Recent content by Phong

Hey all. It's been a long long time since I've checked in here. In case you don't recognize my name, I had my 15 minutes of fame in the DVD community as the guy that started the Willy Wonka petition, probably also inspiring a slew of other petitions. Decided to check in on my HTF friends and...

I come out of lurking to post this picture that I took several months ago showing that Seattle itself is definately a wide(screen) city.. phong

This is true. There is a Rita cover and a Betty cover. Somebody told me they ordered from amazon and got the Betty cover.

Nice job on the site. I'm sure it will serve its purpose well. The design is great, quite professional. I'm in the middle of (trying to) design exhibition pages for my photography and I'm finding it difficult to maintain the professional look I'm after. Great work.

Look at the X10 Firecracker system for your remote lighting needs. http://www.x10.com/firecracker/fc_offer_br1ab.htm You can get better deals on the starter sets if you check the website often. (They are on sale a lot for $20 or so.) My friend has a set, and has all the lights in his house...

With my suggestion above of trying the Headwize forums, I'll also throw in my headphone opinion. The Sony MDR-V6 are probably the best closed headphones for under $100. (They are about $60 shipped from etronics.com.) Isolation is tremendous, and the bass curve seems to extend down forever...

Try the forums at headwize.com. It is the HTF or DVDTalk of headphones.

I bought a component rack from Ikea for about $90. A picture of it is here: Link Removed It is the the one in the upper left corner, marked #1. It weighs a ton (so it will minimize vibrations), and looks quite sharp with all my components' red power lights through the smoked front glass...

I recently (last week) bought the Home Theater Master MX-500 for $125 shipped, which you can read about at remotecentral.com. I wanted one with a screen so I could customize my button labels, but also with hard buttons, because I don't want to have to look at the remote every time I want to...

Hello, Although the petition gained a fair amount more signatures after I printed and sent it out to WHV, the version that WHV receieved contained 10,686 signatures and was 300-some pages. (I don't recall exactly how many pages.) The petition was mentioned in a trade publication, Video...

Bah, both of them take the notion of continuity editing and throw it out the window. They are all about getting the most action in the shortest amount of time, without any concern for establishing a thread which the audience can follow during the action. It's passive watching at its best, no...

David Gray, Live At The Point is an excellent purchase, both as a DVD and as a concert. The DVD features a good documentary called Up To A Point, which follows David Gray around for a few days before the concert. The concert itself is excellent, and captures the feeling at one of his shows...

I was also very disappointed with the documentary.. Wes Anderson's brother came off as annoying to me.. I don't remember what exactly it was that bugged me, but it seemed very unprofessional to me.

Region 2 "La Fille Sur Le Pont" comes in a clear case. Don't even want to know what that implies... Although it is really cool, because the chapter list is printed on the backside of the cover insert, so it shows through when you open the case.

I have heard that the existing DVDs are pretty terrible, with very little care taken during both audio and video transfer. Although I have not seen them myself, it's reported that the studio lost almost all music rights, and the songs in the episodes were replaced with far less effective...