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From: EMW107@psuvm.psu.edu (Young Indy)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Basic Instinct LD - When?
Date: 9 Sep 92 16:31:01 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

In article <BuBE6u.6v6@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) says:
>
>The new Video has a full page ad showing a laserdisc of Basic Instinct.
>Anyone know when the actual release is scheduled?
>

    I don't know the exact release date, but The Laserdisc Fanclub is offering
it in their September new release issue. There's also an "uncut" version (ob-
viously priced more) rated NC-17. I'll have to get the toll free number from
the booklet, and post it later.


                                     -Ed

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             Edwin 'Big Ed' Weiland - EMW107@PSUVM.PSU.EDU
            Architectural Engineering; Penn State University
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From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: LBX Forbidden Planet on TNT
Date: 12 Sep 92 06:00:12 GMT
Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Vidiot's Hangout

In article <1992Sep11.052630.5099@uhura.neoucom.edu> wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce) writes:
<Tonight (9-11 wee am) TNT was broadcasting FORBIDDEN PLANET and 
<
<++IT WAS LETTERBOXED++    The ratio was 2.22:1 exactly the same as
<my Criterion laserdisc of this.
<
<I've seen LBX films on AMC, but this is the first time I've seen one
<on TNT.

There have been other letterbox movies on TNT.

The biggest problem I noticed right away, when scanning channels, is that the
movie was time compressed and it was easily noticable.
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From: firenza@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Subject: Basic Instinct release
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 17:57:21 GMT


   I just read that Basic Instinct is due out on Laser Disc  mid--late
October.  I can't remember if it was 10/14 or 10/24.  I was at the store this
afternoon.  It was in the newest Pioneer laser disc brochure.

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From: gihan@bmerh472.BNR.CA (Gihan Karunaratne)
Subject: Re: Batman Returns/Basic Instinct
Reply-To: gihan@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 15:19:59 GMT

In article <15025@mindlink.bc.ca>, Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike
Quigley) writes:
|>This might be old news, but a friend just faxed me a news release from the
|>local paper. Batman Returns is out on Oct. 21, the tape will cost $25,
and the
|>LD, to be released the same day, will cost $40. No extra footage or other
|>goodies with the LD>
|>
|>
Does anyone know if Warner will use Pioneer or WEA to press the discs?
From: jaime@tcville.edsg.hac.com (Jaime Villacorte)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut (SPOILERS)
Date: 15 Sep 92 08:52:18 GMT
Reply-To: jaime@tcville.UUCP (Jaime Villacorte)
Organization: Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, CA

In article <1992Sep14.183543.9032@advtech.uswest.com> pprun@augustit.uswc.uswest.com (Peter Prun) writes:
[...stuff deleted...]
>
>Does anyone know if Ridley Scott was asked if this is a mistake about
>the 6-vs-5 replicant problem?  Could Scott have been trying to implicate
>either Deckard or Rachel as the sixth replicant?
>

	I don't know if this sheds any light on the 6th replicant debate,
but I have a book titled "Film Directing: Shot by Shot", by Steven Katz
(ISBN 0-941188-10-8) which contained a little gem I didn't expect.

	In chapter 3 called "STORYBOARDS", there is a series of 27
hand-drawn storyboard panels from Blade Runner done by Sherman Labby
which was was used as an example. The text of the book says...

	"Another series of storyboard panels by Sherman Labby 
	 appears on pages 55 to 63 and shows his fine sense of
	 pictorial narrative in an opening scene from Blade Runner,
	 one of two scenes that was never filmed."

	Here's the captions that appear under each panel. My comments
are in "[]"

