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It is clear that people enjoy the excitement of seeing a movie for the first time. Go into any video rental store or onto any video rental website and it isn’t hard to figure out that the heaviest consumer demand is for new releases. Yet the movie fan has options when craving that excitement and...

Posted to Movies & TV (Weblog) by MattM on 03-20-2009
Filed under: Film, DVD, Movies
DVD RW lifespan

I use to rerecord over at least 30-40 on VHS tapes, probably more times than that. Are DVD RWs that are used for temporary recording of shows limited in the number of times used? It seems that way to me. Maybe my DVD RWs are too cheap. Anybody else experiencing this? Thanks, Wrinkles

Posted to General Questions (Forum) by Wrinkles on 10-19-2008
Filed under: DVD
Re: First impressions of my new Blu-Ray player

I'm more of a "True Romance", "Pulp Fiction kind of guy. ALthough I do the new Star Wars trilogy on occasion and I do game. I bought an LG Blu-Ray burner through newegg.com and my slysoft software has no problem handling it. My TV isn't HD, I'm holding out for another year...

Posted to Home Theater (Forum) by mfk on 04-11-2008
Filed under: HDTV, MPAA, DVD, blu-ray, home theater
Re: First impressions of my new Blu-Ray player

The PS3 ia a great idea, good graphics processor and priced relative to my Blu-Ray drive which is Writeable, so I can make archive copies of my new BD's or just rip the movie part into an avi, and put several avi files on a BD disk. Sure I'd love a PS3, but I am starting to develop an addiciton...

Posted to Home Theater (Forum) by mfk on 04-11-2008
Filed under: DVD, blu-ray
Re: First impressions of my new Blu-Ray player

I purchased an blu-ray burner from newegg.com. works great under ubuntu, I'm going to order another one for my one Vista box which has AnyDVD, CloneDVD amd ImTOO Platinum on it. Now I just have to replace the Sony Wege I've been using for years, but I have this thing for classics that work well...

Posted to Home Theater (Forum) by mfk on 03-07-2008
Filed under: HDTV, DVD, Linux, blu-ray
Re: Has Blu-Ray won?

I don't really know, but a quick perusal through the Dell online catalog seems to see it that way, I can get an external Blu-Ray player for about $330 and an internal burner for about $999 ( 1000 bucks)...Guess they win, I'll wait till the prices drop and buy the internal drive.

Posted to Home Theater (Forum) by mfk on 02-02-2008
Filed under: MPAA, DVD
Re: Center Speaker Recommendations

Personally, I was faced with a similar conundrum, I have two Heresy II's (vintage 1990) with new woofers and BEC crossover networks and a pair of 5 year old Heresy II's, so I put one of the older ones in as the center channel, set my receiver for 3 speaker mode, but truthfully, in two speaker...

Posted to Home Theater (Forum) by mfk on 01-12-2008
Filed under: crossover, subwoofer, Multichannel, RF52, RC-52- RC-52, center channel, DVD, RW10d
Re: Blu-Ray/HD-DVD Battle May Not Matter

I like streaming, my building is wired by Verizon FIOS and I really do get some bandwidth because we are a switched network, not broadcast like comcast. Far as the copy protection goes, total bull, people should be allowed to make an archival copy of a movie, and copy protection is like safe sex w/a...

Posted to Home Theater (Forum) by mfk on 01-08-2008
Filed under: DVDA, Network, MPAA, DVD

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