Saturday, February 18, 2023

Review of the Jinhoo LED Projector

There are so many projectors out on the market now, with all sorts of different features and at all different price points. But, if you’re looking for something that produces a bright and colourful picture, supports multiple video signal sources, has a fantastic customer support team to back it up, and won’t break the bank, then I say you can’t go wrong with the Jinhoo M30 LED mini projector

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Sunday, January 1, 2023

Lawrence of Arabia on Laserdisc

As a special Christmas gift, my wife was able to find me a copy of “Lawrence of Arabia” on Laserdisc! This is one of my favorite classic films and I’m so glad to have it in the collection, once again.

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Thursday, December 29, 2022

DIY Movie “Trading Cards”

My project of compiling some of my favorite Cannon produced movies into DVD compilations has been going well (albeit a bit slow). As I’ve been working on these discs, making “Main Menu” screens for the DVD, the idea popped into my noggin’ of making a sort of “trading card” for these, as well.

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Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Printing DVD labels like it’s 1989

Yet another update on my DVD burning project; I wrote a small BASIC program for my C128 to print covers for my DVD cases. Although most of the discs I’m creating will be going into the DVD organizer, some special collections I want to put on the shelf, with our studio produced discs.

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Thursday, December 8, 2022

I resurrect my Sony DVD Player from the ashes

It’s been buried on a shelf for a few years now, being put there ever since the disc loading tray refused to open and close without jamming. But, this evening, I was determined to do what I could to get it functional again. Turns out all this trouble was caused by one tiny little belt.

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Thursday, December 1, 2022

My solution to terrible DVD packaging

I’ve finally found a solution to the terrible packaging you typically find with DVD “boxed sets” of your favorite T.V. shows. My solution was to toss the flimsy, frustrating and space wasting boxes you usually get with DVD boxed sets and replace them with the MegaDisc brand aluminum reinforced optical disc storage trunk, with hanging file storage system.

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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

I hit the 100 LaserDiscs milestone!

It has taken quite a while for me to reach it, but today I finally hit the 100 mark for the number of LaserDiscs in our movie library! I bought my first LaserDisc (which was Beverly Hills Cop 2) back in 1994. It, along with the Pioneer CLD-1091 LD player I purchased at the same time, was the start of my (I guess what you could call) “love affair” with the LaserDisc media format, which has lasted these past twenty eight years.

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