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#146630
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The Things We Hate And Love Thread .
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Originally posted by: Darth Chaltab
Best. Week. Ever. = possibly the Worst. Show. Ever.

i can sort of almost tolerate that show. it's not the worst thing i've ever seen, though i much prefer The Daily Show, The Soup, and David Spade's Showbiz Show (i think that's what it's called?), as far as celebrity/popculture mockery goes. the VH1 (Best Week Ever) approach is pretty dimwitted in comparison to those others. it can get tiresome though, the whole pop-kitsch satire fad.

personally i find VH1's "I Love The 70s/80s/90s" (essentially Best Week Ever with a nostalgia focus) and The Family Guy to be the worst of the trend. 'cause, rather than picking apart things that are genuinely absurd and relevant to the current moment, they seem to reckon that the mere mention of something old is synonymous with comedy. "hey! remember spandex and Voltron? LOL!" yeah, and what about it?
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#146616
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Blu-Ray Attacks Microsoft, Microsoft Bites Back
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146616/action/topic#146616
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Originally posted by: Jay
There will be no "licensing" of the technology to other manufacturers.

???

http://www.blu-raydisc.info/licensee_list/licensee_list.htm

whether blu-ray is a sony format... that's nearly a matter of semantics? granted, it isn't purely a product of sony's research & development, philips is heavily involved in the development too, and they've allowed others to take what basically amounts to advisory roles, but the development and marketing of the blu-ray video format is primarily driven and led by sony. if i were to say "it's a sony/philips format," would that be more diplomatic?

i'd suggest that licensing is not only a factor but possibly the main factor. they're not just pushing blu-ray in the interest of scientific progress, just 'cause it's such a clearly superior technology, but because sony and philips want to receive a much better portion of the licensing fees than they would have gotten if they'd collaborated with toshiba on hd-dvd.
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#146521
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Kick-ass horror movies
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146521/action/topic#146521
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Originally posted by: Jay
Romero's Living Dead movies (haven't seen Land of the Dead yet)

Land Of The Dead is okay... pretty good, even. but really not very ambitious at all, plot-wise. the fun of the Living Dead series for me was that they were always genuinely scary & claustrophobic and they had fairly clever & challenging philosophical overtones to 'em at the same time. Land Of The Dead just doesn't have anything terribly interesting to say, beyond what's already been said by the previous Living Dead movies. i was hoping for something a bit more fresh and original. it's still pretty entertaining, though, despite feeling like a re-hash.
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#146517
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TiVo/DVR
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146517/action/topic#146517
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i'm not a big fan of "reality" shows. enjoyed Anna Nicole, I'm With Busey, had mixed feelings about Wanda Does It... that's about it. but i do recommend the latest season of The Surreal Life... Janice Dickenson is such a car-wreck-in-slow-motion. they had the cast play a bowling match against a mentally handicapped bowling team, and Janice actually mocks the retards! "ooh, bring it on, Rain Man!" appalling. yet funny, too.
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#146516
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Blu-Ray Attacks Microsoft, Microsoft Bites Back
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146516/action/topic#146516
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Originally posted by: zion
According to the specs, both formats will use the same MPEG4 codec, so it really comes down to which one can handle the higher bitrate, which is blu-ray.

okay, yeah. assuming the two formats are released with support for the same codecs, support for the same features of those codecs, the compression software's similar enough... then Blu-Ray should have better video quality. i can't avoid the suspicion, though, that Sony might still get something wrong, either with the product itself or with the marketing strategy. i'd guess their best chance of success is in the possibility that Toshiba surrenders at the last hour and simply cancels the "format war."

or maybe Sony loses in the American market but wins in the European market, as Europe is pretty far behind Japan & the U.S. on the HDTV hardware front so they're not exactly marching out in the streets & calling for high-definition content yet. while in the U.S. there's a considerable number of people who want high-def discs as soon as possible. *shrugs*
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#146223
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Blu-Ray Attacks Microsoft, Microsoft Bites Back
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146223/action/topic#146223
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Originally posted by: segaflipWhat is this coming from? Example?

i should've spent a minute looking up a more appropriate word than "tragic."

what i meant was more along the lines of "serious annoyance."

Betamax example: launched with a one-hour-per-tape recording time.

