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Yeah, stereo wasn't even added to the NTSC signal in the US until (I think) 1984. And even then, as you said, it was reserved for prime time TV. I remember being a kid and wondering why all the news shows started displaying little bugs that said "In stereo, where available." I remember asking about that once. Something to the effect of how they could not know if stereo was available. Yeah, I used to work at an Audiophile dealership in Columbus, OH. I know the arguments. I don't doubt that in many cases, simple stereo sounds better than 5.1. However, any 5.1 mix collapses down to stereo on command (either for preference, or because the listener only has a stereo set-up). All I'm saying is that, once one gets passed the new sound FX, the new remastered sound track sounds remarkably better than the flat mono track on the original DVD's. Add to that the shiny remastered picture, and I think the Remastered disc are pretty danm good. Ah. Still makes sense to not compress the audio when you have room to spare. But I suppose the Dolby logo is good marketing.

Ah. Shouldn't be hard to find, unless you've got the computer not showing hidden files and directories(as it does by default). I mean, it gives you the path in the error... Eww.

Aside from the fact that the original source was IN mono... I suspect an audiophile would be more annoyed by Dolby Digital's generally poor audio quality than that the soundtrack was presented in its native form. In fact, I know they would be, because I've had one rant at me endlessly about it. And honestly, I find surround remixes fairly absurd myself. Ignoring quality concerns, the soundtrack was never intended to have directionality, adding it is just stupid in most cases. Spend the space those extra 5 channels are using on something worthwhile, and use a raw PCM soundtrack instead of screwing around with lossy compression.

Hey dude, Michael Moore called, he wants his retartedness back. 340880[/snapback] Said he'd come and get it himself, buyt he's stuck in the bath tub again.

Nonsense. DVD is MPEG. It's a lossy compression scheme. You are ALWAYS left with an image of lower quality than the source. Besides which, you can't really reconstruct missing data without a lot of time and effort. For general purposes, the source is the best. And that's the trick. Same # of episodes on a DVD look way better than same episodes on a VCD, provided re-encoding is necesary. The extra 4GB of space(for a single-layer disk) lets you use MUCH lighter compression. Ewww.

A bazooka named Rosebud. 340743[/snapback] Nah, too girly. How about Bloodrose? 340748[/snapback] No, that's the name of his battle ax. Of course. How silly of me to forget that.

http://www.robotech.com/store/viewcategory.php?id=1 The boxes at the bottom of this page and... http://www.robotech.com/store/viewcategory...=2&totalpages=3 top of this one are supposed to be the best, as far as RawBootEck goes. And if you want Macross NOW, as opposed to when ADV releases their 7-disk dubbed set using AnimEigo's masterful restoration efforts, and likely without giving them a lick of credit... http://www.robotech.com/store/viewproduct.php?id=93 That's the Animeigo disks, but in a new box with more eye-catching artwork. Many would say it's a better box, but as I personally like the minimalistic look I'd call it seperate but equal.

A bazooka named Rosebud. 340743[/snapback] Nah, too girly. How about Bloodrose?

Darn skippy! Kane sounds like the kinda guy that'd carry a plasma bazooka, don't you think?

I feel obliged to pint out that that's a Visual C++ error, not a Visual Basic error. And if the error is any indicator, the problem is in the app, not the runtime. ... WTF is Ghooomer anyways? I'd get in the directory and see if you can figure out what it's for.

OOK! OOK! *slings poop*

'S out of print. Animeigo's license expired and HG wouldn't renew it because they're on VERY good terms with ADV.

My bet? They're pretty sure a 3rd movie will be brushed aside is "Man, Hollywood can't make good movies anymore. They need to quit trying." But a remake people will EXPECT more of the same. After all, it was good the first time, why not the second?

