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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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Unboxed: V on Laserdisc

Josh Zyber — Fri, 30 Aug 2019 12:00:10 +0000

The Warner Archive released Kenneth Johnson’s legendary 1983 alien invasion TV miniseries V on Blu-ray this week. I have no doubt that disc will look much better than any previous home video copy. However, the simple Blu-ray keepcase definitely doesn’t hold a candle to the Laserdisc packages released back in the day. In the United...

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Unboxed: Pulp Fiction Criterion Laserdisc

Josh Zyber — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 12:00:16 +0000

Once upon a time, in New York to be precise, Quentin Tarantino had a movie join the Criterion Collection… just one, though, and only on the Laserdisc format. Tarantino’s first movie, Reservoir Dogs, made him an instant indie darling. His second, Pulp Fiction, catapulted him into the strata of A-List filmmakers. A blockbuster smash and...

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Unboxed: JVC DLA-NX7 4K HDR Projector

Josh Zyber — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:00:11 +0000

For a longtime self-professed videophile, you’d think I would have upgraded my home theater to 4k quite a while ago. I hesitated for a few reasons, chief among them that I was waiting for the right home theater projector that met all my needs and requirements. With the arrival of a new JVC DLA-NX7, I’ve...

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Unboxed: The Lion King Deluxe CAV Letterbox Edition Laserdisc

Josh Zyber — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 12:00:37 +0000

The new remake affords me an excuse to pull another Disney classic off my Laserdisc shelf. People seemed to enjoy looking at my Toy Story LD box set, so here’s a peek at how The Lion King was treated on the big, shiny discs. It truly cannot be understated what a cultural phenomenon The Lion...

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Unboxed: Toy Story Deluxe CAV Laserdisc Edition

Josh Zyber — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 12:00:05 +0000

With Blu-ray and Ultra HD available, I may no longer have much cause to watch Toy Story on Laserdisc, but the Deluxe CAV box set is still a handsome collectible to have on the shelf. The new sequel in theaters obviously got me nostalgic for the original Toy Story, which I long ago upgraded to...

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All Deckard Out: A History of Blade Runner on Laserdisc

Josh Zyber — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 12:00:15 +0000

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner may not have set the theatrical box office on fire back in 1982, but the film found enough of a cult audience on home video to warrant multiple releases on the Laserdisc format between 1983 to 1993. Over the years, I’ve collected most of them. I don’t have much call to...

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Denon AVR-X8500H Unboxing

Josh Zyber — Thu, 07 Jun 2018 15:00:33 +0000

Our friends at Denon sent me a very nice new toy to test for review: the flagship AVR-X8500H A/V receiver. Setting this thing up and putting it through its paces is going to take me a while. In the meantime, here are some photos to tantalize you. With a hefty MSRP of $3,999.00, the AVR-X8500H...

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Unboxed and Deconstructed: The ‘Close Encounters’ Ultra HD Gift Set

Josh Zyber — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 12:00:06 +0000

The desire among studios to create elaborate and gimmicky collector’s edition packaging for movies on disc sometimes hits the point of absurdity – especially when, as I experienced recently with the ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind‘ Ultra HD Gift Set, the gimmicks built into the package don’t even work. In this instance, I was...

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Unboxed: Criterion’s ‘Lone Wolf and Cub’ Blu-ray Easter Egg

Josh Zyber — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 20:00:39 +0000

The Criterion Collection’s recently-released ‘Lone Wolf and Cub‘ Blu-ray box set includes six feature films and a bunch of supplemental content. If you look closely, you might also find a clever surprise hidden in the packaging. The credit for this discovery goes to user “slop101” from the DVDTalk forum. If he hadn’t mentioned it in...

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The Droid You’re Looking For: BB-8 by Sphero Review

Tom Landy — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:00:40 +0000

I’m sure you’ve noticed the influx of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ merchandise that has been showing up on store shelves these past few months. It’s kind of hard to miss, really. Out of all the toys that have hit the market so far this season, none are more interesting than the BB-8 App-Enabled Droid...

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