My parents have memories of using the 8-Track tapes in the 1960’s. My fond memories of recorded media were VHS video tapes and Laserdiscs. I watched the first Star Wars movie from a fuzzy video tape version back in the late 70’s. When Laserdiscs were popular in the early 80’s, my family started buying movies […]
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 […]
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) […]
We went to Foothill Ranch Towne Center, yesterday. It was a cool sunny day when we talked about: Whether someone should blog about a subject that’s at least 2 weeks old. The Wikipedia version of a blog does not say it has to be current events, unless it’s a personal diary. Although it probably is […]
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