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#312780
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How much longer will the format war last?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312780/action/topic#312780
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I am with lj on the whole price of the player thing. My cousin always insisted on getting the most expensive brand of everything. He and I were roommates for a while and it seemed like his Sony disk would spit out a large number of burnt discs as well as some original DVDs that were badly scratched. Amazingly, my $19.99 Apex DVD player could play just about every disk his couldn't. Doesn't seem like cheaper should be better. In all fairness this particular Apex, while still alive, can hardly read anything without skipping anymore. Now I have a $40 Philips player, and it is the best I have owned, plays just about anything, even PAL discs and divx files.

Hopefully Sony's plot for high prices will fall through. When I finally buy a Blu-ray player, I do not intend to spend more than $60 on it, unless it is a PS3.
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#312777
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312777/action/topic#312777
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Yeah, I can't say those things don't bother me. I always roll my eyes at those moments. And yeah, the whole "sometimes they go bad" thing was lame too, unless they explain some logical reason why this happens some time later in the show (like a timed auto-reset the machines resort to after they discover their soldiers are being reprogrammed and used against them) it would have been left out.

The whole head flying through the time bubble, Cromarties high tech futuristic endoskeleton managing to remain undiscoverd for so long and then functioning without a head was a horrible idea. We discover that there are at least two other T-888s there at the same time as Cromartie (I also hate that he has a name), why couldn't they have just replaced him with a fourth T-888? That way Cromarties body could have once again been used for research like in T2. Also they could have saved theirselves a lot of dumb plot wholes by giving these guys liquid metal skin for shape shifting. Then instead of the Terminator being married, he could have just assumed the woman's husbands identity. Same thing for Cromartie and the FBI/actor disguise. The whole idea of forcing a guy to do cosmetic surgery on you and then leaving without any bandanges is insane. Even if for the sake of keeping the budget low every liquid metal skin change had to be done off screen, it would have saved the show from alot of its problems.
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#312774
Topic
LOST
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312774/action/topic#312774
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Last episode just bugged me. All the flashbacks and the stuff with Locke and Ben was good, but...



SPOILERS



the whole stupid plot with Charlotte and Daniel was just ridiculouse. Here there is this group of people that don't completely trust them, but are leaning toward thinking they alright, so what do you do? Sneak off into the woods when their backs are turned and act overly suspicious. Then when one of then discovers you, you lie to them, knock them out when they turn their back on you in, and leave them bleeding in the jungle. Then in the end it all turns out it was one big misunderstanding and that the plan all along was to disable an island wide chemical weapon in order to prevent the possiblity of the others wiping everybody out with it. What was up with Daniel's "I don't think I can go through with this"? The whole thing was a really dumb fake out. Would have made more sense if they simply said that there is a chemical weapon they need to disable because that creepy Ben guy was psychotic enough that he might actually use it.
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#312713
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312713/action/topic#312713
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Originally posted by: deespence2929
No excuse for this show to have those problems tho, it already had a intersting back story to develop from.

So did Stargate.


Originally posted by: Johnny Ringo
River never bothered me, she seems to be good at the role of being creepy and beating people up, I think she makes a decent enough Terminator.
I think you mean Summer.


I know the actresses real name, I was referencing her character from Firefly because of the being creepy and beating people up thing. But I guess that could get confusing for any one who has not seen Firefly.


we make John a total looser and druggy who carries a paintball gun around with him... ugh!

Did you even watch the movie? He broke into the vet clinic for bandages and pain killers after his motorcycle accident. If he'd gone to a hospital there would be records of his location and identification. I guess that's also the reason he didn't have a real gun.


Yeah, I have seen the movie but it has been a while, guess I forgot about the crash. I think he was carrying a real gun though, but he had it loaded with paint bullets instead of real ones. It is very easy to get a real gun whilst remaining under the radar.

I just didn't think his character in T3 seemed like the kind of guy who would one day become a great leader, I really didn't like his portrayal in that at all. Plenty of other things about that movie sucked too.
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#312669
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Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312669/action/topic#312669
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It is a fairly low budget TV show based off two very popular movies, you can not expect it to live up to T1 and T2. At first I had a hard time with Sarah, the actress just didn't feel like she fit, but she kind of grew on me. Again, it is a TV show, of course they are not going to have the same actors, you kind of have to kind of take it as its own without comparing everything to the films. River never bothered me, she seems to be good at the role of being creepy and beating people up, I think she makes a decent enough Terminator. And John, for the first time is a likable character you can see growing up to be the guy he becomes. In T2 he was just an obnoxious ten year old kid, it is believeable enough that five years later and after having his mom back in his life that he mellows out. I have always hated his portrayal in T3! Now that was horrible miscast! Sarah was the more interesting character of the series at the time, but we kill her off with cancer, we make John a total looser and druggy who carries a paintball gun around with him... ugh! I also always like the "no fate but the fate you make youself" theme of the first two, and of course in the third movie they tossed that out and go with the idea that you can't change the future and no matter what you do judgment day will always happen. I like that the show is back to the "no fate but..." theme.