 1. Spinner kicks up dust  [scene looks like country side]
 2. Spinner lands - dog barks at it as D. raises hatch
 3. Wind blows - D. walks to farm house  [camera pans to the left]
 4. D. opens front door [the scene changes to the inside of a house
    looking at Decker entering the front door]
 5. D. POV as he looks over interior
 6. POV pot boiling on stove - camera moves back as ...
 7. ...reveals D. looking at pot...He turns to right...camera follows
 8. D. sits looks out window
 9. His POV of giant tractor moving toward house [we're looking out a
    window into the country side]
10. Man enters - sees Deckard - dialogue
11. Man takes of goggles
12. Man moves to kitchen - D. crosses frame - (dialogue)
13. Resolution comes to Deckard's face [shot of Deckard from shoulders up]
14. Man comes from kitchen with bowl of soup (dialogue)
15. D. fires gun at man
16. RVS as man is hit - he falls...drops soup bowl
17. He falls OS and out of frame
18. D. stands over fallen man
19. C.U. as D. pinches cheek
20. C.U. as D. reaches into mouth
21. He pulls out 'jawbone' with serial no. on it
22. Hold as he turns - walks out of house
23. He walks across yard - dog follows
24. D. walks toward spinner followed by dog - giant tractor stands silent
25. CAM follows D. - He attempts to pet dog - dog backs off - D. enters
    spinner
26. POV Deckard - Spinner INT. rises / monitors show dog, tree & farm
27. Spinner moves off - dog watches.

	Hmmm...makes one wonder what the "other" unfilmed scene could
have been. 

					- jaime villacorte


     Hughes Aircraft Co, EOS                  jaime@tcville.hac.com
              El Segundo, CA                  villacor@hac2arpa.hac.com
From: lch3e@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Lauren C. Howard)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: LD's for sale cheap!
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:21:13 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Virginia
Originator: lch3e@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU


   For sale:

     LadyHawke  (old version, Pan and scan)    $15
                  (orig. $30 ; new version $40)

     Excalibur  ( same )                      $15

    The Black Stallion  ( same)               $15

All disks without flaws. 

    Respond e-mail to   lch3e@virginia.edu      (slow response)
       reg. mail     PO Box 3720,  Charlottesville, Va.  22903  (med. " )
     or by phone    (804)295-9995                (fastest  " )

Thanx.
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Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut
From: dwilliams@oread.cc.ukans.edu
Date: 6 Sep 92 23:42:01 CDT
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Serces

+0In article <trussell.715789309@cwis>, trussell@cwis.unomaha.edu (Tim Russell) writes:
> wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce) writes:
> 
>>BTW this theatre was in Akron, Ohio.  If they're sending those posters
>>out to the heartland, it must be real :-).
> 
>     "U" magazine (a monthly mag that many university student papers stick
> in with their papers) also has a full-page ad for the director's cut
> version, but again, with no release date, just "coming soon".
> 
> --
>     Tim Russell                 Omaha, NE              trussell@unomaha.edu
> One of the richest men in the world made his billions selling a toy "operating
> system" that is more accurately described as a glorified bootstrap loader.
>                                                   -- Phil Karn

Today's Kansas City Star had it listed as starting at a 'Fine Arts" theatre 
this Friday.  If we're getting it here, somebody else has got to 
be getting it soon.

-- 
 _ 
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From: lazlo@triton.unm.edu (Lazlo Nibble)
Subject: Re: LBX Forbidden Planet on TNT
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 02:45:25 GMT
Organization: Lollapalooza Phoenix Eastern Mosh Pit Smoke-Mask Crew
Distribution: usa
Keywords: n

denton@ssd.comm.mot.com (Perry Denton) writes:

> TNT has shown several letterboxed movies, two of which I remember:
>   Love Me or Leave Me (James Cagney, Doris Day)
>   Seven Brides for Seven Brothers

They've also done _Brigadoon_.

--
Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut
Date: 8 Sep 92 05:20:05 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I just got back from a holiday in Sacramento. Yesterday's paper had an ad for
this version of the film which opens there next weekend.

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From: ahom@yingjow.tnds.bellcore.com (Allen Hom)
Subject: Re: Basic Instinct LD - When?
Organization: Network Data Collection Presentation and Processing Development
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 12:42:04 GMT

