What are you watching?
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NorthStar
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Ha! Good one Barry.
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Any of you watching the game later on?
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Any of you watching the game later on?
NorthStar
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Last night ::
NorthStar
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Revisited ::
* Mainly for the cinematography (camera compositions).
...And the music soundtrack too, and the subtle effects in the surround channels.
* Mainly for the cinematography (camera compositions).
...And the music soundtrack too, and the subtle effects in the surround channels.
Lefisc
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Bob, it finally happened. I’ve been spoiled.
After watching five season of Star Trek TNG on blu ray, I went to put on the last two seasons on regular DVD. I couldn’t watch it. The picture was faded, the sharpness wasn’t there, the motion seemed jittery. The sound was thin and flat. I then put on a new DVD set of the BBC’s “Pennies from Heaven” and it was even worse. They were two distracting to watch.
In our “new” era of 1080p and DTS MA I find I cannot go back!!!! SAVE ME!!!!!
After watching five season of Star Trek TNG on blu ray, I went to put on the last two seasons on regular DVD. I couldn’t watch it. The picture was faded, the sharpness wasn’t there, the motion seemed jittery. The sound was thin and flat. I then put on a new DVD set of the BBC’s “Pennies from Heaven” and it was even worse. They were two distracting to watch.
In our “new” era of 1080p and DTS MA I find I cannot go back!!!! SAVE ME!!!!!
NorthStar
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It's interesting what you just mentioned Barry; because since 2006 I'm watching 99%+ of all my movies in high definition picture (1080p, and few in 1080i) and high resolution audio.
From 2006 to 2009 I watched very few DVDs, not that many, and my DVD movie/music collection is quite extensive since I started purchasing them big time from 1997-98. ...Few thousand titles.
And from 2009 up to now, I can count the DVDs that I watched with my two feet.
But I'm going to be totally honest with you, just like I always am; I appreciate to have the best hi-res sound and hi-def picture, but if there is one day per six months when I feel to watch a certain flick and that I don't have on Blu (or HD DVD), it won't detract me that much to watch it from my lo-res/lo-def DVD movie collection.
But like I said, it happened so rarely now.
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* Last night I revisited this (on Blu) ::
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----------------------------- :heart: R.I.P. Phil :heart:
From 2006 to 2009 I watched very few DVDs, not that many, and my DVD movie/music collection is quite extensive since I started purchasing them big time from 1997-98. ...Few thousand titles.
And from 2009 up to now, I can count the DVDs that I watched with my two feet.
But I'm going to be totally honest with you, just like I always am; I appreciate to have the best hi-res sound and hi-def picture, but if there is one day per six months when I feel to watch a certain flick and that I don't have on Blu (or HD DVD), it won't detract me that much to watch it from my lo-res/lo-def DVD movie collection.
But like I said, it happened so rarely now.
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* Last night I revisited this (on Blu) ::
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----------------------------- :heart: R.I.P. Phil :heart:
NorthStar
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I've been thinking a lot and reflecting back recently ...
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Last night I re-watched this great flick ::
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* If you've never seen this flick yet, please do.
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Last night I re-watched this great flick ::
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* If you've never seen this flick yet, please do.
Lefisc
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Not only did I see and enjoy the film, especially Marisa tomei, they shot some of it in my neighborhood on Long Island. While they say they are in per ny they shot the outdoor mall scenes right here! I often go to Bens resturant which you may quickly see!
NorthStar
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Wow, that is some' else Barry! ...A great flick, with four of the best actors, and from a great movie director.
* We just lost Philip into the dark and tenebrous abyss, and his work is coming back to the surfacing light.
...His art of acting and interacting.
- A Must See for everyone; "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
* We just lost Philip into the dark and tenebrous abyss, and his work is coming back to the surfacing light.
...His art of acting and interacting.
