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    Google pulled a Lord of the Rings purchase from 2022 - no refund either

    Worth getting the scale right before anyone reaches for a torch: this is one reported customer, not a wave. A Reddit user says the Extended Edition trilogy they bought through the Play Store in 2022 vanished from their library, and the screenshots they shared show support confirming the title...
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    Roman Holiday on UHD - what does 4K do for 1953 black and white?

    Roman Holiday is getting the UHD treatment, and the write-up I read spends nearly all of its space on Peck, Hepburn and how well the thing still charms 70-odd years later. Which is fair, it does. It also says close to nothing about the disc, and for a catalogue release from 1953 the disc is the...
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    Criterion's 30 disc Kubrick box keeps the original mono next to the 5.1

    Criterion's complete Kubrick set is dated 20 October in the US and the disc count is thirty. Thirteen features and three shorts, all restored in 4K, UHDs presented in Dolby Vision. The line that matters to me is sitting in the spec sheet where most people will skip it: the original soundtracks...
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    Disney put Toy Story 5 on a 100GB disc for a 102 minute movie

    Disney announced the Toy Story 5 disc details and the interesting part is buried near the bottom. The film runs 102 minutes and it is shipping on a 100GB disc. Disney's default for anything that is not a three hour epic is 66GB, and Archer says he double checked this with Disney twice because it...
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    What Hi-Fi cannot decide if this is a golden age of home cinema. I can

    What Hi-Fi ran this as their Home Cinema Week debate in July, ended up split down the middle, and have now kicked it out to readers. Tom Parsons argued the hardware case, that USTs and 100-inch sets have made a big picture trivially easy compared to a decade ago. Alastair Stevenson argued the...
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