Where has the time gone?
7/1/09 at 11:38am
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Holy crap! I've been a member here over 10 years!!!!
7/1/09 at 2:15pm
- Joined: December 1969
- Post Count: 7,219
NOT impressed. (See my "join date", left) 
Regards,
Joe
Regards,
Joe
7/1/09 at 2:22pm
- Joined: June 1999
- Location: Corvallis, OR
- Post Count: 121
Me, too!
7/1/09 at 5:31pm
- Joined: October 1998
- Location: Boise ID
- Post Count: 7,206
Whippersnapper!
Which reminds me - I wonder whether anyone invited Mike Knapp to the new and disproved HTF.
Which reminds me - I wonder whether anyone invited Mike Knapp to the new and disproved HTF.
Feline videophiles Susie and Dukie.
7/1/09 at 11:20pm
- Joined: July 1999
- Location: Oh man, what a loser. He's working in a cheese factory in...
- Post Count: 2,247
10 years of eating Silica and I'm still going...
Bruce
The Mads are calling
7/2/09 at 4:33am
- Joined: June 1999
- Post Count: 404
Add me to the 10 year club. That makes my average about 40 posts per year. 
Everybody relax, I'm here. -Jack Burton
7/2/09 at 6:55am
- Joined: March 2001
- Location: Rochester, NY
- Post Count: 6,321
How long have I been here? Bah. Only 8 years. I thought it had been longer. Now I'm sad. :(
7/2/09 at 7:16am
- Joined: October 1998
- Location: Boise ID
- Post Count: 7,206
Dave,
It's funny how your default avatar turned out to be a roll of film.
It's funny how your default avatar turned out to be a roll of film.
Feline videophiles Susie and Dukie.
7/2/09 at 7:36am
- Joined: November 1998
- Post Count: 721
Me too. Time flies. Hell I remember back in 95-96 seeing Ron's postings in the alt.rec.laserdisc newsgroups about this new "home theater forum" on the Delphi online service.
7/2/09 at 7:55am
- Joined: December 1969
- Post Count: 7,219
I was directed here from the old Consumer Electronics group on Compuserve, where there was much skepticism about this new "DVD" format with its digital video. IIRC I had already been on the HTF for awhile when DVD was officially rolled out in the U.S. in March 1997, and I bought my first player that fall. I fought in the DIVX wars and distinctly remember the howls of derision I got (on other fora) when I suggested that there would be a profitable market for full-season sets of TV shows on DVD. (Some of the loudest howls came from Warner Bros., which fought the idea tooth and nail for years.)
Ah, memories...
Ah, memories...
7/2/09 at 8:48am
- Joined: May 1999
- Post Count: 2,893
What's funny is there are lots of members with 10 years here. What seems to happen, certainly with me, is that the interest wains or the $ or location limit upgrading so we move on.
This was always my first home for HT advice(getting and giving), and having lots of fun in the "after hours lounge", and always will be.
I remember the days when this site was all together, one section for everything, now that was fun. I remember trying to beat Jay H to 4000 posts, and then 5000 posts and losing both.
I remember Tom and Ron talking about a "new venture" too, and look how that turned out:)
When I finally find a wife and get a home I'll start posting like a madman, but at 41 I'm learning that renting and making less $ than most 25 year olds isn't that conducive to upgrading equipment very often:)
Brent
This was always my first home for HT advice(getting and giving), and having lots of fun in the "after hours lounge", and always will be.
I remember the days when this site was all together, one section for everything, now that was fun. I remember trying to beat Jay H to 4000 posts, and then 5000 posts and losing both.
I remember Tom and Ron talking about a "new venture" too, and look how that turned out:)
When I finally find a wife and get a home I'll start posting like a madman, but at 41 I'm learning that renting and making less $ than most 25 year olds isn't that conducive to upgrading equipment very often:)
Brent
\"I\'m on morphine and I\'m higher than a kite.\"
7/2/09 at 9:00am
- Joined: September 1999
- Location: Vancouver, BC
- Post Count: 694
Just shy of my 10 year mark. Lots of great memories in those years. Like others, my posting varies. I currently live in a condo which limits me from re-purchasing the big thunderous surround sound gear. I am stuck with just my 60" plasma for now.
