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 2009Star Wars: Episode IV | This September: Original Unaltered Trilogy on DVD when lucas said he never would, i believed him and patted my laserdisc box set, swearing it would be the only way you would ever see the theatrical cuts (uh, vhs doesn’t count!)… yet, from the announcement on starwars.com: “In response to overwhelming…
Read More hell has frozen over?The true cost of free iPods – Engadget Boing Boing: Lucas put malicious Xbox trojan on Star Wars DVD Star Wars DVD Grosses $115M Google Search: star wars holiday special [not only do i remember the fam rushing home so my brother and i could watch this over 25 years ago, i have always rather…
Read More links – couple of star wars dvd bits, a few variousWaxy.org: Links Miniblog Pioneer CLD-D704 notorious for streaking problems???(!!) Bartender Magazine Webtender.com – “In My Bar” – “Tell The Webtender what you have in your bar, and get a list of all the drinks you can make.” Earth and Moon Viewer: Expert Request the following links come from my LiveJournal Friends page, which i use…
Read More links – a few various, a few from site feeds, and a .namefirst, the various… Ender’s Game “Intruder Signal” on 40 Meters Remains a Mystery for Now Creepy crawly blanket apod: Above the Eye of Hurricane Ivan me with my LaserDisc evangelist hat on karl sent me these months ago… yes, i am just now getting to them… MetaSpy OpenDiary.com Web FTP Client Version3.5.0 Phone Phreaking Trips…
Read More links – various, from karl, from SOTD, for familyWatching 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 HDTVwell, since we no longer have the amazing laserdisc market in dfw to go and hunt down new treasures, i have finally gotten around to putting our LDDb.com wishlist to use… the lddb (laserdisc database) is truly well on its way to being the definitive source for ld info and we have had our collection…
Read More our laserdisc wishlistWhen 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-Dtoday, we finally got our Close Encounters of the Third Kind – Collector’s Edition LaserDisc Box Set! it is a gorgeous set, great high-res cover, three discs, the film on three sides, and three sides of extras… in fact, the documentary runs 140 minutes and the movie is just 137… this is the laserdisc upon…
Read More our CE3K collection is complete!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 thread