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  1. Katie Cadet

    Got two 8-track cartridges from two different thrift stores: Kris & Rita, and a Kenny Rogers album. The Kenny Rogers cartridge physically sounds like it's rattling around, but the Kris and Rita appears OK. I haven't checked the sound quality of both cartridges since I don't have a player to go with them, but I do know that my Dad has a Steppenwolf 8-track Cartridge that had an unglued label and crumbled foam, so if we do get an 8-track player in good condition, we'll find out if 8-track is worth it or not in our collection!

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    List of Bourne Films on different formats in Katie Cadet's collection:

    Bourne Identity:

    DVD (2002)

    HD DVD

    Standard Blu-ray

    4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray

     

    Bourne Supremacy:

    DVD

    Standard Blu-ray

    4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray

     

    Bourne Ultimatum:

    DVD

    HD DVD

    4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray

     

    Bourne Legacy:

    4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray

     

    Jason Bourne (2016):

    4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray

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    Wizard of Oz (1939) - What’s found so far:

    1999 60th Anniversary VHS release (printed up to 2003)

    2009 70th Anniversary DVD release (currently in-print)

    1989 50th Anniversary Laserdisc release (printed up to 1995)

    2013 75th Anniversary Standard Blu-ray release (currently in-print)

    2019 80th Anniversary 4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray release (currently in-print)

    2013 75th Anniversary DVD release (currently in-print)

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    Toy Story (1995) - What I got so far:

    -1996 Original VHS release (35mm transfer - Open Matte)

    -1996 Dolby Digital Laserdisc release (35mm transfer - Letterbox)

    -2000 Gold DVD release (Digital transfer - Anamorphic)

    -2005 10th Anniversary 2-disc DVD release (Digital transfer - Anamorphic - High bit-rate - DTS)

    -2010 DVD release (Digital transfer - Anamorphic)

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    I've finally added a PlayStation 4 Pro to my computer and video game collection! Started playing The Sims 4 (Free!) on that new system. It's a worthwhile addition to my PlayStation collection in light of the limited stock of the PS5!

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    From the now-defunct Katie Cadet's Computer and Video Game Collection YouTube channel from 2019.

    2019 was nearly four years ago when I made this, right? (That was the last video on this channel before I deleted the account!)

    (Thank goodness I still have the master video file on my hard drive!)

     

    1747691770_June2019UpdateofmyComputerandVideoGameCollection.mov
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    Google Stadia is now officially shut down!

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    Here's a high quality direct clip of the Xbox (original 2001) DVD-Video screen transcoded using HandBrake from my MotoGP Xbox game.

    That's what would've happened if I inserted my Original Xbox games that's not on my Xbox 360 consoles.

    1. Splashee

      Splashee

      Looking very high quality!

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    Downloaded and tested the free version of The Sims 4 on my Custom Built High Performance Windows 10 PC via the EA client.

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    Movies that I've watched so far last year:

    1. Disney Fantasia (1940's, Late 80's/Early 90's Laserdisc with original narration from Deems Taylor, not a re-dub) (January)
    2. Searching for Bobby Fischer (1994, Laserdisc) (February)
    3. Disney/Pixar Toy Story (1995, 10th Anniversary 2005 DVD) (May)
    4. The Wizard of Oz (1939, 75th Anniversary 2013 Blu-ray) (June)
    5. IMAX The Dream is Alive (1985, Blu-ray) (July)
    6. BONUS: Toy Story that Time Forgot (2015, Television Special, DVD) (July)
    7. IMAX Rocky Mountain Express (2011, 4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray) (September/October)

     

    The 4K Home Theatre right now:

    • Hisense U6 4K ULED Roku TV
    • Vizio SB3651-E6 5.1 Surround Sound Bar
    • Sony PlayStation 3 Super Slim
    • Toshiba DVR630 DVD VHS VCR Combo Recorder
    • Sony PlayStation 2 Slim (requires an HDMI adapter because the new Roku TV does not have component inputs)
    • Microsoft Xbox 360 S
    • Pioneer CLD-990 Laserdisc Player (connected via composite to Roku TV)
    • MediaSonic HomeWorx HW-150PVR ATSC Antenna PVR with USB
    • Generic 4k 5-port HDMI Switch Box
    • eSynic 4-port Digital Optical Switch Box
    • Sony BDP-S370 Blu-ray Player with SACD (attached to the 80s stereo system in my office)
    • WireLogic 8k/10k HDMI 2.1 cables and AmazonBasics 4k HDMI 2.0 cables (except for a 50 feet HDMI cable that comes from the Sony BDP-S370 Blu-ray Player to my HDMI switch box)
    • Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD Player
    • Sony UBP-X800M2 Universal 4k Ultra-HD Blu-ray Player
    • Nintendo Switch OLED docking station with HDMI

