Recent content by Bobby Henderson

I think Pacino's performance hit the water off the coast of Haiti.

Regarding Sofia Coppola's performance in The Godfather Part III, it's pretty bad. But it's a bad performance in an overall disappointing movie, not a great movie. It's kind of like Hayden Christensen in Star Wars Part III: Revenge of the Sith. That one is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me...

It would be interesting to see how this new optical disc platform can perform. How many bits per second can the drive sustain? If its data bandwidth is quite a bit better than current UHD Blu-ray players then it could possibly deliver more professional quality results, like on the order of DCPs...

There is a lot of push and pull of balancing cost versus performance capability in any computer purchase. In my own use case there are people who might claim I've been buying cheap-and-trashy by using a mainstream Dell XPS box rather than spend a whole lot more money on a Xeon-powered Precision...

With housing and rent prices rising to ever new ridiculous extremes it's only understandable many young adults would have zero interest in allowing anyone, even parents, to unload a bunch of stuff onto them. Living space is at a premium. I'm sure this has to be a downward drag on home theater...

Even though I do graphic design work for a living, I'm primarily a PC guy. The sign industry is very rooted in the Windows-side of things. Very little of the industry specific software runs on the Mac platform. That goes for large format printing RIP software, routing table software and general...

Just about any new desktop computer (tower, mini-tower, all-in-one device, etc) will have multiple USB ports on both the front and back of the machine. That is unless you're getting an Apple device, but even an iMac or Mac Mini has a decent number of USB ports on the back. It is very important...

Around 15 or so years ago I had a pretty hard-lined stand against using notebook computers. Desktop towers provided far more bang for the buck. However my opinion changed in the mid 2000's. I use a desktop setup all day doing graphics work at my day job. I started getting tired of sitting at...

Mystery Men (1999) was a flop, but I think it's pretty hilarious for a satire of super heroes and cosplay gone too far. The movie had a great cast, including Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush as the movie's villain, "Casanova Frankenstein." The movie just didn't gel well with audiences. The movie might...

Gasoline prices in my part of Oklahoma are around $4.20 per gallon currently. Thankfully I don't live very far from my workplace. I've been doing more to consolidate trips. I'll go work out at the Lawton Family YMCA a couple hours but I'll hit the grocery store on the way home. I'm eating out...

A Newton ring was visible during the Paramount logo and opening title sequence? I'm used to Newton rings being a hazard when scanning slick printed materials in a flatbed scanner. I figured there were advanced methods to prevent that kind of thing affecting film scans. I have an old DVD of The...

It's likely True Romance had a 6-track print master created during its original post production phase. Mag print masters would be created in post production and the 6 channel variety would keep the options open for 70mm mag audio release prints or digital audio on 35mm. If a 6-track mag print...

Incorrect. True Romance was released theatrically on Sept 10, 1993. 35mm release prints only had Dolby Stereo optical. No digital audio formats at all. Warner Bros distributed the movie. At that time Warner Bros was only supporting the Dolby Digital format on some of their releases, such as The...

The version of True Lies that has been played on cable TV over the years comes from an old and not so great video master. I don't know if the same source is being used for streaming.

True Lies and The Abyss are the ones I want the most. I still have the old non-anamorphic DVDs; but the discs are painful to attempt watching on a large HDTV. There's two choices: watch them window-boxed so they look like a bad YouTube video. Or zoom the image, which yields horrible results too...