Physical & Digital EST: The Future of Home Video Discussion Thread

[Lord-Oakbeard]

Originally Posted by bhampton

I attended Ozzy concerts at least 3 times maybe 5.
(When I was younger concerts and drugs were very cheap. I do remember 3 of them though.)
(Had my tickets for Ozzy with Motley Crue confiscated by an uncle because of something his son did which wasn't fair especially to the person who was going to go with me.)

Yes gigs were cheap then not like the prices today!

Black Sabbath played at a small rock ‘n roll music venue in a suburb called Erdington near my then home in Birmingham, England. The club was called Mothers and it was a 20 minute walk away, I saw many bands and artists there and the acoustics were amazing. I never saw Sabbath or Earth as they were called then in Mothers but did catch them with Ozzy in the band in 1973 and 1975 at The Odeon in Birmingham.

I think it’s so cool that the band named themselves after a trio of films starring Boris Karloff. I will be going to the Black Sabbath bridge in Birmingham city centre next week, The Crown pub where they played their first gig and the Ozzy Osbourne exhibition at the museum and arts centre to pay respect.

A nice article on Mothers

https://www.skiddle.com/news/all/Mot...in-Brum/54227/


There is a VHS videocassette of the film on display at the exhibition. I have this Arrow Blu-ray.

[Ender14]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Will stream Until Dawn on NF


If it’s lovely I will buy the disc which is expensive at the moment. I liked the video game.

I really enjoyed Until Dawn but am hoping the price goes down at some point. Much different from the game but a fun horror movie.

[Ender14]

My FOMO kicked in and I had to order this:

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Gotho(redux)

Yeah, payment processors have way too much power. It would seem the environment is ripe for some entrepeneur to create a payment system that caters to adult entertainment.

Today adult content, tomorrow ultraviolet movies? It’s a dictatorship.

[Wendell R. Breland]

Originally Posted by crutzulee

if you have a Denon or Marantz product, the A1 EVO project by OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE AUDIOPHILE is the real deal...

My AVP is a Yamaha CX-A5100 and has YPAO (Yamaha Audio Room Calibration) but I have never used it, here’s why:

[Show spoiler]If a enclosed room has flutter echo, slap echo and other other anomalies then equalization can not correct those problems. It may reduce the effect but they are still there. The real correction will require RT60 measurements and acoustical treatment. Time consuming and can be fairly expensive. REW can measure RT60.

I check and correct if necessary, the speaker response at 1 meter from the speaker in the room. Not ideal but true free field measurements require lab grade chambers. My room is fairly good down to about 500 Hz but below that RT60 increases and would be very expensive to correct. And with any 6 sides there is definite room modes that come into play at really low frequencies.

Room Curves - AES did a paper on the X-Curve but the site currently is not working but the contents has been posted here.

RT60 - the 60 should be a subscript but this site removes the text formatting.

[the-pi-guy]

Current preorders:


Current orders:

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Ender14

My FOMO kicked in and I had to order this:

If you get a chance remind me where you ordered this.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by bhampton

If you get a chance remind me where you ordered this.

I'll field this question:

https://lionsgatelimited.com/product...43023436087407

It is a Lionsgate Limited title and these are exclusive to their website. They announce new limited edition pre-orders on the 15th of every month. This title is available now.

Lionsgate Limited packages their orders to survive almost anything.

https://lionsgatelimited.com/

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Vilya

I'll field this question:

https://lionsgatelimited.com/product...43023436087407

It is a Lionsgate Limited title and these are exclusive to their website. They announce new limited edition pre-orders on the 15th of every month. This title is available now.

Lionsgate Limited packages their orders to survive almost anything.

https://lionsgatelimited.com/

Blind Buy, Expensive, Ordered. Thanks

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Blind Buy, Expensive, Ordered. Thanks

It is a really nice edition and I think you will like the movie, especially so if you are fan of Bill Paxton.

Remember to check their pre-order offers often as all of these editions are limited.

[crutzulee]

Originally Posted by Wendell R. Breland

My AVP is a Yamaha CX-A5100 and has YPAO (Yamaha Audio Room Calibration) but I have never used it, here’s why:

[Show spoiler]If a enclosed room has flutter echo, slap echo and other other anomalies then equalization can not correct those problems. It may reduce the effect but they are still there. The real correction will require RT60 measurements and acoustical treatment. Time consuming and can be fairly expensive. REW can measure RT60.

I check and correct if necessary, the speaker response at 1 meter from the speaker in the room. Not ideal but true free field measurements require lab grade chambers. My room is fairly good down to about 500 Hz but below that RT60 increases and would be very expensive to correct. And with any 6 sides there is definite room modes that come into play at really low frequencies.

Room Curves - AES did a paper on the X-Curve but the site currently is not working but the contents has been posted here.

