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#253149
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What's better...Plasma or LCD?
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Depends what your viewing environment is like and what your preferences are. Both have their benefits.

LCDs are generally brighter and can cope with ambient light more easily because they tend to have non-reflective viewing surfaces. If you'll be doing most of your viewing in the daytime or in a brightly lit room, LCDs are a good option. Also, if Blu-ray or HD-DVD are on your list, it's pretty easy to find 1080p LCDs these days. Newer LCDs have backlights with a wider color spectrum, so they're capable of rendering more accurate colors than the traditional LCD cartoony look.

Plasmas have lower black levels and can achieve significantly higher contrast ratios than LCDs. You get better shadow detail and a deeper, more involving picture. You need a darker viewing environment to really appreciate this benefit. 1080p plasmas are extremely expensive (not sure what others are available aside from the Panasonic 65", which is outrageously expensive). Pixel structure on plasma is more evident than on LCDs, so you'll want to sit a bit further away.

Unless you require a really bright display or you can't do without 1080p capability, I'd go for the plasma. Consider Panasonic, Hitachi, and Fujitsu.

If you go for LCD, take a serious look at Sony's XBR series. Probably the best LCDs on the market today.
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#252746
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Final notice regarding your e-mail address and private messages in the new forum software
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Originally posted by: ronlaw
Hi Jay, will it be possible to:
- turn off avatars and signatures? (many people abuse this wasting huge amounts of space)
- ignore people?
- find/follow my own posts more easily? Right now one has to use the search for username and it only returns the whole thread, not my particular post (as far as I can tell)


Yes to all three.
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#248743
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Mods here are mean
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
When there is a half-decent thread in the Star Wars section I post in it, but that is rare. That doesn't mean I don't check it out multiple times a day, hoping for a worthwhile discussion I can be a part of. And as for the preservation threads, well I'm with Hotrod on that one, but again, I still check it regularly and post when I have something to say.

Originally posted by: ricarleite
Well I could try posting on the General Star Wars session on the "Form a new sentence using words from the six films names" thread. Or posting on the preservation threads and continue to be ignored because I don't actually DO fan edits.


Or, either of you could--God forbid--start a thread.

Forums are what you make of them.

Lots of replying. Not enough posting.
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#243710
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The X-Files - Worth Watching?
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Whenever the box sets go on sale, I think about getting them.

I was completely enraptured with the series for several years in college. It has its fair share of average episodes, but when it shines, it shines.

I didn't watch too much after Mulder disappeared, so the show was always an open end to me. I'd love to sit down and watch the whole series from start to finish someday.
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#241021
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Final notice regarding your e-mail address and private messages in the new forum software
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Please make sure the e-mail address you have on file with ot.com is current. When the new forum software goes live, your username will be carried over, but a new password will be generated and sent to the e-mail address you have on file. If your e-mail address is incorrect, you won't get your password.

Also, all private messages will be deleted. Make sure you save any messages containing important information.
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#239778
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Movie production updates for Terminator 4 And Star Trek XI
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Originally posted by: JediSage
Rodenberry's vision, aside from being naive, is what destroyed the franchise. A story in which none of the characters are supposed to be in conflict with eachother because of the utopia the Federation has wrought leaves very little room for character development. Also, the "reset button" at the end of every episode was SO annoying.


I've been watching the TNG box sets recently (working on season 5 now), and there's plenty of conflict between various characters--even within the Federation itself.

It does tend to be episodic, but watching the show still has its rewards.
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#239697
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Movie production updates for Terminator 4 And Star Trek XI
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Originally posted by: Yoda Is Your Father
They are also getting too old IMO. The last episode of TNG made a point of showing that Data does not age, yet Brent Spiner continues to develop wrinkles, etc - although that's a moot point because they killed Data in Nemesis.


Not really. As if the movie weren't enough of a Khan ripoff already, they pulled a Spock/Bones with Data/B4. They could bring him back if they wanted to.

TOS cast members were making ST movies into their sixties, so I wouldn't mind another adventure with Picard and Co. They could probably work the same CG magic on Spiner that they did with Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellan in X3 for their younger days, although doing that throughout a whole film for one character might be prohibitively expensive.

Also, fuck Berman and what he's done to Gene Roddenberry's vision.