Watched Lethal Weapon (1987) [11709] tonight. I also own part 2 and 3 so I think those are going to be coming up next. Classic 80's action movie.

Watched Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie for the third time.....

I’ve been watching listening to some vintage E.T. DOLBY STEREO none of this, 100th Universal dtsHDMA-7.1 will be playing in my home cinema this, year, only original films, get recognition.



E.T. (1982) original in selected DOLBY STEREO home cinema.

The "Lethal Weapon" marathon continues. Just got done watching Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) [11876]. Unfortunately, I do not own the 4th movie, but part 3 is up on the viewing list. I'm pretty sure it will happen this week!

And last but not least, Lethal Weapon 3 (1992) [12475]. I like to watch movies like these all in a row.

Con-air widescreen ac-3 in my bedroom setup. I was ready to stop playing it and forget laserdisc all together then i noticed the composite video cable was crossing over the power supply of my google tv. Seperated them nicely and the picture transformed from vhs level to dvd level. I have to get some zipties and do cable management one of these days.

I gave Flash Gordon: Space Soldiers (1936) (Uncut) [ID3545NI] a spin last night. Utter classic serial!

As it so happens I put on CON AIR THX laserdisc this afternoon. Its a blearing loud load of total nonsense and I surprised the dialouge track is understandable but its a little bit too loud for my taste even thou it was around 100dbc on some peaks, Dolby fader was set at "6" if it had been a lot less quieter it might have been played at "7".

No Dolby AC-3 as I don't yet have an AC-3 demodulator but the PCM in format 60 Dolby Stereo did a good job of decoding. The scene where the screws find a bomb, wow that metal flew over over LCR onto the surrounds whoosh!



Picture quality is not too bad no signs of laser rot. I like this shot of the colours on the balloons. Overall not many issues with whites and blues mixing into that yucky disgusting green all around the whites so job well down on the transfer too bad the film is nonsense.










Now he's Johnny one armless.

To much power man, to much power.

Have slowed down a bit recently, getting into some import Blu Rays, but I watched this recently.

Night Tide: Director's Edition (1963) [RGL9627]

I tried to watch Stranger On The Third Floor (1940) [ID7036TU] a few days ago but it kept freaking out my player. My player would just abruptly stop, and wouldn't start again, although I could open and close the drawer. It worked fine after I unplugged. I retried and it happened at the same spot on the disc.

I saw Manrape (or a more correct title would be "Men can't be raped") yesterday on Dvd. I'm not surprised that the movie was controversial and caused debates. It's about a woman who gets raped by a man after a party and she wants her revenge while her friends doubt it's possible. While it does focus on an interesting subject and certainly comes out as a good movie, I can't get away from the cheesy feeling for the film. It reminds me of something like Thriller: A Cruel Picture, but i doesn't try to be that sort of film. Still, I'd say it's worth a watch.

Watched Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) [LV 1376-WS]. What a great movie. Great story, direction, acting, and music. Spielberg still had his heart in it and wasn't purely Oscar hunting. John Williams wasn't recycling tunes for every movie. Harrison stilled cared. And Lucas spent some time behind the typewriter instead of just purely cashing checks from merchandising deals. If there is somebody who has not seen it yet, grab this title. Plus it comes in a nice gatefold package (even though it's only 1 disc). Video and audio quality are very good as well.

With all this talk of Discovision laterly I decided to pop Jaws (1975) [12-001] into the player last night. Some light to heavy speckling depending on which side is playing but on the whole it still looks fine, especially when you consider its age.

I recently picked up a batch of DiscoVision, and loaded them all up on my vintage VP-1000. "Great Waldo Pepper", "Jaws", "Jaws 2", "Bingo Long", "American Graffiti". And just because I love the film, "The Man from Snowy River".

Finished watching Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) [LV 1643-2WS]. I am doing an Indiana Jones marathon. One more to go. I thought the picture quality was quite good with the movie spread out on 2 disks (3 sides).

