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…
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”?i would just like to call attention to this link, since i get a daily kick out of it… over there on the menu on the left of this page, under “Links”, is a link that says “My LJ Feeds”… this is part of the “Friends Page” features on LiveJournal… for those not familiar with…
Read More My LJ Feeds Linkthat is, the movies we have seen since we entered the world of home theater (or, RE-entered, in my case)… this is another list i was mentioning to someone the other day, so, wanted to post… ok, so, the story is something like this… may 25th, 2002, we got a free dvd player… at this…
Read More 250 or so movies we have seenactually, seen/heard/overheard since we often put on a well-known movie as background noise and did not sit and watch it… also, a couple of these are due to my growing up in something of an in-home daycare, being surrounded by a half dozen kids at all times and sometimes as many as a full dozen,…
Read More Movies i have seen countless times growing up[moved from my LiveJournal] well, here is Premiere.com’s idea of The 100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time (via Fark) though, i found fark’s comments thread about this article to be a much better read, with many more suggestions i agree with than premiere’s… (btw, both fark links above go to the “Avantgo” versions, which…
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