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| Author: | takeshi666 [ 29 Nov 2020, 15:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
The Dawn of the Dead box set from Second Sight showed up at my post office at last as well, although just as the regular blu-ray version. I actually bought both the blu AND 4K versions, because I don't want to go through the trouble of having to hunt it down later in the second hand market - and pay the latecomers fee - when/if I finally do get a UHD player. Oh yeah and I also got the Enterprise engineering playset from Playmates. 
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| Author: | confederate [ 30 Nov 2020, 15:20 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
I just bought my first Minidisc recorder for the 19 prerecorded discs that I had acquired past weekend. It it is a Sony Mds-Je 500 and it only cost me 25 Euro in very good shape with a working remote control. I even got a new prerecorded disc with it, a Sony sampler. I didn't want to spend more than 30 Euro but I simply wanted to have a player to play the discs with. I am very pleased with the sound. To be honest, it clearly exceeded my expectations. I do not know why. I expected it to sound like Spotify with its compressed sound being played through my Denon AVR's internal Spotify app but this sounds better without any doubt. I connected the Sony recorder via cinch and the DAC is very good. Maybe these discs are simply very well mastered. Sometimes when I play a song via Spotify on my new Denon AVR it sounds like coming straight out of the garbage can. No fun listening to some of the music on Spotify at all. I also tested the bulk of my prerecorded discs and they play very well without any issues at all. I am very happy with my most recent purchase. |
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| Author: | signofzeta [ 30 Nov 2020, 17:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
If MD sounds better than Spotify then Spotify clearly sucks. Yes, MD handles it’s low bit rate very well but there are better codecs now and modern broadband is faster than MDs by...one would think at least 1000x. You can easily stream fast enough for better than CD quality so why anything would be sub-MD I can’t imagine...thanks for reminding me to never stream. MD related: I seem to have gotten the gumstick battery stuck in my all-original still-working MZ-R90. I hope I can get it out easily... UPDATE: I got it out, cleaned up the contacts, and re-superglued the door closed. I’m using some off brand gum sticks I got off eBay a few years ago and they still work. Some day they won’t and then...I’ll have to use the external battery box I guess. I’ve also noticed that the worm drive makes some resonant noise when it does a full span. After 20+ years maybe I should risk adding a drop of oil? |
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| Author: | therussian [ 30 Nov 2020, 18:39 ] | |||
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) | |||
Several new figures arrived of the past few weeks. The comedian ( watchmen ) Luke ( black series ) Ant Man and The wast ( Legends ) Venkman ( Plasma series ).
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| Author: | teddanson [ 01 Dec 2020, 10:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
MD still holds it's own to some extent imho. Mainly around seamless shuffle playback. I have a little Sharp portable MD player which I've kept specifically for the one MD I own, a retail edition of Gescom (by the awesome Autechre). It's a minidisc only retail release. Basically the disc relies on MD's seamless shuffle playback to work as intended. It's a 45 track album sliced in to 88 segments. The idea being you play the album on shuffle and get a unique, seamless album experience every single time. It's pretty genius stuff, plus Autechre are fantastic so it's win win. There's rips available as the cost has risen for the MD. But there's nothing physical out there to match the MD experience, hence it remains unique compared to the later CD pressing. 
