@SilverWook: Haven’t heard of them, but I shall check it out almost immediately! Nothing worse than a huge batch of software with nothing to play it on. I have at least 4 or 5 players in deperate need of cleaning and alignment.(Pioneer … I hate you!). Thanks for the tip!
Brand new to the group. Interesting … I own the MATRIX LD in question (plus about 5000+ others LDs). and I never quite understood the fascination with that particular disc, although I knew it was a limited pressing. I never bought the Pioneer RF Convertor for my CLD-704, so I can’t really attest to it’s sound quality, though it sounds great without the added equipment. My (3) CLD-704s are mothballed currently, as I haven’t found a competent repair facility, but I’ll give it a whirl tonight on my DVL-909.
PS. Never heard of the “open-mat” HK version, though. I’m kind of a “my cold dead hands” type, so please don’t ask … sorry. I won’t part with any piece of my collection. In hindsight, I wish I had bought a spare.
Greetings …
I happened across one of this group’s fan-edits a few weeks (THE ABYSS) and thoroughly enjoyed it. I always felt it was one Cameron’s overlooked films, and it was the cleanest extended editions I’ve seen so far. I’ve been a film nut for decades, pre-VHS days, and the thought of owning an actual film I loved was completely intoxication … though, at the time, I had no idea it was the death-knell of I the small theaters I frequented in the 70’s. Over the decades, I’ve amassed quite a collection of films on multiple formats (CED,LD,DVD, BluRay … then evenentually, digital downloads … with the occasional VHS thrown in if it’s one-of-a-kind, as I never really embraced the format as I dislike pan-and-scan with a passion).
I pretty much “old-school”, so I haven’t a big fan of 4K,as I think most presentations are very un-filmlike. So here I am, hoping to read about the projects. Not a huge Star Wars fan, so I’ll probably be digging around the alternate project more. BTW,I haven’t watched it ages as my play needs another stylus, but I recall the original CED of Star Wars didn’t have the “New Hope” in the opening. Just to make “peace” with any fanatics, I did see Star Wars on a huge screen about 2 months after it’s release in theaters back in '76 … I went back about 12 times following that (but honestly … I was very high during the 70’s). Still prefer ZARDOZ.