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Unboxed: The Wizard of Oz on Home Video Through the Years

David Krauss — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:00:00 +0000

This week marks another home video milestone for The Wizard of Oz. As the iconic 1939 musical fantasy celebrates its 80th anniversary, Warner Home Video honors the occasion with a 4k Ultra HD release. Over the years, director Victor Fleming’s adaptation of L. Frank Baum’s children’s classic has been at the forefront of any new...

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Unboxed: The Terminator Series from Laserdisc to Blu-ray

Josh Zyber — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:00:52 +0000

As the Terminator franchise rolls out a new movie, I’m compelled to revisit the earlier entries across the multiple home video formats I’ve collected. I’m not going to pretend to have a comprehensive Terminator collection. I’m sure some hardcore fan out there must own every video edition known to man (as I must with certain...

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The 1-2-3s of Organizing a Movie Collection

Josh Zyber — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:00:44 +0000

Like many home theater fans who have amassed sizable movie collections over the years, I often struggle to keep my Blu-ray and DVD discs organized in such a way that I can easily find a title when I want it. Even when I seem to have a good system in place, I periodically feel the...

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IMAX Enhanced Audio Examined, Part 3

Josh Zyber — Thu, 03 Jan 2019 17:00:21 +0000

As I’m still trying to figure out the new IMAX Enhanced audio format, I’ve done some additional playing around and discovered a strange use that was likely not intended by the designers. If you really wanted to, you can activate the mode on DTS-encoded DVDs. You probably shouldn’t, though. Yes, I said DVD, not Blu-ray....

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Weekend Roundtable: Collecting Movie Franchises

Josh Zyber — Fri, 01 May 2015 19:00:30 +0000

It seems like every movie Hollywood makes these days has to be part of an epic multi-part franchise of endless sequels and prequels and reboots. As home theater fans, what movie franchises do you feel compelled to collect in their entirety on Blu-ray or DVD? This week’s Roundtable topic has two components: What movie franchises...

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Poll: Favorite Blu-ray and DVD Bonus Features

Josh Zyber — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:00:48 +0000

Whether they come in the form of audio commentaries, deleted scenes, documentaries or other unique content, bonus features have been a staple of home video releases all through the DVD and Blu-ray era. What are your favorite types of disc supplements? The concept of “added value content” on a movie disc was actually pioneered back...

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Poll: What Do You Do with the DVD in Blu-ray Combo Packs?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:00:59 +0000

These days, home video studios love to package Blu-rays together with DVDs and/or Digital Copies into Combo Pack releases, hoping that the promise of “added value content” will appeal to consumers. When you get these, do you actually use the DVD? I can see this from the marketing department’s perspective. In theory, someone who buys...

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Mid-Week Poll: Do You Sell Old DVDs When Buying Blu-rays?

Josh Zyber — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:00:10 +0000

Here’s a question for the Blu-ray collectors out there: If you upgrade a movie to Blu-ray that you previously owned on DVD, what do you do with the DVD? Do you keep it? Do you sell it? Do you make an art project out of it? Tell us in today’s poll. The resale value of...

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R.I.P. Blockbuster Video

Josh Zyber — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:00:43 +0000

After years of financial difficulties, struggling to maintain relevancy in the current marketplace, and steadily dwindling retail presence, one-time video rental powerhouse Blockbuster Video finally announced this week that it will close its last 300 remaining stores and its DVD-by-mail business within the next few months. I bet a lot of our readers are surprised...

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Mid-Week Poll: Criterion Dual-Format Editions

Josh Zyber — Wed, 28 Aug 2013 13:00:43 +0000

These days, it’s pretty common for home video studios to bundle DVD copies of movies in the same package with their Blu-ray releases. This is seen as a so-called “added value.” However, most studios continue to issue separate DVD-only editions simultaneously, usually at a lower price point. After all, DVD continues to dominate the market....

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Weekend Roundtable: Movies You Own the Most Copies Of

Josh Zyber — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 19:00:30 +0000

We movie collectors can be an obsessive bunch who often feel compelled to rebuy new copies of films we already own in order to upgrade to a new format, benefit from a slightly-improved video transfer or obtain some new supplemental feature we hadn’t seen before. In this week’s Roundtable, it’s time to confess (or boast)...

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Weekend Roundtable: Movies You Regret Buying

Josh Zyber — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 20:00:23 +0000

We’ve all done it. If you collect movies on DVD or Blu-ray, you’ve undoubtedly purchased a disc at some point that you later regretted. Perhaps it was a blind-buy that you expected to like, only to discover that you hated it. Perhaps you even bought the movie knowing that you didn’t like it, but needed...

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