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…
Read More Movies I watched – April 2009i 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… there are SO FEW films i want to give a five-star rating, but, according to…
Read More MY movies ratingsWhy 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 Wired News: Turn Back the Spam of Time Achaea – Dreams of Divine Lands IRC Roleplaying – Dungeons and Dragons Games Looking for Players…
Read More a few various linksWatching Laserdiscs in the Digital Age great, detailed, new(!!) article by Josh Zyber on dealing with the problems trying to get laserdiscs’ analog video to look good on modern digital monitors… wish we had had this article when we went shopping… in our case (large-ish, much loved laserdisc collection and seven players; less than a…
Read More problems with LaserDiscs and HDTVhttp://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 was broken.
Read More Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living roomWhen DVD Spells B-A-D Some Great Films Suffer in Transition To New Format November 12, 2003 By FRED KAPLAN The New York Times 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…
Read More When DVD Spells B-A-Dafter 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 threadHow 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”?