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When will Criterion move its collection to HD?

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Victor Khomenko

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In Reply to: Re: That has tradition--- posted by patrickU on March 1, 2006 at 01:57:20:

I also often wondered... what caused so many to fall in love with that atrocious diva scene? Good music? Lack of exposure to classical opera?
It sounds to me one could get any number of Franco Zeffirelli opera films and get the REAL thing... "Callas Forever"... Don Carlo... Otello... Pagliacci... La Traviata... this is just scratching the surface.

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Re: When will Criterion move its collection to HD? - patrickU 06:34:42 03/01/06 (4)
This pure half way synthetic voice makes me shivering, a kind of anti climax down my spine...
And worse, it was on all Hi-fi shows for years in Germany...
And much " boum-boum ". And what a bad playing.
A nightmare.
A living one.
When you compare it( can we ) to " Blade runner " there is such a difference!
- It was the same horror story here in the US - Victor Khomenko 06:43:26 03/01/06 (3)
  Sometimes I wonder... what is all that flock mentality?
  About ten years ago you could not walk through the Hi-Fi show without hearing Spanish Harlem play in every room. Five years ago it was that dumb diva everywhere.
  I recall how, years ago, in the middle of that that crap I stumbled over the Shun Mook room, and there the monk was playing Mozart's 17th piano concerto - one of my favorites... I can't express how grateful I was for those minutes of refuge...
  And if that makes me not a videophile... or audiophile, for that matter, then so be it!
  - Re: It was the same horror story here in the US - patrickU 06:53:02 03/01/06 (2)
    It was the celebration of "video meets pseudo Hi-Fi ".
    Spanish Harlem was cool when compared to that crap! At least it was some kind of moderate...
    Like jazz at the Pawshop another anti-musical anti-climax...
    Refuge? That is in truth the right word.
    Like escaping....Ha-ha!
    - Right about the Harlem - there was soul to it... the first ten times you heard it - Victor Khomenko 07:01:03 03/01/06 (1)
      Too bad the industry had to kill its delicate soul.
      Years ago one reviewer said about "audiophile" recordings something like "good recordings of something I don't want to hear"... so true.
      And now we are going through the same with all that HD DVD hoopla...
      - Re: Right about the Harlem - there was soul to it... the first ten times you heard it - patrickU 07:06:30 03/01/06 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Right about the Harlem - there was soul to it... the first ten times you heard it posted by Victor Khomenko on March 1, 2006 at 07:01:03:
        
        Last page of the last TAS...Many truths...

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