Random Thoughts Thread

[BoneSnapDeez]

Saw a dude getting rid of one of these at the dump today:



It was awesome, don't thing I've seen a TV like that in over a decade. I would have snagged it but it was absolutely massive!

[Valkyrie-Favor]

I have a TV like that in my basement. The colors are usually off, and there's too much overscan, but the built-in speakers are killer.

[oxymoron]

Has anyone else seen the episode of King of the Hill where Arlen bans trans fats and Hanks and his boss start a illegal food truck? I can just imagine that.

[elmagicochrisg]

Also now a little over 4 months into DDP Yoga (yes the wrestler!) and damn it's been a blast, never looking back.

Tissue time !

[s1mplehumar]

Saw a dude getting rid of one of these at the dump today:



It was awesome, don't thing I've seen a TV like that in over a decade. I would have snagged it but it was absolutely massive!

Why. Pioneer made some nice rear proj. sets. It might be the size of a bus, but you can always hollow it out and use it for a shelter if ship hits the fan.

[elmagicochrisg]

ship hits the fan

[Hobie-wan]

Racketboy and Opera don't seem to play nice together,

Racket has been dumb and slow today for me and the pages would never finish loading. My PC was holding onto many connections to a *.reverse.softlayer.com domain. Looks like softlayer is sometimes a source of crapola, or at the least a host that gets garbage more often than others. I just added the domain to my hosts file and the pages finish loading now. I'm wondering if that's what's spooking your Opera.

[RCBH928]

@The Librarians

Seems like your job the kind of job that if you go into, you are just so much invested in it that you can't switch jobs easily. You are also very irreplaceable , it will take a lot of time for someone to come along and know where everything is located and which document talks about what subject. It might be easier if you work in a general library, where a person who knows about English Literature can work in multiple areas, but some one like Ack who is specialised in categorising Turner Broadcasting library they will have a hard time finding a different guy for the job, and to be honest I think it will be hard for you to find a job else where other than Turner Broadcasting using your librarian skills...

@The video guys

I agree that the jump from VHS -> DVD was much bigger, its just amazing that a '96 product still looks awesome today on HDTV. Remember that same era N64 graphics were awesome and "life-like".

Any way, I am surprised that companies invest as much as 3 years restoring a film to releases it in a "clear-er" version. Looking at how piracy is eating away into their profits and many people have seen the popular movies many times, was it worth it to spend money and time for 3 years to restore a film like "The Wizard of Oz" and release it on Bluray which everyone who cares about it probably owns a DVD copy of?

Even more so, isn't a restored film with redone art-work is taking away from the original movie. Its like playing a game on an emulator which many people here frown on


@fastbilly1

You seem to do a lot of research on your video purchases, how do you know all this stuff about frames-per-second , restoration...etc ? For me, if I was looking for a movie on a specific format I will just pick-up any one. I will not look at "versions" and different "releases" . Actually I never knew there was a difference until lately when I heard some movies ported to Bluray had "extra" work done to them. I thought they just converted the format from film -> DVD , Film->Bluray (in this case maybe some upscale was used). Thats it...

[AppleQueso]

Any way, I am surprised that companies invest as much as 3 years restoring a film to releases it in a "clear-er" version. Looking at how piracy is eating away into their profits and many people have seen the popular movies many times, was it worth it to spend money and time for 3 years to restore a film like "The Wizard of Oz" and release it on Bluray which everyone who cares about it probably owns a DVD copy of?

Simple: there is a market for people who care about video quality, and catering to that market is profitable.

Even more so, isn't a restored film with redone art-work is taking away from the original movie. Its like playing a game on an emulator which many people here frown on

Uh no, it's pretty much the opposite of "taking away." Most films experience a lot of wear and degradation over the years, especially older films, and often previous home video releases are made from already degraded copies (or copies that were restored with oudated, inferior techniques). The restoration efforts generally make the film prints look more like they did when they were still brand new and pristine. It'll often be done multiple times as restoration techniques improve.

[RCBH928]

I just saw the YouTube comments rant. I am not sure why no one in the world is trying to make a YouTube alternative , everyone uses the internet uses youtube I ams sure a second company can be very profitable, on the opposite of cloud-storage which got a ton of alternatives iCloud, SKyDrive, Box, DropBox, Hightail, GoogleDrive, and Sugar Sync. I am aware of DailyMotion and Vimeo, Vimeo seems like it got it right but its not picking up at all.