I think he's been crying since the thread started. 340579[/snapback] I can't believe he still hasn't posted. Maybe he found a girlfriend? On a more serious note, the real reason the first 2 Alien films worked so well was that while you did see a lot of violence, much of it was hidden and was left up to the audiences imagination. IMO, that makes a sequence much more scary that simply seeing blood and guts flying all over the walls. 340681[/snapback] Yah. You can generally imagine something worse than they can show.

Yah right I already know you won't its your nature to out geekify it. I seen you do it with nearly every subject you posted on the boards. .-^--

Okay... that pic of Reiko and the HotWheels ALMOST makes up for all the insanity you've been spewing into this thread. Post some more pics like that and I'll rescind my negative comments. Until that time, however... Roadblasters > Super Mario Kart > Outrun > Ridge Racer 6.

Pretty much. It wasn't very popular in it's original run, and there's not a lot of people that like it now either.

I think he's been crying since the thread started.

as long as they do not edit out all of the guns and replace them with walkie talkies like they did in E.T. we should be Ok. chris 340541[/snapback] *cackles* I can just see the Predator whipping out his triple-beamed interestellar communicator to talk to someone and "accidentally" blowing a hole in him with the transmission.

Yes. The fact that Sean Connery is playing Global and you're singing backup for Sharon and haven't realized your naked yet should've given it away.

They shouldn't remake Predator. They should just do a Star Wars-style DVD release and make the Predator shoot in self-defense.

The emmy award winning character he plays on Boston Legal currently, where his other associates are Odo and Murphy Brown. 340341[/snapback] I believe you mean Odo and Dime Lady.

Likely not. But if you can find an old Afterburner, there's a good chance you can modify it to fit your NGPC.

No more that it is now using existing technology and theres companies that make driver ic in bulk. Yes, companies DO make driver ICs in bulk. But here's the thing... our current portable gaming devices, as far as I know, don't USE dedicated driver ICs. They're integrated into the system's chipset along with a lot of other parts. Redesigning a chip, as would be requiredto change the driver circuitry out, is a VERY expensive process. What part of this are you not getting? heh guess kodak, samsung, dupont, hitachi, and soon mac and various overseas companies is not alt There are no Macs using OLED. You probably mean Apple. And I'm not speaking in terms of "Wow, a really big company made a single product with OLEDs." I mean perecent of the market. If I had to guess, I'd say the market is 80% LCD right now. chips on pc boards Yes. But the motherboard manufacturers don't design chips. They have no costs associated with that. When a revised motherboard comes out, it doesn't mean they redesigned the chipset. It means they rearranged the parts, and maybe replaced a few with their suppliers' new models. This MAY require a bit of new BIOS code. But they use standard off-the-shelf EPROMs, so there's still no chip fabrication expenses incurred. Redesigning a motherboard is NOTHING like redesigning a microchip, and I can't believe you're trying to say it is. No, it's soldering. The fact that you're correcting me for using the ACTUAL term instead of a generic colloquialism just proves we're on totally diffrent levels here. So, People do it all the time like with ps3, xbx 360, psp, nds, 1:48 valks way before the product came out. There's a diffrence. Those all used fairly well-established technologies, and had lots of cash behind them. The closest any of those got to new technology was the DS touch screen. You're citing the keyboard as evidence that a technology is viable. When in fact, the product is NOT in production, or even prototype stage, and they don't even know if they CAN use the tech you're using it to support. I'm washing my hands of this.

I dont know why, but i got kind of mad by this. I think the music and song and dance was VERY important to the themes of macross. If you look at the the symbolism behind the anime. The music and the love triangle was clearly repesentative of "love" and the zentraedi and fighting were represented as the theme "war". And altogether Macross whole theme was "love AND war" Not just the fighting as Robotech would have liked. Why would you even be asking the SINGER that? Pfft sorry im done ranting. 340363[/snapback] Of course, the person writing those questions also said "Macek himself admitted" the singing was a weakness. That "himself" implies Macek was the creator of the show, as opposed to some guy that happened to be working with the comapny that got the localization rights. Which goes back to the whole "poor confused Robotechies" argument.