In article <rwittick-090992142145@wittick.cl.msu.edu>, rwittick@ibm.cl.msu.edu (Bob Wittick) writes:
|> In article <BuBE6u.6v6@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, tmkk@uiuc.edu (Khan) wrote:
|> > 
|> > The new Video has a full page ad showing a laserdisc of Basic Instinct.
|> > Anyone know when the actual release is scheduled?
|> 
|> According to the Laser Craze ad in the September issue of LDN,
|> the R-rated LBX and non-LBX versions are due on October 14 .  A Special
|> Edition LBX version with extras, rated NC-17, is due on November 19.
|> Laser Craze is offering the R versions for $33,96 if ordered by Sept.
|> 30, and the NC-17 version for $55.96 (list prices are $39.95
|> and $69.95 respectively).
|> 
|>                Bob Wittick
|>                Computer Laboratory
|>                Michigan State University

I talked to someone at the Laser Disc Fan Club and their magazine said
the Special Edition includes an interview with the Director (Vorheeven, sp.?)
and the original ending to the movie.  I'm not sure if it also includes
the additional sex scenes that's available in Europe, but I guess with
the NC-17 rating, it probably does...

How can I contact Laser Craze?  Their price is cheaper than the $62.95
I was quoted from another dealer...
-- 
allen hom
Bellcore
ahom@tnds.bellcore.com
(908)699-5728
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From: cooper@cos.com (Gary Cooper)
Subject: Re: Is the LBX Excalibur OK?
Organization: Corporation for Open Systems
Distribution: usa 
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 01:49:23 GMT

In <37364@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> smah@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Steve Mah) writes:


>I've noticed that a few people have posted saying that their copies
>of the new Excalibur LD had some slight defects- are these just
>isolated incidents or is it widespread?  (i.e. is there someone out
>there with a disc without any defects?) 

Mine is fine - grainy picture, but the transfer is fine (I imagine
the stock used wasn't all that hot) 
-- 
gary cooper (not the dead one)   
         "We're losing oil pressure on the starboard engine"
    "On the plus side, all the pretty little lights on the instrument
                             panel are working"      - Wings 
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From: firenza@wpi.WPI.EDU (Timothy Mark Collins)
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 17:05:33 GMT

  There will be a film festival in Boston this month and they are going to
show the Director's Cut. I can't remember the exact date.  Some weekend in
September.  I read this in the Sunday Globe in late August.  If anyone has 
the exact dates, could you post it?

Thanks
firenza@wpi.wpi.edu
From: glambert@pyramid.com (George Lambert)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Surround Audio on L.A. Story
Date: 11 Sep 92 21:52:40 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology

In article <1992Sep11.170151.8832@njitgw.njit.edu> meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman) writes:
>In article <1992Sep11.064647.9226@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> mburton@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Michael E Burton) writes:
>>
>>   I recently rented the laser disk of "L.A. Story."  The disk sleeve
>>indicated that the disk included "Dolby Surround" stereo.  The
>>soundtrack was recorded in stereo, but it definitely was not
>>"Surround."
>>
>I own it, and it's in Surround. I get distinct audio from the rear. 
>
Better lay off the beans, then!  :-)

Sorry, couldn't resist.

George Lambert
From: meg5184@hertz.njit.edu (Starman)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: "BASIC INSTINCT" - Release INFO!!!
Date: 14 Sep 92 11:56:23 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <scottg.082x@amiganet.chi.il.us> scottg@amiganet.chi.il.us (Scott Gittlitz) writes:
>The Following is a letter from PIONEER LDCA, INC. on the laserdisc release of
>"BASIC INSTINCT". 
> 
>

[stuff deleted]
> 
> 
>     To supplement merchandising efforts, Pioneer will provide
>retailers with an eight-inch trailer disc to generate in-store
>excitement for this chilling, erotic thriller.
> 
I WANT THIS 8" DISC!!! If anyone can tell me where to get it, then let
me know!!!!

=============================== Mike Gaines ============================
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From: jhc819@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (chung jason ho yong)
Subject: Re: GHOSTBUSTERS on laserdisc: Criterion & RCA/Columbia differences?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 21:29:31 GMT
Keywords: Ghostbusters, laserdisc

    You may well be correct on backwinding.  But, I noticed on my Criterion
    GHOSTBUSTERS, that if you include the two trailers, the disc is 
    exactly 105 minutes long.  The movie itself is about 98 minutes.  I was
    kind of assuming therefore, that the Columbia/RCA LTX version which is
    based on the Criterion one, where no backwinding is necessary, is simply
    padding the original 98 minutes time, w/ the trailers.
     
