Recent content by Jeff Fearnside

CDs are a little different from DVDs, but for sure, like you, I've had even better luck with them. Many of mine are 40 years old and still look and play like brand new.

I'm not worried about this. The only discs I've ever had go bad on me are a handful from Warner, all pressed within a particular time frame at a particular plant. Nothing from any other company, and thankfully nothing else from Warner outside of those two parameters mentioned.

My pre-order was in as soon as the link went live! It sounds like this will be a huge upgrade over my old DVD.

Ron, thanks for the post! Small correction: The cast listed is for the Coppola film You're a Big Boy Now. For The Rain People it should read James Caan, Shirley Knight, and Robert Duvall.

I hear you, but in my case, I'm wary of burned discs because, well, I've been burned by them in the past. I know that the technology has improved tremendously, and I also know it makes a big difference who's running things. My issues in the past were awhile back and involved companies that I now...

We all have our own takes, and that's cool. When I'm reading others' reviews of discs, I always try to cast a wide net because different people pick up on different things. Then I filter those reviews through the lenses of what's most important to me and try to make the best decision as to...

Well, my wife and I watched In Search of the Castaways last night, and I thought it looked great! It's a film with a lot of optical effects that rely on dupes, and so those shots are never going to look razor sharp. However, the regular footage sports fantastic detail--and the colors are right...

Yep, that's right. I think a lot of people assume MOD means burned discs, but that's not the case at all--it's simply an economic model that makes sense in today's buying climate for home media. However, I didn't know Fox only issued pressed discs in their initial runs of MOD titles. That almost...

From what I read (and there doesn't seem to be much out there), the Fox Boone set featured pressed discs, at least initially. I don't know if Amazon took over at a certain point with DVD-Rs or what. I didn't buy the set from Amazon but rather new on eBay, so it seems unlikely it would be an...

I don't know--really having a hard time finding much info on this set. Production order would be fine with me as well, but all I read was that's it's not broadcast order.

Question for anybody who can compare the Fox and Shout! Daniel Boone complete series releases. Surprisingly, I've been able to find few reviews of either set. What I've been able to piece together is this: The Fox set was produced on single-layer discs and are bare bones--no extras, evidently...

I've been having a hard time finding reviews of the Blu-ray for this, though generally it sounds like it's a solid affair, and you seem to concur with this. It came up earlier in this thread that someone found it lacking. So I don't know. I'll be finding out soon, as it's on its way!

Yep, that's a pretty good way to describe it. I'm not surprised prints had that beautiful rich Technicolor look since the Technicolor lab would have processed them and, as you note, the film was meticulously photographed by top people.

I couldn't find the 4-disc set without swag on Amazon... However, I see there's a 2-disc set of both films for around $45, presumably without the extras found on the missing 2 discs.

Agreed. This is one of the ones Disney did okay by.