[Videolib] Fwd: REMINDER: Join the Artstor Twitter Chat today at 1 PM: Teaching Visual Literacy

2016-02-09 Thread Randal Baier
This possibly might interest anybody --- inside a small circle of friends. I'm tempted to start a twitter chat to stop the war in Syria. Let's see -- with the time shift, let's say start at 3pm EST? -- PEACE! in our time by 9? Details at 11? Be among the 140 -- activate your power.

[Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-09 Thread Patricia Ruocco
I am looking into purchasing the movie "Black Sabbath" with Boris Karloff for our public library's DVD collection. Midwest Tape lists two versions: one that just says DVD, and a newer one that is a DVD-R. My inclination is to get the DVD, but it is fullscreen where the DVD-R is widescreen. We

Re: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-09 Thread Dennis Doros
The American expert on Mario Bava is Tim Lucas of Video Watchdog. He would have a good opinion on this. His email is pr...@videowatchdog.com Looking at the information, the Arrow Blu-ray version from England seems to be the best, but that might be region-blocked (though I doubt it) and you're

Re: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-09 Thread Bergman, Barbara J
In the case of old films like this, you should be looking at which seems to be a legit vendor (Kino Lorber) vs sketchy (Cheezy. Seriously, that's who's listed as distributor for one listing in Amazon). Barb Bergman | Media Services & Interlibrary Loan Librarian | Minnesota State University,

Re: [Videolib] Best DVD format for Home viewing

2016-02-09 Thread Jessica Rosner
There is a widescreen regular DVD out there from Kino so you might check with Midwest tape as I know they buy from them Jessica On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Patricia Ruocco wrote: > I am looking into purchasing the movie "Black Sabbath" with Boris Karloff > for