Recent content by billw6560

This tells you my age, but its the original War of the Worlds, and while released in 1953, it must have been a re-release in the early 1960's when I saw it in the theater (without telling my mom, lol). I was an impressionably young 12 years old, and oh boy, it scared my bloody socks off. With...

Apollo 13

Earlier this year, I got news of the WBShop having a Blu-Ray special sale (from this forum). The titles were, Victory (BD), They Were Expendable (BD), Doc Hollywood (BD), Blood Alley (BD), 36 Hours (BD), and Mister Roberts (BD). Interestingly, several of these titles were made On-Demand. In this...

As they say, nothing is life is free (at least things that are physical). Same goes for streaming. For all the high speed internet there is, at the end of the day, the providers, i.e. Netflix, Prime, etc., WILL do what ever it takes to send as many streams as possible, and the only way to do...

TCM is the last TRUE movie source for classic films. They've held true (so far) to the belief films should be shown in their original aspect ratio, uncut (where possible), best prints and in HD (also, where possible), and MOST IMPORTANTLY, NO COMMERCIALS. I REALLY hope that TCM will not turn...

Thanks for the tip. Got all BD's of some good classics. Also, the SHOPWB15 discount code works, so I got 7 BD's for less than $10 each!

Please excuse my lack of knowledge as far as services like iTunes, but when you "purchase" titles, are you able to download that title locally, then play at will, or are you stuck using their player to play movies? My entire library is on my media server, besides I'm not currently setup to use...

Hello. I'm in desperate need of a pair of wireless rear channel speakers. In my new home, my only rear (really overhead) location has high arch's and pillars, so hard wiring to the reciever is ugly, but low voltage power to a wall wart can be worked with. I don't think Bluetooth would work...

For my two cents worth, being an audio and recording engineer, sorry to say, but this location is not good at all. First, the right speaker next to the windows will actually present some apparent level increase, as the sound waves traveling across the hard window surface will create an additive...

I just watched the DVD from Netflix, and it's terrible. The picture was very fuzzy (akin to a high compression rate), had a lot of aliasing, and the sound was very distorted and over modulated (clipping). It's as though that whoever released the DVD took a VHS copy and did a poor job copying it...

Just watched it last night, Excellent! Here's a few screen shots. They're reduced size, and of course, doesn't do the movie quality justice on a single frame screen grab, but you'll get the idea. In motion, it's an excellent, clear and crisp. I put Brewster's image here, because in the DVD...

You're right about the link, which I normally wouldn't post. Just the mention of SAC on BD would elicit a Google search, but like so many, this and many other classics still are not being reissued in Blu-Ray. I guess that the excitement got the better of me, lol. Thanks to Olive Films for...

It appears that Strategic Air Command is finally coming out on Blu-Ray in October. I've been waiting years for this. See the Amazon link below. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JLWHP7I/

Just a quick comment about Pan & Scan, not so much related to Strategic Air Command, but in general. My original comment was referring to what's been shown on several cable channels. I do believe that there is a restored and/or HD transfer somewhere for SAC but the powers that be has decided to...

Yes, but a few points. First, yes you can "buy" them, but you don't physically have unlimited acess to them, unless you use their player. In some cases, you can even D/L them locally, but you can't stream them to your DLNA device (i.e. PS3/4, etc.) as they are encripted. Also, has anyone...