I really do hope to go to one of the HTF meets sometime. I would sure love to meet a bunch of you fine folks.
Oh...I first came here via Steve's DVD web site (shoot...cant recall the name).
I really do hope to go to one of the HTF meets sometime. I would sure love to meet a bunch of you fine folks.
Oh...I first came here via Steve's DVD web site (shoot...cant recall the name).
Scott A. McGillivray
Vancouver, B.C.
Struggling Actor and Movie Nut!
(Check out my profile on IMDB!)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1425496/
Vancouver, B.C.
Struggling Actor and Movie Nut!
(Check out my profile on IMDB!)http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1425496/
7/2/09 at 10:32am
- Joined: May 1999
- Post Count: 2,893
The DVD Resource
\"I\'m on morphine and I\'m higher than a kite.\"
7/2/09 at 1:09pm
- Joined: July 1999
- Location: North Conway, NH
- Post Count: 345
Add me to the list!
Ten years . . .
Fighting DIVX, Fighting Forced Previews, Fighting against Pan & Scan and for OAR (Original Aspect Ratio), and who can forget the "cable wars," lol, I still sometimes see posts here and elsewhere for "magic cables." Back then I used to advise people to get the thicker gold-lated interconnects from Radio Shack and 12 gauge speaker wire from Home Depot. While that still stands, these days I usually direct them to monoprice.com for HDMI and other interconnects.
Speaking of HDMI, how easy is that !?! LOL, one cable for each component and you're done! The receivers even set speaker distance, tone and volume now.
I remember checking the forum daily to see what new titles had been announced, and then searching for coupon codes to use to pre-order those on my list.
How about all those studio chats! Then there's the interaction we used to have with the studios through great people like Peter Staddon.
I most fondly remember the East Coast Meets at Scooter's. They were awesome! Getting to meet so many of the good people from the forum in person was the best. I still remember holding the Terminator 2 - Judgement Day DVD in my hot little hands months before it became available to the public.
I don't come here as much as I used too, or as much as I should, but I'm so glad to see that HTF is still going strong!
Ten years . . .
Fighting DIVX, Fighting Forced Previews, Fighting against Pan & Scan and for OAR (Original Aspect Ratio), and who can forget the "cable wars," lol, I still sometimes see posts here and elsewhere for "magic cables." Back then I used to advise people to get the thicker gold-lated interconnects from Radio Shack and 12 gauge speaker wire from Home Depot. While that still stands, these days I usually direct them to monoprice.com for HDMI and other interconnects.
Speaking of HDMI, how easy is that !?! LOL, one cable for each component and you're done! The receivers even set speaker distance, tone and volume now.
I remember checking the forum daily to see what new titles had been announced, and then searching for coupon codes to use to pre-order those on my list.
How about all those studio chats! Then there's the interaction we used to have with the studios through great people like Peter Staddon.
I most fondly remember the East Coast Meets at Scooter's. They were awesome! Getting to meet so many of the good people from the forum in person was the best. I still remember holding the Terminator 2 - Judgement Day DVD in my hot little hands months before it became available to the public.
I don't come here as much as I used too, or as much as I should, but I'm so glad to see that HTF is still going strong!
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Jean Louise, Jean Louise stand up; Your father's passing.
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My DVD Collection
7/2/09 at 5:54pm
- Joined: July 1999
- Location: The stars at night.....
- Post Count: 4,274
Ten!
"No one would know us there."
-Far From Heaven- (2002)
7/3/09 at 4:43am
- Joined: April 2000
- Location: Deepest Darkest London, England
- Post Count: 12,029
I've been a member 110 months, wow! Thats 3345 days!
