Didn’t get a lot of movie time this past month, but, here’s some thoughts on what we did get to see, in reverse chronological order.
Battlestar Galactica
I just wanted to make a few comments on this before I get into the actual movies. Terra and I have watched the pilot mini-series and the first four episodes . . . → Read More: Movies I watched – April 2009
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i was just complaining on twitter a couple weeks ago (one, two) about the netflix rating system being very restrictive… one star = hated it, two = didn’t like, three = liked, four – really liked, and five = loved… Why I hate Microsoft DTS Online – Consumer – Home Theatre – DVD Title Search Chicago Sun-Times – Roger Ebert – Movie Answer Man Museum of Hoaxes – Time Travel Spam Achaea – Dreams of Divine Lands The Morning News – Tricks of the . . . → Read More: a few various links Watching Laserdiscs in the Digital Age in our case (large-ish, much loved laserdisc collection and seven players; less than a hundred DVD’s and . . . → Read More: problems with LaserDiscs and HDTV http://features.engadget.com/entry/1882345133499767/ there is much to agree with in both the article and the comments thread… as an added bonus, there is a great anti-microsoft rant in a user comment… among the highlights: If you told a stranger to Earth what they get away with on the desktop, they’d think their babelfish . . . → Read More: Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living room When DVD Spells B-A-D a great article about things that drive us nuts about the dvd industry/format and why we are not giving up on our laserdisc collection any time soon… for instance, here he adresses a great example of some of the . . . → Read More: When DVD Spells B-A-D after you get past the first few posts, anyway… covers some usual ld vs. dvd stuff, with some dvhs stuff thrown in and even a couple chinese formats… also interesting are some good numbers about compression of audio formats on dvd, superbit dvd, dvhs, and ld, which is a very important point of comparison in home . . . → Read More: interesting ld vs. dvd a.v.l thread How Film Is Transferred to Video i dug this up since it covers the whole original aspect ratio vs. pan&scan thing covered the previous post… some damn good info and pretty much covers all one needs to know, though, as usual, i am not sure it adequetly explains the point of anamorphic video… in a nutshell, your tv only . . . → Read More: How Film Is Transferred to Video i doubt it… this article is much more optimistic than i am, though, i agree that a large part of the battle is educating the cinematically ignorant… Last year, something remarkable happened in the world of cinema. Blockbuster Video, the country’s dominant rental chain, announced that from that point on it officially preferred . . . → Read More: the end of whining about “those black bars”? |
 Christopher aka Zane, aka insidious_plots, aka jesusfreakgeek, aka ABQChristopher Life-long movie lover and LaserDisc collector, computer user since age ten, Bible thumper and Jesus freak, coffee snob and hobbyist barista, learning to cook, seasoned fledgling magician, wannabe photographer, reformed drug addict, disc golfer, Psion 5mx user, PS3/PSP enthusiast (but only a casual gamer), amateur nurse, city guy temporarily stuck in a very small town and rarely stops complaining about it… ya’ know… the usual stuff... 
 
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