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"its official. Movies are better in hi def I wasn't a big fan of superbad. Saw it once in theaters. Saw it again on blu ray and I actually really liked it lol."

What kind of shitty ass theater did you see it in the first time where it wasn't shown in hi def?

12/21/2007 10:42:50 AM

Watching a movie on a nice 1080p LCD > sitting in a theater with a POS projector with a lot of film noise.

This applies to all theaters in the area EXCEPT IMAX of course.

The only thing they have going for them is screen size and sound. Sometimes not even sound, its just loud.

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 11:39 AM. Reason : .]

12/21/2007 11:38:33 AM

Gah, silly me. I thought watching something with a bigger better screen and better sound would make it better.

What was I thinking?

12/21/2007 11:56:58 AM

you were thinking it was a better screen when in fact its just bigger. Bigger is not always better.

12/21/2007 11:58:31 AM

So I guess they show the movie in 480p on that giant screen, huh?

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

12/21/2007 12:11:04 PM

i'm not going to get in this but the fact is, i said the TECHNOLOGY is better not how many vendors and partners they had

AND I WILL WRITE FUCKING B L U E ALL I FUCKING WANT



[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 1:20 PM. Reason : has the technology changed in 2 years?]

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 1:23 PM. Reason : the word is fucking BLUE, i cant help it the fucking Japanese don't want to complete the word]

12/21/2007 1:19:19 PM

you cant help it that you are a fucking idiot and can't write the correct word.

and elnacho, you lose, i'm not biting.

12/21/2007 1:37:50 PM

what a sad little person you are

12/21/2007 1:51:11 PM

lol...yes, so sad.

if it wasn't for laughing at your stupidity on the internet I'd be even more sad.

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 1:55 PM. Reason : .]

12/21/2007 1:55:36 PM

Golovko, go suck off a goat you fucking cock bag

12/21/2007 3:06:38 PM

volcome

Quote :

"but I am in lazy mode"

you would think being in lazy mode would mean you would at least leave off the 'e' in blu ray.

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 3:10 PM. Reason : .]

12/21/2007 3:07:41 PM

lol

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 3:11 PM. Reason : or you could interpret that as me being tooo lazy to write it correctly]

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 3:18 PM. Reason : lol]

12/21/2007 3:10:07 PM

yeah, kind of like too and to, right?

12/21/2007 3:12:54 PM

man, are you in lazy mode tew?

12/21/2007 3:13:18 PM

I ame

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 3:14 PM. Reason : .]

12/21/2007 3:14:51 PM

sweete

12/21/2007 3:15:05 PM

Speaking of movie theaters... the wakefield theater in north raleigh installed some bad ass DLP projectors that are some of the best pictures I have ever seen.

12/21/2007 4:31:42 PM

DLP movie theaters are amazing. Park Place 16 in Morrisville has gone entirely digital.

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"I didnt realize Blu-ray wasnt region free like HD-DVD. Many bonus points for HD-DVD."

As annoying as region codes can be when you are moving from continent to continent (I don't know about you, but I do this like every month), there are some very good reasons for it. I really don't see how they harm the consumer.

FWIW, the number of regions has really been cut down.

DVD:


Blu-ray:



[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 6:34 PM. Reason : region free]

12/21/2007 6:15:46 PM

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"As annoying as region codes can be when you are moving from continent to continent (I don't know about you, but I do this like every month), there are some very good reasons for it. I really don't see how they harm the consumer."

uh..i don't know about you but I travel outside of the continental US at least 2 or 3 times a year. (no sarcasm)...and I've frequently found movies I really wanted to buy but couldn't because of region codes. I'm sorry you live in a shell.

not to mention the fact that my brother lives in Germany and he has to have 2 DVD players because movies he rents there don't work in his US purchased DVD player. He does however have an HD DVD player that I got him 2 years ago for Christmas and that does help some.

[Edited on December 21, 2007 at 7:27 PM. Reason : .]

12/21/2007 7:25:36 PM

Nothing screams consumer friendly like placing artificial limitations on things people own.

12/21/2007 7:27:24 PM

Quote :

"As annoying as region codes can be when you are moving from continent to continent (I don't know about you, but I do this like every month), there are some very good reasons for it. I really don't see how they harm the consumer."

i have a sister-in-law and her family, lived in US for 12+ years and have kids with US disney movies and such... well they moved to Slovenia and have movies they bought overseas.

GUESS WHAT? after 5-region switches the HARDWARE F'ING LOCKS!

HOW DOES THIS BENEFIT THE CONSUMER?

12/21/2007 11:51:32 PM

Prospero, It's not bricked. It will still play movies for that region, it just won't let you switch back and fourth anymore, which is the idea.

