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My DMC order arrived today.

This is what happens now. Scalpers buy new releases knowing that replication logjams frequently happen and prey on people who either feel they need to have it immediately and/or falsely believe that they have forever lost their chance to buy it at face value. But just because a seller is...

I think they probably felt it would be a makable date given the long lead time between announcement and release but that’s also what happens when there’s only one major replication plant for all of North America. There isn’t demand to open more plants so it just sort of is what it is. The little...

FWIW, I’ve collected vinyl records all my life and that industry has undergone a transformation not dissimilar to physical media for movies. Vinyl is no longer a mass market product but a niche one, and it’s industry has downscaled production and distribution so that it’s the appropriate size...

I don’t remember the exact price but something like $12 each since I had already cleared the purchase requirement to get the order discount.

Disney Movie Club doesn’t appear to have shipped yet - I’m getting two of the three - but for the discount that was being offered, I can afford to wait.

You’re teasing, right? It’s the Jaws poster from your avatar but with the iceberg instead of a shark :)

My experience is they charge when shipping. You can also earn loyalty points towards discounts when you order. They sell movies, music and books - they’re a small chain of retail stores that has a great little online business - as far as physical media goes, they’re a great retailer that doesn’t...

Bullmoose.com, out of NH. Free shipping over $45, preorders generally arrive on or before street date, they package items properly. Their prices are often competitive with the bigger etailers as well. They don’t collect sales tax so that can wind up making a higher priced item from them cost...

Maybe he figured there was no point in cutting it since it’s plenty easy to order discs from anywhere in the world today compared to decades ago, and the studio might not have felt the same pressure to make him do so because the financial stakes for a disc release in 2024 are a lot lower than...

Either the disc release predates their regulation, or the scene didn’t run afoul of what the censors were specifically looking for, or it was missed. The US ratings board isn’t always consistent either. The more recent remastering of Far From The Madding Crowd was edited to remove a cockfighting...

There’s a very specific law in the UK which forbids the onscreen depiction of unsimulated animal abuse and the UK film ratings board determined that since the rat was actually subjected to drowning for real, it was abuse, and that scene could no longer legally be shown in the country. It’s not a...

It’s right there in the HTF mission statement that we support filmmakers having their works presented the way they want them to be seen and heard. These new remasters fit Cameron’s preference - which he has stated consistently and repeatedly throughout the years - that he is not a fan of film...

With respect to Bill Hunt, he has been claiming for years that the T2 disc is wrong based solely on that title card, which ignores the numerous interviews Cameron did where Cameron specifically stated that he wanted T2 to look the way it would if he had shot it digitally today, and that’s what...

Our mission statement at HTF is that we support filmmakers having their work presented the way they want it to be seen. That’s my larger point - we as individuals have no control over how these films are presented. Our only choice is to either buy them or not buy them. Whether one likes...

The Abyss was shot in the Super35 format, wherein spherical lenses are used to shoot an approximately 1.85:1 image (taller than the intended final product) which at the time the movie was made would then have had the center of the frame - the area corresponding to 2.40:1 - optically extracted...

Agreed. If he’s already got a player that can do region-free BD/DVD playback, the best course of action is probably just to add a low cost UHD player to his setup and use whichever player the situation calls from. I recently added a UHD player to my setup and it now sits next to my region-free...

I’m a little confused from the press releases on whether or not the 3D disc version of the first Avatar will include 3D versions of the two extended cite of that film - if it turns out to, I’d gladly double dip on that.