Regular articles and ads return tomorrow, but for now here are some more from this week's weekly

Stars on TCM today

An update to the Keaton announcement below...it will be available on Blu-ray and DVD.

LOL, Fred is so old that he never approved of widescreen cave drawings. ; )

jeneration, another problem you will is that SD looks terrible on an HDTV, so blowing up "terrible" is a lot worse.

DISH has free HD for life!

jeneration, you may have seen them filling the screen before but you are STILL missing parts of the image. Why would you want that? Just to fill up your screen? That's being a television set lover, not a movie lover. That would be preferring Ernest Goes to Camp because it fits your screen completely over Ben-Hur in its widescreen splendor. Actually, this argument goes back awhile, to when people still had 4:3 TVs and didn't want any letterbox movies, not even 16x9.

Fred, I know what the other TV stations do and I cringe whenever I see it happening. It still comes down to butchering a movie's actual image. The director framed it the way he wanted it. To move in closer in order to fill the image is destroying that which the director wanted. TCM shows the way it should be. One of the reasons I love TCM.

jeneration, what you are talking about then is adding picture that isn't there to the top and bottom. If you have a widescreen movie, completely going from left to right on you TV with bars at the top and bottom, the only option then would be to imagine yourself grabbing the top and bottom like you would an image on a piece of rubber...it would look like the image in a fun house mirror. Or clicking on a close up button on your remote to filll your whole screen but then lose parts of the picture all the way around. What you really want is for Hollywood to make all movies in 16x9 format (the size of a widescreen TV).

But, Fred, you are complainnig about masking a 4:3 movie...not the same thing. But I bet if TCM were showing a real widescreen movie in full screen (i.e., pan and scan) you would be among the first to complain. : )