MiniDisc example: proprietary codec, one-way digital connection between MD and PC (you can make a digital copy of MD data onto a PC, but not the other way around. want to compress music to MD's ATRAC from a different format and digitally transfer to MD?... sorry, real-time analog input only)

HiFD example: 1st version recalled due to widespread defects, 2nd version incompatible with 1st version.

Memory Stick example: um... nothin' wrong with this one (and its many variations), i guess. just expensive. and proprietary. as usual. now with copyright protection.

UMD movie example (just for the sake of repeating myself, hehe): it only plays on one portable device, and on nothing else?
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#146091
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TiVo/DVR
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146091/action/topic#146091
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Originally posted by: JediSage
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Originally posted by: Darth Simon
Bossk (or anyone else that knows), with the just recording the new eps or recording all. Can the Tivo pick up episode title/number so it only records each episode once even if its shown on 2 different stattions

-Darth Simon


Ours is not a brand name TiVo, but it seems to not record episodes that are duplicates of something it recorded say in a two week period (even if you've deleted it). After that it will record the same episode again.


with TiVo, it depends on the complete-ness of the guide info. if the guide contains detailed info for a series, like episode title and description, then TiVo will be able to avoid recording each episode more than once. however, if it's a series that typically does not have a detailed listing in the guide, then TiVo will have problems with it. it shouldn't have any problem with most of the popular weekly series, but if you're interested in recording something like a news broadcast, talkshow, or syndicated series that's shown more than once per day, there's some chance that it will try to record duplicates. you could go into the "to do" list and remove the duplicates from the list, although that might get slightly tiresome.
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#146086
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TiVo/DVR
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146086/action/topic#146086
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Originally posted by: starkillerAlso (and this is the big feature), there is the ability to input a show name, and it will do the programming work related to recording every instance of that show. For example, say you want it to record Seinfeld. It will search the TV listings for every Seinfeld show listed, and automatically set itself to record them.

right. at first glance, TiVo is physically the same as any digital video recorder. saves TV broadcasts as MPEG files, plays MPEG files. simple enough. but what they're actually selling, especially since the recorder itself is sold for so little (or given away, even), is the convenience provided by the interface. the ability to easily search and record things, record multiple episodes of your favorite series (even when they're shown at irregular hours) without having to select each episode individually... and the option to automatically record things which you might never have thought to record, yourself, based on genre/actor/director/etc preferences. the system essentially learns your tastes, by accepting your "i enjoy this show"/"i don't enjoy this show" responses via the remote control. it's a way of sorting through a large selection of channels and finding shows that you actually wish to see.
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#146079
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Blu-Ray Attacks Microsoft, Microsoft Bites Back
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146079/action/topic#146079
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Originally posted by: Number20
The problem with blu-ray is that they have big claims of superiority, such as data storage, but the reality is that they can't actually reach these statements.

the other problem with Blu-Ray is that it's a Sony format. building a Blu-Ray drive into PS3 was a smart business decision ('cause it'll put Blu-Ray players in a lot of homes), but Blu-Ray video still has to follow in the footsteps of a long tradition of Sony creating media formats, shunning the cooperation of other tech developers, either neglecting one feature that consumers end up really clamoring for or simply marketing the product poorly, and losing in spectacular fashion. BetaMax, MiniDisc/ATRAC, HiFD, Memory Stick... all Sony, all marketing failures.

even in 2005, i can't imagine why anyone but the rich & famous would want to buy Sony UMD movies, which can only be played on PSPs. like, you could buy a DVD movie and play it on televisions, portables, desktop & laptop computers, there's prolly a toaster with a built-in DVD player coming soon. or you could spend $20-$30 on a UMD movie, and it plays on PSP... and that's all??? i dunno. seems like yet another incomprehensible marketing strategy on Sony's part.

right now, on paper, yes, Blu-Ray video seems like it should be superior to HD-DVD, even though it seems as if its only real distinguishing feature is their claim of higher storage capacity. but the need for a totally new manufacturing process, and perhaps Sony charging third parties an arm & a leg for the privelege of marketing their own Blu-Ray players & discs, could mean that the platform will just be overall more expensive than HD-DVD and the video quality may not be noticeably better than HD-DVD. it might be better, it might not be better, it depends very much on the quality/efficiency of the encoders that they use... but it's really too early to say, without a side-by-side comparison of the same titles in both formats, isn't it? and then, going by Sony's history, there's a pretty good chance that the format will just have some tragic flaw that we don't know about yet and people will end up thinking "uh, why would i want to buy that? it's so expensive and it's lacking a convenient feature that the other format has."
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#146069
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The Beatles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/146069/action/topic#146069
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fave beatlez albums: rubber soul, revolver, sgt pepper's, magical mystery tour.

