I visited the HMV store in The Hague. Haven't seen this much physical media outside my home in a long time. Grabbed Lifeforce 4K UHD Limited Edition for €26.99 (€29.99 on price tag).

I've uploaded my Macross DYRL Japanese VHS/LD audio captures to the Internet Archive. Also includes tracks synced to 2007 DVD & 2025 UHD. The synced Home Video Stereo track is redone and improved over the previous uploads to nyaa. archive.org/details/macr...

CDJapan has updated the VAT payment information page with information about the EU €3 customs duty. www.cdjapan.co.jp/guide/help/p... Apparently they were not well informed, because the declarant (the IOSS holder) incurs the customs debt. I think they're in for an unpleasant surprise.

Bullet in the Head (1990) UHD Mono

Arrow Video Jackie Chan's Breakout Hits 4K UHD box with crushed corner. :( I contacted Arrow's Customer Service, but I'm not expecting them to be of much help. Probably a small refund at most. Switching over to iMusic for boxset pre-orders.

ODDTAXI Premium Box Blu-ray and Bullet in the Head 4K UHD. Arrow unfortunately shipped Bullet in the Head in a flimsy unprotected envelope, so some ink on the backside of the O-ring has rubbed off.

Heavy Metal L-Gaim - JPN BD vs USA BD Episode 1: slow.pics/c/lxWHo1ZV Episode 7: slow.pics/c/BCfHTNlv USA BD is lowpass filtered as to be expected from Sentai (see ringing around pillarbox edges)

Heavy Metal L-Gaim USA BD

Macross 7 4K UHD Box campaign progress March 31 / April 23 / May 25 / June 12 Minimum order goal of 2000 units, deadline June 30

Art-in-progress sneak peek! here's artist Richard Cox working on the cover painting for our 4K UHD release of FRANKENSTEIN: LEGEND OF TERROR! Video courtesy of our own Craig Rogers, who got to meet folks at this year's HeroesCon in Charlotte! #deafcrocodile #bluray #4kuhd #richardcox #wip

Commercial bumper awkwardly removed in a Sky Channel broadcast of The Transformers: Rebirth, Part 2

Fixed in the GKIDS steelbook release that's coming out next week. They didn't fix the single frame with blocks early in the film though. forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.p...

John Wick 4 JPN UHD vs USA/GBR UHD (base layer, too lazy to do FEL now) slow.pics/c/0AKcQt4X JPN UHD uses Dolby Vision MEL.

Some Pioneer BDR-UD03/04 and John Wick 4 Japanese UHD. Have 7 of those cheap used Pioneer slim UHD drives now, but only 2 perform perfectly. The rest struggle with certain BD50 discs, often failing to recognize.

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Reminded of the 1984 amateur animation "Owa Farmer Combine", produced by Akita University's animation studies group. Agricultural punning on Dunbine's name just as relevant today as it was 40+ years ago.

TMNT Party Wagon final production run. Had one when I was young ~30 years ago that is in poor condition now. The re-issue has very soft plastic unfortunately, but it should be much less prone to breakage than the original due to improvements to the design.

Some Blu-rays from MediaOCD store

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I've recaptured The Castle of Cagliostro Dutch dub VHS HiFi and Linear tracks. The new HiFi capture doesn't suffer from dynamic range compression, but even with tracking adjustments it has thousands of clicks that need to be manually repaired. Hoping to be done before Fall.

Received The Killer Disc 3 replacement from Arrow Video. Basic functionality in the extended cut (pausing, forwarding chapter skip, etc.) was disabled in the original pressing.

Speed Racer BD from Shout? 10 discs? 2600 minutes? Mach Go Go Go logo on the cover? It looks like the original Japanese audio may finally be free from the confines of Speed’s hideous, special edition skull gruv.com/collections/...

Some cartoons in The Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision archive have an isolated M&E track: Alfred J. Kwak Boes (Ox Tales) schatkamer.beeldengeluid.nl/serie/210160... schatkamer.beeldengeluid.nl/serie/210160... Many episodes of Purno de Purno schatkamer.beeldengeluid.nl/serie/210160...

The Dutch Institute for Sound and Vision launched an online archive with public broadcasting programs from 1920-2020. This broadcast of Televizier from October 1994 features a report on manga videos: "extremely violent Japanese cartoons" (starts at 00:55).

Bruno J. Growbal

Adobe Illustrator vector graphic file of the English Mobile Suit Gundam SEED logo. The vector was made available as a download a long time ago by Nekotachi Entertainment, distributor of BEEZ DVDs in the Benelux. archive.org/details/logo...

2 unbranded aluminium 9.5mm optical drive enclosures from ebay for my Pioneer Blu-ray drives. Was quite satisfied with one I picked up a few weeks ago. The USB to SATA controller is a JMicron JMS578.

Cleaned up the Macross DYRL Japanese VHS Linear mono track. Didn't need much work.

Kamen Rider Black DVD and BD

Some stuff from Zenmarket and Jin-Roh UHD from CDJapan.

Adjusting the azimuth screw makes all the difference.

BNN's experimental TV Lab special Kamikaze TV with Bible Black episode 1 that aired on the Dutch public broadcasting channel Nederland 3 in 2009. archive.org/details/kami...

Been a while since I last used the VCR because the bedroom makeover took much longer than anticipated. I still need to pinpoint the cause of the crosshatch noise.

Akira (1988) - Music & Effects Track Demonstration (from the L&R of the 2002 Selecta Vision Castilian dub)

Discotek BDs from MediaOCD and Amazon (Bullet Train) Transformers Missing Link Ultra Magnus from Show.Z Store

The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (2024) - GBR BD vs USA BD vs ITA BD slow.pics/c/Sd22I8To GBR BD master is similar to AUS BD btw, but I don't have that on hand.

From Zenmarket: - Transformers Galaxy Force Galaxy Convoy - Transformers Galaxy Force Jackshot (unopened) - Equilibrium Blu-ray rental version (disc is identical to retail version)

I can taste the salt

The broadcast of that Dr. Slump film is somewhere in the attic.

After 4 failed purchases (1 went missing, others unfulfilled), I finally have a Pioneer UHD drive. It's a Chinese "refurb" that has been flashed with the leaked Pioneer crossflasher. It reads my Batman & Robin disc without trouble, whereas my 2 BP55EB40s struggle.