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MeBeJedi

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#187532
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.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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Well, most people here (in the US) are returning their new HD sets, because they tend to bring out the worst in analog pictures - especially low-bandwidth cable/DSS channels. The highest resolution source many people use is DVD, which is only SD.

Recently, I made a DVD from two video sources - a digital camcorder and an analog Hi-8 camcorder. On my regular TV, I noticed a distinction between the two sources, but it wasn't very apparent to my wife. When we later watched the DVD on our friend's new HD set, the video difference was night and day. The digital video looked great, and the analog video was atrocious.
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#187327
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What You're Reading Now: Revisited
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"About 100 pages in to Dune right now. Awesome book, but slow going."

They get slower on down the series. I stopped the originals at Children of Dune (I think.) I've read the prequels (House Harkonnen/Atreides/Corrino) and liked them. Now I'm in the middle of the pre-prequels, and they are very cool.

"Also picked up The Dead Zone by Stephen King. I've always liked his adapted (ie:TV) stories, so now I'm actually going to read his books."

Start with the early ones. His elephantitist of the tongue gets worse and worse. It took forever to get through Tommyknockers. I think IT was my favorite overall. Misery would make me physically ill at times, so I'd have to lay it down for awhile.