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I've got Fios. Rented several HD movies. Takes less than a minute before it's ready to go - pretty much works flawlessly. I don't think the picture is as good as a movie on HBO high def (again, on Fios). But a little better than a regular DVD. Technology is definitely ready for primetime -...

Question - can you buy Wii Points directly from the shopping channel, or do you need to buy one of those cards from a store?

Yeah, MoS was one of the scenes I really wanted to see last December. I'm glad it made it to the EE - just disappointed with the execution of the MoS character itself and the resolution of the confrontation. Gandalf got the better of him with sharp words - classic Gandalf stuff. Aragorn simply...

I'm not saying it didn't. Not even sure about the context of the comment I was originally replying to (I kind of butted in). Haven't had a chance to watch the appendices yet, but sounds like PJ & Co. were saying it wouldn't really work since the audience already knew the fate of Frodo. I'm just...

Holadem - I'm mostly with you re MoS. But if the scene truly did kick ass, it would have been in the theatrical, so I had very low expectations. I disagree. Why the scene worked in the book for me had nothing to do with what I knew or didn't know about Frodo's fate; rather, it had...

Well I have to say this is the one EE that I definitely prefer over the TE. Don't get me wrong - I really enjoy the other two EE's - but I feel many of those added scenes, however great they are, simply hurt the films a little too much from a pacing perspective to make them my preferred...

If you're looking for a receiver that excels with music and is also very capable for HT, check out the Arcam AVR200. It may seem underpowered at only 70 wpc x 5, but that's a very honest 70 wpc. Retailing for $1200, it has been discontinued, but can still be had new for $900 or so. Price may...

Debatable? With everything else, I think you need to factor price when making that argument. From all my research (which isn't much), I was led to believe that in the same price range, a two channel stereo receiver will sound better than a 5-channel receiver run in stereo mode - because you...

Or the extra $400 I save today will prevent me from feeling the need to buy all that other stuff tomorrow! I understand what you're saying - trust me, I'm certainly factoring in the "Home Theater Bug" hitting me eventually. To tell you the truth, I think I just like the idea of having an...

Thanks guys - definitely leaning towards the stereo receiver option. Besides, we all know this surround sound stuff is just a passing fad. ;)

Or to put the question another way - which do you think would sound better with a two speaker set-up for movies: 1) Having the dvd player down-convert the 5.1 track to a two-channel stereo signal (or alternatively selecting the 2 channel mix in the DVD's set-up menu, if available), and then...

I'm in the market for a new receiver, but not sure whether to go with a surround receiver or just a good old fashion 2 channel stereo receiver. The models I am considering are the Rotel RSX-1056 surround receiver or the Rotel RX-1050 stereo receiver. The 1056 runs about $400 more. I plan to...

John G - which bookshelves would you recommend in that $800 range - those Joseph's you mentioned appear to be substantially more expensive.

Exactly! You caught me - tried to change that before anyone noticed. Anyway, sorry to derail - just seemed the first post was more about film content than DVD presentation, but I'll move any discussion over to the Movies forum.

I know this has been debated to no end, and that this isn't the forum to continue the debate, but since you bring it up, I have to respond - just tired of another attempt to dismiss/explain away the controversial nature of the film. There is a difference between a film being "anti-semitic", and...

But Netflix has it as 7 separate discs - when you add the series to your rental queue, 7 discs show up. This wasn't the case for season 1 - netflix had the same 4 double sided discs that you could find in stores. Unless Warner did indeed quite making the flipper discs, this would seem to be a...

Anybody know why Netflix has season 2 as a 7 disc series? Is there a 7 disc series available to buy, or do they do this specifically for the rental market so there are more discs to rent (and thus more temptation to buy)?

I think that many people who really really like KB1 will find KB2 a bit of a letdown the first time. I was in this boat - I thought KB1 was nothing short of a masterpiece, and after the first viewing of KB2, while I didn't think it was a bad film, I really missed all the energy from the first...

Uh - didn't the film win the SAG Best Emsemble Award? And some of the individual actors were widely recognized for their performances in this movie, albeit not from the Academy. Stating that the acting wasn't recognized or widely discussed is simply an uninformed statement.

Anthony - interesting discussion points. Not killing off Bill is something that certainly crossed my mind, and who knows, maybe it would have worked. Personally, I love how she finishes him off anyway despite the notion that it made no emotional sense (which I don't really agree with). Had the...

Well that's the obvious reason she wasn't the first to be killed in the story QT wanted to tell. Like I said, you can easily solve that "problem" by simply making Vernita easier to track down and getting rid of Sophie's character, or any of a million other directions you could take the story...

No I'm not. Like what myself and Walter and numerous other people in this thread have pointed out, the way QT wrote the story, The Bride couldn't have found Vernita without first having dispatched Oren and gotten the info from Sophie. Sure, QT could have done away with all that entirely, and...

Films can be whatever they want to be. I'll let others decide what is a "film" and what is a "movie". All I know is that Kill Bill is great piece of entertainment. It isn't pretending to be anything more than what it is. And the Vernita scene plays great as the first chapter. The Bride can't...

Yeah, she has the shorter hair in the airport after she arrives in Tokyo, which I took to be pretty much right before the House of Blue Leaves. At first I thought the noticeably different hairstyle could be explained by her wearing the motorcycle helmet, but after watching it again, her hair is...

JonZ - I noticed the same thing with her hair, because she looks so much hotter with the shorter hair in that airport scene than she does once she gets to the House of Blue Leaves.

Well fortunately, the version I really want is available right now, and if I see added value in future releases, I'll happily buy those as well. As long as we're getting pretty much different versions of the film in subsequent releases (and I'm not talking merely extras), I don't consider it...

They treated the Eagles exactly as I had hoped - pretty much eliminating the criticism of "why didn't the eagles just fly the ring into Mount Doom". The Eagles bought everybody some time, but they weren't overwhelming and it clearly leaves the impression that the eagles wouldn't have been able...

Amazing film, although I have two major gripes - both book related. First, I really wish Jackson would have played out the "Choices of Master Samwise" a bit more, to the point where the audience believes Sam is the one to carry the ring to Mount Doom, if only for a brief moment. I thought...

Or one might be snubbed because of backlash from the screener ban.