Wednesday 25 August 2010

Out This Week: The Blu-ray That Might Just Persuade Me To Get A Blu-ray Player


I'm not even kidding.

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11 comments :

  1. I have never seen this film. I may now see this film.

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  2. The sequel was much better. Seriously.

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  3. Controversial, Colin. I'd have to disagree, but not so much that I wouldn't kill for a third.

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  4. Sam Rockwell is in this one. So is Crispin Glover. And Bill Murray. Amazing.

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  5. I have a Samsung blu-ray player and I don't know if all blu-ray players are the same, but mine has complex firmware which when you insert a disc goes "OMG what the F**K is that! Tum ti tum ti tum. I'd better find out what it is. I'm sure I've a routine somewhere. Tum ti tum ti tum. Amuse yourself for a while. Can't rush these things. That disc could be anything. If I don't like the look of it I'll eject it once that bloke has sat down and made himself comfortable. Ah yes. It is a blu-ray disc. I'll tell him that on the screen in case he didn't know, while I search around for the software to play it."

    On the plus side regular DVDs look better upscaled on HDMI. I know this seems illogical but it is so. I think it is because a good upscaler smooths the jagged edges of the SD image so that the HD image looks better even though there is not any more detail.

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  6. I am the only one on this blog who knows wtf Tony just said. And, I wouldn't bother until HDbaseT makes HDMI 1.4a or any other letter obsolete, leaving it wandering vacant, with a hint of sadness, like a drunk who's lost a bet.

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  7. Not for the first time, I've no idea what anyone is saying to me right now.

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  8. Yes, HDbaseT would seem to shoot the legs from under HDMI. Just plug anything to anything with a LAN cable.

    Meanwhile it is a treat to shove an HDMI lead into a laptop and the other end into a projector and find that without doing anything else they talk to each other, compare notes and hey presto there is a nice full screen image on the screen. Magic.

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  9. Tony, my Blu Ray player gets confused too, always manages to play whatever I put in it in the end though.
    Incredible Suit, I am 12 and I don't understand.
    - this is in reference to your love of Charlie's Angels btw ;D

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  10. All the Star Wars pictures are to be released in Blu-ray. Will they join your Bantha Tracks and other Jedi material? Will this 'Force' you into buying a Blu-ray player?

    “Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

    “You’ve never heard of the Millennium Falcon? … It’s the ship that made the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.”

    "Aren't you a little short for a stormtrooper?"

    You will re-live it all in glorious HD in the comfort of your own home.

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