One of my best movies of the 80’s is Top Gun. It was a great action film that made guys like Tom Cruise, Val Kilmer, and Anthony Edwards famous. The writing was kind of corny, but it produced a lot of memorable quotes, such as “I feel the need – the need for speed.” The […]
I have been collecting DVD movies since 1997 when the format first came out. I was one of those early adopters who bought a US$450 DVD player and discs that cost $21 each. The difference in video/audio quality, compared to VHS and Laserdisc, was very noticeable. It wasn’t a difficult choice to take the plunge. […]
As a standards and HD-DVD fan, I’m always in a look out to what the DVD Forum is doing to recover from the loss of the HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray battle. Toshiba, being the main player in the HD-DVD format, has said they’ll venture into the movie download arena. Earlier this week they had unveiled their […]
Downstairs in my living room, I have a Nintendo Wii and a Toshiba A3 HD-DVD Player. For a while now I’ve been trying to get them hooked up to the internet. With the Wii’s wi-fi, connection to the internet didn’t work most of the time. The signal was spotty due to the lack of antenna […]
I’ve been contemplating on getting a new TV lately. What has driven me to make such a decision is the look of a relatively new kind of LCD TVs equipped with 120 Hz frame rate “up-conversion”. For some odd reason, films are made with 24 frames per second (FPS). Most LCD TVs (and computer monitors) […]
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