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  1. Larry Talbot

    News from DVDfile.... Godfather single disc...

    "It's a very accurate representation of a film in dire need of restoration." Hah! That's a great response Dave. I'm familiar with the it-looks-exactly-the-way-it-did-in-the theaters argument but I'm not sure I buy it. For one thing, it can be hard for me to accurately judge how close the...
  2. Larry Talbot

    News from DVDfile.... Godfather single disc...

    "I've watched the disc on both my 36" Sony monitor (CRT) and on my laptop's DVD-ROM." That fits with my theory. I think your opinion might change if you saw the same DVD on a much larger screen. FP is very unforgiving when it comes to picture quality. That goes for all DVDs of course, but...
  3. Larry Talbot

    News from DVDfile.... Godfather single disc...

    "It's not THAT bad." What kind of setup are you watching it on, Patrick? I'm always surprised to see people defend the video quality of this DVD. I wonder if, when blown up to FP size (my screen is 82-inches wide) it looks a lot worse than it does on a smaller scale. Are you watching it on an...
  4. Larry Talbot

    Any Way to Improve Mozilla Firebird Bookmarks?

    Thanks to a post on this site I recently switched from IE to Mozilla Firebird for my browser. On my sad 56k connection, I can now surf the net twice as fast as I could with IE. I only wish I had known about Firebird earlier, it's a huge improvement. The only thing I miss about IE is the...
  5. Larry Talbot

    Painkiller Demo... anyone else playing?

    Ancient athlon one gig here with Geforce4 Ti4600 and 512 meg PC100 ram and the game runs okay at 1024 with most details set to max (shadows off, I think). Definite slowdown at times but one nice thing about this game is that it does just that - slows down. Instead of a clipped frame rate, you...
  6. Larry Talbot

    News from DVDfile.... Godfather single disc...

    Well, that's a shame then. I tried watching the first film a couple of days ago and IMO the print looked so bad as to be nearly unwatchable. I've seen movies on VHS that looked better. The only advantage I can see to releasing the exact same DVDs seperately is that those of you who don't already...
  7. Larry Talbot

    News from DVDfile.... Godfather single disc...

    I'm not going to read through all five pages of that thread to find out what's going on with any new releases of The Godfather, or why the thread was closed. I just hope they DO remaster the first two films on DVD, because on my front projector, they look worse than any other DVDs in my...
  8. Larry Talbot

    Best Picture Quality Ever (SEABISCUIT and others)

    I've mentioned this before in other threads but don't know if I did here. The only movie on my setup (LCD Z1 FP, 82-inch-wide screen) that comes close to Seabiscuit (and it is a much better movie in terms of plot, acting, etc) is Below. No matter how many times I watch it, I'm still impressed...
  9. Larry Talbot

    James Bond: Everything or Nothing Xbox Impressions

    "In Halo when the enemy is far away and your crosshair gets close to him the computer automatically puts it directly over the enemy for you." This is on normal difficulty? I've never noticed this. Now I'm going to have to go back and check it out.
  10. Larry Talbot

    James Bond: Everything or Nothing Xbox Impressions

    Thanks for the example, Brandon. That's not what I think of when I think of Auto-aiming. Half-Life for the PC is a good example of what I'm thinking about. When I first played that game I was very annoyed because auto-aiming was enabled by default. My targeting cursor kept jumping around: An...
  11. Larry Talbot

    James Bond: Everything or Nothing Xbox Impressions

    "Halo has auto-aiming on all the time." Why then, when I'm playing multiplayer, for instance, can I deliberately shoot right NEXT to another player, say by his feet, and not hit him? What do you mean by auto-aiming? Do you mean a large bubble around enemies, and if you shoot anywhere within...
  12. Larry Talbot

    James Bond: Everything or Nothing Xbox Impressions

    "Interesting that you picked Halo as your example, when Halo does all kind of interesting aiming adjustments for you depending on what you're doing at the time. They're just very, very subtle, but are still there." I did not know that. Can you be more specific? What kind of adjustments, for...
  13. Larry Talbot

    James Bond: Everything or Nothing Xbox Impressions

    Doesn't anyone else feel that "lock-on" targeting really takes away from the sense that you are actually controlling the charachter? If I don't feel like I'm the one doing the aiming, then I don't really feel like I'm the one playing the game. I know people say that console controls aren't sharp...
  14. Larry Talbot

    DVD Review HTF REVIEW: Pirates of the Caribbean (Highly Recommended)

    Finally saw this and thought I'd revive this thread however briefly...I'm projecting onto a screen roughly eight feet wide and I didn't think the EE was bad at all. It was definitely there, and noticable in some scenes, but about average for films with EE. NOTHING like Gangs of New York, which...
  15. Larry Talbot

    James Bond: Everything or Nothing Xbox Impressions

    "GameSpot gave it an 8.8 which is pretty good considering their high standards." Yeah, I was very surprised by that as well. Definitely interested in checking the full game out now.
  16. Larry Talbot

    Need Suggestions for Buying a Portable MP3 Player...

