Category Archives: Giveaway

Fine music and fine wine

Posted on May 14, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Sometimes I think the art of listening to hifi — not for the music, but for the performance of the system — is somewhat like the art of tasting wine. Long time readers would realise from that association that I … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray giveaway – The Private Lives of Pippa Lee

Posted on April 14, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Seems to be one for the girls with a 7.2/10 for female voters on IMDB and 6.5/10 for blokes.. The disc does not have a proper Blu-ray box, nor a slick, but it works just like a bought one. The … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray review page

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve been elsewhere the last few days. Elsewhere on this site, that is, updating and adding video bitrate graphs to a whole bunch of my Blu-ray reviews. The ‘updated’ text in the table shows which ones. In addition, I’ve added … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray giveaway – Halo: Legends

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Apparently this one is a number of animated stories coming out of the Halo game universe. The disc does not have a proper Blu-ray box, nor a slick, but it works just like a bought one. The disc is region … Continue reading →

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Blu-ray giveaway – The Butterfly Effect

Posted on March 12, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

This is actually one of Icon’s ‘Blu-ray Double Feature’ discs, which means that it has another movie on the same disc. In this case it is the quite forgettable The Butterfly Effect 2 (4.4/10 on IMDB vs the original’s 7.8/10). … Continue reading →

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A further Blu-ray giveaway – Angels and Demons

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

This is a ‘Testmold’ disc, which means that it don’t have a proper label and so forth, nor a proper Blu-ray box, nor a slick, but it works just like a bought one. Has both Extended and Theatrical versions my … Continue reading →

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Another Blu-ray giveaway – The Da Vinci Code

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

Actually, two discs because it is the 2 disc special edition version. These are ‘Testmold’ discs, which means they don’t have proper labels and so forth, nor a proper Blu-ray box, nor a slick, but they work just like bought … Continue reading →

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Disastrous Giveaway

Posted on February 15, 2010 by Stephen Dawson

In 2008 a spoof too far was released. Called Disaster Movie, it now resides at #22 of the Internet Movie Database ‘Bottom 100‘. Now you, too, can share in the joy of this movie (not having seen any of them, … Continue reading →

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Heat discs won by clever readers

Posted on November 13, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

 I have posted three copies of Heat on Blu-ray to three readers who undertook my Blu-ray picture quality survey. They were: Shane from the Gold Coast, Des from Queensland, and Simon Hewlett from Calwell, ACT, not far from where I … Continue reading →

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Win Heat on Blu-ray!

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Stephen Dawson

Courtesy of Warner Bros, from 30 October 2009 I have three copies on Blu-ray of the excellent movie Heat (1995) to give away. This is a must-have, not only for the excellence of the movie, but the superb street gun … Continue reading →

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