Recent content by Roberto Carlo

Just watched "Cyberwoman" and all I can say is how do you say "woo boy, that s**ked!" in Welsh? It was awful. Every time Lianto started whining about his girlfriend, I wanted Jack to just shoot him. Barely three episodes into the series and they're already going for Cybermen AND running around...

Thanks for the link. I already own the comparable Masterworks Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Dvorak and Brahms sets.

My reaction exactly. I have two DVD players: an OPPO 970 and the Playstation 3 with the latest firmware and this disc looked mediocre on both of them. The word that came to mind while watching it was "uneven." I "got" what Fincher was trying to do, look-wise, but the problems went beyond that...

It's two years old with a newish (6 months) lamp and new color wheel. It's been ISF calibrated by Avical. In excellent condition. $500 o.b.o. I don't want to go through the shipping mishigas: looking for buyers within driving distance of Washington DC area.

This is a fascinating thread. Whenever I read or hear tech company guys describe the future, Donald Fagen's I.G.Y. starts playing in my head. They're so smitten by what they think they can do, they don't seem to ask themselves "do people really want smart coffee tables?" Likewise, they seem...

Well, given the abundance of broadband options that allow me to download HD media playable on my 50" monitor in the time it takes me to make a snack, of course. I'm sorry but the guy from Microsoft seems to be stunningly unaware of (a) the bandwidth problem -- as in how long it would take to...

Exactly. The show has never been a mobster show; it's a show about families that uses the mobster setting to illustrate and draw out the tensions, compromises and contradictions that every family faces. In the end, Tony only has his family: his crew is decimated; Melfi "fired" him and he's...

I'd like some advice/input on a notion that's been bouncing around in my head lately: I currently have a Samsung 5063W DLP. It's been calibrated by Avical, so you know that it's getting the best picture I can reasonably expect from it. It's on its second bulb. I've always found the picture...

I bought a PS3 on Monday. I had planned on sitting out but the ability to play games (actually, my son is the gamer -- I'm a klutz) and the increasing number of Blu-Ray titles convinced me that this was a pretty low-risk way to dip one's toe in the waters.

I had the same problem. I first had to update the firmware. Then it worked fine, although it took a few minutes.

Onkyo TX-SR803. I run the PS3's HDMI through the receiver and then to my Samsung DLP. Works fine except that I still haven't figured out how to get the setup to play multichannel SACDs in, well, multichannel.

Sony Playstation 3 60GB. Got it on Monday.

Here's the lede: Here's the link

Unfortunately, the set will not play -- at least, the high resolution side -- on Pioneer DVD-A players. I just got off the phone with a very helpful guy, Mac, from Rhino who assured me that my experience is typical. That's a shame: I really looked forward to this set but I'm not buying a new...

Yet they are "alive" and "sentient" enough to be worth having sex with. After all, who has sex with an appliance? (Don't answer. :D) Yes, rape is a crime of violence but a sexual crime nonetheless. That's why it's, to quote Law & Order: SVU, "especially heinous." A man who rapes a woman...