- A Must See for everyone; "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead"
Lefisc
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Bob, I didn’t quite know I was a bit different. I might also be lying*
Music has always been my first love. I love hearing it live and wanted my stereo at home to sound as much like live music as possible. This has been a lifelong quest, to get the best music. But to do that you need to get the best equipment. And that is how I saw it, the equipment was a means to an end, great sounding music. So I learned about the equipment.
What I didn’t know was that there were a lot of people who were more involved with the components. Their end was the best machines. They studied them, they tweak them, they adjusted them, they just didn’t spend the time listening to music as I did. They listen to their speakers, or phonographs or amps. You often can “tell” these kind of people. When demonstrating their stuff they don’t play anything a long time, they switch things every few minutes. It’s like listening to “coming attractions” to music.
And they ALWAYS hear deficiencies in systems, especially their own. My amps doesn’t do this, my speakers don’t do that. Their lack of satisfaction is always leading them to search for something better. And there is always something better out there.
Frankly, I appreciate what they do, it’s their hobby and if they can afford it, great. Really. But I don’t quite fit in. I do listen and have gone to demonstrations, but sitting home in my ridiculous to comfortable chair and listening is my goal. (And, as I get older, not falling asleep.)
Let me tell you why I have never owned B and W speakers. In 1990, I was getting into higher end and went to a Stereophile show and listen to the B and W speakers. The salesperson asked me what equipment I had. I told him I had the Levenson Pre-amp and stereo amp.
“What model numbers?” I was asked.
“I have the better pre-amp and their only stereo amp.”
“What model numbers?” I was asked.
“I don’t remember the numbers.”
“Then you can’t listen to the speakers.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t believe you have that equipment. People with that equipment would know the model numbers.”
Really, I never got to hear them. I heard the Thiels and bought them. But he felt he knew his target audience, someone who knew their equipment much better than me.
I enjoyed going to movie revivals and seeing movies complete, with no commercials when I was young. Many friends felt I was nuts, feeling that you should only see a movie once. I never thought of home theatre until Mel Torme was on the Tonight show (about 1973) and discussed having a 35mm “Home Theatre” at his house. He had a print of the original King Kong. Wow, I thought, wouldn’t that be great. Of course it took 30 years for that to happen for me. And now with Blu Ray and 6.1 sound, I feel basically complete, but I know in this area there will be major improvements in the next few years. But you and talk about the movies, not the DVD players.
*But really folks: I accept the fact that no one could have the system I do without knowing about the subject and working at it. And boy did I work at it. But I am not in love with the equipment; it would be like being love with the UPS truck. I am in love with what it brings me. But I feel a bit out of place when I am with a group that just focuses on the components.
Music has always been my first love. I love hearing it live and wanted my stereo at home to sound as much like live music as possible. This has been a lifelong quest, to get the best music. But to do that you need to get the best equipment. And that is how I saw it, the equipment was a means to an end, great sounding music. So I learned about the equipment.
What I didn’t know was that there were a lot of people who were more involved with the components. Their end was the best machines. They studied them, they tweak them, they adjusted them, they just didn’t spend the time listening to music as I did. They listen to their speakers, or phonographs or amps. You often can “tell” these kind of people. When demonstrating their stuff they don’t play anything a long time, they switch things every few minutes. It’s like listening to “coming attractions” to music.
And they ALWAYS hear deficiencies in systems, especially their own. My amps doesn’t do this, my speakers don’t do that. Their lack of satisfaction is always leading them to search for something better. And there is always something better out there.
Frankly, I appreciate what they do, it’s their hobby and if they can afford it, great. Really. But I don’t quite fit in. I do listen and have gone to demonstrations, but sitting home in my ridiculous to comfortable chair and listening is my goal. (And, as I get older, not falling asleep.)
Let me tell you why I have never owned B and W speakers. In 1990, I was getting into higher end and went to a Stereophile show and listen to the B and W speakers. The salesperson asked me what equipment I had. I told him I had the Levenson Pre-amp and stereo amp.
