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boblipton wrote: ↑

Mon May 11, 2020 2:39 pm

I watch my dvds on my Imac. When they offer a blu-ray machine that hooks in, I'll get one.

You can get blu-ray players that hook into your iMac and third party software that can play them.

Not necessarily advocating this to anyone who has escaped the blu-ray disease, but you can get a portable player like this:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-8x-exte ... Id=5852919

$39, USB plugs into your Mac. I use this free program to play them on my computer:

https://www.leawo.com/blu-ray-player/

That said, it's been a little while since I've done it since there's so much via streaming. On the other hand, I haven't exactly been traveling a lot lately, either.

Mike Gebert wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:51 am

Not necessarily advocating this to anyone who has escaped the blu-ray disease, but you can get a portable player like this:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-8x-exte ... Id=5852919

$39, USB plugs into your Mac. ... [snip]

Rats, this link now goes just to a dvd player that specifically says it doesn't do blu-ray. I'm finding myself in immediate need of an external region-free blu-ray player/drive at reasonable cost that plugs into my computer (i'm assuming that my 30 year old TV isn't compatible without herculean efforts, and why i can't get a new TV is a long story ...). Guess i'll start googling.

greta

Would something like this work? Like with VLC or something?
https://www.wish.com/product/5ea6429e09 ... &share=web

greta

Yes, same kind of device. I actually saw that one and didn't link it because it seemed more like a promotion that would go away sooner. But looks like I just linked a DVD one anyway. If you have a good computer store nearby, they should have portable blu-ray drives like this, again in the $40 or less range.

VLC should work, I liked Leawo's player just because its controls are more like a physical player.

Here's a NY Times piece comparing them.

Mike Gebert wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:04 am

Yes, same kind of device. I actually saw that one and didn't link it because it seemed more like a promotion that would go away sooner. But looks like I just linked a DVD one anyway. If you have a good computer store nearby, they should have portable blu-ray drives like this, again in the $40 or less range.

VLC should work, I liked Leawo's player just because its controls are more like a physical player.

Here's a NY Times piece comparing them.

Thanks, i'm working from home these days and am in the office today to pick up videos to catalog from home, and they turned out to be all blu-rays. I'm pretty sure i can't get them all done in the office today where we do have a blu-ray player.

cheers
greta

greta de groat wrote: ↑

Fri Aug 14, 2020 8:50 am

Mike Gebert wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 12, 2020 9:51 am

Not necessarily advocating this to anyone who has escaped the blu-ray disease, but you can get a portable player like this:

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-8x-exte ... Id=5852919

$39, USB plugs into your Mac. ... [snip]

Rats, this link now goes just to a dvd player that specifically says it doesn't do blu-ray. I'm finding myself in immediate need of an external region-free blu-ray player/drive at reasonable cost that plugs into my computer (i'm assuming that my 30 year old TV isn't compatible without herculean efforts, and why i can't get a new TV is a long story ...). Guess i'll start googling.

greta

What kind of hookups do you have on your old TV? You might be able to get an adapter or perhaps find a used BD player on eBay that still has the Composite/Component outputs on it.

Region Free on Blu-ray is much harder than on DVD. I just gave up and imported a player from Europe and just use that for RB discs and use my American one for RA discs.

I have an LG adapted to be region free by 220-electronics.com and it's quite simple: other region DVDs play automatically, for other region blu-rays I set them in the tray, then press 1, 2 or 3 to set it to region A, B or C, and the player closes the drawer and is now on that region.

Yay! Criterion has announced the January release of a trio of Bunuel films!

Boo! They will only be available in Blu-ray.

I've been waiting for the re-release of their Bunuel films for quite some time -- all but three have been out of print for ages.

Jim

Jim Roots wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 15, 2020 11:52 am

Yay! Criterion has announced the January release of a trio of Bunuel films!

For the record, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, The Phantom of Liberty, and That Obscure Object of Desire

New high-definition digital restorations of all three films, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
The Castaway of Providence Street, a 1971 homage to Luis Buñuel made by his longtime friends and fellow filmmakers Arturo Ripstein and Rafael Castanedo
Speaking of Buñuel, a documentary from 2000 on Buñuel’s life and work
Once Upon a Time: “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” a 2011 television program about the making of the film
Interviews from 2000 with screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière on The Phantom of Liberty and That Obscure Object of Desire
Archival interviews on all three films featuring Carrière; actors Stéphane Audran, Muni, Michel Piccoli, and Fernando Rey; and other key collaborators
Documentary from 1985 about producer Serge Silberman, who worked with Buñuel on five of his final seven films
Analysis of The Phantom of Liberty from 2017 by film scholar Peter William Evans
Lady Doubles, a 2017 documentary featuring actors Carole Bouquet and Ángela Molina, who share the role of Conchita in That Obscure Object of Desire
Portrait of an Impatient Filmmaker, Luis Buñuel, a 2012 short documentary featuring director of photography Edmond Richard and assistant director Pierre Lary
Excerpts from Jacques de Baroncelli’s 1929 silent film La femme et le pantin, an adaptation of Pierre Louÿs’s 1898 novel of the same name, on which That Obscure Object of Desire is also based
Alternate English-dubbed soundtrack for That Obscure Object of Desire
Trailers
New English subtitle translations
PLUS: Essays by critic Adrian Martin and novelist and critic Gary Indiana, along with interviews with Buñuel by critics José de la Colina and Tomás Pérez Turrent
New design by Eric Skillman, based on the original poster art by René Ferracci
https://www.criterion.com/boxsets/3900- ... uis-bu-uel

For my Windows 10 PC with inbuilt drive, Leawo's free BluRay software works fine. Plus, it's multi-region.

Heigh-ho! Another month, another Criterion release of a film I've been waiting years for them to do!

In February, it will be The Parallax View (1974), Warren Beatty's conspiracy film. If, like me, you've been forlornly scouring websites for a reasonably-priced captioned version on video, you know the asking resale cost of this film is probably second only to that of The Third Man, and the versions out there are usually not captioned.

I saw a part of the film in the 1970s on TV, possibly only the last few minutes of it (I remember Beatty trying to scuttle along a catwalk; that's about all), and I've wanted to see it in full for, well, it's now 46 years. Really looking forward to it!

Jim

The Fellini BD box set contains many extras, but I do not see listed some
material which was included on the previously released individual BD discs.

Has anyone put together a list for each of the included films of what NEW extras are
included, and which OLD extras have been omitted ??????

Thanks!