RT60 - the 60 should be a subscript but this site removes the text formatting.

There was a time when this hobby was in it's infancy and one could consider themselves way above the curve just by owning an analogue SPL meter and a copy of JOE KANE's VIDEO ESSENTIALS on LD ( if memory serves, I vaguely remember owning a precursor to this as well).

As the tech got more complex, so did the audio theory.... and quackery...LOL.. over the years, I've drifted in and out going from early adopter of the bleeding edge to hanging back, waiting for format wars etc to shake out, jumping in on tech on a value based time line...

I've never paid for a calibration. I've generally fallen somewhere between letting my eyes and ears dictate things and trusting that instrumentation doesn't lie. I generally can't stand to watch a movie anywhere outside of my HT or a commercial theatre that I trust.

I've spent my time looking through coloured filters, sub crawling with the SPL meter, time aligning with MSO and minidsp, looking at curves and adjusting parameters in REW...

At this stage, I am grateful for AUTOCAL with my JVC and A1 EVO (ACCOUSTICA) on my Denon...They're not idiot proof but leave just enough room for this tinkerer to take some pride in the results even as I no longer have the inclination to get so deep into the woods.

After finalizing my last round of adjustments, I settled in to watch SINNERS..catch me on a different day and I probably might not of liked this...It has shifting ratios which I'm not a fan of...but the majority is in an ultra wide ratio (2.76:1) which I love (the wider the more cinematic in my book). I masked this to the 2.20:1 ratio of my screen and auditioned my custom house curve freshly uploaded to my Denon's #2 SPEAKER LAYOUT slot.... let me tell you... I now have a new reference scene for my setup

[Steedeel]

The highlight of this week for me is today’s Arrow announcement of Three/Three Extremes.

[bhampton]

Originally Posted by Vilya

It is a really nice edition and I think you will like the movie, especially so if you are fan of Bill Paxton.

Remember to check their pre-order offers often as all of these editions are limited.

Oh no .... High Tension, It follows .... What have I found ? I'm in good trouble now.

[Vilya]

As time permits I volunteered myself to scan a few thousand slides that are 49-54 years-old and convert them into digital photo files. My flatbed scanner only scans 4 slides at a time. So far all of these slides have some type of age related damage or other flaws that require varying degrees of intervention. It is sloooow going and there is only so much that I can do as I am no photoshop expert.

I am doing this project for my friend, and his family, that drives me to all of my many and distant medical appointments. I may have bit off more than I can chew here, but I will gnaw my way through them all because if I am anything it is Missouri mule stubborn. While I wait on each scan to complete I can play here at blu-ray.com; this explains my recent increase in posting activity, so I guess we will all be happy when my project is done.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by bhampton

Oh no .... High Tension, It follows .... What have I found ? I'm in good trouble now.

They're cheaper than Disney's 4K steelbooks, so there's some comfort to be had in that fact.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by Vilya

As time permits I volunteered myself to scan a few thousand slides that are 49-54 years-old and convert them into digital photo files. My flatbed scanner only scans 4 slides at a time. So far all of these slides have some type of age related damage or other flaws that require varying degrees of intervention. It is sloooow going and there is only so much that I can do as I am no photoshop expert.

I'm also doing some scanning myself, all 35mm black & white negatives going back to the late 1980's. It's an Epson film scanner but an old one, and it can only scan a strip of 6 images at a time. You're right, it is a slow process. Years ago I would print these in a darkroom but it's not practical now. Converting them to digital files is the best alternative but I may look at a new model which I think will allow more negative strips to be placed into it. I need to research a little more.

[Vilya]

Originally Posted by CV19

I'm also doing some scanning myself, all 35mm black & white negatives going back to the late 1980's. It's an Epson film scanner but an old one, and it can only scan a strip of 6 images at a time. You're right, it is a slow process. Years ago I would print these in a darkroom but it's not practical now. Converting them to digital files is the best alternative but I may look at a new model which I think will allow more negative strips to be placed into it. I need to research a little more.

Scanning negatives can be even slower; they like to curl up on you.

I am using an old Epson V600 flatbed scanner; she's 15 years-old, but still kicking.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by Vilya

Scanning negatives can be even slower; they like to curl up on you.

I am using an old Epson V600 flatbed scanner; she's 15 years-old, but still kicking.

Actually the curling issue isn't too bad as the negative is placed into a plastic frame which holds the film flat, and the whole thing sits in position inside the scanner. You can have fun with curling when you pull out the whole film from the reel once you've developed it in the film tank. You need to have weighted clips at the ready.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by Lord-Oakbeard

I have this Arrow Blu-ray.

Me too, a great film. I've collected as many Boris Karloff films as I could on Blu-ray.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

The highlight of this week for me is today’s Arrow announcement of Three/Three Extremes.

Thanks for this. I haven't heard of these films - definitely worth a look.