Damn, I can't wait to finally grab the trilogy on LD. I just watched the restoration of Raiders in a theater and then TOD and LC on DVD, which were super Lowry over-cleaned and not very enticing. Plus on the first film, I've always wanted to find the original soundmix, and some have said that the widescreen LD was a different mix.
I want to finally experience these three with that big Dolby Stereo kick.

You are even better live than a laserdisc!

http://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/09130/129 ... -Man-(1993)


Yeah, I’ve been watching/listening to, Demolition Man (1993) on laserdisc this afternoon its great action fun.

The laser rot is minimal on my copy as I noticed in the database it was listed as “High probability” I noticed a small few sparkles on the (start and near the end of side 2) but its not as damn bad (Laserbite34, you have been fined 1/2 credit for 'sotto voce' violation of the verbal-morality statute). Damn! As seeing a scratched up 35mm print or heavy grain?

colour balance with blues and whites creates a little mild green could have been a bit softer on the levels some colours like white smoke when the helicopter flies of the hot zone at 2m.12s slight pink in the smoke I’m sure that should be white?

I have Demolition Man on region 2 DVD same colour issue on the DVD could it get any better or worse? The framing is a little robbed on DVD so I doubt even the bluray would be the perfect format for buying it again? Looking at one frame from the opening titles I can see at least 10% robbed from the DVD on the right side...oh moving on a bit, a bit more robbed on the left side of the DVD. Can't video engineers ever get damn right! I guess its a good reason the laserdisc wins but for Dolby digital its bit of minus for the discrete 6track Dolby experience.

Dolby Stereo mix is loud like it was when I saw a matrix version at the local as they didn’t have Dolby Digital at the time the film, played expect for The Fugitive (1993) that played in SR-D, Dolby Digital wasn’t fully installed until around early 1998 with Event Horizon (1997).

The buzzing alarm sound when John Spartan is about to jump out sounds only on, centre to right 1m.29s then at 1m.30s hard panned right with a faint pan in centre that is almost hard to notice but soon fades out. The sound is heard for a brief time on the stereo surrounds. The same scene on Laserdisc or even down-mixing the Dolby Digital to Dolby Stereo 4.2.4 matrix is a bit annoying listening to the crosstalk.

One thing I noticed with DVD is the dialogue track that has been mixed onto left and right channels (which was common with some 70mm Todd-AO mixes) normally the dialogue track is isolated to centre along with effects and music discretely. Louder passages when Spartan crashes the car though a glass sign at90m.38s dialogue track goes faint on left/right, it could be the rise in the score or an artistic mixers level balancing? “Break now, you Mickey Mouse piece of sh!t!”

Centre remains clear over the LCR on the film, unlike some mixes that are over-loud with score on left/right while centre only carries effects and Foley, like in Underworld Awakening in one scene when a truck driver shoots Selene on the road just after she escapes. I dislike the mix on that film it has scenes where centre is drowned out with loud music/effects on left/right.

The LFE.1 track is hardly used most of the lows are covered by LCR with milder ones on the split/surrounds.

After putting the laserdisc away and now just, getting it again for replay, as I noticed missing dialogue track on region 2 DVD at chapter 29, time 103m.26s “Heads up” missing except for Laserdisc. Anyone got the region 1 DVD that can confirm if the “Heads up” dialogue is intact on the mix? All that is heard on the DVD is "Head's"? On the Laserdisc its brutally louder.

I like the Elliot Goldenthal score on chapter 3 laserdisc/DVD.

Finished up the Indiana Jones trilogy with Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) [LV 31859-2L]. (That's right, trilogy, I am not going to acknowledge Crystal Skull.)

What a great series, good script, lots of action, and tons of fun. For the 3 people out there in the world who have never seen these movies, go check them out. The packaging a beautiful gatefold for these movies. Good PQ as well. Highly recommended.

The gatefold for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) [PILF-1061] is actually really cool too. It has a world map which pinpoints all of the major locations from all three movies and when he was there. It is in Japanese, so I can't read it, but I still love looking at it.

I would love to see that. Unfortunately, lddb doesn't even have the cover art.