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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...

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...

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...

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...

Does anyone out there (Ron or maybe one of the other admins) happen to have contact info for the right people to get screeners from at the studios? I was doing DVD reviews for Zentertainment and now I've switched over to Film Threat, but neither place seems to have much in the way of contacts at...

I was checking EBay today for Band of Brothers on DVD and, as I discovered when I did this search a few weeks ago, there were a lot of listings for a region 0 set from Hong Kong. All the listings were pretty cheap, of course, which sounded tempting as I'd really like to pick up this series...

Whenever I get around to picking up E.T. on DVD, I'm considering getting the gift set only because of the longer version of the documentary. Anyone know if that set is worth the extra money for the longer doc? I'm wondering if I should just get the 2-disc one as that's cheaper and both versions...

I have the original release of The Sixth Sense and I was wondering if it's worth it to get rid of that copy and pick up the Vista Series version. Is there anything worthwhile from the first disc that didn't get ported over to the new one? Thanks. - Brad

Anyone out there have problems playing their copy of Lord of the Rings EE on their PS 2? Mine locks up at the layer change on disc 1 (don't know if it does the same at the layer change on disc 2) and the scene with Saruman and Gandalf talking jumps around and becomes pixelated. This is the...

Anyone out there trying to complete the latest Digital Bits contest? http://www.thedigitalbits.com/contest.html I've figured out all of them except for #8. If anyone has that answer and wants to trade me for one of the others, please drop me a line by email. [email protected] Thanks! -...

Hi Everyone: I have digital cable hooked up to my TV (we live in Sunnyvale, CA, and have AT&T Digital Cable), and I couldn't figure out how to hook my DVD player up to it, so I used a VCR that was barely working to run the DVD player through. Well, the VCR died, so I can't use it anymore...

Anyone know if retailers (both online and B&M) are planning to blow out Dreamcast games soon? With XBox and Gamecube on the way and PS2 still going strong, there can't be enough room for Dreamcast as well. I keep waiting for my local Fry's to drop prices significantly, but not yet. Well, at...

Richard Kim said this in the "Newbie question about open matte" thread: "My guess is that most filmmakers do not purposefully shoot for both the 1:85 and 1:33 ARs. There are a few exceptions, like Kubrick for example." So then Kubrick shot most of his films in soft matte, correct? Were all...

So, in the ET thread, I was wondering why some were disparaging the release of Jaws on DVD. I picked it up last summer and was happy with it. Douglas Bailey had this to say: "Well, I won't claim to speak for anyone else, but my objections to the DVD, in brief, are: *the documentary is cut...

I recall that, a few months ago, Martin Scorcese was supposed to go on some kind of public education campaign to tell people about OAR. He was supposed to take films like Lawrence of Arabia, Cleopatra, etc. and show people how terrible they look when the 2.35:1 (or bigger) image is squeezed to...

Hey Everyone: Is there an Iron Giant SE in the works? I heard a while back that there was, but I haven't seen any new news since. I've considered picking up the current release--I love the film (I actually interviewed the director for an article when it came out) and the current disc looks...

I haven't bothered with the hidden cut of T2 on that disc, but I'd like to access the EEs on the TPM release when it comes out. The only problem is that there are no numbers on the remote that came with my Sony DVP-NS 300 player. Does anyone know if it's still possible to access those eggs...

Has anyone had a problem with the T1 SE Easter Eggs? I've only tried the ones that you access next to the French selection in the Language menu, but the video in all of them is screwed up. The audio plays fine, but the video is a series of frames, some with bits of flicker, like they're frozen...

I noticed on the Easter egg hate thread that there's an EE to that effect on Cast Away. I didn't know that when I rented it, so now I'm curious, but I don't want to spend the money just to rent it again and find out (I didn't think the film was worth buying). If you don't want to reveal it...