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  1. Brad Cook

    Difficulty with headphone audio with Sony portable BD player

    Thanks for the response. In the case of the sex, lies, and videotape Criterion BD I was watching, the 5.1 audio is the only option for that disc. The player has a bunch of audio settings. Here's what the manual says and what I've chosen for each one. The main options are in bold with the...
  2. Brad Cook

    Difficulty with headphone audio with Sony portable BD player

    I've had a Sony portable Blu-ray player, model BDP-SX910, for a few years now, and I've found that only my noise-canceling headphones give me decent dialogue audio with it. (And only with the noise-canceling option activated.) Apple earbuds and other types of headphones don't work well. For...
  3. Brad Cook

    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Terminator 2 Judgement Day — in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    Robert, is this the same disc that's coming out next Tuesday separate from that endo-arm collector's edition? It looks like the same thing they previously released but wanted to be sure. Thanks.
  4. Brad Cook

    DVD Review HTF REVIEW: National Treasure

    I don't know about the novelization, but Kasdan's shooting script (which also contains a couple sequences that wound up being used in Temple of Doom) has Indy lashing himself to the periscope. I don't know if that was filmed, however. I received my DVD for a Film Threat review the other day...
  5. Brad Cook

    Using the Archos AV400 with a Mac

    I saw that, Steve. Thanks.
  6. Brad Cook

    Using the Archos AV400 with a Mac

    Thanks, Kris. I discovered that it is indeed divx, so I will download that codec. How about importing the video into iMovie? I've played with that software a bit, but I haven't used it a lot. Since a few different shows are in each file (my stepson just let it run), I would like to chop each...
  7. Brad Cook

    Using the Archos AV400 with a Mac

    I recorded a few of my daughter's favorite TV shows onto my stepson's Archos AV400 and downloaded the files to my Mac, which is running 10.3. They're AVI files, but they wouldn't display video in QuickTime 4, although they would play the sound. I assume that was because it uses MPEG-4, and OS X...
  8. Brad Cook

    DVD Review HTF REVIEW: The Shawshank Redemption - Two Disc Special Edition.

    Is it ever really made clear that Andy is innocent? People always talk about this film in terms of Andy being wrongfully incarcerated, but I've always thought that his guilt or innocence was left intentionally vague. Yes, you have the prisoner who claims to know who really committed the crime...
  9. Brad Cook

    DVD Review *** Official HTF REVIEW & Discussion Thread: Star Wars Trilogy, pt. 1

    Anyone happen to know if the DVD Player in Mac OS X is capable of receiving number input? My set-top player's remote doesn't have a number keypad, so I tried to access the gag reel on the Star Wars bonus disc through my Mac. Pressing the numbers on the keyboard doesn't do anything, though. Is...
  10. Brad Cook

    Ed Wood delayed AGAIN???

    Thanks from me too for the rundown, Jeff. I've seen the cross-dressing featurette and I don't recall that it even mentions the film; it seemed like something that was maybe filmed for a different purpose and just stuck on there because there was a peripheral connection. It seemed pretty...
  11. Brad Cook

    DVD Producers who use Macs?

    Hey Everyone: I'm working on an article for MacCentral (the online news arm of Macworld magazine) about DVD producers who use Macs. I'm in touch with Charlie de Lauzirika and Van Ling, but I'd like to talk to a few more producers too. Anyone happen to know of some names off-hand? Contact info...
  12. Brad Cook

    DVD Review HTF Review: The Black Hole

    Another ending mentioned in the brief featurette on this DVD involved having Kate in the Sistine Chapel looking at the "Hand of God" painting by Michelangelo. And I believe that was it. That was related by one of the VFX guys, whose father also worked on the film and went to Italy to film such...
  13. Brad Cook

    ****Sopranos Season 5 Season Guide (Spoilers)

    Definitely. I had forgotten about that guy (the snitch in Tony's crew) because he was shown so infrequently, but clearly Chase wanted you to come away with that impression. Consider that we see him giving info to an agent (he's been giving way more info than Adrianna ever did) and then we see...
  14. Brad Cook

    Petition For Interim Version Of Blade Runner

    I'd definitely buy it.
  15. Brad Cook

    Some "Blade Runner" info from Alan Ladd (producer)

    Didn't this film get a decent Special Edition on LD? What was the difference back then? Did Perenchio not hate Ridley Scott as much? Or does he see the huge success of DVD now and take delight in knowing that it kills Scott to have such an inferior release of the film available? Which leads...
  16. Brad Cook

    Some "Blade Runner" info from Alan Ladd (producer)

    Actually, Gepetto convinced him to vote for Ahnuld. :laugh:
  17. Brad Cook

    DVD Review HTF REVIEW: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Recommended)

    Nice review, Scott. I picked this up at Best Buy the other day. Black case. I can't say I really care about the lack of an insert. If all they're going to do is reprint the list of special features from the back of the case, along with the chapter list and a few pics, I can't say I care. I'd...
  18. Brad Cook

    Ed Wood delayed AGAIN???

