Age Group | 30... |
Video Likes | Original aspect ratio, clean transfers |
Video Dislikes | Full screen transfers, alaising, film artifacts (anything that shouldn't be there...) |
Audio Likes | Clear dialogue, appropriate use of surrounds and LFE |
Audio Dislikes | Mono sound mixes - unless appropriate to the source material, poorly remastered surround mixes. |
Favourite DVDs | Oldboy (R1, 3 disc), Panic Room (R2, 3 disc), Black Hawk Down (3 disc), Kingdom Of Heaven (4 disc), Iron Man (Blu-Ray), Transformers (Blu-Ray), The Shawshank Remption (R2, 3 disc), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003, R1, 2 disc), Titanic (4 disc), The Bourne Trilogy (Blu-Ray) Casino Royale (Blu-Ray, 2 disc), Robocop (Criterion edition) |
Least Favourite DVDs | Bare bones releases on DVD or Blu-Ray. The origianl release of The Big Lebowski (terrible transfer, redeemed with a re-issue). |
Most Eagerly Awaited DVDs | Star Wars (Blu-Ray), Kingdom of Heaven (Blu-Ray, re-issue) |
Titanic | Watch it for the ship sinking and nothing else, fantastic 4 disc set |
The Matrix | Great film, the sequels feel like an after thought. |
Terminator 2 | Ground breaking effects for it's time, rare occassion where the sequel is as good as the original. |
Star Wars | The film that changed the face of cinema. Significant influence on popular culture and films ever since it's release. I never tire of watching this movie. |
Godzilla | Almost in the 'so bad it's good' category, better with repeat viewings. |
Independence Day | Great popcorn flick, given a good DVD treatment. Switch your brain off and enjoy the ride. |
DVD Player | Pioneer DVD player DV-466/Sony PS3 (HDMI 1.3) upscaling , using HDMI output |
Display | Sharp Aquos 46" LCD LC-46PD7X . Calibrated with THX Optimizer. This display device is 16x9 capable. |
Audio Decoder | Built in to amplifier/receiver . Calibrated with THX Optimizer. |
Amplification | Yamaha RX-V663 Amplifier (HDMI, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD) |
Speakers | Sony 6.2 surround speaker set (135w each + 2x100w subs) |
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