4 million 8 hundred thousand minutes.
Edited by Steve Christou - 7/3/2009 at 12:03 pm GMT
4 million 8 hundred thousand minutes.
Edited by Steve Christou - 7/3/2009 at 12:03 pm GMT
Dave hören... auf, Wille stoppen Sie Dave..., Stoppen Sie Dave..., Mein Gehirn geht..., Ich bin Gefühl es..., Ich bin Gefühl es..., Ich bin ängstlich Dave...
7/3/09 at 6:27am
- Joined: December 1969
- Post Count: 7,219
Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Christou 
I've been a member 110 months, wow! Thats 3345 days!
4 million 8 hundred thousand minutes.
I've been a member 110 months, wow! Thats 3345 days!
4 million 8 hundred thousand minutes.
Thanks for the update, Pie Maker.
Joe
7/3/09 at 8:01am
- Joined: March 2001
- Location: Rochester, NY
- Post Count: 6,321
Quote:
I'm an engineer, so I'll need that in micro-seconds, if you please.Originally Posted by Steve Christou
I've been a member 110 months, wow! Thats 3345 days!
4 million 8 hundred thousand minutes.
I've been a member 110 months, wow! Thats 3345 days!
4 million 8 hundred thousand minutes.
7/3/09 at 9:37am
- Joined: March 1999
- Post Count: 1,288
Hmmm...ah yes....ten years....back when I had to buy a laserdisc player with that modulator only to watch Phantom Menace on a laserdisc on my a kickass 53" 4x3 Toshiba RPTV !
7/3/09 at 4:12pm
- Joined: December 1969
- Post Count: 7,219
Quote:
I had to buy a laserdisc player with that modulator
The RF modulator so that you could output a digital soundtrack to a DD / DTS receiver? I remember dropping $100 for one of those (on top of about a grand for my first Dolby Digital receiver.) Of course, that was closer to 14 years ago (my first DD laserdisc was The Lion King, released in 1995, the first year DD became available for the home market, two years before DTS would arrive with Jurassic Park and four years before TPM[ came to home video.)
I think I still have the thing sitting in a box somewhere, along with my LD player.
Regards,
Joe
Edited by Joseph DeMartino - 7/4/2009 at 05:31 pm GMT
7/4/09 at 8:20am
- Joined: December 1998
- Location: Cham-Bana, IL
- Post Count: 2,832
I see there are some members here that have been around a little longer than me. I joined in December 1998, a few months after I purchased my first DVD player. My upgrading has waned in recent years, mainly an economic issue so I haven't been posting or reading some of the equipment forums as much.
This was the first home theater forum that I joined and have always appreciated the job Ron and Parker have done to keep this a friendly place to visit.
This was the first home theater forum that I joined and have always appreciated the job Ron and Parker have done to keep this a friendly place to visit.
Lawn Ranger Motto: You're only young once, but you can be always be immature.
7/4/09 at 9:33am
- Joined: January 2001
- Location: Steeler Country
- Post Count: 371
I've been here for about 11 years despite my join date of 2001. I originally joined in '99 or '00, can't remember which, after lurking for a while. During one of the software upgrades in the early part of the decade it was lost and I had to re-register. Oh well, at least I know how long I've been around!
The HTF has been my favorite HT site since I first discovered it.
The HTF has been my favorite HT site since I first discovered it.
7/4/09 at 12:24pm
- Joined: January 1999
- Post Count: 2,443
Yep, I'm a moldy-oldy here. I still have my widescreen NTSC component-input CRT projection set and first-generation Toshiba DVD player for watching "anamorphic" DVDs.
-Brian
Come, Rubidia. Let's blow this epoch.
7/4/09 at 12:41pm
- Joined: December 1998
- Post Count: 2,955
Another old timer posting to this thread. My exposure to HTF was due to my participation on Steve Tannehill's DVD Resource.
