"Club Penton" - Ask questions to Hollywood insider "Penton-Man"

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by ThatArtGuy

Like I told Penton-Man in my PM, it was somewhat of a shot in the dark. I kind of thought that was Jeff Ward, but I wasn't 100% sure. I'm glad my hunch was correct.

Fabulous, not only do I have to give up my personal set of Spidey movies, I now find out that I’ve got to pay postage to a different country!

Why couldn’t you have lived in a more provincial place like Elsinore?

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by patrick99

Well, it's very good to hear from you. Perhaps we'll hear from you again when you're not travelling as much?

Yeah, I'll enjoy teasing him every time Arsenal wins a match……..esp., against the Spurs.

[coolmilo]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Duuuuuude, different guys!
Marty Smith and Malcolm Smith are completely different individuals!

Malcolm Smith………….and in this particular clip – ‘Harvey Mushman’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_YK3LWxDUQ

‘Harvey Mushman’ – a.k.a. -
http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/hall...age.asp?id=227

^
“Later, his contracts with movie studios prohibited him from racing motorcycles. He got around that technicality by racing under the pseudonym of Harvey Mushman.”

I like pseudonyms.
Penton

Oh snap, I knew I was taking too much of a leap.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

See post #4846
Paragraph 2.

Now it’s lunchtime.
http://www.sushiroku.com/sushiroku/index.htm

P.S.
Hey, to all those “rad” Olympic viewers out there, tune in tonight? for the BMX finals which are scheduled, I think.
The sport has its roots in SoCal motocross racing from the late ’60’s.
In fact, if anyone here can tell me the name of the fellow (shown in this quintessential motorcycle movie) who is popping a wheelie at the end of this clip, and who later went on to become a very successful motocross racer…………
I’ll send them the Spider-Man three pack set.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCbtE...eature=related
Quite a lot has changed since then, as you can see.
Just too much for words alone.

Ahhh. I have allways wondered about the avatar. I as well grew up on Malcom, DeCoster, Weil, Tripes, Lakey, DiStefano, Bell, Smith, Hannah, Monarchs, Maicos, CZs and Saddleback and Indian Dunes.

Now I know. And yes, times have changed too much. Too much air, not enough acceleration.

Peace

[patrick99]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Doubtful, unfortunately I have been promoted and I'll have less time than ever once I start work again in September.

Plus I won't be working directly with Blu-ray anymore, obviously I'll still have massive contact with movie studios, but my knowledge of Blu-ray current affairs will start to decrease rather rapidly now that I'm in a new department.

Suffice it to say that if I do post it will most likely be in the games section...

Congratulations on the promotion!

Keep in mind that your knowledge of Blu-ray developments will undoubtedly remain much greater than that of us non-insiders, so we'll hope to hear from you once in a while!

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by coolmilo

Whenever I hear the name Bob Hannah, I also remember Marty Smith. Personally I preferred Marty's Honda over Bob's Yamaha. I saw those boys race each other a couple of times at Sears Point Raceway (now called Infineon Raceway) back in the day. I was a huge fan of those two racers when I was a youngster.

I did not realize that Marty changed his name to Malcolm. Very interesting and now it makes sense with that motorcycle gear with the same name.

Uhh.....Didnt happen. 2 different men.

[horseflesh]

Originally Posted by Maxpower1987

Doubtful, unfortunately I have been promoted and I'll have less time than ever once I start work again in September.

Plus I won't be working directly with Blu-ray anymore, obviously I'll still have massive contact with movie studios, but my knowledge of Blu-ray current affairs will start to decrease rather rapidly now that I'm in a new department.

Suffice it to say that if I do post it will most likely be in the games section...

Yeah, congrats on the promotion Max.
It's always been good having you around to keep us posted on what you could tell us.
And good luck to Spurs for this season. Looks like you might need it
(any football-insider news on Berbatov??)

[theknub]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Excellent guess, and I admire the fact that someone here even knows who The Hurricane was.

i did my best. im not a true motox guy in any way shape or form. however, i did grow up in so-cal, i knew a few names and knew hannah was from lancaster or something like that. so i made some stab at it.

[Seretur]

Congratulations on the promotion, Max.

It's always a pleasure to see it happen to one of the good guys. Thank you for everything you've done for this board.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Ahhh. I have allways wondered about the avatar. I as well grew up on Malcom, DeCoster, Weil, Tripes, Lakey, DiStefano, Bell, Smith, Hannah, Monarchs, Maicos, CZs and Saddleback and Indian Dunes.

Now I know. And yes, times have changed too much. Too much air, not enough acceleration.

Peace

I couldn’t have put it better myself , except perhaps to say ….not enough racing.