There are plenty of dumb things about this show, but that is pretty true with any TV show. The whole idea of a T-888 being able to contain a marriage for years and have a functioning social life felt far fetched to me. Maybe if they had had the Terminator have a conversation with his wife it might have felt more natural, but the only thing we ever here him say to her are one liners, "that's not a good idea" "just finish it", also when we see the Terminator before he gets killed, he acts very Terminator like. I just have a hard time swallowing that episode. I really liked the very last episode though.

As with all new shows, they usually take a little while to find their groove, and unfortunately T:SCC was cut four episodes short by the writers strike. It took until about the fifth episode for this thing to start getting decent to me, the first four episodes just didn't have much going for them. Hopefully if we get a second season then we will really see this take off.
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#312575
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Why do PT defenders and such keep claiming the OT was badly written as well ?!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312575/action/topic#312575
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Originally posted by: Puggo - Jar Jar's "Yoda"

"flyboy" reminds me of "ex-squeeze-me"


Really? I don't see the connection.

I guess we don't really use the term "flyboy" anymore, but at the time it was an appropriate word for a pilot like Han. It may be dated, but I don't really find anything urking about the line.

"Ex-squeeze-me" on the other hand, besides being a really urking drive-spikes-into-my-ears painful line spoken in an annoying way by an awful character, the term itself is a 90s pop culture reference from Wayne's World. After hearing Jar-Jar Say Ex-squeese-me I half expected Anakin to be ask Padme "Do I make you horny baby?" and for Yoda to start screaming some nonsense about a van down by the river.

But sure, not everyline in the OT was pure poetry, but even Shakespeare's work suffers from less than perfect dialogue at times (we just don't notice it because we are taught that Shakespeare is the definition of perfect writing).
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#312485
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312485/action/topic#312485
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Finally got a chance to sit down and take a look at this thing. Sometimes it is almost a surreal experience watching this thing, you are watching an old movie you have seen a million times before and suddenly a stunning visual that you are not used to pops up on the screen.

This thing is really fun to watch. Even the so called "video game cutscene" TIE Fighters are really amazing looking. I feel like they look a lot better than most CG I see on the big screen these days. As I have said before, this will never replace my 1977 version, but man is this thing a cool alternative version.
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#312427
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New Indiana Jones DVD's - No Blu-Ray
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312427/action/topic#312427
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I don't cater to double dipping. If I own it I own it and I am done. Kind of dumb that this is being released in a rapidly dying format. Kind of shows this to be exactly what it is, a quick rush job of a chance to sell more discs in the hype of the movie. Had this really had some care and planning behind it they would have remastered them for Blu-ray. But then again they know the Blu-rays will sale regardless of a new IJ movie in the theater or not, so in the long run they make more money this way.
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#312419
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Seinfeld
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312419/action/topic#312419
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Originally posted by: Davis
In my opinion, the funniest show ever made. Pure comic genius. It was great when it first aired, but it just gets better and better with age when you compare it to sitcoms now.

But most people I talk with now don't seem to care for it. Any fans here at OT? Favorite episodes? I love "The Jimmy", "The Opposite", "The Junior Mint", "The Implant"... there are just so many great ones. Almost every episode is classic, IMO...


I am by no means a fan of sitcoms. I pretty much hate them. Can't stand that canned laughter (or the laughter from the live audience), really grates on my nerves. Seinfeld is one of the few sitcoms I will ever watch. One of the best shows ever IMHO. It is a classic. It really doesn't get old to me. It is also very easy to relate to sometimes, many of the situations are situations you have possibly been in yourself in a less hyperbolic extent (parking garage, laughing in the middle of a concert, etc.)
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#312417
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US Soldier Throws Puppy Off Cliff!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312417/action/topic#312417
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I cold bloodedly killed a turkey a couple of months ago. I beheaded the sucker and then cut the ends of its wings off. Does this put me in an ill state of mind with the need for mental help? Just curious. I have no regrets about it either. That turkey tasted pretty good, I am sure it wont be the last one I kill.

Okay, I agree that it is quite a bit different than killing a dog just for kicks. The video does display animal cruelty and as is proven by many FF threads, some people are in positions where the expectations are much greater than others. When a few Marines do something dumb like this, it reflects badly on the whole.

I agree with tiptup, the worse part of this is how it reflects on the Marine Corps., not that the puppy tragically died. Sorry it had to feel pain, but off a cliff like that, I promise by the end of the video it was dead. It was put out of its misery pretty quick. An extremely short time ago in Kenya people were having their heads hacked off with macheties. In many parts of Africa kids are dying because their local water supply is contaminated. There are some pretty tragic things going on in the world today. That Marine and the guys with him were complete asses, but it is kind of silly to condemn him as if he had commited war crimes. Especially if you consider that for the price of your HD-TV, or whatever other expensive non essentials you spend your money on, you could have gone a long way in drilling a new well in Africa and providing a lot of people with clean water. Perhaps I myself should be guilty of commiting mass murder for being so wasteful and taking so many things for granted, while people are dying everyday from things that are very preventable. Kind of off on a tangent there, just mean to reflect on what Tiptup said about there being bigger issues than one more dead puppy in a world where even animal lovers put thousands of puppies to death every year.
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#312346
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US seeks terrorists in Online Games - not a joke!
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312346/action/topic#312346
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We are making it sound like the terrorist just want to play games and that it is rediculous to stop them from it. That is not the point of the article at all.