     

    The 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray movies so far as of January 2023:

    • The Wizard Of Oz (1939) (2019 UHD release)
    • The Jason Bourne Collection (2002-2016) (2022 UHD release)
    • IMAX Rocky Mountain Express (2011) (2016-2021 UHD release)
    • Minions The Rise Of Gru (2022) (2022 UHD release)
    • BBC Earth: One Amazing Day (2017) (2017 UHD release)
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    Jacob R did a similar Foreign Disc video, but on a 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray Player instead of a standard one that was mentioned in the first post:
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    I recently found out that my Sony UBP-X800M2 cannot play PlayStation 3 game discs (they are unreadable), but the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 discs are read fine, but there's no media to play even though the game data is in proprietary data containers. Sony used to offer the PlayStation Now service on some of their Blu-ray players released during the mid-2010s, where you can use a first-generation DualShock 4 controller to stream PlayStation 3 games, without the console! So that's what happened when I put this in my recent Sony 4k UHD player. Sony, the company who makes Blu-ray and the PlayStation, seems to unintentionally have a few tricks up their sleeves these days...
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    I recently installed a Sony UBP-X800M2 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player for my 4k Home Theatre, with the HDMI connected to the Haier 4K LED TV, and the Digital Coaxial connected to the Vizio 5.1 Sound Bar. (Due to Sound Bar not supporting HDMI 2.0/2.1, it’s stuck on HDMI 1.4 and below.)

    I did some testing by playing a 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray (Rocky Mountain Express IMAX), a Standard Blu-ray (Benji Off the Leash), a DVD-Video (Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring Extended Edition), a recorded AVCHD DVD, and a DVD-Audio (Chesky Records Ultimate DVD Audio Sampler).

    Due to the limitations of the Digital Coaxial connector, some audio codecs are not outputted to my Vizio 5.1 Sound Bar. Examples are Rob Thomas’ Something to Be on DualDisc (DVD-Audio layer), which is multichannel 96 kHz 24-bit PCM, and the 2L The Nordic Sound SACD, which is DSD.

    I heard some people say about freezing issues of this model of Blu-ray players, but I didn’t have any problems whatsoever, because I did a firmware update after it came to my door. (Thank goodness for online shopping!) I’ll have to monitor that the next time I turn it on!

    P.S. It can also do FLAC, MP3, and WAV files too! Good thing I have my Audio Filetype test disc that I recorded onto a CD-R handy!

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      Katie Cadet

      The Sony UBP-X800M2 can also read my Corel Gallery CD-ROMs just fine, even though they are originally intended for Microsoft Windows.

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      Katie Cadet

      The Sony UBP-X800M2 can also play Video CD's, not Super Video CD's.

    3. ZiggWheelsManning

      ZiggWheelsManning

      This came before DVDs, right?  

