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Posted: 24 Dec 2019, 09:33
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| Good luck man (no sarcasm) |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 00:50
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Black magic looks cool but 195 for that, gen lock and computer dedicated to do this I may just find the script translated in English and read it
once or twice before I watch the film.
Well that's never going to be the same. I have done this with synopses if I can find em. Basically watch the episode, try to understand it as best I can and then read the synopsis to see if I missed anything important. I think this beats reading before you watch as that's going to spoil the story.
OR pickup the film or series on DVD along with LD and run that with subs separately below with a second TV which may be cheaper???
There's a guy here who just runs the sub files on his phone under the TV. That kind of simple solution intrigued me for a while but now seems like a compromise. It also screams 2010s. ie the tech is more advanced than ever but somehow worse than before?? You can apply it to modern walkmans. 20 years ago I could see the track being played on my remote control. Can't now. Have to pull the whole walkman out of my bag and check the screen!
Everything is like generic now and nothing is specialised anymore?
I want overlayed subs or nothin' now - The old world solution that was actually a proper solution! |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 01:07
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I'm getting older and I don't want to watch these shows I've always idolised but mostly never finished half-assed.
I probably want to watch 100 shows, some long running, before I die, so I can probably only watch each one time. I want to see them the same way anime fans in Japan saw them in the '80s and '90s, that's the purest way. With LD you know you're getting the intact openings and endings, correct music and everything else. The best way.
So if something is easily available on DVD or BD I don't care, I don't want to risk something has been changed that I have to compromise with. I just want to watch the shows the best way. |
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Posted: 25 Dec 2019, 13:19
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| Just finished Beneath the Planet of the Apes from my Apes LD box. first time I ever seen it. Feel like I missed out on a whole thing with POTA, it was never on TV here growing up for some reason. I mean we got a lot of good stuff but never Apes, or it wasn't played much and I just missed it. Only watched the first movie two years back. dam n that's good sci fi. Brutal ending on Beneath too. Fu ckin love it. fu ck Nova is ridiculously hot all the fuc kin time too tho |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2019, 23:43
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| Thanks, yeah it feels good. Taken me so many years to build it at a cost I can afford. At this point I'm happy, just need my genlock, a few more backup LD players and more LDs! I bet there are guys here who have spent more on the HLD-XO and Lumigen scaler than I have on my entire setup, furniture included. |
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Posted: 26 Dec 2019, 23:51
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Watched Escape from the Planet of the Apes last night.
Very thought provoking. The production quality of all the Ape movies is really good and always have brutal no holds barred endings. The ending to Beneath is one of my favorite endings of all time now. |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2019, 05:07
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| you gotta get your stuff setup again Rein-O! Whatever it takes you gotta start working towards that goal. No one lives forever |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2019, 05:14
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^ok.
Watched Escape from the Planet of the Apes last night.
Very thought provoking. The production quality of all the Ape movies is really good and always have brutal no holds barred endings. The ending to Beneath is one of my favorite endings of all time now.
Going to get into the planet apes boxset these holidays,
How did you find the picture?
The picture is very acceptable. Widescreen presentation. Clean print. No unnatural clean up done. I crop out the Japanese subs with my DVDO and get very close to the original aspect ratio at the same time with extremely minimal missing picture. Couldn't ask for more, picture is exactly as it should be because I don't even think about it.
Yeah man you gotta get into it. Have you seen em before? I feel like the guy I envy coz he hasn't seen Die Hard ever before and is watching it for the first time on the best format possible. |
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Posted: 27 Dec 2019, 23:32
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yeah enjoy!
Took an Ape break last night.
Watched Minako Honda Dramatic Flash. A very good performance, wish I knew the venue/s. The closeups of Minako's face covered in sweat is where the natural detail of LD really shines.
