Posts by Tony Stark

Quote: Originally Posted by Carl Fink It is a bad thing because it is not the company's hardware. It's mine. Once I fork over my $1000 for the player, it belongs to me. I can do with it as I please and that's no business...

I am trying to understand why this is a bad thin. So why is it? Basically, if you don't mess with the firmware the player will operate fine. If you purchase legit discs the machine will work with no problems. Say a virus is...

I hope both inputs and sources were calibrated to make the fair statement that BR "looked darker". Since there are a lot of people interested which is better, I cannot stress that calibration for both audio and video are necessary for...

Quote: Originally Posted by Kelly Grannell or maybe he didn't actually review it (I know of a couple magazine reviewers who seldom actually review the product). One of them, I remember clearly, raves about the high...

Follow-up - Although reports of 5th Element lookin sub-par, The Terminator apparently is just amzingly stunning. So there is hope.

Folks, I don't own one yet but reports are popping up all over that the 5th Element for BR used a non-clean master. Apparently dirt, dust and scratches show up. Also, sharpness is not "all that eye popping". I read this over at AVS...

Well, I'm sorry. I was wrong. Today I read over at AVS that BR players final have hit the streets. The War officially has started (e.g. salvo volleys served). Here in this forum (2 years ago?) I said there would be no war and...

Digital cinema is moving in the direction of capturing 2kx4k for partly for this reason. After adding special effects and resampling the data, the final blended product will look more realistic.

I am not here to fuel to the fire, and like someone else suggested I stopped reading TDB (that was 2+ years ago) because of the mixture of blog and news content. I hate reality TV and especially hate blogs. Basically there are enough...

Anthony Neilson: Thanks for the clarification. That helps with the large discrepencies.