Category Archives: DVD

Blu-ray screenshots commence!

Posted on August 5, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

A couple of weeks ago I issued a cry for help because I couldn’t work out how to grab screen shots from Blu-ray discs. I’m thankful to the four people who emailed me with various suggestions. Two of these involved … Continue reading →

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Packaging errors on Blu-ray discs

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

I use AnyDVD HD to help me analyse DVDs, Blu-ray discs and HD DVDs. However it hasn’t been of as much help with determining the region codes of Blu-ray discs as it has been with DVDs. I raised this on … Continue reading →

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HELP! Taking screen shots of Blu-ray

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Does anyone know of a tool which allows you to take full frame grabs from Blu-ray and HD DVD on a Windows platform? You can’t do it with PowerDVD (although this does provide it for DVDs). I would love to … Continue reading →

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Wasting Digital Real-estate

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

The excellent Blu-ray section of High-Def Digest is a frequent stopping point for me, especially its reviews. The reviews are usually pretty well done, but they do contain the odd error, often due to the difficulty of obtaining valid information … Continue reading →

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Disc Database

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

One of the things I’ve been doing since not long after the introduction of the DVD has been building a database in Microsoft Access of details relating to discs. I’ve added additional fields over the years to allow for bits … Continue reading →

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Restored Godfathers

Posted on June 30, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

I’ve just received a press release from Paramount Pictures Australia announcing the release on 7 August 2008 of remastered and restored versions of The Godfather, The Godfather: Part II, and The Godfather: Part III DVDs. They will be available individually, … Continue reading →

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Put another prawn on the Barb-b

Posted on June 29, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Icon Film Distribution Australia has been releasing a number of interesting titles on Blu-ray, including Alpha Dog, Black Sheep and We Were Soldiers. Plus 30 Days of Night. This last was shot in New Zealand and features Australian actress Melissa … Continue reading →

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‘Frank the Bunny Rabbit is also a somewhat frightening character’

Posted on April 30, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Universal kindly sent me Southland Tales today at my request. Since I simply love Donnie Darko, created by the creator of Southland Tales, Richard Kelly, I thought it would be great to review it along with the more recent Southland … Continue reading →

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The Ballad of Dwight Frye

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Stephen Dawson

Last night I watched, with one of my daughters, the 1922 version of Nosferatu. The picture quality wasn’t particularly good, yet it was still strangely powerful at certain points. My daughter, who has read Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, of which … Continue reading →

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Can’t fix what’s too broke

Posted on December 30, 2007 by Stephen Dawson

A few days ago I installed a new true HD projector, the Mitsubishi HC6000, and had a look at some HD DVDs. Great stuff. That evening I flicked on the HDTV receiver and the station happened to be Southern Cross … Continue reading →

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