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    Hello fellow bronies! Back in the late 1980s and 1990s, NHK started developing a prototype of High-Definition television in an analog format called Hi-Vision MUSE. This groundbreaking prototype really set the standard in a time when for us North American and Europeans were still stuck on 480i back in the day. There were two formats of early high-definition home media in Japan, one is a pre-recorded movie format on MUSE Laserdisc, and the other to record a MUSE broadcast off the air called W-VHS. This was before D-VHS started coming out in 2002 when North Americans really got a glimpse of HDTV before Blu-ray and HD DVD followed in 2006. In fact, back in the 1980s, before I was born, my relatives started getting an early glimpse of Analog High-Definition. Here in Canada, we didn't have HDTV's back then in the 1980s and 1990s, but starting in 2010 and 2012, we actually got a Digital HDTV and Blu-ray player, but eight to ten years later, we started utilizing 4k video displays in the age of 4k streaming. I've tested out a 4k UHD Blu-ray on existing equipment, but it gives up after several tries. The LG BP200 gives up after three tries and says "Check Disc" then ejects the tray, while my Sony Blu-ray players from 2010-2011 both give up after four to six tries and then says "INVALID" on the front panel display. But anyways, does anyone remember seeing those prototypes of Analog High-Definition Television back in the 1980s and 1990s? If so, did it impress you? Feel free to talk about it here! Technology Connections and Techmoan did some research and testing on the MUSE Laserdisc format for you to watch below this text: Cathode Ray Dude and Reely Interesting provided demonstrations of W-VHS below this text:
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    Hello fellow bronies! When Pony Life was released in 2020, there were some unintentional animation errors. My personal favourite is that Pinkie Pie gained wings without even knowing. Sure, it was due to the magic of editing, but not due to the magic of the story. The Pinkie Pie of G4 (FiM), as intended by the toy line, is an earth pony, so there's no way she would be a pegasus during that era, not until Pony Life came around and made it happen! A prototype of Pinkie Pie who is coloured White and Yellow, and named Surprise, originally has wings. The G3 Pinkie Pie is also intended by the toy line as an earth pony. By looking online since 2012, I found out why that statement was true, and indeed, I was right. By watching a segment from Potion Mystery, this was the source of Pegasus Pinkie Pie, and I'm just letting you know that Pinkie Pie wasn't intended to be that way in the first place due to that unintentional animation error that happened in Pony Life. Feel free to reply if that statement was true!
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    Hello fellow bronies! Do you remember back in the day you got a game for your PlayStation/Xbox/Wii, and then suddenly you decided to put it into your non-gaming Blu-ray player just to see what's on the disc in terms of data? I somehow tried that on an LG BP200 with my Xbox and Xbox 360 games alongside my Sony Blu-ray players, because they have DVD-Video layers, whereas the PlayStation games are readable on Blu-ray players, but most of the data are in proprietary containers, but on the PlayStation 3, there are some PNG files readable by the Blu-ray player. Nintendo games are unreadable. Feel free to share your sightings here! I've also attached a video of some guy testing out the game discs here:
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    Hello fellow bronies! Back in the mid-2010s, I watched Rocky Mountain Express at the former IMAX cinema, and now in 2022, I recently got it second-hand brand-new in a 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray Combo Set. The director is Ottawa-based Stephen Low, who runs a film production company in Montreal. It really has interesting Canadian railway history, with an importance of the 2816 steam locomotive, and the Canadian Rockies out west in British Columbia, as the train travels to the east of Montreal throughout the course of the movie. It was shot on 15 perf 70mm film, which looks excellent, either in a 1080p or 4k digital video format in my Home Theatre of my office, but in the cinema, it's an experience I will never forget! The audio in the cinema version that I recall is an uncompressed 6-track mix, but on the Blu-ray that I got, Dolby Atmos (with a TrueHD/Dolby Digital Plus backup), which is an improvement. Feel free to talk about this movie here! I'll attach the trailer below this text:
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    Hello fellow bronies! At the beginning of 2022, I watched 'Searching for Bobby Fischer' on Laserdisc. If you don't know about the film, it's a biographical chess drama film from 1993 of one of the former young chess champions: Josh Waitzkin. Feel free to talk about it here! Regards, Katie Cadet
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    Hello fellow bronies! Do any of you remember having Flexplay discs in your collection back in the late 2000's? I know that here in Canada we don't have it! If you don't know what Flexplay is, it's a DVD-Video format that you buy your movie from Staples and watch your movie for a day before the disc becomes unreadable. On the underside of the disc, it starts off Red, but turns Black when you've opened the packaging. And that's unhealthy to the environment if you decide to throw out your unplayable disc! It's also a commercial failure in the United States, and never made it to Europe. Talk about it here! Technology Connections made a video about the format here:
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    I too own a couple of LG Blu-ray drives with OWC Mercury Pro enclosures for my 2017 iMac 4K and my Custom Built Ryzen 5 Windows 10 PC. Yeah, Laserdiscs! The best analog way of watching movies! I actually own a Sony MDP-333 and a Pioneer CLD-990 along with a bundle of North American movies and Hong Kong Karaoke music titles. Just like vinyl records and 15 IPS reel-to-reel tapes accurately reproduce the highest resolution of sound in an analog sense, Blu-ray's and HD DVD's offer 192 kHz 24-bit audio on Uncompressed LPCM, DTS-HD Master Audio, and Dolby TrueHD surround sound formats in a lossless manner. To accurately reproduce 35mm, 70mm, or IMAX film transfers on a digital high-definition video disc, 1080p or 4K would suffice depending on the variation of the Blu-ray format (HD DVD is stuck on 1080p). If that's true, then we were on the same boat in the videophile and audiophile market the way we listen to music and watch movies back in the day, e.g. the 1970's, or when we watched movies in a theatre, and the quality was better than a home video release of the time. I also have a FiiO M3K portable music player which handles anything from low-quality MP3 to high-resolution FLAC or DSD for my music library. Of course for Laserdiscs, it is analog video at 480i. (VHS is even lower at 240p) Some DVD's offer DTS 5.1 Surround Sound, but earlier releases have a full bitrate compared to the ones released after 1999. DTS Laserdiscs are full bitrate, but mastered for Audio CD's.
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