blu ray

Warner Archive is still the only operation consistently doing this for black and white catalogue, and hardly anyone outside these threads talks about it. The latest is a remastered Blu-ray of The Bad Seed, Mervyn LeRoy's 1956 psychological thriller, and it lands the same week as a stack of...

Volume 1. That phrase is doing an enormous amount of work in this preorder listing, and it is the first thing anyone thinking about buying in should sit with. Forty episodes, restored in high definition for the first time, plus an introductory featurette and new cast interviews. That is a...

A review went up for the 1974 Guillermin and Irwin Allen Fox picture on Blu-ray, and my first thought was not about resolution at all. With a seventies disaster film the thing that makes or breaks a disc is how the audio and the effects photography have been handled, and that is where these...

Good question raised on Home Theater Forum: how do you actually know whether a 2.0 track on a disc is straight stereo or Dolby Surround encoded, with surround information matrixed into those two channels waiting to be pulled back out. Disc covers list channel counts, not encoding, and the online...

Someone on Home Theater Forum put the collector's dilemma better than I've managed to. He wants pre-2015 Blu-rays of things like Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Rain Man, The English Patient, The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Fugitive, but keeps not buying them in case a 4K edition turns up, and...

Someone over on Home Theater Forum asked the question I've been dodging for about five years: do you buy the pre-2015 Blu-ray of a major film now, or leave a hole on the shelf in case a 4K disc shows up? His list was Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, Rain Man, The English Patient, The Adventures of...

There is a thread doing the rounds again asking Disney to reopen the anthology vault, the Disneyland and Wonderful World of Disney and Wonderful World of Color material, and floating a retro line to sit where the Treasures tins and the Movie Club exclusives used to be. I would buy it tomorrow. I...

Picked up the standalone 50th anniversary Blu-ray mostly for the concert, and I think that is the honest way to approach this disc. The Los Angeles Sports Arena show from April 26, 1975 runs 16 songs, restored and remastered by Steven Wilson at 96kHz/24-bit, and it opens with Raving and Drooling...

Two BFI discs turned up in the announcements this week and one of them raises a question I would genuinely like an answer to. The Goons at Rediffusion collects four mid-fifties Associated-Rediffusion comedies - The Idiot Weekly Price 2d, A Show Called Fred, Son of Fred and Yes It's the...

The Rubber Soul Special Edition lands October 2. New stereo mix from Giles Martin and Sam Okell taken off the original four-track tapes, plus Dolby Atmos, high-resolution stereo, the 1965 mono and the U.S. Capitol configuration - though which of those you actually get depends on which edition...

Home Cinema Choice has a look back at how Blu-ray got started, and it prompted a memory I would rather not have. Everyone tells the format war story the same way - Blu-ray against HD DVD, studios picking sides, Warner flipping and the whole thing collapsing inside a few weeks. That part is well...

There is a What Hi-Fi piece doing the rounds about disc wallets and it is worth reading if you have shelved the cases and put everything into sleeves, which a lot of us have once the collection outgrows the room. Three failure modes. The act of sliding a disc into a tight sleeve puts fine...