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    Somewhere in Time is up for 4K preorder with nothing said about the transfer

    Somewhere in Time has turned up as a 4K UHD preorder, which for a 1980 catalogue title with a following this devoted is not a small thing. What has not turned up is any word on where the picture is coming from. No mention of a new scan, no note on who graded it, no extras list, nothing about the...
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    Nine years since Disney pulled its catalogue off Netflix - buy the disc

    Cord Cutters flagged the anniversary this week and it is worth sitting with for a second. On 8 August 2017, on a quarterly earnings call, Disney said it was building its own streaming service and ending the licensing deal that had been putting its films on Netflix. Disney+ itself did not arrive...
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    Talladega Nights hits 4K for its 20th anniversary - what is the source here?

    Twenty years on from August 2006 and Talladega Nights is getting a 4K disc, with a review already up at HTF. I have not seen a word about the transfer itself yet, so I am going in with questions rather than opinions. Mid-2000s studio comedies are an awkward category on 4K. Films from that...
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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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    The PS3 won the format war and everyone credits the studios instead

    Home Cinema Choice ran a retrospective on the birth of Blu-ray and it reminded me how much of the standard story is wrong. The usual telling is that Warner switched sides and HD DVD folded. True, but it's the ending, not the reason. The context the piece sets up matters. By 2000 DVD was already...
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    Dolby Vision on a 1966 16mm black-and-white telefilm - does The War Game need it?

    Severin has put The War Game and Threads out on 4K UHD, and the disc spec on the Watkins film is the odd one. The War Game is a 48 minute 16mm black-and-white BBC telefilm from 1966, 1.33:1, and it arrives with Dolby Vision and HDR10 grades plus DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 mono spread across the two...
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    Your disc wallet is quietly scratching things - and melting in a heatwave

    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...
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