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I was able to get 1024x768 at 60hz to produce a picture but it looks horrid with lots of flicker and odd colors (much worse than 1080I at 30hz). This is kind of a mind boggling issue. I figured I'd look up my TV model but I can't even find it on the TV itself. This sucks. I eliminated one of the variables by connecting my computer directly to my television (skipping the receiver). The computer shows Sharp HDMI as the second monitor and reads that 1080P at 60HZ (Native) as the resolution I should choose but choosing that gets the "Incompatible video" error. How did having my old JVC receiver in this mix make things go better? Bizarre.

I need help I just replaced an older JVC receiver in my entertainment center with a Yamaha RX-V773. Everything is looking great with one exception, my old computer connected to the receiver via a DVI to HDMI cable no longer is passing video through. When my TV is turned off the NVIDIA control panel shows the receiver as a viable 1080P monitor and says everything is working with DHCP. When I turn the TV on though the monitor name in the NVIDIA control switches to SHARP HDMI and my receiver doesn't pass the video to the monitor. Update, I switched my monitor resolution for the television to 1080I with a 29hz refresh rate and I got a flickering video to pass through. Tried numerous other resolutions and setting and this seems to be the only one that almost works. Still, if I try to pull up the receiver's menus everything gets very jumpy and very bad.

Yeah, I thought about that when I was writing that the SDF-1 replacement ship would act as a bunker and pick up civilians at an off-Earth base... at this point the story would sound VERY BSG. That said the new BSG was awesome (most of the time) and nothing is original any more. Also, all of this story needs to get pegged into two hours of film. I don't know, while I expect this film to be a raping of my childhood, I think there's enough generic scifi elements where a good movie could get made if they didn't try to jam too much canon Robotech into it. Aliens attack, humanity saves the day with the help of transforming fighter jets. If Battle Los Angeles could be watchable they could make a decent film out of this.

I think everyone but Lisa it's killed by khyron's last stand.

Doesn't Gloval die in Robotech?

I think they look great.

I hope (and expect) they mix the chapters (Macross Saga with Masters/New Gen) hard because Robotech as an original story derives most of its originality from the stuff they had to come up with to glue the three separate animes together. One would think they would have mixed the stories together more if they were doing their own animation and doing a fresh movie creates the opportunity for that to happen. As for size, twice the size of a normal man seems like it could be made pretty intimidating without seeming outlandish and would allow the production of the movie to use more items that are scaled for your every day human. I also think back to those outlandish last episodes where the Zentraedi use forks to imprison people and smoke giant cigars and eat giant turkey legs and cringe. To Azrael's point (I think), they could just elect to have all the aliens be the average human and model them entirely after the Masters. I prefer to think of a Masters Zentraedi hybrid though and leave the true 'Masters' as the bad guy for an episode 2 (that would obviously take a miracle to get made). Here are more (not-so) bold predictions for you: 1) If there is a Ben Dixon, or Ben Dixon like character, he will now be black. 2) If there is a Claudia Grant, or Claudia Grant-like character, she will now be latina 3) Gloval will still smoke cigars and get yelled at for it 4) The enemy mecha will be horrible looking and universally panned 5) Protoculture will be renamed "Bioculture" and be defined as only an energy source, nothing else. All Earth mecha will run off big bioculture batteries. Bioculture will be the B in HBT which will be stamped on all the batteries. It'd be the SDF-1 in spirit, not name. They could give it some new gimmick to compensate for the lack of transformation. Using the ship as a battering ram and then blasting the enemy could be a key ingredient in the climax of the film.

If you guys haven't been to anymoon in a while, I've updated my YF-29 post

Did the YF-25 ever get any air time though?

Keith, where's the link to where you discussed this previously? Point the guy to the previous conversation.

The Macross Saga is Robotech's dominant and most popular chapter. The vast majority of folks with any faded memory of Robotech remember The Macross Saga. Sure, HG can use all the unique aspects of Robotech's Macross story to tell a Macross chapter... but they can't use the common elements except where they are generic. It seems naive to think this Robotech movie is just going to bank on The Masters and New Gen lore... seeing as the fans of both chapters combined would be fewer than the fans of the first chapter.

