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…
Read More interesting ld vs. dvd a.v.l threadwell, another one down… let’s see, i think that is either five or six in three years… sheesh… it had been making some odd noises for a couple months and refusing to boot once in a while, but, last night, the screensaver kicked on, which meant reading the disc, and i hear a bit of…
Read More my gd-rom drive… went… grievous…seems every time we meet someone that actually has a real interest in movies, it is always horror… usually cheap, sleazy, b-grade horror… we try to be open-minded and go with the idea that maybe there is just something we don’t know and perhaps it is simply a matter of broadening our horizons, so, we…
Read More horror nightok, i am posting this here for my own future reference, i would like to check these out, since i am flirting with the whole mp3 thing… i got this list from here, and he got it from somewhere else, so, i will leave his credit intact, since this is just a c/p anyway… (so,…
Read More mp3 blogsHow 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…
Read More How Film Is Transferred to Videoi 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 widescreen DVDs…
Read More the end of whining about “those black bars”?HoustonChronicle.com – Dallas once again No. 1 big city for crime Associated Press DALLAS – As expected, FBI statistics for 2003 show Dallas has the highest overall crime rate among the country’s largest cities for the sixth year in a row. City and police officials have known since last summer that Dallas was on track…
Read More Dallas once again No. 1 big city for crimehttp://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,63578,00.html damn fascinating… here are some excerpts… The world of massively multiplayer online games is often a dangerous place, what with constant threats from bloodthirsty monsters and murderous non-player characters. But now players have even more peril to contend with: addictive drugs that can incapacitate or kill their characters. The designers of Achaea, one of…
Read More virtual worlds, virtual drugshttp://towelday.org/ the site explains it for all strags out there… and, since it is a classic quote and it partially explains it, here is something from the site… To quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great…
Read More damn, missed towel day againi just have to publically say how much i love the weather here… for something like two weeks now, we have had every window and this huge sliding glass door open from the time we get up to the time we go to bed and, aside from times it gets too windy to have them…
Read More Albuquerque weather rocks!