Posts by Mark Bendiksen

Today I just got around to begin watching Hunt for Red October which I recorded to my DVR last week off of the "Universal HD" channel on DirecTV. I was somewhat shocked to discover that the beginning section of the movie in which...

What is it with Fox and Blu-Ray, anyway? Talk about your low batting averages! Perhaps some of the technicians from Disney could pay them a visit and show them a thing or two about how to do a transfer.

Yeah, Amy Adams is terrific in the role (as she was in her Oscar-nominated performance in Junebug a few years back). My wife teased me mercilessly twice, once for simply renting Enchanted in the first place and then again because I...

Quote: An international HD-DVD version is likely as this was a joint Miramax/Paramount Vantage production. Gee, I hope so. Otherwise, it's films like this that make me want to go purple.

Cool....I didn't realize that Once was being released this week....SWEET!

I have had my Toshiba 42H81 HD Widescreen (rear projection) TV for a little over six years now. Recently, however, I have noticed something rather strange. While watching HD material (either from DirecTV or my HD DVD player) with an...

Hmmmm....I'm also connected via an optical cable between my Toshiba A2 and my Pioneer receiver (which is about three years old and has no HDMI input). However, I have had no noticeable problems like the one you described, and I often...

Absolutely a must-buy.

Quote: All I know is that I read post after post of people who get netflix rental copies of Hddvd's and have problems. For what it's worth, I've rented a couple dozen HD DVDs from NetFlix and had absolutely no...

Quote: Hell Paramount how about just 1 friggin catalog title for Dec just to throw us a bone? Pretty-please? Preferably something that doesn't star Will Ferrell or Tom Green and/or a movie not centered around beer-chugging...