Golovko, 80% of Americans do not own a passport. I think it's safe to assume they're all staying within region-1.

Yes, region codes are an inconvenience... but they don't incapacitate us.

And seriously, I'm disappointed. Everyone here should be smart enough to flash their DVD player's firmware so it's region-free.


[Edited on December 22, 2007 at 2:23 AM. Reason : srsly]

12/22/2007 2:21:17 AM

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"So I guess they show the movie in 480p on that giant screen, huh?"

http://www.filmschoolonline.com/sample_lessons/sample_lesson_HD_vs_35mm.htm

According to that site, resolution of the projected image from typical film projector is barely hi-def.

12/22/2007 2:55:25 AM

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"Prospero, It's not bricked. It will still play movies for that region, it just won't let you switch back and fourth anymore, which is the idea."

no sh~t, but the point being is ALL of the DVD's in Europe they can't play if they lock it in region 1, and vice-versa, which IS THE IDEA, and the IDEA is freaking REDICULOUS! they bought legal DVD's in two different countries in which they lived or visited, you SHOULD NOT have to buy different players for each region.

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"And seriously, I'm disappointed. Everyone here should be smart enough to flash their DVD player's firmware so it's region-free. "

not every dvd-rom or dvd-player can be flashed, and if you flash it it's voided warranty

[Edited on December 22, 2007 at 3:33 AM. Reason : ,]

12/22/2007 3:32:25 AM

Chances are, they sold their house, all but one of their cars, all of their NTSC television sets, anything in their house that used a 120v outlet, and basically everything else they owned. I'm going to guess they ended up buying another house, another car, some PAL television sets, and appliances that used 220v outlets. Could they have not done the same with their DVD collection? Maybe they shouldn't have to... sure, I can see where their sense of entitlement comes from. But causing such a fuss over it is just overreacting.

It's inconvenient, but most people will just shrug it off.

12/22/2007 5:58:59 AM

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"Golovko, 80% of Americans do not own a passport. I think it's safe to assume they're all staying within region-1. "

I'm guessing you are part of that 80% since you are ignorant to other countries existences. The United States isn't the only country that buys DVDs.

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"Chances are, they sold their house, all but one of their cars, all of their NTSC television sets, anything in their house that used a 120v outlet, and basically everything else they owned. I'm going to guess they ended up buying another house, another car, some PAL television sets, and appliances that used 220v outlets. Could they have not done the same with their DVD collection? Maybe they shouldn't have to... sure, I can see where their sense of entitlement comes from. But causing such a fuss over it is just overreacting. It's inconvenient, but most people will just shrug it off."

funny you mention that. We didn't sell any of our electronics including washer and dryer when we moved from over seas to the United States. Lucky for us our tvs/vcrs etc are multisystem and as far as electricity goes, we had transformers for any device that didn't already support 110/220. Sounds to me you are completely ignorant on this subject.

12/22/2007 11:55:45 AM

Quote :

"Chances are, they sold their house, all but one of their cars, all of their NTSC television sets, anything in their house that used a 120v outlet, and basically everything else they owned. I'm going to guess they ended up buying another house, another car, some PAL television sets, and appliances that used 220v outlets. Could they have not done the same with their DVD collection? Maybe they shouldn't have to... sure, I can see where their sense of entitlement comes from. But causing such a fuss over it is just overreacting. It's inconvenient, but most people will just shrug it off."

stop making assumptions b/c you're wrong on nearly all accounts.

they don't have a television they have 2 computers they use, they use power adapters and they just switch the PSU to 220v and the laptop is auto-switching.

they also have 5 kids and not a lot of money, in fact the desktop they have i built for them and gave to them for free, so NO they don't have the money to invest in buying a new DVD collection, and the point is NOR SHOULD THEY.

[Edited on December 22, 2007 at 12:25 PM. Reason : .]

12/22/2007 12:25:16 PM

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"http://www.filmschoolonline.com/sample_lessons/sample_lesson_HD_vs_35mm.htm According to that site, resolution of the projected image from typical film projector is barely hi-def."

Yeah... I'd just ignore what that says if I were you.

[Edited on December 22, 2007 at 1:20 PM. Reason : .]

12/22/2007 1:19:51 PM

just picked up The Kingdom on HD DVD. Got the very last copy from BestBuy

12/22/2007 3:48:58 PM

i have a few region 1s in my collection

i use dvd region+css free, works perfectly on every dvd i've tried: http://www.dvdidle.com/dvd-region-free.htm

12/22/2007 6:57:08 PM

BJs has the Sony blu ray player for $279.00

12/22/2007 8:15:41 PM

^^well if you want to sit in front of your computer to watch movies, or you spent a bunch of money on an HTPC, then that works...but otherwise, not very helpful at all.

