Recent content by John Alderson

I have watched Apple closely for many years now, and most of the time these analysts and leaks - especially this far ahead of a new phone - may have the right info, but jump to wildly incorrect conclusions. What I have read in sources I trust is that the 2018 iPhone lineup will look like the...

3D is a must for me as well - it really is a great experience, and it's disappointing that it seems to be fading away (not that every "3D" movie is worth it, but when done right it's awesome). I'll also be very curious how the HDR performance is on these. I have a 3D capable HD Optoma and just...

I just finally got around to watching Blue - wow, what an improvement over a DVD I loved. The video quality was of course better, but my favorite improvement were the subtitles. They always seemed too high up on the picture in the original version. Now they're at the bottom of the frame...

All good points David. It's a little different now because people are more aware of film preservation, and we have the technology to do it well. With Star Wars though, all of this additional tinkering doesn't bother me in the least. He can mess with them as much as he wants, they're already...

I have to say, this is one welcome change. The TPM Yoda has always looked like Yoda's deranged uncle to me. I don't know what happened when they made that puppet. In one of the docs Lucas sounds kind of exasperated and says something like "Well I guess he changes his appearance every 10 years or...

That is frightfully insulting to a huge number of artists that pour their heart into their work. Are there bad special effects done just to turn a quick buck? Of course there are. Plenty. But there were back in "the good old days" before all these soulless computers took over. Guess what, the...

Has anyone anywhere confirmed digital Yoda in TPM? I know it's assumed, but, well...

I believe the lightsaber color timing so talked about is closer to the original theatrical release. I found, way back when the DVD's were released in 2004, an old newsgroup post from 1983 complaining about how it was Luke's saber blocking Vader. The only version I've ever seen that this is...

I saw Blu-Rays on sale at the local dollar store today. Granted, one of them was Crank 2: High Voltage... but still, it surprised the hell out of me. If that doesn't signal blu's acceptance as a mainstream format, I don't know what does. For me, Blu-Ray has (much to my wife's chagrin) greatly...

I watched the commentary with Jackson, Walsh and Boyens on the 2nd half of ROTK, and they all pretty openly mocked the scene that opens the disc, where the ghost army attacks the pirates. It was pretty funny actually, but really drove home how these are not the filmmakers preferred versions...

I'd be interested to see the merry split screen done with rotk:te and fotr:te... The caps of the flashback between the TEs of TTT and FOTR (first page of the thread) show there have always been color timing differences between the two (with FOTR greener). But I'm not interested enough to do it...

Why should HTF be immune to the long Internet tradition of beating a dead horse? The discussion fascinates me, though there's really nothing new that can be said. The color timing for FOTR is clearly different than any previous release on disc. Also clear is that the flashback scenes in TTT...

Careful, maybe the new one looks even worse ;)

I maintain that the theatrical versions are ultimately better films than the EE's; though there is tons of stuff in the EE's that I love, there's also a bit that just feels wrong. I watch them about equally. So my hesitation with these isn't that they're the theatricals, I without a doubt need...

I don't see the big deal, honestly. Why would they not work? Is the player going to somehow know there's a DVD on the other side instead of a label and not play the disc because it's offended? None of my old DVD flippers ever failed. I don't display my discs outside of their cases so the...