Age Group | 20 |
Video Likes | Clean transfers, black blacks and white whites, easy to read subtitles. |
Video Dislikes | Pixelation, lazy VHS-to-DVD transfers, grain, pan & scan, general bad authouring of a DVD. |
Audio Likes | Surround sound that really surrounds, DTS, hard hitting bass done well, updated mixes that vastly improve on the original. |
Audio Dislikes | Poorly done 2.0 to 5.1 'improved' mixes, DVD's that claim to be surround but are 99% 'fronts and centre' fare, Audio pops, bad synch with video, 'dub only' for anime discs, general bad authouring of a DVD. |
Favourite DVDs | Dogma SE R1, Clerks: Uncensored R1, The Simpsons seasons 1 & 2, Rurouni Kenshin series, Cowboy Bebop series, Great Teacher Onizuka series. |
Least Favourite DVDs | Clerks R4, Chasing Amy R4 (great movies, evil R4 treatment). |
Most Eagerly Awaited DVDs | Resident Evil, The Simpsons Season 3, Slayers boxset, Trigun series, Fruits Basket series, Futurama Season 2, Azumanga Daioh series, Chobits series. |
Titanic | More fun than a poke in the a*** with a hot poker. But just barely. Boring, slow, and dull. |
The Matrix | First DVD I ever bought and great demo disc. Chapter 29 has turned many a casual movie watcher into DVD fanatics at my place. |
Terminator 2 | Great movie, holds up well over time. A shame that the R4 was nowhere near as good as the R1 version. |
Star Wars | Good movies that I have watched numerous times but not really loosing any sleep over their release on DVD. When they come, they come. |
Godzilla | First movie I ever went to and feel alseep in. Total b******. I will not sully my player with this movie. |
Independence Day | Mindless action movie but, unlike Godzilla, good to just crash in front of after a hard day when you want to watch something but not really have to pay attention. Not a fan but not a hater either. |
DVD Player | Omni SL-P3003D , using S-Video output |
Display | NEC FS8001 (80cm) . |
Audio Decoder | Built in to amplifier/receiver . |
Amplification | Kenwood KRF-V7050D |
Speakers | Jensen SPX-9 Fronts, Jensen SPX-15 Centre, Jensen SPX-5 Rears, Jensen SPX-19 Subwoofer |
1. GTO-Volume 1: Great Teacher Onizuka (1998) | 2. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) | 3. Rurouni Kenshin-Volume 1: The Legendary Swordsman (1997) | 4. The Matrix (1999) | 5. The Simpsons-Season 1: Collector's Edition (1989) |
6. The Simpsons-Season 2 (Box Set) (1990) | 7. Cowboy Bebop-Volume 1 (1998) | 8. Love Hina-Volume 1: Moving In (2000) | 9. Excel Saga-Volume 1: The Weirdness Has Begun (1999) | 10. The Late Show-The Best Bits of: Champagne Edition (1992) |