predictable, i know, naming basically everything from their "middle" period. i like their earlier stuff too but the albums just aren't as consistently good from start to finish. not too fond of let it be and the white album.

favorite songs... probably a lot of the obvious ones, as well as these: here there and everywhere, for no one, do you want to know a secret, i've just seen a face, baby's in black, i'll follow the sun.

i also love some of george's solo albums. all things must pass is fairly solid, if you just ignore side 6 (of the triple LP version, i mean). and living in the material world is hardly short of amazing.

not really too familiar with ringo's solo material. i reckon his drumming for the beatles gets underrated, as compared to lennon's songwriting or george's guitar playing. sure ringo wasn't the flashiest drummer ever, but then that wasn't the point. he kept a steady beat, and played tastefully & with restraint. a lot of his drum solos were only about 5 or 10 seconds long, at most: da-dum, da-dum, da-dum-dum-dum, then he'd let the rest of the band get back to their business. that's classy.

i can't help but shudder sometimes whenever i see mccartney on tv, though. he strikes me as a bit crass, his continual fighting with yoko, how intent he is on personally controlling the beatles' song catalogue (which was mainly written by lennon, you know?), "paul mccartney's let it be: the special edition remix," the ludicrous price he charges for concert tickets, etc. he just comes across as really unpleasant and egotistical nowadays.
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#138883
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Preserving the...<em>cringe</em>...Star Wars Holiday Special (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138883/action/topic#138883
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Originally posted by: nabziF
Hm I think either you or I am confused. In an earlier post in this thread you said this:
The Star Wars Holiday Special - KCCI - Angrysun Release
Angrysun Release BLAK0016 ....

and on MySpleen you said this:8-11-05 - The Star Wars Holiday Special - KCCI - Angrysun Release BLAK0019
What I meant is, what's the difference between BLAK0016 (mentioned here) and BLAK0019 (mentioned in MySpleen); or was it just a typo?
that'd be a typo.

BLAK0016 is Forgotten Scenes and BLAK0019 is the KCCI Holiday Special, according to the Official Angrysun Release Thread: http://www.originaltrilogy.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=9&threadid=2910
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#138424
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Idea &amp; Info: a Dune Fan Edit thread...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138424/action/topic#138424
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Originally posted by: Doctor M
George Lucas won't stop messing with Star Wars, and yet we can't get David Lynch to go near his flawed Dune movie that has the possibility of repair.


i think the most basic difference between these two cases may be that lynch has never really considered dune to be his film. it has his mark on it, but it belongs to dino & raffaella de laurentiis, who hired him to do a job with the promise of funding & final cut on blue velvet.
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#138404
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Info: Star Wars Executor Boxset VHS (1995)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/138404/action/topic#138404
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Originally posted by: Goose
You're right in that the quality of this stuff is average at best due to the source material- I'm pretty sure that's why these weren't considered for the official DVD release.


maybe it's a bit of that, but i'd suggest it's also on account of lucasfilm's apparent mandate to rewrite its own diaries. they'd prefer to edit the old stuff into newer docs, rather than continue to circulate old promotional materials that contradict G.L.'s more recent statements at practically every turn. :-P
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#134794
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Info: the 2005 E.T. DVD...
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/134794/action/topic#134794
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Originally posted by: SilverWook
There does seem to be a trend going on. I noticed Ridley Scott's Legend is a single disc now too. Just the longer European cut.

actually that's the "director's cut" which was originally created for a test screening but never released commercially till the dvd. the euro cut was only a couple of minutes longer than the u.s. cut. prolly easy to get the director's & euro cut mixed up though, since they both use the jerry goldsmith score (while the u.s. cut is the only one with tangerine dream).

Originally posted by: booahAnd Anchor Bay seems to solely exist to put out multiple, various disc editions of movies. Evil Dead, Supergirl, Halloween, etc.


anchor bay has a very respectable history of restoring & releasing lots of obscure old movies, with great transfer quality (relatively, for such aging films) and bonus features. it's just that a company can't stay afloat on werner herzog & alec guinness box-sets, no matter how good the movies are. those evil dead discs are what's commonly referred to as a "cash cow" -- the evil dead profits pay for the cost of producing the other stuff.