“What model numbers?” I was asked.
“I have the better pre-amp and their only stereo amp.”
“What model numbers?” I was asked.
“I don’t remember the numbers.”
“Then you can’t listen to the speakers.”
“Why not?”
“I don’t believe you have that equipment. People with that equipment would know the model numbers.”
Really, I never got to hear them. I heard the Thiels and bought them. But he felt he knew his target audience, someone who knew their equipment much better than me.
I enjoyed going to movie revivals and seeing movies complete, with no commercials when I was young. Many friends felt I was nuts, feeling that you should only see a movie once. I never thought of home theatre until Mel Torme was on the Tonight show (about 1973) and discussed having a 35mm “Home Theatre” at his house. He had a print of the original King Kong. Wow, I thought, wouldn’t that be great. Of course it took 30 years for that to happen for me. And now with Blu Ray and 6.1 sound, I feel basically complete, but I know in this area there will be major improvements in the next few years. But you and talk about the movies, not the DVD players.
*But really folks: I accept the fact that no one could have the system I do without knowing about the subject and working at it. And boy did I work at it. But I am not in love with the equipment; it would be like being love with the UPS truck. I am in love with what it brings me. But I feel a bit out of place when I am with a group that just focuses on the components.
NorthStar
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Barry, that was a great read!
I don't truly know what to add. Or perhaps that it's the people I love more than anything else, including the music, the movies, the gear, the cars, the mansions, and all that jazz.
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* Last night I revisited this one, again!
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- I could now probably write a book or two about it but I won't.
I don't truly know what to add. Or perhaps that it's the people I love more than anything else, including the music, the movies, the gear, the cars, the mansions, and all that jazz.
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* Last night I revisited this one, again!
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- I could now probably write a book or two about it but I won't.
NorthStar
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Revisited ::
Lefisc
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Over the last few months I have been watching a lot of old, and even new TV. Recently, I have been working on a project and haven’t had enough time to sit a watch a movie.
From the late 1950s I have seen Naked City; From the 1960s I have seen Mission: Impossible, Mannix and Star Trek (all done by Desilu, by the way); From the late 1980s: Star Trek, TNG and from the 1990s a bit of Law and Order.
While watching the Ian Fleming series from the BBC, I realized how dramatically TV production has improved since I was a kid.
TV almost immediately killed the movie serials and “B” movies. But it didn’t necessarily put those companies out of business; they went over to the weekly series, TV. For example, the Superman TV show was produced by the same people who did the Superman serials. And it looks it!!! With Naked City and Superman they did not yet know the “power” of residuals and that making a series that would last could mean millions of dollars.
Naked City boasted that it show on location in NY, but this was because they didn’t have the money to pay for sets. Well, they often had one or two, but very cheaply done. Yet it worked. It was the forerunner of Law and Order, which looks so much more elaborate.
Compare the first two version of Star Trek and you see a major leap forward in next gen.
With inflation it is impossible to compare the costs of a show in real terms. Star Trek got about $180,000 an episode, nearly 20 years later, the Next gen got 1.2 million. Shot by the same studio at the same time, but on a different network, Mission and Mannix got 20% more than Star Trek, but all three shows were losing money for the studio. At that time, reruns of shows did not usually occur until it was cancelled, so there was NOT an additional revenue stream. So money was NOT pumped into these shows. (A few long running shows did have reruns, but they changed the name of the show. In concurrent reruns Dragnet became “Badge 714;” The Danny Thomas Show adopted its original name, “Make Room For Daddy” and Gunsmoke became “Marshall Dillon.” But these were exceptions.
By the late 1980s, movie studios began producing most TV shows and they knew that the real money was in returns. Production values increased as independent stations, which was looking for content, increased in number. By the mid 1990s, cable became a big player.