     Thanks, Jason
From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: Is the LBX Excalibur OK
Date: 7 Sep 92 21:40:16 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

> George Lambert writes:
> I'm quite pleased with "Excalibur".  Originally released in mono in the
> theaters, the reworking of the music into stereo worked out quite well.
> George Lambert


According to a projectionist friend of mine, Excalibur was originally intended
for release as a Dolby stereo film, but when Boorman heard the quality of the
soundtrack, he decided against it, so all prints were released in mono. The
recent LD issue's sound is not something which has been remixed recently.
From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Re: laserdisc of Beauty and the Beast (NOT)
Date: 9 Sep 92 23:16:11 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada

> Mike Rosenberg writes:
> 
> Posted: 8 Sep 92 15:35:46 GMT
> 
> Org.  : Morgan Stanley & Co., New York, NY
> 
> on Oct 30th, Image/Disney will be releasing a letterboxed CAV disc of
> Beauty and the Beast: The Work in Progress. I saw this film at the
> New York Film Festival last year, about two months before the general
> opening. It includes the complete soundtrack, and a mix of finished
> animation, rough animation, and drawings. I don't remember the percentage
> mix, but i would conservatively estimate that about 50% of the film was
> completed animation. The final coloring was incomplete throughout the
> film. So while much of the film seemed to be totally complete, we were
> warned that most of the coloring was unsatisfactory and that we shouldn't
> worry, it will all be redone for the real release.
> 
> So what does this all mean? Several things:
> 
> 1) if you order this disc, be prepared for a real "work in progress",
>    while quite interesting from a animation development, i doubt children
>    will enjoy it.
> 2) the real laser disc release of BatB will probably not happen until late
>    1993. this is because of disney's paranoia about bootleg tapes mastered
> from
>    disc. (IMHO, this is ridiculous, especially with cheap authentic tapes
>    available at your local retailers).
> 
> [other stuff deleted]


According to my friendly laser disk dealer, this message is full of errors.
Beauty and the Beast will be released WITH the "making of" stuff included. The
CAV version will be 4 sides, and since the movie is less than 90 minutes, there
is plenty of room for all the extra goodies.
From: casey@auspex.Auspex.COM (Casey Cox)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Looking for Little Mermaid LaserDisc
Date: 11 Sep 92 00:37:44 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Inc. Santa Clara, CA
Originator: casey@auspex

You're reading a post from a desperate guy seeking to buy Disney's
Little Mermaid Laserdisc. As you know, it's long out of print, but
my hope is that someone out there knows of a mail order place
that might still have it.

Thanks!

-- 
Casey Cox
Auspex Systems, 2952 Bunker Hill Lane, Santa Clara, CA 95054  
(408) 492-0900  FAX (408) 492-0909  
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From: shawn@monitor.com
Subject: Re: Blade Runner Director's Cut
Reply-To: shawn@monitor.com
Organization: Monitor Company / IE
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 16:25:09 GMT

FYI:

BladeRunner, Directors Cut will be playing in Boston on 
Monday September 14th at the Boston Film Festival.

Shawn Broderick
shawn@monitor.com

William R. Cruce writes
>This evening I was in a theatre run by General Cinema.  There was
>a 'coming attraction' poster for 'Blade Runner Director's Cut'
>[Standard BR poster - Dekker holding gun, Rachel holding cigarette,
>floating over towers of the city - except the words 'DIRECTOR'S CUT'
>appeared across the top].  I asked a ticket agent 'When?' and she
>said they don't have a release date yet.
>
>BTW this theatre was in Akron, Ohio.  If they're sending those posters
>out to the heartland, it must be real :-).
>
>-- 
>                 "So many windows, So little time"
>
>Bill Cruce, N.E. Ohio Univ. Coll. of Medicine, Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272
>VOICE: 216-325-2511,  FAX: 216-325-0522,  INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu
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From: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu (William R. Cruce)
Subject: Re: LBX Forbidden Planet on TNT
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:11:32 GMT

In article <1992Sep11.120650.21418@tc.cornell.edu> chrisp@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Chris Pelkie) writes:
>
>Actually, they (TNT) have done a couple LBX broadcasts, as has AMC, but
>what is really annoying is that unless you catch their on-air ads, you'd never
>know from the TV listings (in our local paper). Plus, at least one widescreen film (I think 7 Brides)
>has been shown both cropped and LBX'ed on the same channel (different times, of course)
>so you really have to pay attention. And now they have their "summer edition" ads
...
>I keep meaning to write to AMC to ask that at least they could mention a widescreen
>broadcast in their own monthly magazine! (They don't currently).

