Frogmort's HT Pad

[frogmort]

Getting ready to watch this for the first time.

[TheFactor]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Getting ready to watch this for the first time.

Hey Frog , great movie buddy !!!!! Enjoy man !!

[hometheatergeek]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Getting ready to watch this for the first time.

Damn you Joe....I have not scored a copy yet.

[Travis]

Originally Posted by hometheatergeek

Damn you Joe....I have not scored a copy yet.

What? There is a BD you don't have!

[hometheatergeek]

Originally Posted by Travis

What? There is a BD you don't have!

No I have not. I'm waiting for it to hit 17.99

[Travis]

Originally Posted by hometheatergeek

No I have not. I'm waiting for it to hit 17.99

Get it! It is very good! Well worth $22.96. Your 13 subs will love it!

[crazyBLUE]

Originally Posted by Linda570

So how big of a screen are you currently using?

Not big enough

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by TheFactor

Hey Frog , great movie buddy !!!!! Enjoy man !!

I did Factor. I also watched Apollo 13. I can't wait to get 'The Right Stuff' on BD.

Originally Posted by hometheatergeek

Damn you Joe....I have not scored a copy yet.

I don't have it either. A friend of mine loaned it to me.

Originally Posted by Travis

Get it! It is very good! Well worth $22.96. Your 13 subs will love it!

The

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made my subs go bananas.

Originally Posted by crazyBLUE

Not big enough

I have a 130" diagonal screen. Is that not big enough, or was Linda trying to sell me some some erection pills?

[Aerodude73]

Originally Posted by frogmort

I did Factor. I also watched Apollo 13. I can't wait to get 'The Right Stuff' on BD.

The

[Show spoiler]train crash

made my subs go bananas.

THE RIGHT STUFF - great movie



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[TheFactor]

Originally Posted by frogmort

I did Factor. I also watched Apollo 13. I can't wait to get 'The Right Stuff' on BD.



I don't have it either. A friend of mine loaned it to me.



The

[Show spoiler]train crash

made my subs go bananas.



I have a 130" diagonal screen. Is that not big enough, or was Linda trying to sell me some some erection pills?

Nice man ! That's a great way to roll threw the evening

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

THE RIGHT STUFF - great movie



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Well, according to this thread, it should be out this November. It originally came out in 1983, so this year is the 30th anniversary. I really hope it does.

Originally Posted by TheFactor

Nice man ! That's a great way to roll threw the evening

I thought Skyfall was okay. The A/V was great but after all of the hype I wasn't really blown away, but it was alright.

[Aerodude73]

Hope it does. Same for FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, which aired on HBO in April/May of 1998, so this would mark the 15th Year Anniversary. It was shot or aired in 4:3 tho', so not sure how they'd fix it for today's Widescreen ratio.

From a reviewer on Amazon:

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This is a short review to point out the differences between the 2000 4-Disc box set and the 2005 Signature Edition 5-disc box set.

In case you have already got the 2000 DVD set in your collection and are wondering whether to update it to the 2005 edition, here are the differences:

Firstly, there are 5 discs instead of 4, but NO difference in content. No extra scenes, documentaries or commentary. The original DVD-Rom Disc 4 has been re-authored to play on your DVD player in the lounge room. This makes a lot of the content immediately accessible instead of having to search for it on the net, but the interactivity is gone. For me that's small loss as I didn't get much out of the games etc anyway.

Secondly, the entire set has been remastered in DTS and Widescreen (1.85:1). Now this sounds like manna from heaven, but unfortunately only the audio remastering is really worth spending any extra dollars on. The sound is crisp, clear and beautifully mixed and the liftoffs etc come booming out of your home theatre system like you were there at the Cape.

But the widescreen - well, sadly it just doesn't enhance the original viewing experience. It's evident that HBO produced the original series in 1.33:1 for tv and have merely re-jigged and adapted that ratio for the modern proliferation of widescreen plasma television sets. There is no extra data. You will find some scenes are better cut in the frame, but others suffer. For example, in Disc 1, when the Gemini 8/Agena assembly is tumbling around the sky with a stuck thruster, you don't see the thruster in the new widescreen version as it is cut off by the top of the frame. Some captions have also been compromised.

As the series was created for the 1.33:1 ratio, all the crucial information is positioned inside the frame for that ratio anyway. The only advantage of the widescreen ratio is that it now fits your new plasma widescreen without the black bars. Also the video quality is not as crisp as I expected it to be, possibly from the re-sizing process.

Originally Posted by frogmort

Well, according to this thread, it should be out this November. It originally came out in 1983, so this year is the 30th anniversary. I really hope it does.



I thought Skyfall was okay. The A/V was great but after all of the hype I wasn't really blown away, but it was alright.

The only thing OK about it was perhaps the Villain, played by Javier Bardem. A great actor sure, but his character was more Bizarre & Weird, than menacing or scary.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by Aerodude73

Hope it does. Same for FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, which aired on HBO in April/May of 1998, so this would mark the 15th Year Anniversary. It was shot or aired in 4:3 tho', so not sure how they'd fix it for today's Widescreen ratio.

From a reviewer on Amazon:




The only thing OK about it was perhaps the Villain, played by Javier Bardem. A great actor sure, but his character was more Bizarre & Weird, than menacing or scary.

I've never seen From the Earth to the Moon but it sounds like my kind of thing. I love that kind of stuff.

I loved his character in No Country for Old Men. One of the creepiest roles ever! I did like Skyfall, it just wasn't "The Best Thing I've Ever Seen" like I expected it to be.

That train crash was amazing though. Trains, especially crashing ones, always seem to sound great on blu-ray.

[hometheatergeek]

Good evening Joe. How you doin' bud? Me... I'm going to do a 4 day weekend.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by hometheatergeek

Good evening Joe. How you doin' bud? Me... I'm going to do a 4 day weekend.

You lucky bastard. I've got two more days to go. I'm getting ready to head into my HT room to jam some concerts and catch a buzz. Work will be fun tomorrow.

Hope you have a long relaxing weekend Al.

[hometheatergeek]

Originally Posted by frogmort

You lucky bastard. I've got two more days to go. I'm getting ready to head into my HT room to jam some concerts and catch a buzz. Work will be fun tomorrow.

Hope you have a long relaxing weekend Al.

Well sort of....I have two different doctor appointments tomorrow so that will seem like work to me. Have fun jamming to some music bud.

[frogmort]

Originally Posted by hometheatergeek

Well sort of....I have two different doctor appointments tomorrow so that will seem like work to me. Have fun jamming to some music bud.

Oh that sucks. Hospitals and doctors scare the crap out of me. I hope it's nothing serious and I hope it goes smoothly buddy.

I'm out for a while. Have a great night!

[hometheatergeek]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Oh that sucks. Hospitals and doctors scare the crap out of me. I hope it's nothing serious and I hope it goes smoothly buddy.

I'm out for a while. Have a great night!

Enjoy buddy.

[TheFactor]

Originally Posted by frogmort

Well, according to this thread, it should be out this November. It originally came out in 1983, so this year is the 30th anniversary. I really hope it does.



I thought Skyfall was okay. The A/V was great but after all of the hype I wasn't really blown away, but it was alright.

Hey Froggie Frog whats shaking man ? Sorry you didnt enjoy SKYFALL as much as I did but guess im a 007 freak lol but I totally loved it man and thought it was the best one .

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I see you've just gotten a hair better than the rest by watching that Skyfall movie.

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Tomorrow i myself will be searching for an awesome boxset.

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