    Hey, thanks a lot for the responses, Joe and Stephen! Much appreciated. I understand I should have been a little more specific in my first post instead of just asking for model suggestions, but I don't even know enough about MP3 players to specifiy features. I need something basic I can hook...
  17. Larry Talbot

    Need Suggestions for Buying a Portable MP3 Player...

    No one has any suggestions for me?
  18. Larry Talbot

    Need Suggestions for Buying a Portable MP3 Player...

    My girlfriend wants me to get her an MP3 player, so she can listen to music while she bikes to work. Only one problem: the whole MP3 thing has completely passed me by. I know nothing about it. I feel like my parents trying to learn how to use the internet. Here's what she wants: an MP3 player...
  19. Larry Talbot

    The Death of Splitscreen?

    "I thought about this when Rainbow 6 3 didn't have any split screen." Me too, Damien. Splitscreen co-op would have been amazing. "For FPS's it seemed like a waste of time since you can't really employ much in the way of strategy since all you have to do is look over to your enemies portion...
  20. Larry Talbot

    The Death of Splitscreen?

    A while ago I posted a thread requesting suggestions for good multi-player/co-op splitscreen FPS on the Xbox. I asked because I had been playing splitscreen Halo and really liked it. Thanks to the nice members here, I am now the happy owner of Timesplitters 2 (the best!) and Nightfire (also a...
  21. Larry Talbot

    James Bond: Everything or Nothing Xbox Impressions

    "I just reffered to Indy because the game's level was taken out of context." I didn't know you could take a demo level "out of context." You can take a quote out of context. By isolating it apart from the sentences surrounding it, you can change the meaning of what someone said. But I don't...
  22. Larry Talbot

    James Bond: Everything or Nothing Xbox Impressions

    I didn't know the Indy demo had flaws that the full game didn't. What were they?
  23. Larry Talbot

    Best Buy Coming Attractions Volume 2 - When?

    Sounds cool. Can you still get it?
  24. Larry Talbot

    Best Picture Quality Ever (SEABISCUIT and others)

    "Seabiscuit is indeed a gorgeous transfer, but one that would have been much better without the edge enhancement it suffers from. It's not BAD, but definitely noticable." Odd you should say this, because I'm pretty sensitive to EE and I didn't notice it. Any particular scene?
  25. Larry Talbot

    Best Picture Quality Ever (SEABISCUIT and others)

    "Yesterday's best becomes tomorrow's worst." I get what you're saying, as a generality, but in this specific instance, I disagree. Seabiscuit IS leagues ahead of every other DVD I've seen, period. Seven PE, Training Day, Mullholland Drive, Toy Story, Below - all films I own that stand out...
  26. Larry Talbot

    Best Picture Quality Ever (SEABISCUIT and others)

    I'm sure this is old news to most of you but I just saw Seabiscuit for the first time last night. I thought the movie was okay - a little corny in places - but man the picture quality was hands down the best I've ever seen on DVD. I have several supposedly reference quality discs and Seabiscuit...
  27. Larry Talbot

    Need help in identifying 1960s sci-fi film

    I'd ask someone involved with the Pyschotronic Film Guide. They would be the ones who would know.
  28. Larry Talbot

    Forced subtitles in Pirates of the Caribbean

    I haven't watched it yet, but I just discovered the exact same problem with Fargo. Oddly enough, it also involves French subtitles. The disc defaults to them every time on my Panasonic CP72. Do you think it is a player problem? I'm wondering if it isn't somehow a disc problem.
  29. Larry Talbot

    What are the best Vietnam documentaries?

    I'll second (or is that third?) Hearts and Minds, an excellent documentary. It isn't a combat documentary per say, that is it doesn't focus on military tactics so much as it does on the war's human cost and the politics surrounding it. It has some pretty sad/disturbing scenes, particularly when...
  30. Larry Talbot

    Little off topic - any fans of the 480p/720p 5.1 XBOX games?

    It seems strange, what with the big increase in 16:9 RPTV sales I keep reading about, that developers just don't seem to give a shit about supporting 16:9 users.
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