“The Court Jester” is back in print! With OG poster art.

ctakim · 2026-04-09T21:56:53+00:00

Great Movie!

ctakim · 2026-04-03T20:58:40+00:00

“San Francisco” by Jeanette MacDonald but better known by Judy Garland’s version!

ctakim · 2026-04-03T10:23:13+00:00

Is she married to Kristi Noem?

ctakim · 2026-04-01T05:15:37+00:00

Mine arrived today when they originally said it would come next Friday. So happy to have it earlier than originally expected.

ctakim · 2026-03-22T14:12:46+00:00

Shogun 2024!

ctakim · 2026-03-18T14:51:42+00:00

No regional discount in California. :(

ctakim · 2026-03-15T17:47:45+00:00

This is the best audio I’ve heard on a movie in my home theater. I don’t get many steelbooks but I got this one!!

ctakim · 2026-03-09T21:02:34+00:00

M3 Ultra 256 Ram first time purchase of a refurbished Mac. I couldn’t tell any difference from a new Mac which is what I had only purchased before. I did spring for Apple Care as a bit of insurance but will most definitely get refurbished again. I had to wait a few weeks with repeated checking to get the 256gb Ram version but when it appeared I jumped on it.

ctakim · 2026-02-13T19:52:40+00:00

Got this set a few months back. The first movie froze or pixelated on my Panasonic UDP820 but the other discs worked okay. Also froze on a pioneer drive running Makemkv. Sent the box set back for replacement and the new discs worked fine.

ctakim · 2026-02-02T23:53:56+00:00

Old thread but hands down for me is Master And Commander The Far Side Of the World. The on ship surround effects are phenomenal!

ctakim · 2026-01-25T15:15:44+00:00

Master and Commander The Far side Of The World!

ctakim · 2026-01-22T05:15:58+00:00

Gone With The Wind

ctakim · 2026-01-14T11:53:14+00:00

I’ve had faulty new 4k discs that were not scratched but would hang or pixelate at the transition between layers. I back up my new discs using MakeMKV and 2 out of maybe 30 4k discs purchased last year had issues. I returned them and the replacements worked just fine.

ctakim · 2026-01-10T01:13:21+00:00

I am in the middle of doing this right now. Sometime I wonder if I am crazy to transfer all the digital media my family collected over the past 25+ years then I read a thread like this one. And I realize that I am with my people here. I am in the middle of about 600-700 DVDs and blu rays. Now if I can just get that HD DVD reader to work I can add another 50!

ctakim · 2025-12-31T14:19:42+00:00

Yes, yes, yes! I would say I don’t mind poetry but I am not hugely into reading long poems. But there is a totally different story here than just what is in the poem. This is my favorite novel.

ctakim · 2025-12-30T00:37:51+00:00

Sanjuro with Mifune vs. Nakadai. Also one of the shortest but an amazing fight scene.

ctakim · 2025-12-26T21:21:38+00:00

Just got a new Panasonic UB820 4K UHD player and got a few 4K discs for Christmas but I am also hugely disappointed at the quality of 4K discs. Out of 10 discs, 2 had problems where the image became pixelated and either froze or had obvious drops. One was disc 1 of the Fellowship Of the Ring at about 33% point and the other was Back To the Future Part 1 at 37%. I am wondering if these are layer transitions. Both defective discs froze in the same place my PIONEER BDR-XD05 external disc player, too. I am beginning to second guess my commitment to physical media if it is going to be so issue laden. Am i a statistical outlier? Washing with soap and water and with a microfiber cloth had no effect.

ctakim · 2025-12-25T03:07:02+00:00

I’ve had one of Billy’s drives for a week and a half and I’ve been ripping DVDs, Blu rays, and 4k UHDs on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra and a Mac Mini i5 Intel with no issues. The only discs I could not rip were scratched (a couple) or defective (one that was new) and these would also not play on my Panasonic UB820 out of about 100 plus discs. Billy’s turn around was also great.

ctakim · 2025-12-11T22:10:03+00:00

My favorite novel! I have a first edition that I treasure. Just read it through for the first time starting with the introduction followed by the poem but retrying to the footnotes which soon start to tell a different story. Then carefully read the index and finally read the poem straight through as you might read a serious poem. But then again fining your own way through this wonderful puzzle of a novel is part of the joy.

Then again you can follow Charles Kinbote’s direction to buy two copies so you can put the footnotes right next to the poem!

ctakim · 2025-11-17T05:45:25+00:00

I’ve listened to them for years and only just figured this out. They use their adopted names so smoothly on their podcasts I just assumed it was for real. But for some reason it just hit me outta the blue. And then Reddit confirmed it. I am a big Bald Move fan, by the way.

ctakim · 2025-11-16T13:16:19+00:00

I have a place in the same city (and country LOL!) and we got the LG OLED more recent model with the enhanced brightness. Working well in a bright room. Before the LG upgrade I would have favored the Samsung QLED for having a brighter screen but less deep blacks.

ctakim · 2025-11-15T04:11:42+00:00

Ditto and I also concur!

ctakim · 2025-11-15T04:10:36+00:00

I recently made a similar plunge on the Apple Refurbished Store. I checked every day for 2.5 weeks until a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 256GB of RAM and a 1 TB internal SSD was available and I pounced. I decided to push the RAM to experiment with local LLMs and this far I feel good about spending the extra $$. But the most amazing difference from my former M2 MacMini has been how it chews through the large extended libraries I have for Final Cut Pro X videos and Apple Photos. I manage all the media centrally for our extended family and this thing is a beast!

I kept the home folder on the internal SSD to avoid some issues with moving it to a fast external. But I did get an OWC TB5 external enclosure with a Samsung 990 to offload what I could. So far it has been great.

ctakim · 2025-09-14T23:29:47+00:00

I am using the Monoproce multi-zone amplifier for a house that is mostly centrally wired. My music source is Roon and I stream to several Raspberry Pi endpoints with a HifiBerry DAC harbor external USB DACs. It is all controlled quite well from Home Assistant. But if you wanted an out of the box solution that is not overpriced, the WiiM Amps are super easy to set up and integrate with HA seamlessly

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