Like others, my posting has waxed and waned throughout the years. (Sometimes you just get talked out on a topic, at least it happens to me.) I can recall many of the topics already listed, including Divx, the wonderful dialogs with Peter Staddon (I remember how cool it was when Say Anything was finally released on DVD), the conflict over support for anamorphic enhancement (which was a precursor to the HD-DVD / Blu-ray battles.), and so on and so on.
Whenever the topic of longevity on the HTF comes up, I can't help but wonder what happened to others who aren't active these days on the HTF. (Some old timers that come to mind are: Mitty, Seth Paxton, Mike Knapp, Jack Briggs, and George Kaplan to name just a few.)
- Walter.
Like others, my posting has waxed and waned throughout the years. (Sometimes you just get talked out on a topic, at least it happens to me.) I can recall many of the topics already listed, including Divx, the wonderful dialogs with Peter Staddon (I remember how cool it was when Say Anything was finally released on DVD), the conflict over support for anamorphic enhancement (which was a precursor to the HD-DVD / Blu-ray battles.), and so on and so on.
Whenever the topic of longevity on the HTF comes up, I can't help but wonder what happened to others who aren't active these days on the HTF. (Some old timers that come to mind are: Mitty, Seth Paxton, Mike Knapp, Jack Briggs, and George Kaplan to name just a few.)
- Walter.
Fidelity to the source should always be the goal for Blu-ray releases.
7/4/09 at 2:49pm
- Joined: January 2001
- Location: Steeler Country
- Post Count: 371
Hey Walter, I remember all those guys too. I thought Jack Briggs was a mod? How long has it been since he posted? It was always easy to spot a post of his with that "2001" title shot in his sig. George Kaplan was another guy whose posts I enjoyed reading, saw him a lot in the Polls area. Also a 'nasally' guy named Rain. Maybe they just lost interest in HT, or moved on, etc. It happens.
Dave Hahn appears to be the only Old-Timer with a less posts per year average than me!
Dave Hahn appears to be the only Old-Timer with a less posts per year average than me!
7/4/09 at 4:28pm
- Joined: October 1998
- Location: Boise ID
- Post Count: 7,206
Briggs is probably sulking since he'll have a Hobson's choice: either put in a tiny sliver 2001 shot as an avatar OR "pan & scan" a Kubrick shot to 1:1 AR. 
Feline videophiles Susie and Dukie.
7/6/09 at 3:51am
- Joined: April 1999
- Location: Stockholm, SWEDEN
- Post Count: 333
10 years here too, how time flies. I had lurked for a while but registrered around the time I bought my first DVD player (a Pioneer DV-515 that still works)
/Mikael
- "Do you indulge in any form of worship?"
-"Life. I love life, very much indeed."
David Bowie interviewed by Russell Harty, 1973
7/6/09 at 3:53am
- Joined: April 1999
- Location: Stockholm, SWEDEN
- Post Count: 333
Strange, I got an error message, please retry, but somehow it posted anyway, sorry...
Edited by Mikael Soderholm - 7/6/2009 at 11:30 am GMT
/Mikael
- "Do you indulge in any form of worship?"
-"Life. I love life, very much indeed."
David Bowie interviewed by Russell Harty, 1973
7/6/09 at 3:58am
- Joined: April 1999
- Location: Stockholm, SWEDEN
- Post Count: 333
10 years here too, how time flies. I had lurked for a while but registrered around the time I bought my first DVD player (a Pioneer DV-515 that still works)
/Mikael
- "Do you indulge in any form of worship?"
-"Life. I love life, very much indeed."
David Bowie interviewed by Russell Harty, 1973
7/6/09 at 7:03am
- Joined: March 1999
- Post Count: 1,288
Yes, its the RF modulator and it costs me $150 to get DD from a laserdisc player. But how can u watch Star Wars without good sound? You gotta do what u gotta do.
I registered before April of 99 but a software change "erased" me that I had to sign-up again.