Then watched Copland. Always wanted to see it since it came out but never did. Enjoyed it a lot but the in-picture Japanese subs reminded why I avoid US movies on Japanese LD. Still this was $3 I think. Might sell on stuff like this. Again, got to focus. |
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Posted: 29 Dec 2019, 03:38
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gypsy wrote: CHUD
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Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 10:12
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| This is amazing, the best thing I ever bought. Look forward to sharing sub files with Rein-O and others in future. My subs for Orguss were just .srt I downloaded from a fan page converted to .ssa using the online tool here: https://toolslick.com/conversion/subtitle/srt-to-ssa |
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Posted: 30 Dec 2019, 22:52
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| My best sounding LD is Eric Clapton Live in Hyde Park (1997). I have most of his LDs but this is the standout. I use it as a reference to make sure all my gear is firing. I like his solo music too, I have the full set of the Crossroads festival DVDs with all his friends. If you're EC's friend you're gonna make good music with the exception of John Mayer, who I can't stand. He can play guitar but his songs are made for dumbass teenage girls |
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Posted: 03 Jan 2020, 00:45
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| Tightly curated?? Are you joking right? They look like the most random titles I could think of> all look weird and great though, congratulations |
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Posted: 05 Jan 2020, 10:52
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Ah the Bounty Hunter "Skull-kun". I always had the glow in the dark, keychain sized cigarette lighter cover versions (that reminds me, have to slide my old ones over my current Bics) but I guess at some point ther was this monster made. Bounty Hunter was a tiny store in Tokyo when I first went. It sold a few vinyl figures and the owner, Hikaru, was strict punk (and Star Wars) fan who made very clean graphics. Hikaru himself looks like an action figure and is a legend to me.
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zZqpJ93JXSI/Rf7yyXJIwsI/AAAAAAAAAAM/OoL8JtsWCOw/s400/hikaru_wide_clash.jpg |
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Posted: 06 Jan 2020, 09:20
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Zeta has a lot of hate for anyone that doesn't like exactly what he likes.
I mean his arguments always try to show how much cooler he is than everyone else.
I had my fair share of cool toys when I was a kid, result of living in America in the 1980s where they were cheap compared to Australia, doesn't stop me from wanting the ones I never got tho. |
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Posted: 11 Jan 2020, 23:38
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Last week I purchased the criterion clv version of John Woo's The Killer , only cost me €7.
I've seen it a long time ago on dvd, but now I watched it for the first time on laserdisc.
Pq and aq were alright, but what a great movie! Honor, love and bullit hell, a killer combination!
It's been on my wishlist for so long> I figure it's one of the movies you DO NOT want to risk DVD macroblocking with. |
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Posted: 12 Jan 2020, 07:50
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I'm the reverse Rein-O. I've actually had a decent DVD release of it for a long time but I definitely need that Criterion LD.
snipesbackhand wrote: showed their g-string and their t**s.
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Posted: 12 Jan 2020, 08:01
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| Shame JBL didn't even get in the list. They made some of the most legendary speakers although now just a licenced meaningless name I guess. |
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Posted: 16 Jan 2020, 23:33
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Kagemusha (The Art of Akira Kurosawa collection). One of my lifelong ambitions is to watch all of Kurosawa's movies. Thanks to my genlock device and DVDO I was able to watch Kagemusha like a Japanese lord. I was worried the subs I got wouldn't fit the uncut full length version but it was all good. Now this is a movie> after watching Outrage Coda I'd forgotten what a good movie was like. Half of it is like a good Noh play, I recommend wearing a Yukata and sipping good sake when you watch it. The packaging on this set is supurb, like the Godzilla Heisei CAV sets it's another TOHO release that is presented superlatively, you can't ask for a more perfect release. I saw a whole set on Yahoo (14 movies?) for like Y10,000, almost grabbed em but I bought too much this month already and shipping won't be cheap...another thing for later..I got this in a Hard Off in 2015 for 300yen I think..
