David Blizzard - Vintage Audio - Home Theater - Movie and Music Reviews » HD-DVD http://www.davidblizzard.com Ramblings about vintage audio, home theater, Blu-ray, Hi Def, HD movies and music reviews. Mon, 24 Oct 2011 19:23:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Magnavox BluRay Player Model NB500MG9 http://www.davidblizzard.com/magnavox-nb500mg9/ http://www.davidblizzard.com/magnavox-nb500mg9/#comments Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:06:39 +0000 dblizzard http://www.davidblizzard.com/?p=107 The Magnavox NB500MG9 BluRay player looked like a great deal and things were going good for a month or two. When I upgraded my Netflix account to 3 movies at a time I started getting a lot of Blu-Ray Discs and I started to see that the player had issues. Many times the movie would freeze or jump ahead. I could not rewind or forward to see what I missed so I would unplug the player and start over and it seemed that it would do this at exactly the same spot every time. I would clean the disk, try again and it just would not play. I would have to go upstairs and borrow the kids PS3 to finish watching the movie. The latest failure is the 15th Anniversary Resevoir Dogs on Blu-Ray, no audio or video, period. Fire up the PS3 and no problem.

Reservoir Dogs 15th Anniversary

By the way, Reservoir Dogs Blue-Ray is only $10 at Amazon right now.
]]> http://www.davidblizzard.com/magnavox-nb500mg9/feed/ 0 No Minority Report on Blu-Ray? http://www.davidblizzard.com/minority-report-blu-ray/ http://www.davidblizzard.com/minority-report-blu-ray/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 17:24:24 +0000 dblizzard http://www.davidblizzard.com/?p=24 I was looking for minority report on BluRay or HD-DVD and had no idea it wasn’t available until just now. What a bummer. I can get Rio Bravo on Blu-Ray or Christmas Vacation on HDDVD but not minority Report?
Don’t get me wrong, I like both of those movies but there is no reason for an old grainy western like Rio Bravo to be out on HD before Minority Report and Christmas Vacation has a choice of stereo or mono track on HD. Give me a break Hollywood.

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