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  1. Dan Hitchman

    Walmart will kill HD-DVD?

    Though I would love to see Wal-mart and its ilk wiped off the map, I did see a "The Future Is Blu" ad during one of the NFL playoff games brought to you by Wal-mart. Dan
  2. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Michael Biehn would only work for flashbacks. That would be cool, but I don't know if they'd do that. Perhaps if they run out of ideas. If he's changed enough, he could play Reese's dad. Talk about a time paradox if the Terminators tried to kill Reese as a boy so that he can't go back in time...
  3. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Ooo, ooo, ooo! The best possible guest star they could come up with... Bruce Campbell!! No relations to the Terminator canon, but who gives a frak? He's the man!! Give it up for Bruce!
  4. Dan Hitchman

    Where to buy cheaper Cost Preamplifiers??

    Get an Onkyo 705 receiver and use it as a pre-amp. Usually have great deals online (only slightly more than your $500 budget). Jr.com Frys.com 6ave.com Amazon.com etc. It has 5.1-7.1 analog inputs and 7.1 pre-amp outs besides all the newest audio formats.
  5. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Another nod to T3, Kristina Lokken as another Terminator? She's got to be itching for a job by now!! :D Dan
  6. Dan Hitchman

    Where to buy cheaper Cost Preamplifiers??

    Yes. It just adds a Pure mode that shuts off the video circuitry and it comes with rack mount ears in the box whereas you have to buy them separately for the 9.8. Oh, and the front panel looks better. I still think either one would be the best bang vs. buck. Troxell had a killer price for the...
  7. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    While we have another week before the next installment of Prosti-bot I was speculating about what actors we might see from the original movies: Robert Patrick as the T-1000? Earl Boen (Dr. Silberman)? Linda Hamilton playing a different character (a relative perhaps)? James Cameron...
  8. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Dude, if a robotic chick looking like Cameron told you to drop trow, you'd say "yes, ma'am!" and probably salute as well. ;)
  9. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Inspector Hammer!, if they do it will be farther along in the story (if it lasts out the writer's strike, that is) when Cameron has started to blend in as a person... to see what it means to be human. If you can take Arnold (a lower model unit) starting to have feelings of sympathy and...
  10. Dan Hitchman

    Criterion Releases in HD Thread

    A lot depends on the studio supplying the film to Criterion. If they haven't come over to the Blu-ray side yet then would they stop Criterion from releasing the film on Blu-ray? I'm sure just as soon as Universal and Paramount get their collective heads out of their arses and dump HD-DVD then...
  11. Dan Hitchman

    Vertigo: Ridiculously complicated or complicatedly ridiculous? *SPOILERS*

    Ah, but it's not about the murder is it? It's about a man's driven obsession with an impossibly perfect, usually blonde, woman. A common theme in many Hitchcock films. I think he had mommy issues.
  12. Dan Hitchman

    Where to buy cheaper Cost Preamplifiers??

    You might as well pony up the money for the Onkyo 885 or Integra 9.8 (same thing really) pre-amp. Seems like a great processor for the money. That way you get all the new surround formats... if you can wait a few weeks to get one that is.
  13. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    So, anybody going to take a guess as to who this blonde chick is who is in class with John a lot? The amount of time they pan to her seems to point to a larger roll in the future. Human love interest with John's possible feelings for Cameron getting in the way as in a love triangle? Future...
  14. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Wasn't the reason for the scientist in this story to drive home the point that Sarah Connor was making in her narration? That Oppenheimer and that kind of scientific ilk knew what they were doing by letting the nuclear genie out of the bottle (in this case the genie is the evil Terminator), but...
  15. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    I think the writers pulled back from the Pilot and had a change of heart and thought that Cameron was too human seeming too soon. As others have stated here and Glau has stated in interviews that they wanted a steady progression of Cameron's emotions. That she picks things up a bit at a time...
  16. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    It will be interesting to see if the writers follow up on this suicidal girl and Cameron's current inability to understand compassion and the human condition. Will John take her under his wing like he did Arnie and try to get through to her? We all know John is going to become a hero, we...
  17. Dan Hitchman

    American Idol - Season 7

    Crap! This thing is still on??
  18. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    I know that scene, but that was to learn how to blend in to be a more efficient killer... a better terminator. Arnie went beyond and started to care. He states: "I know now why you cry, but that is something I could never do." Not that he wouldn't cry anyway, but because he was not built with...
  19. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Hell, I think on this thread we have better ideas than some of the writers on strike. Perhaps we should write a few episodes ourselves. :D
  20. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Dude, it's called science fiction :D and is not constrained by absolute science and logic. The only thing I have a problem with is the clearly inorganically shrouded terminator head coming through time with the Conners and Cameron.
  21. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    So, I guess everyone's cool with Cameron becoming (in a sense) a human with human wants and needs? I'm cool with it because they were starting down that line in T2 that the more advanced Terminators were taking on more and more human traits and emotions. After all, that was the emphasis of...
  22. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    After reading an article in Starlog magazine about Terminator the TV show, it seems to me that the writers and actors liked the first two films and Summer was especially taken with Arnie learning to care about humans and have feelings for them and curiosity towards them. Summer then went on...
  23. Dan Hitchman

    Fox TERMINATOR series: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

    Summer is hot, but I hope that's not the high point of this T2 spin-off (as if T3 didn't happen-- yeah!). This new Sarah is no Linda Hamilton, that's for sure! They need to get some feed back from James Cameron... he knew how to blend light touches with all the brooding elements. I wonder...
  24. Dan Hitchman

    Onkyo TX-SR605 Receiver?

    It'll work... just don't get the 605, get at least the 705. Not much more (on the internet) and it has some good additional features, not fluff, and a better amp section. Dan
  25. Dan Hitchman

    Universal at CES

    That's EASY... split the films to two BD50's and create intro, intermission, and exit music like a premium road show release of yore and make sure the mix is 7.1, 24 bit/96 kHz! Someone should put this in Peter Jackson's ear so they don't do it like the four disc DVD sets!
  26. Dan Hitchman

    With Blu the apparent victor, it's time to demand some changes....

    Besides all the usual suspects, how about all subtitles for "letterboxed" ratio movies (like 70mm, Panavision, etc.) have to fit within the picture frame for constant height scope front projection systems and so that it looks like the original theatrical release where the subs are placed within...
  27. Dan Hitchman

    Universal at CES

    And we are still debating the merrits or lack thereof of lossy audio?? If things are going Blu then there should be 24 bit lossless tracks PERIOD. There would be zero excuse except for laziness or ineptness now. Dan
  28. Dan Hitchman

    A Few Words About A few words about...™ A Room with a View -- in HD & BD

    Does the Blu-ray version have PCM or TrueHD audio? Dan
  29. Dan Hitchman

    Universal at CES

    Seemingly New Line does not plan to make any more HD-DVDs irrespective of what WB does. Perhaps WB will do the very bare minimum for Toshiba. I say the sooner WB can dump HD-DVD the better. Then, like New Line, they can focus on higher video encodes and 24 bit lossless on all releases...
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