Posts by Adam Barratt

RAF was always a great friend, and always willing to help with his encyclopaedic knowledge of cinema and technology. I'm glad that our paths crossed over the last decade, if sadly never in person. I will miss him. Rest in peace. Adam

This really isn't a new phenomenon. High end manufacturers have sold re-badged equipment for many years. What really amazes me in this case are the facts that Lexicon stated that the player had been improved in some way (a la Ayre...

I didn't know there was any debate about Van Helsing's awfulness?

I've seen the player's specs, and it's nothing to shout about. Looks like a re-badge of one of the mass-produced Chinese machines. No fancy video processing (like the XA2) and no XDE. No HD DVD support. In fact, nothing much to mention...

Very interesting. Thanks for that Van! Certainly not the first time marketing people have caused confusion by failing to understand the products they sell. Given the true multichannel capabilities of the Blu-ray audio formats, these...

Van, I recently picked up the Australian (and New Zealand) version of T2: Skynet, and although the disc packaging and menu state that it contains a DTS-HD Master Audio 6.1 soundtrack, my equipment only indicates 5.1. The AVS audio/video...

I had a Netcomm NP285 85Mbps HomePlug pair between my Pioneer BDP-95HD Blu-ray player and a PC/router. I used it to serve media files, and it seemed to work fine (was also good for upgrading HD DVD firmware and for online HD DVD...

Looks like the right surround channels disappears from about the 1 hour 32 minute mark in Universal's Inside Man disc, and stays missing for the last 40 odd minutes. Adam

Virtually all DVDs use 448kbps these days for Dolby Digital (5.1). On Blu-ray you will normally get (using S/PDIF): DTS: 1509kbps vs 754kbps (typical on DVD) Dolby Digital: 640kbps vs 448kbps (typical on DVD) Adam

I've had good experiences: - DVP-S725 DVD player: worked flawlessly for four years. - DVP-NS900V DVD player: 4000 hours of use and still working when sold. - WM-FX77 Walkman: still works after 17 years (and so it should: cost me...