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Recent content by AlanG

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    How About a New Subforum for "Concerts & Music"?

    Yes
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    Kino Lorber

    Indeed Kino Lorber is already in the K Store: https://www.kaleidescape.com/movie-store/collection/kino_lorber
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    Standard Def (SD) titles….

    FYI there is a remastered Blu-ray of The Rainmaker: https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Rainmaker-Blu-ray/134197/ Hopefully the HD of this will eventually become available in the Kaleidescape Store. Here is a review of the Blu-ray: https://thedigitalbits.com/item/rainmaker-1956-klsc-2022-bd...
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    Movie Updates

    Roman Holiday (1953) HDR https://www.kaleidescape.com/movie-store/movie/roman-holiday-1953
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    Japanese Period Romance Drama Recommendations?

    In a different vein, but also highly recommendable, there is Kurosawa’s Dreams (executive produced by Spielberg) which is a very powerful, profoundly moving film. Depending on your tastes of course. But for some this is one of the absolute must see films — and maybe the greatest work of art by...
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    Japanese Period Romance Drama Recommendations?

    There is also Shogun (1980), written by James Clavell in which Toshiro Mifune (among others) also stars, on Blu-ray. https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Shogun-Blu-ray/103521/
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    Japanese Period Romance Drama Recommendations?

    Toshiro Mifune, the preeminent Japanese actor who starred in Seven Samauri, also starred in other Kurosawa films. And if you like Seven Samurai then you might wish to check IMDB to see a list of other Kurosawa films. Criterion has releases a bunch of his best films on Blu-ray...
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    Japanese Period Romance Drama Recommendations?

    In case you’re not familiar with him, Akira Kurosawa is considered by many to be the greatest of the Japanese directors. So if you enjoy Ran by Kurosawa then you might wish to check out his Seven Samurai (1954) which is considered to be not only his greatest film but also one of the greatest...
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    Problems with Strato playback

    Yes I recommend Bullet Train HDMI cables.
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    Separating Terra & Strato, but keeping them on the same system

    Yes if you have an HDMI cable from the Strato to the surround sound processor and a second HDMI cable from the Alto to the surround sound processor, then by switching inputs on the surround sound processor you will see only one or the other At a time. Note that in the set up, if you want to...
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    Sound format info on movie card

    PCM audio tracks are also available on many Kaleidescape titles. For audiophiles playing back through a high end 2-channel system PCM Stereo may be the preferred audio format. PCM tracks are uncompressed.
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    Disc to Digital: Blue Ray or DVD

    Yes it usually costs more to convert from DVD to Digital HD whereas converting from Blu-ray to Digital HD is usually less. Having said that if you don’t care about picture quality the least expensive conversion is usually converting from DVD to Digital SD.
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    NEWS: Two New Terra Models Announced

    It would 25% off of the Terra 88. In other words 25% off of what you are buying—not what you are trading in.
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    My New Tech/AV/HT Endeavor - Techthusiasm

    This is when using the the web browser.
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    My New Tech/AV/HT Endeavor - Techthusiasm

    If you go to “My Movies” which is under “Manage” on your web browser, you can then click the “not downloaded to” button — which is on the left under “All My Movies”. That way you can see all of your movies that haven’t been downloaded to your K system. If you have multiple K Systems you can see...
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