As for the 80% of Americans dont own a passport, why does that matter? I dont own one and Ive bought a good handful of region 2 and 4 DVDs, either from Ebay, cd-wow, or Amazon.co.uk. There are plenty of movies over there that arent even released here, or are only available in fullscreen or non-anamorphic here while they have a proper transfer overseas. Its just ridiculous being limited to either a small selection of region-free or hackable players, or either being limited to only what is sold in the US just because of a silly code on a disc.

12/23/2007 4:18:17 PM

The region argument is serious if you happen to travel, or enjoy foreign movies.

And since Anime scene kids claim both, and they make big stinks in online forums, it seems like region encoding is an issue.

It really isn't.

And if it were important enough for you then there are ways around it.

[Edited on December 23, 2007 at 4:21 PM. Reason : >.<]

12/23/2007 4:21:17 PM

nvm

[Edited on December 23, 2007 at 4:35 PM. Reason : not a dvd]

12/23/2007 4:28:31 PM

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"Yeah... I'd just ignore what that says if I were you."

Okay. Why? Is there something wrong with the way the referenced study was conducted?

http://www.cst.fr/IMG/pdf/35mm_resolution_english.pdf

12/24/2007 1:51:55 AM

Since region codes have come up again, here's this link (again):

http://bluray.liesinc.net/

It lists a very large number of blu-ray discs that are actually not region-locked. Many of them are even labeled as region A or B on the packaging despite being able to play in 2 or 3 region players.

Quote :

"And since Anime scene kids claim both, and they make big stinks in online forums, it seems like region encoding is an issue."

Well lucky for the Anime nuts we're the same region as japan for blu-ray.

For what it's worth, digital movie projection is generally either 2048x1080 or 4096x2160 with 12+ point surround. Is that worth spending almost the sale price of the blu-ray or HDDVD version of the movie to see it a few months earlier? Eh, maybe if the popcorn was free. Even if you could argue the technical merits of 35mm film, the projection quality varies far too much due to poor maintenence in some theaters. Sure a perfect film projector might look pretty damn good, but I haven't been to a theater that had one in a long time.

[Edited on December 24, 2007 at 9:54 AM. Reason : ]

12/24/2007 9:42:10 AM

it's not worth the fucktards yelling and making noise and smelling like ass

12/24/2007 2:48:03 PM

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"Okay. Why? Is there something wrong with the way the referenced study was conducted?"

Because a "resolution test" on film is idiotic. The first link you post is especially dumb, because after going "pixel count is a crappy test because film doesn't have pixels, so we'll use lines".

Except film doesn't have lines, either.

12/24/2007 5:04:13 PM

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"^^well if you want to sit in front of your computer to watch movies, or you spent a bunch of money on an HTPC, then that works...but otherwise, not very helpful at all."

i also have one of these, which is multi-region capable and i've unlocked (very simple code to enter via the remote): http://www.amazon.co.uk/Philips-DVP5100-05-Region-Capable/dp/B00096J3HG

it's not hard to find multi-region players in europe and i doubt it'll be long before we start seeing multi-region blu-ray players

[Edited on December 25, 2007 at 8:26 AM. Reason : .]

12/25/2007 8:26:32 AM

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"i doubt it'll be long before we start seeing multi-region blu-ray players"

Considering there's only 3 regions and most blu-ray discs aren't actually region locked there's not as much of an imperative to create them. The vast majority of region B discs play in region A players so that's most of what's released in Europe. Also, we're in the same region as japan so anime nuts have no reason to want multi-region players.

12/25/2007 10:55:46 AM

Sarcasm faggots.

Christ.

12/25/2007 11:52:35 AM

Are you talking about what you said 50 posts ago or something or are you just high and being random?

12/25/2007 12:26:13 PM

i'm in europe and i buy lots of US dvds, so yeah, i might need one

but i know that most are region free anyway - i'm just making the point that region locked isn't much of an obstacle

12/25/2007 1:06:31 PM

Obstacle or not; it's still retarded.

12/25/2007 4:08:55 PM

i agree

12/25/2007 5:39:40 PM

where all the post-xmas blu-ray sales at???

12/26/2007 9:47:35 AM

no one bought any blu-ray

12/26/2007 12:02:57 PM

blu ray? whats that?

12/26/2007 12:06:09 PM

amazon has a bunch of hd dvds on sale and still has good b1g1 deals going.

12/26/2007 2:56:14 PM

Transformers freaking rules in HD!

12/26/2007 3:26:48 PM