Posts by Mike Brantley

I ordered Amadeus from Amazon, then subsequently found this thread. I just returned it unopened, and I'm pleased to report Amazon is picking up the return postage. I have such a large backlog of movies to watch on various formats that I...

Hey, how did I overlook this topic? I'm still collecting laserdiscs concurrently with DVD and Blu-ray. My LD collection more than doubled in size last year thanks to an HTFer who was willing to ship his entire collection across the...

Jason and Jesse, when y'all find yours, look for one for me too. My house is starting to look like a retirement home for laserdisc players, but no AC3 demodulator here as yet.

Thank you, Mark. I'll give them a good home. Man, I've got the bug now for those big discs. Anybody else out there got more 'em taking up too much space?

I'm looking for a pair of these dipole/bipole surround speakers in black. Thanks!

I enjoy my "Adventures of Superman" LDs, which have selected episodes from the old George Reeve TV series of the 1950s. I should have sold my "Space: 1999" laserdiscs when they were worth a bunch -- which was before the series came out...

I do it, but I'm almost certain my solution isn't the most elegant! You see my desktop DVD database program is DVD Profiler for Windows, which is not available for Mac, and I only have Mac computers. So I run DVD Profiler using a PC...

Quote: True, but IIRC--if you have a DirecTiVo receiver, I don't think that there would be any additional MPEG compression taking place since the DBS signal is being recorded directly to the HD without the need for the signal...

Norm, I don't know if the other makes have the same feature (probably do), but the Panasonic decks have a flexible recording mode that can be set for, say, three hours or 2 1/4 hours or whatever. The deck then uses the best compression...

Norm, the Panasonic decks use DVD-R and DVD-RAM discs for media. The RAM discs are erasable and reusable, just as DVD-RW discs are. Mostly, I use my DirecTivo for timeshifting stuff that I intend to erase. However, I had so much crap...