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The Video File

Joshua Zyber

The Video File is a curated journey, one title at a time, through a huge movie collection that took decades to amass on media formats including Blu-ray, 4K, DVD, Laserdisc, and possibly others. (Streaming gets some viewing time as well.)

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  • Joshua Zyber

    Writer/editor of The Video File Blog. Host of the "Film at 11" podcast. Formerly a writer at High-Def Digest, Home Theater magazine and others. Obsessive collector of movies on physical media, from Laserdisc to DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K.

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