Category: Comic Books

Hooked on Needles

Something I realized rather quickly with CD (and also DVD), is the players are commodities. I have never felt the same personal connection for a disc player the way I always have for my speakers, headphones, receivers, turntables, and phono cartridges. Yes, even phono cartridges.

These are a few of the pickups, as cartridges used to be known, that I remember fondly.

The Pickering V15 came installed on my Garrard 40B turntable, way back in early 1972. Five years later, the Stanton 500 was on the Micro-Trak tonearms of the Russco Cue-Master turntables at the radio station.

The Shure M91ED was purchased to replace the Pickering.

The Audio-Technica AT-13Ea lived on my JVC VL-5 turntable.

Look! Up on the Screen!

Here we go again, waiting for the once-and-for-all best restoration of the Fleischer Superman cartoons.

https://gizmodo.com/superman-fleischer-cartoons-restoration-1851342887

One of the complaints with the Blu-ray set released last year was about inconsistent color, compared to the source material. On the left is supposed to be the correct color of Lois’ suit.

This screen grab from the new restoration shows the original suit color has been retained.

But hold on. Enlarge the right frame, that is supposed to be “wrong” according to some hardcore fans.

Now compare it to this screen grab from the restoration. It looks terrible, even taking the low-res quality into account.

Being a Patreon-funded project, I have to assume the source materials aren’t the raw high-resolution film scans that were used for the Blu-ray set. The Warner Archive team needs to be given the opportunity to work with those original scans.