https://www.lddb.com/cover/ld/24601-24700/thumb/24635.jpg
Art of Akira Kurosawa, The: Kagemusha (1980) (Uncut) [TLL 2420] |
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Posted: 17 Jan 2020, 11:39
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Tonight, beers and Minako Honda DISPA '87 LOUD. I think I can get away with blasting my music discs in my apartment building on Friday and Saturday nights? Latoya Jackson shows up at the end but I don't know why Minako needs her, she kicked so much a** by herself. Minako was the sexiest b**ch ever imo. Minako rocks a Michael Jackson tribute costume for half the show. I know they met in real life. The mysterious group Shoujo Tai shows up mid way too, not sure of the connection. What does D.I.S.P.A. mean anyway? Anyone here know? All I know and have known for a while is Minako was the best ever.
Minako Honda: Dispa 1987 (1987) [L080-1106]
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Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 13:05
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I dunno, I just really love my setup right now. Everything firing, nothing lacking, genlock in operation
Took me many years to get here but now I'm in audio/video nirvana almost every night. |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 13:08
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| Australia needs to go nuclear but dumb hippies stuck in the '70s will never let it. |
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Posted: 18 Jan 2020, 13:55
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Thanks man, all pieced together with used gear over a long long time, I love and appreciate each piece because they were hard for me to get..
Closeup of the hardware (other miscellaneous gear, genlock, tape deck, SACD player, MD deck all inside the unit behind the doors:
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Posted: 19 Jan 2020, 00:01
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“Demonized”? You’re hilarious.
The problem with being pro nuke is it means being pro nuke disaster. The meltdowns will happen. They will. At some occasional interval. Yeah, USSR is such a a joke, hahaha, remember Fukushima? Japan? 2011? The only level 7 meltdown in history? Thousands of lives changed forever? A community destroyed? Environmental damage of epic proportions still not understood. And it happened to JAPAN.
For reference, Japan has had high speed rail since the 60s and has NEVER had a single fatality and yet even for people this organized and rule abiding it still happened. If a similar thing happened to a costal power plant anywhere in the world they’d still be trying to put the fire out.
I’m not brave enough to not care about the disasters that pro nuke people flippantly shrug off.
Seriously, read the crap that they are still dealing with every day: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2019/03/07/national/eight-years-triple-meltdown-fukushima-no-1s-water-woes-slow-recede/#.XiNDeBZOnv4
If it takes 35 years to clean up...whats it going to be like when you have multiple years long melt down operations going on all around the word at the same time? If it takes four decades to clean up, who’s to say that the resources for that are even going to exist through the entire project? What it Qatar goes full nuke and then the government collapses and can’t pay 20x the going rate for expert foreign labor? Are you going to fly over there and endanger yourselves to put it out or will we just let it burn and make jokes?
Are you serious? 450 nuke power plants in the world, probably some near you, and 2 (3 if you count 5 mile island) disasters (Chernobyl was a mess but Fukushima death toll is officially exactly 0) over 70 years? What are you smoking? Do you know how many accidents, poisonings and deaths have been caused by coal, oil and gas power plant disasters? I'll tell ya: thousands, seriously on older infrastructure the workers get sick and the places literally blow up in giant fireballs sometimes killing people.
Re: Fukushima. Japan is the most earth quake prone place on the planet, they have scores of nuke plants and 1 flooding of one after a freak tsunami and you're saying having nuke is suicide?...yeeeeeeeahhhhhhhh oooookaaaaaay :crazy:
Nuclear power is NOT nuclear weaponry. Dirty hippies will imply it all the time. You know that, I know that, but I see the nuke argument as the beginning of the death of common sense in the Western world. A precedent for true dumb, now the left is infected with new and unbounded amounts of dumb and they're hoodwinking normal people by just lying to them and telling them propaganda about everything from the Amazon rain forest, global warming, racism, "white privelege", dolphins, whales and still nuke power... |
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Posted: 19 Jan 2020, 23:50
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forper wrote:
hey I found my old BountyXHunter (glow-in-the-dark) Skull-kun lighter cover! Putting him to good use already...
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Thanks list