I have here the complete James Bond Steelbook collection, I love collecting Steelbooks but these must go and I know I will regret this down the road and will be looking for them again, but bills must be paid this is all 9 films released so far, Dr. No, FRWL, Goldfinger, Thunderball, Live and...
I here a Onkyo DV-HD805 HD-DVD player that was purchased as a 1 year warrantied refurb directly from Onkyo like most people think with their orders from Onkyo, this player is in my opinion brand new not a refurb I have used this to watch exactly 4 movies and that is it, the only reason I...
if anyone would like a addendum please list the features you would like to know about or questions and I can try and cover it in the update/add-on thanks -Gary
its 10 fold tougher to watch with the better sound and video for sure, but just so well made and put together that it still boggles the mind how good this film is -Gary
in my opinion it does, this is the best BD player ever made, it literally embarrasses those two companies offerings in speed, capability, responsiveness and heck even quality hardcore blu-ray users will know what I mean when they get to see this player for the first time in their home or...
your decoding internally and output as PCM via HDMI will be top notch, you can be sure of that, Oppo actually has a pretty nice analog section in there as well for 8ch output, I don't think anyone will be disappointed ;) -Gary
Special Review Of Upcoming Oppo BDP-83 Blu-Ray Player My System Used For This Review I have to admit, being in this hobby and having the privilege to be in the position I am in does have its perks. As a reviewer and beta tester for various companies I get the chance to see and experience...
sorry about that missing info you wanted to see Bob, the BD50 had up until the time of the review been the best BD PQ I had seen at direct 1080p/24, the Pioneer Elite 05FD(review just posted) is actually even better and is now my top pick of what I have personally seen -Gary
Mike, with the BD50 set to 1080p/24 HDMI output in 4:2:2 feeding the DVDO VP50pro the unit had perfect white levels in my system, all the way out as far as the test patterns went, my output from the VP50pro scaler was 1080p/60 4:2:2 this kind of thing(black and white levels) is so subjective...
ah I see, I wondered the same, it seems you had to get the steelbooks from somewhere to be able to have these, they cost more but where worth it for sure, I got them at BB for 24.99$ ea. -Gary
that is just the steelbook releases with my PPK on the top :D I thought Bond fans would enjoy it it is a stainless Walther PPK in .380 ACP, a classic piece that never gets old and is one heck of a fine shooter Bond actually carried a blued PPK in 7.65mm/.32 ACP -Gary
Scary Movie is the greatest abomination on a BD disc IMHO, DNR'd to hell, then slapped hard with EE, it looks like a really bad upconvert, in fact worse than the SD DVD upconverted via a scaler and a SDI DVD player your point is dead on correct -Gary
pure highest end audio and video and forget the extras, that is simply my view there is plenty room on a BD50 for all this stuff, and that is fine, but if it means higher prices for more special features then I don't want it, in fact I would love to see studios offer slightly cheaper film...
I don't agree at all true Scope Anamorphic films always have way better detail than Super-35 crap, BD's of Eraser, Dirty Harry, Blade Runner, Memento, Getaway (1972), Unforgiven, Batman Begins, Prestige (to name a few) smoke everything else when it comes to pure detail and resolution...