Can you even stream the original unmolested Star Wars trilogy?
Isn't it weird that we abandoned
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Can you even stream the original unmolested Star Wars trilogy?
The last time the original trilogy was released untouched was on DVD but the quality isn't anything to write home about.
Yeah, they did a straight transfer from the laserdisc version, so the actual image is 1.33:1 with letterboxing and no enhancements for 16:9 TV sets — it looked OKish if you had a DVD player and a standard 480p TV back when those DVDs came out in 2006, but if you try to play them on an HDTV, they look like shit.
I think have the copy you're describing. It was a bonus disc for whatever was the latest revision as of 2006, wasn't it? Silly me, I bought it years ago and never got around to actually playing it until, maybe, 6 weeks ago, less than 2 months, anyway. And, yeah, I used a BLU-Ray player fed into a 2010 model HDTV set with a 47 inch screen. It thoroughly confused me that the image did not fill the width of the screen. I flicked through the format settings with no improvement. I looked upon the packaging and read a 2006 copyright. Finally that symbolic light bulb glowed above my noggin.
I doubt it. That's why I've hung on to my original VHS tape, where you can see the green screen boxes. I may be buried with it.
Of course I accept we have more choice today and everything is more accessible but I do sometimes pine for the days when you could record on a tape and watch it back, or keep it
Plus the days of going out, choosing your movie and renting it made the occasion of home movie night much more of an occasion than it is today, at least in my opinion
Plus the days of going out, choosing your movie and renting it made the occasion of home movie night much more of an occasion than it is today, at least in my opinion
I still remember the first show I ever recorded with a VCR.
It was The Dukes of Hazzard.
It was The Dukes of Hazzard.
A bad picture is better than no picture. DVDs, and if necessary, Blue Rays should never go away.
Also they can’t arbitrarily take down episodes of things because in 2040 it offends someone. Your DVD is censor proof.
And Lucas-proof!
I'm delighted not to have to store all the tapes any more. The only thing that irks me about relying on streaming is that some less popular stuff remains unavailable. Haven't been able to find a streaming source for the old '80s The Equalizer, despite lots of other '80s crap TV being available. Same for Spenser: For Hire.
All three seasons of Spenser: For Hire are available through Warner Archive. I got them for my dad a few Christmases ago, and they look great.
I remember liking that show and the cast. But damn if I can recall much about it.
A private detective agency, "World Securities Corporation," has elite field agents, "Probes," outfitted with implants (an "earjack," which allows worldwide voice communication from a centralized control room, and a "dental contact" that allows discreet yes/no replies and Morse code), as well as a "scanner," a combination television camera, microphone, and transceiver approximately the size of a large button. Hugh O'Brian, Tony Franciosa, and Doug McClure as the field agents, with Burgess Meredith as Director, assisted by various specialists ranging from a hacker to a linguist to a medical doctor, in a room resembling a NASA MOCR.
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