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  19. Brad Cook

    Both HP and Dell committed to supporting Blu-ray

    Blu-Ray vs. HD-DVD is an interesting debate, but I doubt either will catch on as quickly as DVD has, no matter which one wins out in the end. Why? Well, people are *not* doing to run out and replace DVD collections they've spent a small fortune on, especially if they were replacing their VHS...
  20. Brad Cook

    ALIEN QUADRILOGY discussion thread (including all the glitches)

    Wasn't the space jockey shown (in the flesh) in one of the Aliens comic books published by Dark Horse? I'd check my collection to verify, but it's a mess right now and I don't have time to dig through it. I forget if they gave that race of creatures any backstory or supplied any info that...
  21. Brad Cook

    ALIEN QUADRILOGY discussion thread (including all the glitches)

    If you start it, they will come? :) Following up on my technical problems with the set: I returned it to Costco (sans receipt; I love their returns policy; Best Buy grudgingly gave me store credit once when I returned two still-shrinkwrapped DVDs without a receipt) and picked up another one...
  22. Brad Cook

    ALIEN QUADRILOGY discussion thread (including all the glitches)

    Update on my experiences with disc 1: Those chapter 18 times in the theatrical version worked fine when I played them on my iMac yesterday, but this morning it choked on them when I tried again. I also tried it out on my Sony DVP-NS300 player with mixed results. A couple times it played through...
  23. Brad Cook

    ALIEN QUADRILOGY discussion thread (including all the glitches)

    Well, threw disc one into my iMac and had no glitches at all in chapter 18 of the theatrical version, which is where those problems were reported before and where my Power Mac choked on it. So I suppose maybe it's one of those funky quirks that seem to be prevalent with DVD. Like how my FOTR EE...
  24. Brad Cook

    ALIEN QUADRILOGY discussion thread (including all the glitches)

    BTW, can we start a separate thread for problems with this set? It sounds to me like there are widespread issues with some of these discs. I don't know what Fox's track record is like when responding to problems like these, but I hope they're pretty good. I imagine their support people must be...
  25. Brad Cook

    "Too many dvds and not enough time"

    I've been reading Tim Goodman's columns in the SF Chronicle for a while now and his deal is that he hates lousy TV shows, of which there are many. Since he has to watch them as part of his job, he gets frustrated. Can't say I blame him.
  26. Brad Cook

    ALIEN QUADRILOGY discussion thread (including all the glitches)

    Yeah, but in Aliens there were tons of the creatures everywhere, so it's possible that they kept dying but more kept replacing them, thanks to the queen that was laying all those eggs. Perhaps those tunnels they transform are from pieces of dead alien drones? The surface certainly looks like...
  27. Brad Cook

    ALIEN QUADRILOGY discussion thread (including all the glitches)

    I just tried both of these in DVD Player on my Power Mac and the same problem occured. Haven't tried my Sony DVD player or PS2 yet, but obviously this is a more widespread problem, judging from responses here. I got mine as a Christmas gift and I'm pretty sure the person who gave it to me bought...
  28. Brad Cook

    Mac users: plugging in speakers on Power Mac

    Thanks for the feedback, everyone. Patrick: Mine isn't the mirror door model. It's one of the Quicksilver models, as shown here. It's a loaner from Apple (I'm a contractor for them), so I don't know a whole lot about it. Mike: Are your speakers plugged into a Power Mac? The sound isn't...
  29. Brad Cook

    Mac users: plugging in speakers on Power Mac

    Hey Everyone: I have a dual 1 GHz Power Mac G4 and I recently picked up some Creative 2.1 speakers for it. Unfortunately, the speaker jack didn't fit in the speaker port on the computer, so I had to plug them into the headphones jack, which meant that nothing came out of the subwoofer. I...
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