I ran this last night and really enjoyed it. It's the first time I saw this film since its theatrical release in 1969 and they did an excellent job on the transfer. The audio is a remastered 5.1 and not all that bad either. It's really about how a small band of British Spitfire pilots took on everything the Germans could throw at them in the air and in doing so, changed the course of history. I'll bet Chris D would love this film. Gonna watch the 2nd disc extras tonight.
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George, do you know if the video portion has been re-mastered for this 2-disc set? The original release wasn't bad, but. . . .
I hopped over to WSR and IMDB and neither had any info on audio/video..
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Hi, George! :later: I'll have to add this to my Netflix list; I haven't seen it. I've got a suspicion it could be comparable to "Memphis Belle", which I loved. I'll definitely see this one sooner or later.
CHRIS
Well, we're safe for now. Thank goodness we're in a bowling alley.
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Tex, there is nothing on the cover or inside info that says the video has been remastered. It's called a Collector's Edition. I have never seen it on anything else in the past so I can't comment on any differences in transfer quality. I can say this, on my 92" wide screen the picture looked pretty darn good.Originally posted by David MeekComment
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Takatakatakatakataka.... :wink:.
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The Battle Of Britain is a good movie Chris, no doubt. Just remember that it was made in 1969 whereas Memphis Belle was made 20+ years later. The camera and film technology was much superior in MB, but with TBOB the planes are mostly real and not CGI. 6 of one, a half-dozen of the other....Originally posted by Chris DLast edited by Chris D; 05 February 2007, 04:06 Monday..
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No cgi but they did have to use models at times because they didn't have many real spitfires to work with. The 2nd disc offers a lot of information about how the film was shot and the problems they encountered while trying to meet the director's demand for "showing it how it really was".Comment
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Yeah, some of the exploding/burning/crashing aircraft were pretty visibly models, but heck, I'd have been REALLY p.o.'d if they'd been doing that to real Spitfires & ME109s. :wink:.
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Has anyone else heard these yet?! Cranked I and III up last night and my goodness it sounds like Page lubed up his guitar and slid it slowly, lovingly in to my ears.
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We (80x owners) likely have the age where we bought our albums on vinyl, or made copies from friends on compact cassette. Later I bought the cd' s.
As you aware a lot of the good albums albums are now rereleased as remastered version + bonus track+ sometimes dvd.
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Just picked up "The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964 - 1971" at Best Buy. Note that these discs are hybrid SACDs but aren't labeled as such on the package. Look for the Abkco discs, they're in the cardboard cases instead of regular jewel cases.
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This CD is hard to come by. It was released in 1986 and so soon they had it out of print. Special EFX "Slice of Life" CD, I snagged a used but mint condition from a collector in Melrose Ave. for $18.95 and I used to have this CD. I've seen so many imports like what we use to like in the 80's... -
I had a large hole in my music collection that I decided to fill last week. Ordered 8 Rolling Stones CDs, which I received yesterday, and have ripped to FLAC and stored on my NAS.
Not that exciting, except...all were priced below $12, and all were remastered. Still not that exciting,...
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