Cable, a washed with cash, consistent revenues not built on advertisers alone and dealing with adult audiences seemed to have pushed the quality of TV. It is a surprise for some to learn that cable TV shows do much better on DVD than broadcast shows. Simply, it is because no everyone has cable and they buy or rent more of these. Of course not only do broadcast TV and cable often “share shows” including Law and Order, but they have so many revenue streams now.
So I was impressed with the production values of the Ian Fleming series, and SHIELD and NCIS. We have come a long way, baby both in sound and vision.
From the late 1950s I have seen Naked City; From the 1960s I have seen Mission: Impossible, Mannix and Star Trek (all done by Desilu, by the way); From the late 1980s: Star Trek, TNG and from the 1990s a bit of Law and Order.
While watching the Ian Fleming series from the BBC, I realized how dramatically TV production has improved since I was a kid.
TV almost immediately killed the movie serials and “B” movies. But it didn’t necessarily put those companies out of business; they went over to the weekly series, TV. For example, the Superman TV show was produced by the same people who did the Superman serials. And it looks it!!! With Naked City and Superman they did not yet know the “power” of residuals and that making a series that would last could mean millions of dollars.
Naked City boasted that it show on location in NY, but this was because they didn’t have the money to pay for sets. Well, they often had one or two, but very cheaply done. Yet it worked. It was the forerunner of Law and Order, which looks so much more elaborate.
Compare the first two version of Star Trek and you see a major leap forward in next gen.
With inflation it is impossible to compare the costs of a show in real terms. Star Trek got about $180,000 an episode, nearly 20 years later, the Next gen got 1.2 million. Shot by the same studio at the same time, but on a different network, Mission and Mannix got 20% more than Star Trek, but all three shows were losing money for the studio. At that time, reruns of shows did not usually occur until it was cancelled, so there was NOT an additional revenue stream. So money was NOT pumped into these shows. (A few long running shows did have reruns, but they changed the name of the show. In concurrent reruns Dragnet became “Badge 714;” The Danny Thomas Show adopted its original name, “Make Room For Daddy” and Gunsmoke became “Marshall Dillon.” But these were exceptions.
By the late 1980s, movie studios began producing most TV shows and they knew that the real money was in returns. Production values increased as independent stations, which was looking for content, increased in number. By the mid 1990s, cable became a big player.
Cable, a washed with cash, consistent revenues not built on advertisers alone and dealing with adult audiences seemed to have pushed the quality of TV. It is a surprise for some to learn that cable TV shows do much better on DVD than broadcast shows. Simply, it is because no everyone has cable and they buy or rent more of these. Of course not only do broadcast TV and cable often “share shows” including Law and Order, but they have so many revenue streams now.
So I was impressed with the production values of the Ian Fleming series, and SHIELD and NCIS. We have come a long way, baby both in sound and vision.
NorthStar
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Anybody here at the aquarium watching the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics?
{I just started an official, dedicated thread about it; see you there, eventually.}
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{I just started an official, dedicated thread about it; see you there, eventually.}
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Lefisc
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I am not at all interested in the Olympics. And if I hear that theme song one more time, I might give up on home theatre
NorthStar
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Barry, you did not watch the opening ceremonies? ...And the lighting of the Olympic flame and the fireworks?
This is real life movie time! ...With all the tears from the heart and high emotions from the best world's athletes and high caliber art (sound and visual).
Did you hear that lady singing the Olympic anthem, with the all men chorus? Wow! ...Talk about power coming from deep the crevasses of the earth!
Russians have a lot to be reckon with!
This is real life movie time! ...With all the tears from the heart and high emotions from the best world's athletes and high caliber art (sound and visual).
Did you hear that lady singing the Olympic anthem, with the all men chorus? Wow! ...Talk about power coming from deep the crevasses of the earth!
Russians have a lot to be reckon with!
Lefisc
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Boring. I sitting waiting for the terrorists to attack.
NorthStar
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What a boring comment! 
Lefisc
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I hAve friends over, we are watching The Last Emperor by Criteron.