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| Author: | signofzeta [ 01 Dec 2020, 17:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
Very interesting. Does it work well if you copy the CD version to an MD yourself? Obviously the gaps have to be frame-perfect. There is a They Might Be Giants album that has a normal number of normal tracks but also a ton of “fingertips” at the end which are just a ton of songs that are like five seconds long or maybe less. You are encouraged to put the CD on shuffle and have the player randomly insert 1-3 Fingertips before every song. |
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| Author: | deadlegion [ 01 Dec 2020, 17:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
3x Gamecube Memory Card 59 (DOL-008) 2x Gamecube Memory Card 251 (DOL-014) |
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| Author: | takeshi666 [ 02 Dec 2020, 13:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
Just got a second Dawn of the Dead box set from Second Sight. I initially pre-ordered it from a bunch of different places out of fear of missing out, and I guess I just kind of forgot. I also got the new 4K box set of Total Recall. I think I buy too much stuff when I receive them and then I can't remember what I've bought that'd fit in that particular box.  Think I've enough copies already? |
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| Author: | confederate [ 03 Dec 2020, 13:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
signofzeta wrote: thanks for reminding me to never stream. well, streaming can be very good and I like Spotify because they have a lot of stuff the other streaming platforms do not have such as the excellent Star Trek Ron Jones Project. I have a Spotify account through my family in Indonesia so I only pay like 3 $ a month but it often simply does not sound very good at all. I can however recommend Tidal. I found an HD quality stream of the soundtrack to the excellent Truman Show movie. It is absolutely superb and a clear improvement over the retail CD that I have in my collection and as far as I know Tidal is the only source for this "release". |
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| Author: | teddanson [ 03 Dec 2020, 13:51 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
confederate wrote: signofzeta wrote: thanks for reminding me to never stream. I can however recommend Tidal. 100% this. I find Tidal to be a great companion to a physical collection, mainly because of the MQA, 360 and Atmos stuff. But you also get videos (including, I think, live concerts?) and other bits and pieces that I think make it worth paying for (assuming you have the equipment that can take advantage of the higher resolution stuff). Tidal is great too if you happen to be visiting Turkey. Read in to that what you will... |
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| Author: | tasuke [ 03 Dec 2020, 14:52 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
takeshi666 wrote: Just got a second Dawn of the Dead box set from Second Sight. I initially pre-ordered it from a bunch of different places out of fear of missing out, and I guess I just kind of forgot. I also got the new 4K box set of Total Recall. I think I buy too much stuff when I receive them and then I can't remember what I've bought that'd fit in that particular box. Think I've enough copies already? that was one of my favorite movies as a boy when my mom took me to see it in the theater back in '90. though there are a great many things i hold in a much higher regard thirty years on, the film nevertheless retains a special place as a childhood favorite... a side note; ((eight-ish year-old me managed to get my mom and several others in the room in hysterics, - during the infamous triple-breasted hooker scene, as the one only verbal observation i felt compelled to make - was a rather loud proclamation of [i]"THREE OF THEM?!?"))[/i] |
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| Author: | confederate [ 03 Dec 2020, 20:06 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
teddanson wrote: Tidal is great too if you happen to be visiting Turkey. Read in to that what you will... I perfectly understand what you mean  I do the same thing.
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| Author: | signofzeta [ 03 Dec 2020, 23:43 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
I do use one streaming service, although nobody talks about it that way...or even talks about it at all. iTunes Match basically just syncs your iTunes at home with the phone no matter how big the library is. It downloads the tracks on the phone and then clears them out when it needs room with your computer at home being the master library. To me this is better than anything because when I’m on the go I’m much more likely to want to play something I already own from my huge library that took decades to collect than I am going to be wanting to hear...some other thing. I’m sure Tidal is great even though the only thing I remember about it is the insane launch event where millionaires cried about not being rich enough and that’s boner kryptonite for me..I’m sure I’d just never use it. There are only so many hours in the day and I already have MOUNTAINS of stuff. The idea that I would need another faucet for entertainment...I don’t. I haven’t even launched Netflix in a month because I have LDs and Youtube and all the others. In fact just knowing that I’d have to set up yet another user/pass with yet another company makes me completely uninterested. And the idea that they have “everything” is just laughable. Unless it literally uploads music I made myself or from friends or other non-ASCAP artists, which iTunes Match does, then it will be missing hundreds of tracks. If any other streaming service does that it may change my mind. |
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| Author: | deadlegion [ 04 Dec 2020, 11:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
