Recent content by Duane Robinson

I'm a weak, weak man. I went to Frys to get Silence of the Lambs and ended up buying Ronin as well since I love that movie so much. The higher quality sound should at least make me feel not so guilty about buying it if the video doesn't live up to its full potential.

I really love this movie and right now I'm debating between getting it or Akira, which I also love. Both seem to have less than impressive image quality but at least the sound will be a bigger upgrade from the 2.0 Japanese on Akira compared to the decent 5.1 sound on the SD DVD for Ronin. I just...

Like the review said, the first two-thirds of the movie are pretty great. Once the Dark Seekers are revealed, the rest of the movie sort of falls apart for me. Didn't really like the ending and they didn't expand enough on the progress of the creatures. I actually liked the documentary on...

Like the review said, the first two-thirds of the movie are pretty great. Once the Dark Seekers are revealed, the rest of the movie sort of falls apart for me. Didn't really like the ending and they didn't expand enough on the progress of the creatures. I actually liked the documentary on...

I understand how single format owners feel. Because trust me, if HD-DVD fails and it becomes strictly a Blu-ray world I'll be pretty angry that I spent money I could have spent on more movies on additional hardware because the studios and CE manufacturers couldn't get their crap together and...

The movies those people bought won't suddenly stop working now that Warner has gone exclusive with Blu-ray. Right now I have 2 HD-DVD players and if that format fails, I'll be a little disappointed that I could have used that money on more Blu-ray movies but it won't stop me from continuing to...

Similar to how Paramount announce their HD-DVD exclusivity and cancelled titles that were already produced? Honestly, I have no sympathy for anyone who gets into a format war uninformed as an early adopter and then feels slighted. That's the risk you take. The DVD version of all these movies...

Bought the addon from Amazon and they threw in 2 free movies plus King Kong that comes in the package. So with the 5 from the mail-in deal, that's 8 free movies. So with the 7 free movies, it's like I'm getting the addon for free. Too bad my damn Xbox 360 chose to crap out so now I have to send...

Nice, I was hearing bad things from a couple other places regarding the grain on this title. but hearing it from someone of your calibur just makes an already sure purchase even surer.

I wouldn't think it was worth it. Currently I have a 30 inch HDTV in my bedroom and 480p dvds look pretty good on it. A jump in resolution on such a small screen wouldn't be that noticeable. If you don't plan on going bigger than 70 inches then I wouldn't both with HD-DVD or Blu-Ray. You could...

My Extremely Short Review: I have a new favorite superhero movie.

What I do to people I know who have great HDTVs but supply it with a crappy signal is invite them to my house. When they see the difference between the quality of the image on their TV and mine it does way more than me going into a long discussion on how to properly use their Tvs.

Did the same thing with my Philips after after multiple other problems with it. Had to go through each value slowly and try to come up with a reasonable looking picture. I've replaced that TV since but it's a real pain in the ass to get it back to normal. I now have a Samsung and I know the two...

I just got the Samsung txp3064w from BJ's for $499 top replace the Philips 30 inch I had that was giving all sorts of trouble. TV seems pretty damn good for the price and the picture looks great with all sources, especially HDTV. Only thing I don't like about it is that it locks the aspect ratio...

Would it make sense to buy one of these TVs without a DVI or HDMI input right now? I have a 30 inch Philips that has HDMI right now but I'm looking to upsize for football season to a Samsung 47 inch. However, this TV doesn't have either of those inputs so I'm not sure if I want to do it. It's a...