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Andrew Markworthy wrote What I find most irritating is the lumping together of so many vehicles under the heading SUV. I drove a Nissan X-Trail. You'd probably call it a SUV. It does over 40mpg (British). Sizewise it is fractionally smaller than a standard Ford saloon. Yet I am...

Count me in as someone who disliked the film. So much so, I left after 45 minutes or so. The problem for me was the BBC TV series nailed the books so perfectly. Brilliant lines disappeared, or were altered beyond recognition. Others have mentioned some, but I'll repeat the lines about the...

Great year! One conflict too many and one "TWAIN Driver already in use" message caused me to ditch the PC and buy an iMac. Flat screen, with DVD burner. I have never been so happy with a home computer. Hasn't crashed once since April and only switched it off a dozen or so times...

As a huge Bond fan I have to say that the second surf scene ruined the movie for me. One thing that we rely on with Bond movies is huge REAL stunts (OK, so maybe a bit of trick photography but basically real), not the horror of computer generated effects (and not even well done at that). I...

Don, interesting. I'm running Win98 under VPC - what are you? Regards, David

Hi, I tried installing VPC just for that reason, but it never worked. Always crashed as soon as DVDProfiler looked up anything on the net. So had to give up, and went back to a simple Excel sheet. Regards, David

Leaving Las Vegas. I defy your girl to get this one right!

Chris, maybe you HATE it, but unfortunately sometimes it is true. So not only do we have to educate re OAR, but the difference between Full Frame and Pan and Scan. Example - my Big Lebowski DVD has both Widescreen and Full Frame versions on it. When you do a scene comparison there is...

I only saw one reference to it, so I'll echo it loudly Benny and Joon!!!!! David

But by that criteria even 2001 A Space Odyssy is also a musical. Many films have "music that flows throughout the movie", or "sets the mood" which couldn't possibly be called musicals - think of the spaghetti westerns! For me, a musical is a flim where the songs themselves move the plot on...

Kevin, I too love O Brother, but I can't see how it can be described as a musical. Do you mind explaining why you do? Sure, they play in a band, but that's all pretty incidental to the story (IMHO). Cheers! David

Mark, thank you - absolutely stunning pictures! You wouldn't mind, would you, if it becomes my desktop picture for a few months?! Cheers David

Ken, I have bought a USB line in/out piece of kit, from Edirol. Cost a little more than the iMic you pointed me to, so I figured it ought to be better. Only thing is, there's an underlying hum that's recorded whenever I record from minidisc to Mac (and it isn't there when I record the same...

Comments from someone who's just switched to Macs for home use. Sorry, PC guys, but I feel liberated! That is the only word to describe it. I was running a 800Mhz Athlon based machine, Win 98. The most complex stuff I tried to do was scan photos (I got so friendly with TWAIN Driver in use...

Brian, my understanding of burn in is that that is what happens when the same signal is sent to the same place on the screen for an extended period of tme. But surely the black bars are there because no signal at all is being sent there? So surely there's no way burn in can happen...

Guys, I've recently started this video editing game since buying a new iMac (couldn't face the problems I knew I'd get whhen I had a wintel machine!), and one thing puzzles me - I've made a home movie using the DV format, edited it down using iMovie, and then created a DVD using iDVD. There...

Here's a thought from the UK that I haven't seen mentioned before (if so, apologies). Some people have wondered about whether owners of 16:9 TVs would complain when we receive a regular 4:3 broadcast and get the vertical black bars. Well, some broadcasters have taken to transmitting the 4:3...

Scott, just for my interest, would you give me an example of what you call sloppy editing? I loved the speed and look of it, and I don't remember anything approaching sloppy. I speak as a lover of the film, obviously :-) Regards, David

Hi, perhaps I should have been clearer. I have the R2 disc, and I know the Easter Egg is there as I started to watch it. But it was late, I'd just seen it the way the director intended :) , and I've never got around to seeing it since. But, I am wondering if anyone else who's seen it thinks...

Hi, [I'm writing assuming some readers don't know the structure of the movie] Just finished watching Memento for the first time, and can't work out if I enjoyed the structure of the film or whether it annoyed me! Anyway, I've seen that the Easter Egg is a re-edit, and I'm wondering if anybody...

Confusing 'loose' and 'lose' is another one that makes me smile! John, the only oddity I felt was your use of "everyone's" instead of "everybody's". However I'm not 100% sure that it is an error in any case! Cheers ! David;)

Ah, someone did mention Les Visiteurs! A ridiculously enjoyable/silly film about some knights that accidentally fall through a time warp and appear in modern day France. When almost their first encopunter with modern life is tarmac and a Citroen 2CV you KNOW you're going to smile your way...

Hugh, Oh yes! I am sick to the back teeth of Windows. I have spent the last three days unable to get on the internet as whenever I tried IE5.5 kept giving me error messages, along with Morpheus and e-mail. I spent some time re-installing software, phoning help desks, all to no avail. It...

Hi all, well, after 10 years of suffering PCs I'm going to switch to an iMac. However, in the meantime, I'm converting many of my CDs to MP3 format, will burn them to disk, and copy over to my new Mac. My question is, can iTunes play VBR encoded MP3 files? I can't seem to find that info...

Hi all, (apologies if already covered, but I've done a search and couldn't find anything) Just received my R1 Moulin Rouge, probably my most anticipated disc this year (even before Ron's post;) ), only to find that at Chapter 22 the picture pixellates completely, the soundtrack jumps about...

How does one build a hush box and still allow appropriate cooling? Surely if it's sealed to cut out the noise it will end up over-heating? Regards, David

Hi, a simple, but frustrating, problem! I've added 4 sattelite speakers and a sub-woofer to my PC for when I watch movies there as opposed to my proper HT set-up. You know, when partners have a different idea of what to watch!! Anyway, I have an old amp that I used to play CDs in my...

Hi all, I need your help on this! Amazon.fr are selling a Caro & Jeunet box set of Delicatessen, La Cite des Enfants Paradis and Le Bunker de la Dernier Rafale. (Region 2 - sorry Steve!) The technical specs refer to it being both full frame (4:3) and anamorphic widescreen. (The single DVD of...

I heard from a 'senior source' that one of the key scenes will take place in a Casino (went so far as to specify blackjack as the game James Bond plays). But it's all hush hush