You're absolutely correct, Donnie B. even alluded to it:

Much more detail is visible on a movie screen than a TV screen, so the models need to be more detailed in order to look good.

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Yep, just not as bored. *poke*

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Ah, the delights of posting and running
Well sitting back anyway. One thing I am
grateful for is the stability of the
aluminium in my cds. Now twenty years old
some of them and no oxidation appearing.
Philips got the plastic technical specs
right it seems. Hope these higher density
disks are as good. I always wanted some of my
favourite discs in gold but they have not
been seen yet. Unless dark government
basements somewhere use them for ultra safe
storage.

Hm. The rest of Donnie's post must have muddled it for me. I'm going to shut up and sit over there now.

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Speaking of Sony, I see they came out with a large OLED screen finally. Their just innovating out of their rears over there.

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A while back I made an interesting discovery. If I play a DVD on my laptop running in full screen and sitting on my actual lap, the screen is almost exactly as big as the picture on my 37" TV across the room. Perspective is a wonderful thing.

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

But how would you snuggle with someone while watching a movie?

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I may just be a little too much of a film geek; my first thought was, "Full screen? What kind of savage doesn't watch things widescreen?" (BTW, have you tried commenting on my journal lately? A friend's been having trouble getting her posts to show up, and I want to know if it's just because she's unregistered. [Tonight, I'm watching Red River, with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift!])

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

That's funny, tonight I've been watching Red River with John Wayne and Montgomery Clift. Does your edition cut off the ending music about 1/2 second prematurely, i.e., no time left for a proper acoustic decay?

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I've not had any issues with 20-year-old CDs, either.

I do have some issues with less than one-year old movied in DVD format, though. About 20% of them DO NOT WORK.

That is totally unacceptable.

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Well, as you probably figured out, that's a different use of the phrase. I'm referring to watching a DVD using the entire laptop screen (not in a window). In fact, it is a widescreen display.

No, I must admit I haven't kept up with your journal lately *hangs head in shame*

For those who don't know, Gillianren posts comments and reviews of the movies she watches on her journal page at Rotten Tomatoes. She's obviously brilliant, since she almost always agrees with me (if I've seen the movie she's reviewing).

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"It is quite clear that Occam's razor does not sharpen in your pyramid." (Nicolas)

"Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." (Paul Simon)

I have to say, I didn't notice. Then again, the movie started (KCTS Channel 9 up here does this every Friday) at 10, and Graham started asking how long the movie had left at 10:40. I missed a few things. Shall I post a link to the review, when I write it? (I didn't last night because, you know, lazy; I'll be doing it when I'm done here.)

Donnie B--no worries. I know a review a day's a bit to keep up with.

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Please. I tend to enjoy reviews more than I tend to enjoy movies.

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Oh, I like movies a heck of a lot; as I've said, I probably see nearly 400 a year. (I don't write reviews of all of them, because some of those are repeats that I watch because I really like them. Perhaps a better way of phrasing it would be that I see a movie about 400 times a year.) Also as I've said, I'm working my way through my local library's system in alphabetical order, watching every movie in it that looks even remotely interesting. Sometimes they aren't, and I turn them off without finishing them. I have, however, found some real gems. Also, I watch the Friday Night Movie more weeks than not.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/vine/j...77&view=public

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"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"

"You can't erase icing."

"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"

Sounds like your DVD player doesn't play their particular format. (But don't take my word for this, I'm no expert.) This is a headache and the only solution might be to buy a new DVD player. Fortunately they aren't too expensive now.

Are these disks from a rental service? Half the time I need to wash the disk (normally that's just with a little water and tissue paper) and occasionally I use a CD/DVD cleaner because of scratches. I have a several year old player, and while it seems to be a little less forgiving of fingerprints and such these days, it reads almost all of the disks, unless they arrive obviously cracked, or have really bad scratches.

If you're having that level of failure from freshly purchased DVDs, I'd say it almost has to be the player. Rarely, bad disks are produced, but not 20%.

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It's the copy protections they jam onto these things. A bunch of them work by deliberately introducing errors on the disk. Copy software on PCs tend to try and correct these "errors" while commercial DVD players tend to ignore them. Protection schemes that function this way are secretly notorious about "breaking" legitimate players.

The problem comes into when you get a commerical DVD player (more common than people tend to recognize) that can't ignore the error and so can't correctly read the disk.

The older the disk, the more likely it'll play fine.

My current toshiba replaced an older sony that was getting bricked by newer DVDs. Sure enough, the sony was perfectly capable of playing all my DVDs I'd bought six months before or prior. The more recent DVDs would be unreadable at a rate of somewhere in the order of 30-50%.

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Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain
And like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again.

A superb example of an oxymoron, there!

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It captures the nuance, though. A lot of people have been experiencing this. They just don't recognize what's happening or why.

Legitimate CDs and DVDs that use some combination of the unstable SecureRom schemes, for example, have never functioned properly on my hardware, on any of the three drives that I've owned, without some fairly exotic measures.

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All the models were lost too, so re-rendering may not be possible. The post-B5 direct to DVD projects used donated fan made computer models and reconstructions.

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Thanks, Moose. You too, Van Rijn.

Yes, the player is old, but it's not a desktop set, but rather, the DVD player/burner in my computer, which I built just over five years ago. I do use a cleaner DVD about once a year, which helps keep the dust off the lens. Could be the tracking system is beginning to gum up/wear out.

I don't think it's copywrite protection issues, though, as the hit/miss rate is about the same for brand new DVDs as it is for ones I've watched for years.

I'll try to live with it for now, but it may soon be time to get a Blue-Ray, or at least replace the drive with a new one. Right now, the Blue-Ray is still too expensive for my taste, and with the competition dropping out of the race, the price is likely to level off for a while.

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