Dad's Army S03 (DVD R4) Dad's Army S04 (DVD R4) City Hunter (DVD R4) Story of Ricky aka Riki-Oh (DVD R4) Lolita (DVD R1) Jarhead (HD-DVD) Shooter (HD-DVD) Knocked Up (HD-DVD) Hacksaw Ridge (BD) Sonic The Hedgehog (SMS) - cart only Sonic The Hedgehog 2 (SMS) - cart only Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (SMS) - missing manual The Lucky Dime Caper Starring Donald Duck (SMS) - missing manual Spiderman (SMS) - missing manual SpellCaster (SMS) - cart only World Grand Prix (SMS) - missing manual Lotus II (Genesis) - cart only The Adventures of Batman & Robin (Megadrive) Ecco The Tides of Time (Megadrive) - Platinum Collection Motocross Championship (Sega 32X) - cart only Official Australian PlayStation Magazine Demo 34 (PS1) [SCED-01831] - disc only Official Australian PlayStation Magazine Demo 35 (PS1) [SCED-02632] - disc only PT Boats Knights of the Sea (PC) Mario Strikers Charged Football (Wii) |
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| Author: | confederate [ 04 Dec 2020, 11:22 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
signofzeta wrote: And the idea that they have “everything” is just laughable. Unless it literally uploads music I made myself or from friends or other non-ASCAP artists, which iTunes Match does, then it will be missing hundreds of tracks. If any other streaming service does that it may change my mind. They most certainly do not have everything. I have already found tons of stuff that is unavailable on all of the known streaming sites ( Spotify, Tidal, etc. ), for instance: - Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm - Mosquito Coast Soundtrack - Madonna - Gambler ( name of a song ) and much much more. But they have a lot of stuff in HD quality that is unavailable on any other physical format ( no SACD, DVD-Audio, etc. ). I also have Amazon Music. They have a lot of great stuff, too. I love music and I want to listen to it in the best quality available. Vinyl is my favourite format as it sounds superb in my view, even better than SACD in my opinion. I now watch a lot of films via the Criterion Channel streaming service. I think it is better than Netflix because Netflix mostly has Blockbuster films however this streaming service has a very interesting catalogue. |
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| Author: | jakeheke [ 04 Dec 2020, 13:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
Land of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse (SMS) - missing manual The Lucky Dime Caper Starring Donald Duck (SMS) - missing manual Underrated Master System games. Lucky dime is so much fun |
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| Author: | signofzeta [ 04 Dec 2020, 15:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
confederate wrote: signofzeta wrote: And the idea that they have “everything” is just laughable. Unless it literally uploads music I made myself or from friends or other non-ASCAP artists, which iTunes Match does, then it will be missing hundreds of tracks. If any other streaming service does that it may change my mind. They most certainly do not have everything. I have already found tons of stuff that is unavailable on all of the known streaming sites ( Spotify, Tidal, etc. ), for instance: - Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm - Mosquito Coast Soundtrack - Madonna - Gambler ( name of a song ) and much much more. But they have a lot of stuff in HD quality that is unavailable on any other physical format ( no SACD, DVD-Audio, etc. ). I also have Amazon Music. They have a lot of great stuff, too. I love music and I want to listen to it in the best quality available. Vinyl is my favourite format as it sounds superb in my view, even better than SACD in my opinion. I now watch a lot of films via the Criterion Channel streaming service. I think it is better than Netflix because Netflix mostly has Blockbuster films however this streaming service has a very interesting catalogue. Netflix’s problem is that it doesn’t really have a decent selection of movies, blockbuster or otherwise. It’s all “binge” crap for the most part. The stuff I signed up to watch 15 years ago is gone. I do need to check out the Criterion service though. |
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| Author: | cplusplus [ 05 Dec 2020, 00:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
confederate wrote: I also have Amazon Music. They have a lot of great stuff, too. I love music and I want to listen to it in the best quality available. I am really enjoying Amazon Music HD. |
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| Author: | confederate [ 05 Dec 2020, 13:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
signofzeta wrote: I do need to check out the Criterion service though. Officially the service is exclusive to the US and you won't be able to register with a foreign IP address however it is very easy to sign up via VPN and once you have signed up you are able to login and start all streams even with a foreign IP address and it works great here in Germany. Netflix occasionally has some good stuff ( documentaries, etc. ) but too much blockbuster stuff I am not interested in. I most definitely prefer the Criterion's own streaming service. Nowadays I hardly buy films only laserdiscs occasionally and mostly vinyl or retail CDs, minidiscs or tapes. I stream most of my films and there are other great and inexpensive options, too, that I won't mention here. cplusplus wrote: I am really enjoying Amazon Music HD. I like Amazon Music HD because they have some very good albums in HD quality such as the entire Herbie Hancock or Vangelis discography. There is also stuff missing and all the Queens albums are CD quality only, unfortunately. To me, I do not hear a difference between 192 khz and 96 khz / 24 bit but I do hear a clear difference between 48 khz / 24 bit and 44.1 khz / 16 bit CD quality. Anything above 48 khz / 24 bit is undistinguishable to my ears. |
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| Author: | shopkins82 [ 05 Dec 2020, 20:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Tat you've bought to clutter your home with (Reprise) |
Pretty sure my Faces LDs qualify, since they're only for shelf display at this point (anytime I want to watch pre-SE, I just watch 4K77/DespecializedESB/4K83).  The Blu-Ray shelf is now full, to the point that I'm triaging discs I've watched but likely won't watch again to attic storage, sale, or donation... it's not as painful as it sounds since the shelf holds ~220 discs, I've offloaded the boxsets and DVDs to another storage location, and probably 75% of the BD discs are Goodwill purchases at ~$3/disc. |
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