Posts by Max Leung

I just finished "The Unincorporated Man" - it's an okay read. Simple in style and heavy on exposition - lots of monologues just like in Inception! :P   Now I'm starting Peter F. Hamilton's Evolutionary Void - 3rd book in the...

I finished reading the Takeshi Kovacs "trilogy" (Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies) by Richard Morgan. Kind of like film-noir SF. Not bad! The science wasn't the best but the writing is pretty gnarly and...

Heh yeah I think I saw a familiar name, but with "Owner" next to it. :)  

Quote: Originally Posted by Jack Briggs  It was at the very beginning of the format war that, for a number of other reasons, I had to cease posting here. And what is being described sounds like so many other thread...

Let's hope this version is at least as good as the Sky-HD h264 1080p broadcast from last year. Even if the video isn't as good, the audio should be stellar!

Wow that's a big budget. Consider using black velvet cloth around the walls and ceiling to limit light reflections from the screen?

Peter F. Hamilton's The Temporal Void. Pretty good continuation of the Commonwealth series. Charlaine Harris' Dead Before Dark (Sookie Stackhouse). Not very exciting, but I do hope to catch the True Blood TV series soon.

That princess in DragonSlayer was pretty hot! But I wonder - the baby dragon feeding might have pointed me towards cannibalistic hentai in my later years! It warped my little mind.

Sam: Yes, I have the same "issue" with audio - it is VERY quiet. I have to turn up the audio +10 db over the usual listening volume. It can be quite a shock when you go to the main menu after an episode finishes playing!

New ways of organizing DVDs? For me, more like, thinking of how to get rid of our DVDs.