Recent content by Mike.P

My cylinder came today. Oh my god, it's gigantic. I'm not even hooking it up until my audio buddy can come do it since I have no faith in my cabling of a $600 sub, but just looking at it until then is getting me giddy.

Haha, funny that I was just coming here to post and you happened to bump it for me Mike... I purchased the PCi 20-39 today (much to my wallet's crying for mercy). I cannot wait til this bad boy comes! I was also looking at other options, and I really was strongly considering the Epik Knight...

Thanks for your help, Robert - It's not open to any other rooms, and I try to listen close to reference levels and I do watch a wide variety of movies, mostly action, comedy, and drama (So I guess...everything?) The SR-606 came today, my CSi25 comes tomorrow...Still need some rears as the...

So, now that I've got my first real job since leaving college a year ago and a steady income, I've decided to kick the $250 Onkyo HTIB to the curb and upgrade to a decent starter system. I'm really only looking for 5.1 right now since my room is small (looking to move into a townhome in the next...

Got my Ultimate and Complete sets - Ultimate is out of 103k, but it's toward the end of the run which leads to the idea that the limited number is for all sets combined. Also opened my Complete set and my disc 5 is correct.

I'm just going with what people have reported - There's definitely no way there are 103,000 sets for both BD/HD - Something like 10k each for BD and HD is far more likely, if the Canadian number is strictly that, I won't have my briefcase until Saturday at the earliest to see what my # is...

Worse customer service than Amazon? I've gone completely amazon-exclusive with the vast majority of my purchases. No tax, free shipping (or if I want it fast, other options are available), and most of the time the best prices (especially with BOGOs and my additional 10% off for HDM). And if...

Maybe if the Blu-Ray spec wouldn't be a horrible mess at this point, Universal would've jumped shipped and this would have never been a problem. Bill Hunt does not come off well at all - he makes it sound like the Blu-Ray camp has been completely up to par thusfar, which they have been well...

Mr. Harris, thank you for your recommendation on this disc. I would have never watched this otherwise, being that the film precedes my birth by 17 years and I previously had little interest in Westerns. The excellent presentation and beautiful cinematography put this in my top 5 as far as...

Hmmm, I'm going to have to side with Mr. Harris on this side of the argument. I've never once been let down by his recommendations. I took a peak at this over the weekend, and it looked fantastic! I think I'll watch it on Saturday.

Blind buy for me on this yesterday after Mr. Harris' recommendation - Can't wait to watch it soon.

This is the second time an analogy like this has been used, and its completely out of place. The film is the most important part here - and we are getting every cut in HD. The extras, while still a part of the history of the film, are not the film itself - similar to bonus tracks, I...

HD-DVD:16 Blu-Ray:0 I'll be format neutral once I decide to pick up a PS3.

As long as the cuts of the film themselves are in HD, I'm thrilled. Next up I'd want trailers, "Dangerous Days", and the Deleted Scenes in HD if possible, but them not being in it wouldn't be a dealbreaker. Featurettes can be in SD for all I care as I'll watch them once at most and never...

Courtesy of Bill Hunt @ The Digital Bits - I e-mailed them last night. :) "In the meantime, with all of the MAJOR news announcements of the last couple of days, there have been a lot of follow-up questions. So I've been busy calling and e-mailing studio contacts to get answers to as many of...