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There's a similar easter egg on the Zoolander DVD (minus the snapping fingers trick though) You have to highlight the circle in the middle of the special features page if I recall correctly. -cris

here here. Same film, but one version is sped-up a little, the other has frames repeated to achieve the correct video frame rate. BTW Jay, are you "Treadwell" on the RPF? I'm Kimncris... -cris

An NTSC DVD displays MORE frames per second than a PAL version of the same movie. 29.97 vs 25. The speedup phenomenon is due to the film being transferred 4% faster to accomplish the rate comversion from 24 FPS to 25. BTW my friend here at work got his replacement from FOX today...

I posted the exact time in my earlier post, but it was right after Obi Wan says "millions of voices cried out in -" he never got the word terror started on my players. Then it froze for many seconds and resumed with the Tarkin scene in the Death Star just before the layer break. -cris

Has anyone seen an official written announcment from FOX on the ch 27 skipping issue - or is it still all word of mouth? -cris

I also had the freeze at chapter 27 problem in ANH. On my Phillips DVDR 615 the movie froze at 59:25 at the line "as if millions of voices cried out in-" FREEZE for several seconds and then resumed at 1:02:44 with Grand Moff Tarkin in the Death Star saying "yes." "Our scout ships...."...

I'll probably end up getting this, but I really wish there was a commentary to explain just what they were thinking with that Lame A** Cop Out ending :frowning: "- The end is near as the epic war between man and machine reaches a thundering crescendo " The truth is that there is no end...

Here's a silly question: Doesn't my TV already do this? -cris

Great Movie! :emoji_thumbsup: And finally I can replace my VHS TMBG video collection. Sadly though, it does not look like the Purple Toupee video made the cut. Oh well, 4 1/2 hours of Bonus Johns! Woohoo! -cris

Maybe! It would be nice if it were that easy, but it does not explain why I can still see it around text boxes when I have a neutral backgound, like a blue screen, and just the TV's setup menu on screen. I thought maybe it was the recent discs I had been watching, but it seems more and more...

There is a serviceman coming tomorrow! Hopefully it will be something he can fix fairly easily. I know it looks small in those pics but it is at least the width of my finger and itis very annoying! Thanks again for the advice. -cris

Thanks, Mitch. I called Sony today, and even though I told them ALL of the trouble shooting that I had done, they still walked me through their innane script. Are you watching it on Sattelite? Yes, I also see it on DVD and VHS, composite or component... Can you change the channel? Yes...

Thanks :) Is there still "convergence" on the LCD sets? -cris

Sorry if this is the wrong forum, I could not decide if this was better to post here or in the equipment forum. I have a Sony Grand Wega 60" (not calibrated, just out of the box) and have been noticing an annoying red halo around the left edges some high contrast areas lately. It is in...

I have seen both, and to my knowledge it is NOT sped up for the PAL. ck

thanks... I just watched Gremlins last night and same thing: no bars. Perhaps the other movie I watched (can't remember which one :frowning: ) was a little bit more than 1:85, or maybe it was because it was not anamorphic and the "zoom" on my TV displays a little differently. Come to...

dang....nobody? How about any 16x9 set? Do you usually see the bars on 1.85 movies? -cris

The case says that this movie is 1.85:1 and from what I have read in my search, it seems that nobody has noticed otherwise. However, when I came home the other night, my wife was watching it and it filled the frame(no mattes). I would swear that I watched something else recently that was...

Is that the big star trek looking one with the touch screen? (and without the arrow keys?) If so- I have that one and I have changed the batteries without having to re-program anything. (I do however have mostly Sony components, but not all so I think it remembered everything and did not...

But with direct TV don't you only get one signal from the box at a time? I always see the same picture on both sides, unless I use it to watch DVD and DirecTV at the same time. (have not found a use for this yet) ck

It's probably so that if you are watching it in another language, you don't get double subs. ck

Thanks you guys...makes perfect sense. ck

Here's a question for you lucky 16x9 havin' folks: On my 4x3 setup- the subtitles usually appear in the black letterbox created by the player. What happens when you have a 16x9 set and can blow up the picture to fill the entire screen. Do you lose the subs, or does the player compensate? -ck

But in order to stop it- don't you first have to know what it is- and what causes it? -cris

whoops- I know that the 1.85 DVDs (and VIDEO transfers)are anamorphic, however what I am assuming really is that the 1.85 FILMS were shot flat, or spherical- and then matted to create widescreen and not shot anamorphicly on film. What I was thinking is that maybe it could have been the...

Hi Bjoern, I am pretty new here, and have found your website to be very informative. A couple of things you have pointed out made me think a little bit and just wanted to throw this out there... please be kind to the newbie

I love this set- even with the dumb sync pops- However Disc 2 pauses or Crashes in older Sony Players during Life on the Fast Lane where Marge tries on the bowling glove. This is a very annoying compatability issue. (I have a Sony 7000) Does anyone know what happened to the other thread...

Most players CAN play through a seamless layer- however the spec was written for the lowest common denomenator- thus- discs must be programmed with a cell command at the layer change which forces the player to pause. The length of the pause and how noticable it is depends on the player and on...

I have seen examples like the one in the middle mistakenly called "minor examples of edge enhancement" Obviously, like you say, if it is constant- it cannot be related to the variable rate compression. -cris