"Many terror groups indulge in cyber crime to fund their activities
"I think its highly unlikely terrorists would use things like Second Life or World of Warcraft as they do not have the necessary security," said Mr Jones.

"Terrorist use of the internet at the moment relies on password protected forums," he added.

Said Mr Cochran: "All of the major terrorist treatises have been distributed through the internet so taking it to a virtual world with multi-player role games is really an easy step."

It was inevitable that terror groups would make greater use of the internet and the possibilities that virtual spaces offered them, said Mr Jones.

"There's more a chance of things like Jihad worlds coming online in the next five years I think," he said.

The visual richness of virtual worlds made them good places to educate recruits about techniques, said Mr Jones.

Attack pattern

"We can see groups emerging in cyber spaces and virtual communities that would be wholly virtual," he said. "They would organise and radicalise in virtual worlds and attack using cyber methods without becoming a real world presence in any real way."

Many groups were likely to use the expertise and skills they learn in virtual worlds to target key net systems.
Ken Silva, chief technology officer for Verisign which oversees some of the net's core address books, said such an attack could be "devastating".

"We see a continuing growth in the amount of horsepower in the attacks that are directed at infrastructure servers," said Mr Silva.


They also mentioned somewhere in there that at the moment they are just simply doing research in case it becomes an issue in the future. It is not like they are literally going into MMORPGs and searching for terrorists. They were also saying that these would be used for planning online attacks and not real world attacks. So it is also not like they are saying terrorists are some how going to blow us up via World of War Craft or Ultima Online. I think everyone is sort of misunderstanding what is being said here.
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#312283
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312283/action/topic#312283
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Originally posted by: Covenant


The only plus with torrents is you can usually find anything you look for. It may take time to get, but it is hard NOT to find something you might need.


I guess I cannot disagree about it being easy to FIND things on torrents, but actually getting them is a whole different matter. I mean, how many dead torrents are there out there? Sure with usenet eventually the files get too old to retrieve and need to be upped again, but at least when they are recent they are easily obtainable. I would even be willing to bet that on avergae files on usenet have a longer shelf life than torrents do. Seems torrents die pretty quick.
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#312261
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312261/action/topic#312261
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Originally posted by: ron2112
If nothing else, the last few pages have reinforced my long-held belief that Usenet is something I'm probably better off not learning about.

Ron Moses



That is too bad. That is exactly the way I feel about torrents. Just a few hours after he finished uploading it and I have a lovely functioning NTSC DVD-5 of Adywan's Star Wars Revisited.
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#312259
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Anyone else here have a love/hate relation with Revenge of the sith ?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312259/action/topic#312259
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Originally posted by: generalfrevious

many in hollywood still consider ROTS to be the next masterpiece and well-crafted, which it is not.


I am not sure if anyone in Hollywood considers ROTS a masterpiece. I would need to see some evidence to believe it, and I imagine even then I would feel a bit stunned. I am pretty sure the only people touting this film as a masterpiece are LFL employees and extreme fans of the prequels. Hollywood pumps out a lot of really crappy films every year, but I am pretty sure even the makers of these crappy films see ROTS as a joke of a film.
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#312182
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STAR WARS: EP IV 2004 <strong>REVISITED</strong> ADYWAN *<em>1080p HD VERSION NOW IN PRODUCTION</em>
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/312182/action/topic#312182
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Originally posted by: adywan
Something happened with giganews when i was uploading last night and wouldn't let me connect for about half an hour. this caused some files to be incomplete. but there are only 7 incomplete files with the proper PAL & 8 with the NTSC. I will be posting plenty of PAR2 that will fix the incomplete ones.

Don't you just hate it when one thing after another goes wrong? Anyway, thanks for enduring through this hassle of uploading and reuploading. I'm looking forward to those par2s.


Originally posted by: starwarsfan8376
(for those of you in Rio Linda...


LoL

I think we can all agree that DVD-5 is far superior to xvid quality wise, but xvid is really an amazing achievement for the amount of quality being packed into such a small file. They are very portable and easy to store. There are any number of reasons why somebody might want a movie in that format. You could keep an entire movie library on your laptop and take it with you on a boring business trip, give you something to watch on the plane and in the hotel in the evening. You can also load them onto portable devices. If you have an R4 for you Nintendo DS you could even watch xvid on that. Many other portable devices are able to play them aswell. So they are very practical. But like Dark_Jedi said, they are very easy to make on your own. Just throw it into autoGordian Knot (a freeware program) for a few hours.