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Thanks for your advice, gentlemen. I will probably go with the REL. The store is locally owned and has been in business for decades. So I'd rather give my money to them than a chain. However, I might first try a do-it-yourself fix and purchase an inexpensive third-party surround repair kit...

I posted this in another subwoofer thread, but realized that nobody had posted there for about six months. So please excuse me if you see this twice. I've had a home theater system in my basement mancave for 20 years, and I've replaced components as needed. But the speakers have remained the...

I've had a home theater system in my basement mancave for 20 years, and I've replaced components as needed. But the speakers have remained the same -- Paradigm Studio 40's in the front, Paradigm CC470V3 in the center, Paradigm mini-MON IV3s in the rear, and a Paradigm PW2100V2 sub...

You've probably checked this, but just in case, make sure you don't have any fingerprints on your 4K disc. I've been bingeing on the latest Hitchock 4K collection, which are kind of hard to get out of the case without touching the bottom side of the disc. In my player, at least, if there's...

That's what I think too.

I was somewhat familiar with the song and the artist, and I'd seen the live version on a Youtube video. I think that's the one they used on the show. But I had forgotten that she originally recorded it on her very first album back in the 90s.

Oh, and I almost forgot. the season 2 theme song, "Let the Mystery Be" by Iris Dement is, to me, perfect. I watched the complete opening credits of every show that season, something I otherwise never do, just to listen to that song again.

I haven't seen the show since its original airing, but I still regard it as one of my favorite shows of all time. Watching the series got me to read the book, and then I read every other novel that Tom Perrotta wrote.

At the start of every baseball season, I always watch Bull Durham. Great movie, great quotes. And every Christmas, it's always White Christmas and Love, Actually.

Both based on the book of the same name. I loved the book, and the author, Fredrik Backman, has become one of my favorites. At first thought, Tom Hanks doesn't seem the perfect choice for Otto (Ove), but I guess he can do curmudgeonly as well as anyone these days.

It's my favorite show, and the only "non-scripted" show I watch, other than actual sports, and the only show on Discovery I watch. As for the gutters and platforms now used in the battlebox, I think a lot of this is done to encourage different types of robots. Over the years, it's become clear...

I can't watch The Honeymooners today. Too much "pow, right in the kisser" threats of domestic violence for me. Also, I was a big fan of Thirtysomething when it ran on TV. When it came out on DVD, I bought the first season, but I could only make it through the first three episodes before I...

I confess I didn't go through all 20 pages of this thread. But despite my fondness for many of the old theme songs, this song continues to haunt me and was a perfect theme song for The Leftovers. Even though I recorded this on DVR, I never skipped the opening credits.

I really enjoyed the first two episodes. The opening, going-to-the-bathroom montage could have been filmed at my house. They even got the times about right.

I was an early adopter of the VCR, back when the remote control had a cord connecting it to the unit. But I was way too poor (or cheap) to purchase those $80 or even $40 movies back then. So I would record movies from broadcast or cable channels. I vaguely remember recording Star Wars when it...

Me too, as a young adult. My girlfriend and I decided relatively last-minute to go, and we were surprised at the crowd waiting to get in. We were the last two allowed into the theater for that show, but we got two seats together in the last row. The ushers were dressed in Storm Trooper...

Like many, I loved the book when I first read it in the '60s. But I didn't like the movie at all. During the pandemic, I decided to read the book again, for the first time in more than 50 years. I didn't like it as much, which is probably natural, considering its age and my age. But I was...

I love the show too. I have no idea whether it accurately reflects today's teenage experience (and, if it does, I'm so thankful I don't have teens). But it is really powerful. And the music is great too. I can't remember the last time I heard Gerry Rafferty.

Ah, that's who it was. I noticed the name and wondered "why are they naming a ship for former MLB pitcher Bret Saberhagen?" I forgot about Fred. Sorry, Fred. RIP.

Thanks. Just noticed that too, when I just noticed that Tubi was an app available on the Xfinity X1. I watched much of the last Decades binge, but they didn't run all the Family episodes. Family was one of my favorite shows during its original run. I always had a thing for Kristy McNichol (I...

Magical thinking. But it can't hurt. If you watch them often enough, you'll know the exact time they went bad. :)

Or make a copy of it for backup purposes as soon as you get it.

I got a big box of replacement disks from Sherri yesterday. All of the bad discs that were still in print, though most now only from the Archive. Even a Blu-ray version of The Pirate to replace my DVD version. Though I hate that the discs went bad (I even feel a little violated), I'm so...

This may not be quite appropriate for this thread, since it's a really good movie anyway, but I just love the opening scene in Once Upon a Time in the West with Jack Elam and the fly.

As much as I like this show, there was another inattention to detail in this week's episode. It's the middle of the winter in Kansas and I am disappointed.

The dvd version I have is in a black cardboard slipcase (embossed) with an inner unfolding, cardboard-backed, four-disc case. No trinkets, no toys. Package design & supplementary material compilation, copyright 2007. I started checking my discs on my 4K player, but on advice from this forum...

Well, I went through most of the WB discs that I own that were manufactured during the 2006-2008 time frame, and unfortunately I have a lot of problem discs. I'll list them here for anyone who hasn't yet checked their own sets. I also sent off a note to Sherri at WB, and I've got my fingers...

Thanks for the tip about VSO inspector. I tested that program on a couple of disks that I had already had problems with, and it did identify bad sectors and files. However, at least on my relatively old PC, it takes a lot longer to run that program than it does to just fast-forward through it...

Thanks. So far all the errors I've seen have been later in the disks, at least an hour or so into the movies. So that seems to match the second-layer theory. I haven't seen any physical distortions (colors or dots) on the data sides of the disks, but perhaps that's because I just don't...

This may have been posted before, so I apologize if this question has been answered before, but there are 34 pages to go through. Anyhow, I'm just starting to pull my head out of the sand and start looking for problem DVDs that I own. Thanks for the lists of problematic DVDs and DVD sets. I...