In regards to off-road racing in general, something that Steve McQueen (http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/hall...age.asp?id=227)
never achieved when he competed in the I.S.D.T. (due to an idiot spectator riding the course in the opposite direction – at him)

I will always cherish …………….

[Penton-Man]

Hmm, seems like Tuesday night’s meeting indirectly made the news…………..
https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=1693

Josh never sleeps.

P.S.
To some of the people that posted the early comments..........
Try actually reading the article.

[ThatArtGuy]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

Fabulous, not only do I have to give up my personal set of Spidey movies, I now find out that I’ve got to pay postage to a different country!

Why couldn’t you have lived in a more provincial place like Elsinore?

Well, if it makes you feel any better I *am* American. I would think that British Columbia would qualify since it is a province after all. That and I'm not Danish.

Oh, and your Spidey set will be very well taken care of. I've been a Spider-Fan since the 70's, and I take exemplary care of my discs.

TAG

[blitz6speed]

Max, we better see SCEJ come strong and really put some major effort into the PS3 once you're back on. We also want you to push sony into buying Atlas and Level 5, along with a new sequel to Wild Arms, Xenogears and more.

p.s. - hi penton! =)

[DesFlurane]

Penton,
You got a gold at ISDT!
We are not worthy
Can't think of a much more difficult and challenging achievement in an off road motorcycling event than that.

[4K2K]

Would it be possible for Sony to reduce the size of the time bar that appears on screen when you press rewind (eg. on Spiderman 3)? Could it be made to fit entirely in the black bars instead of being positioned on top of the movie picture?

Also, for the first 5 or 6 seconds it's duplicating the information that the huge time bar on my Samsung player already shows on screen in the top 3rd of the screen (though that disappears after 5-6 seconds).

Would it be possible for all titles, even the Java ones, to please be encoded so that they are able to resume play after a stop?

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by Penton-Man

I couldn’t have put it better myself , except perhaps to say ….not enough racing.

In regards to off-road racing in general, something that Steve McQueen (http://www.motorcyclemuseum.org/hall...age.asp?id=227)
never achieved when he competed in the I.S.D.T. (due to an idiot spectator riding the course in the opposite direction – at him)

I will always cherish …………….

Holy smokes. Is that really your ISDT Gold? What year did you win? 250, 175, 350s???

I lived and breathed National and International MX, but still followed and admired Trials/enduros....Especially the six days.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Holy smokes. Is that really your ISDT Gold? What year did you win? 250, 175, 350s??? ...

Sorry, all you get is the following pic (the maid took me ole helmet off the desk in order to dust)……….as any more information would be far too revealing.

You should recognize the significance of the colors and the configuration of the white stripes.

Bell didn’t give these out to any Joe6Pack.

[Penton-Man]

^
P.S.
The Blu-ray.com owners and some of the mods here may recognize the glass structure under the helmet.

It’s the memento that I was awarded by you folks near the end of the format war.
See---the gift ended up in fine company.

[Deciazulado]

Ahh trophies and awards of battle and combat won during intense competition.

[Penton-Man]

Originally Posted by saprano

So penton whats the difference between grain and video noise?

i was readind a post on here and they said grain has to do with color or something like that,I'll try to find it.

EDIT got it Is this correct? its crazy how some people as soon as they seen any kind of fliker twinkly(haha) thing on the screen its......

Take pirates of the carribian for example, i see what looks like grain but is that what it is? what am i looking at? grain or video noise?

To complete your previous query..........

Without knowing the history of the capture device used, many times it is indeed difficult to visually differentiate film grain from noise because there can be so much over-lap in their appearance.

Two rough guidelines may be of aid if you’re into this sort of stuff; otherwise, I wouldn’t fret it.
1. Video noise (to most experienced examiners) is more apparent in the darker areas of a frame, whereas film grain is generally more apparent in the mid-tone colors.
2. Film grain seems to randomly swirl around and appears ‘gritty’ whereas video noise appears a little more stationary in position and looks to almost shimmer or sparkle (i.e. it looks more *electronic* when you eye-ball it). It can be darker, brighter or different colored than the contiguous image structure.

And of course, some film "purists" [who appreciate a heck of a lot more about film (as their credentials include Film Editor/ Film Director/ Film Historian) than the forensic screenshot scientists who live in a video world,] think of and have referred to exceptional presentations with words like this….

"I had not seen new 65mm material since the Super Dimension 70 demos, and though not at 48 fps, this looked TERRIFIC!!! The detail you could see was breathtaking. Little grain was visible, and I was sitting in the seventh row."
From paragraph 3 of a link that I previously provided………………..
http://www.in70mm.com/news/2007/as_good/index.htm