Oh, but they do.  A tiny * next to the time listing.  And that is 
decoded at the beginning where they list the color codes for the
festivals of the month.  The first month when they ran Spartacus in
LBX they did not have this.  I called and complained and I assume
others did too.  They have since added the indicator -but this is
only in their monthly magazine, not the local newspaper listings.

To write them:

	American Movie Classics
	150 Crossways Park West
	Woodbury NY 11797
	1-800-669-1002 (for subscriptions, but they can give you
		the main offices phone no.)

Sorry, I don't have the TNT address or number.  Anyone else?

-- 
                 "So many windows, So little time"

Bill Cruce, N.E. Ohio Univ. Coll. of Medicine, Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272
VOICE: 216-325-2511,  FAX: 216-325-0522,  INTERNET: wlrc@uhura.neoucom.edu
From: Mike_Quigley@mindlink.bc.ca (Mike Quigley)
Newsgroups: rec.video.releases
Subject: Let's Get Paranoid!
Date: 11 Sep 92 17:53:20 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
Distribution: world

I recently received a fax from a friend of an article taken from "Laser News"
which gives a glowing report about the new Warner Brothers LD pressing plant,
which, as we all know, has produced a disturbing number of defective disks. At
the end of this article, most of which is very humorous in light of these
problems, there is a list of LDs which were manufactured at the new plant.
These include:

Altered States (Digital Remaster), April in Paris, Arthur (DR), Billy Jack,
Blazing Saddles (DR), Bonnie and Clyde, Curly Sue, Days of Wine & Roses, Dead
Ringer, Doc Hollywood, Finian's Rainbow, Freebie and the Bean, Freejack, Gypsy,
Horror of Dracula, Jane Fonda's Complete Workout, Jane Fonda's Lean Routine,
Jane Fonda Lower Body Solution, JFK, Jim Thorpe--All American, The Killing
Fields, The Last Boy Scout, Lost in America, Lucky Me, Lullaby of Broadway,
Manhunter, Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima, The Mummy, Nun's Story, Other
People's Money, Out for Justice, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Prisoner
of Second Avenue, Rover Dangerfield, Sharkey's Machine, Showdown in Little
Tokyo, Sincerely Yours, Splendor in the Grass, Stage Fright, Tall Story, Tea
for Two, Them, Tiny Toons: Summer Vacation, Trouble Along the Way, Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf, The Winning Team, Woodstock: The Lost Performances, The
World According to Garp, The Yakuza.

Buyer beware!

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From: dev2@inform.co.nz (Michael Seales)
Subject: Advice on LD Player Purchase Please
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 21:21:37 GMT
Organization: InForm Group Ltd.

I definitely want to buy a LD player but don't know what to buy. Here in New Zealand, unlike everything else, Laser Disks have been a little slow taking off and not many shops are stocking players yet. Therefore, I need to make an informed choice of what to purchase based on the odd pamphlet and YOUR advice!

Here we have PAL system video's and TV, but I would probably be mail-ordering disks from the USA and so want a player that will to PAL and NTSC. I have a VIT Sony Trinitron Tube so I can watch both quite happily.

So far the best player I can find is the Sony MDP-533D. The only features it doesn't seem to have are still/frame-by-frame/speed-play for CLV and CDV and can't change sides automatically. Would I miss these features?

Can anyone suggest players of any brand that I can attempt to purchase here?
What are there specs? Do you have one? Reliable? Features you do/don't like?
I also want to be able to play the heap of CD's I already own (because my current CD player isn't owned by me!).

Also, is there a set of FAQ from this or other newsgroups about LD's? If so, could someone please mail it to me, I don't have FTP access, only News and Email.

Thanks people!

Mike.

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