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[Mr. Cinema]

What catalog titles have bad video transfers with BD Live and Picture-in-Picture, and other bells and whistles?

[tvine2000]

Originally Posted by SpaceDog

I'm not sure how much better Kabletown will understand the home video business than G.E. The truth is that the only thing any product manufacturer understands is $$. How much $ do they have to spend to get your $$$, and which math allows them the best spread. The best way for us to vote is to not support inferior product. We as enthusiasts need to stick together and reject inferior product. We also need it to be known why we are rejecting it.

I'm a huge Kubrick fan who has never seen Spartacus. I won't until they do a proper new edition.

Believe me ,i will not buy a bd movie that has inferior pq.I do not own SPARTACUS,or any other movie. Stick together,you bet ya.

[CAB]

Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema

Excellent. I am incredibly anxious to see True Lies in its OAR. Hard to believe that never even got an anamorphic dvd release in the US.

Gonna send a case or two to Ahmadinejad with a special invite to view it at my home in Texas.

[Objectivity]

Originally Posted by CAB

Gonna send a case or two to Ahmadinejad with a special invite to view it at my home in Texas.

It's a movie during which

[Show spoiler]the terrorists succeed in detonating a nuclear weapon inside the United States.

He probably views it as a positive propaganda film.

Not sure if the spoiler tags are necessary. The film is 13 years old.

[Jeff Kleist]

Absolutely not. If they haven't seen it by now that's their problem

[SpaceDog]

Since films live on forever on home video for new generations to see, I'd say that spoiler tags are always appropriate.

[MerrickG]

I don't know about you guys, but I'm intrigued about college football expansion and I'm curious if any insiders want to share their thoughts.

In case anyone doesn't know I am a graduate student at Texas A&M and am very much in favor of the Big 12 getting dissolved and joining either the Pac 10, Big 10 or the SEC.

Why? Because the Big 12 schools are getting hosed compared to other conferences in TV revenue and A&M athletics have a lot of debt and its my hope that going to to a conference that has a lot more money distributed to its members will help lessen the burden of athletic depo debt get passed on to the students.

[Jeff Kleist]

Really Merrick?


I think college football should stop sucking much needed money from academics, because only about a half dozen teams don't lose a pile of money every year for their schools. And don't get me started on the 100,000 seat high school stadiums

[SpaceDog]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Really Merrick?


I think college football should stop sucking much needed money from academics, because only about a half dozen teams don't lose a pile of money every year for their schools. And don't get me started on the 100,000 seat high school stadiums

Dems fightin words below the Mason-Dixon line.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Really Merrick?


I think college football should stop sucking much needed money from academics, because only about a half dozen teams don't lose a pile of money every year for their schools. And don't get me started on the 100,000 seat high school stadiums

Thats why I am in favor of that. More revenue from other sources will lead to less money being sucked up from academics. It wont, however lower ticket prices.

The fact of the matter is that college football isn't going anywhere.

Maybe Im being naive.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by spacedog

dems fightin words below the mason-dixon line.

sec.

[dcowboy7]

Originally Posted by Mr. Cinema

What catalog titles have bad video transfers with BD Live and Picture-in-Picture, and other bells and whistles?

Seeing your sig reminds me its another summer without Jaws on blu....insane.

[SpaceDog]

Originally Posted by dcowboy7

Seeing your sig reminds me its another summer without Jaws on blu....insane.

Well at least that means it's safe to go back into the water.

[Uxi]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Really Merrick?


I think college football should stop sucking much needed money from academics, because only about a half dozen teams don't lose a pile of money every year for their schools. And don't get me started on the 100,000 seat high school stadiums

Each of the big D1 schools is making between tens of millions (USC/Stanford ~$76M) and hundreds of millions (Texas $120M, Ohio State, $117M) from their athletic programs a year... I would think at least a portion of that is going back into academics. I'd think Academics would be "in the black" on that deal, but it's possible I'm wrong.

[MerrickG]

Originally Posted by Uxi

Each of the big D1 schools is making between tens of millions (USC/Stanford ~$76M) and hundreds of millions (Texas $120M, Ohio State, $117M) from their athletic programs a year... I would think at least a portion of that is going back into academics. I'd think Academics would be "in the black" on that deal, but it's possible I'm wrong.

The last report I read is that Texas is one of the few schools in which the athletic department actually turns a profit AND gives money back to academics. Ohio State was the other one.

The other schools do not make any money off of athletics. Yeah, its sad.

Jeff is correct in the regard that its sad as to how much money is getting sucked out of academics to go to funding athletic programs. But the fact of the matter is that college football and other athletic programs are going nowhere and it will always be this way. Its not good for the students, but just the way it is. Thats whay I am favoring expansion if it leads to more revenue because it is my hope that securing revenue AWAY from academics will enable them to pour more in.

Again, it could be (and probably is) a naive assumptiom.

[cjamescook]

Originally Posted by SpaceDog

Well at least that means it's safe to go back into the water.

Oh, I don't know about that.

[Jeff Kleist]

Originally Posted by Uxi

Each of the big D1 schools is making between tens of millions (USC/Stanford ~$76M) and hundreds of millions (Texas $120M, Ohio State, $117M) from their athletic programs a year... I would think at least a portion of that is going back into academics. I'd think Academics would be "in the black" on that deal, but it's possible I'm wrong.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/05/16/ncaa

[JimSD]

Originally Posted by SpaceDog

Dems fightin words below the Mason-Dixon line.

And above it.

[garyrc]

Originally Posted by Jeff Kleist

Really Merrick?


I think college football should stop sucking much needed money from academics, because only about a half dozen teams don't lose a pile of money every year for their schools. And don't get me started on the 100,000 seat high school stadiums

And not just football. Our local university let go a coach, apparently for being overly harsh with students, and has promised to give her hundreds of thousands of dollars over the next few years. This while the rest of the university is hurting, and faculty, staff, and even some administrators are taking regular unpaid furloughs to hold the place together. Yes, I know about the contracts, but such contracts probably shouldn't be written.

[Avond]

Originally Posted by jeff kleist

really merrick?


I think college football should stop sucking much needed money from academics, because only about a half dozen teams don't lose a pile of money every year for their schools. And don't get me started on the 100,000 seat high school stadiums

+1000