So if this movie were to get made, here's my guess at how they'll change it enough as to not disturb the Macross properties that belong to BigWest: 1) Roy Hunter (he's now literally Rick's older brother) 2) Rick Hunter's past at the air show is gone, he's now 18, and he's a wandering rebel because dad just died and the bank took the farm. He'll be made as American as apple pie by having his backstory be that he used to fly his folks' crop duster. 3) New veritech will be based on the JSFand have a Legioss style transformation. I whipped it up on a napkin while on the train, it's not at all hard to do. 4) The word 'destroid' is gone and the existing non-transformable support craft all have electromagnetic tank treads attached to torsos and arms. 5) UN Spacy is gone and since the nutjobs in the states are worried about a UN takeover we'll instead see everything decked out as US Air Force, Marines, Navy, etc. If they make a sequel some sort of unified government will be introduced... but it still won't be called "UN". Is UEG a Macross term? 6) It won't be the SDF-1 but I'll bet they'll do something like call it the first 'fortress-class' space vessel. Maybe they'll slap it with another Robotech name like the FC-1 Icarus and say it's the first 'macross-class' vessel and leave the homage/link there. It won't be a space fold that traps a city with the space ship, instead the ship will act as a bomb shelter at some point and then rescue everyone at a base on Mars or the moon and that's how it will come to have a lot of civilians on board. 7) Since Robotech altered the timeline to have WWIII get stopped by the arrival of the SDF-1, I'd expect something similar. To further distance itself from the originals and Macross I wouldn't be surprised if they do something like have a large bomb blast reveal a buried space ship in a remote location. It's when humans then explore the ruins and turn it on that the aliens start seeking out Earth. This eliminates the fairly iconic scene of the SDF-1 crashing on Earth. Minmay won't be around and singing will have nothing to do with the turning point of the war. Instead Rick's leading lady will be played by a girl who is just gorgeous (any ethnicity may apply). 9) The alien's will not be as huge as Zentraedi and the commanders will be a smaller race (a la the Robotech Masters). Imagine 15' tall bad guys with 6' tall leaders. It's the leader class that will infilitrate the human ship and decide to save humanity because of love, not culture. The aliens will all be clones that have their passions taken from them through chemical manipulation. In the end it will be revealed that the soldier-class is just altered leader class and the leader class has the ability to alter them back. They also have the ability to end the chemical manipulation so the survivors of the climactic last battle can all live in peace (although their will be allusions to other dangers). 10) No rain of death... or at least, not nearly as serious of one. In the New Gen the Earth wasn't nearly as bad off as it was in the other two chapters so they can unify future movies and have something closer to the original new gen by just having earth get bruised in the final battle. 11) In the end we'll be told that the leaders of the leader-class developed this army as a disposable means of fighting without getting their hands dirty and that they were responsible for seeding a great many planets in the universe and Earth is almost certainly one of those planets. This Master class will be upset to know that one of its seedlings has defeated a portion of its military. Fortunately, the humans have caught a big break because, although they didn't know it, the ship they found has a power plant on board capable of producing unlimited energy... something the Master class has still been unable to replicate. There are my guesses.

What happened?

Yamato's VF-X license expired a long time ago and Yamato went out and got the license again when they were making the VF-4.

If we can download games to play, how long before we can just virtual PC it and not bother buying the video game system in the first place?

Dig far enough into what? Why don't you just elaborate?

Molds don't have rights... They're tangible property. Yamato would just sell itself its molds under the Arcadia name.

They have an environmental sounding purpose... Sounds fun

Yeah... Patlabor isn't very popular and the toys don't sell well. We definitely won't be getting anything from Yamato... seeing as they're only an import shop now.

Beta seem like a natural evolution of Inbit.

Yeah, die hard 3> die hard 2

This is what my theory was for why Arcadia hasn't shown any Macross products yet. My theories around this are all very negative though. I know there have been some comments that Arcadia is a name change of Yamato but I very much doubt that's true. Arcadia is either a subsidiary of Yamato (which would be good) or a whole new entity with the same CEO (possibly leasing all of Yamato's employees). The new entity bit makes more sense if Yamato needed to do debt restucturing. In this scenario, the guy that runs Yamato get's a group together with some capital, he sells Yamato's assets (molds and designs already purchased from T-Rex) to his new group at book value so no creditors can get too upset, and then leaves Yamato with the cash left over from those sales and its debts. The creditors have to settle their debts for the assets of the remaining company and then Yamato drifts silently into the night. In the meantime Yamato can still act as a service provider since no tangible assets are really needed to do that (hence the "Yamato will still exist but only act as an importer" line. The problem with this is that Arcadia wouldn't have the rights to make anything Yamato had the rights to, they're non-transferrable. This would mean the rights would have to return to BigWest after some default is triggered (and God knows how long that could take). When they do return to BigWest any company (Arcadia OR Bandai) could then decide to scoop them up. In fact, BigWest could essentially run a silent auction for the rights and if Bandai wanted them Arcadia would be hosed. You know the only reason we haven't seen a 1/60 DX VF-1 is because Yamato has the rights The good news for the folks at Arcadia is that the rights for each franchise are sold separately so they'd almost certainly get like Mac7 and Mac0 because I doubt Bandai cares about them (considering Bandai gave up on Mac7 just a few years ago). Now, if Arcadia is a subsidiary all this is different. Then Arcadia would have the rights through Yamato but if that were the case, why not show a VF-1 at Wonderfest? There was something said about Arcadia being an attempt to diversify but if you look at the Arcadia site it's the exact same jumble of items from the Yamato site... naked plastic girls and a hint at Macross... you'd think they'd make one company the mecha company and the other the girls company (and the mecha company would always break even while the girls company made money).

I still hate gerwalk mode on the 19 which is why this toy's handicap doesn't bother me too much

A definite improvement http://anymoon.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/VF-25-Super-Parts-Comp-5.jpg

I have one of them but I haven't even managed to handle it yet. Looking forward to it some day.