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MrHands

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  1. QUOTE (Jack Aubrey @ Jan 13 2010, 11:27 AM) QUOTE (Presto-digitation @ Jan 13 2010, 11:15 AM) ...who is considering finally getting a player, how much noticability is the DVD up-conversion on a Blu-ray machine? Do know about me that I'm not audio or videophile, so if that's YOU, you probably notice things that I don't. For instance, while I still have my CDs I listen to an ipod and I'm fine with it. Audiophiles typically don't like them. I'm not one who thinks it sounds horrible, etc. I have Bose headphones, which audio folks have dubbed "buy other sound equipment" and I'm fine with those too. I don't need $500 studio quality cans. I've literally got a $150 cheap ass Sony surround sound whose speakers sit on the TV stand all bunched together because I'm too lazy to elevate and put them where I can best optimize the sound. That is what you're dealing with here. However, that said I simply cannot watch a movie on VHS anymore...if that's any suggestion of hope for me. I've owned a DVD player for almost 8 years and enjoy the crap out of it so much that I can't even play and enjoy an old VHS tapes. I have no patience for the drop in quality there. Just last year for the very first time I got a 1080p HD TV (mid-sized), so I'm not watching on grandpa's old console TV. Lastly I have NO INTENTION of replacing my DVD collection with Blu-Ray discs. I simply don't need to have Tootsie or Caddyshack or Annie Hall on Blu-ray. However I would plan to upgrade great visual films like Lord Of The Rings or Peter Jackson's King Kong and films like that. So mostly my question comes in the form of how much more noticeable will my DVDs be improved on a Blu-ray player or is it just an up-convert only AV-philes get off on? Thanks in advance..! QUOTE I have Bose headphones, which audio folks have dubbed "buy other sound equipment" and I'm fine with those too. Screw the audio shobs, Bose rocks! I have Bose surround sound speakers and a wave radio/cd player and they all sound great! I have to agree... Last year, I bit the bullet & invested in a Bose Lifestyle system. It rocks...really rocks, and I've yet to hear anything I like better. And, you will see a difference in DVD's when played in a Blu ray player.
  2. QUOTE (-D-RocK- @ Jan 6 2010, 06:45 PM) QUOTE (MrHands @ Jan 6 2010, 02:00 PM) Quality Assurance, Food Safety & Regulatory Compliance manager for a division of a BIG meat company. You work for Big Meat? Interesting. Ever toured a slaughter house before? Toured...? I've worked in them...
  3. Quality Assurance, Food Safety & Regulatory Compliance manager for a division of a BIG meat company. AKA Sales Prevention Manager...
  4. QUOTE (Rush Cocky @ Jan 4 2010, 01:29 PM) Star Wars is pure greatness, but the Lord Of The Rings trilogy was motion picture legend. I cannot offer enough praise for how well these movies were done.
  5. Love'em! Listening to Ventura Highway now...
  6. QUOTE (Wilderness_of_Mirrors @ Oct 7 2009, 05:38 PM) QUOTE (greg2112 @ Oct 7 2009, 03:26 PM) I need second leg US tour dates NOW. have you seen them live? it is life changing Dang skippy... I drug two friends to the FOAB show in Hotlanta. I bought their tickets just so they would go. Now they are obsessed...
  7. No flames, please... I'm taking my daughter & friend to see Paramore on 10/27 - Atlanta.
  8. I guess I was expecting something a little different...more along the line of the last three records. The more I listen, the more I like...
  9. I started a thread on another forum today - Best LP side 1 It IS perfection!
  10. I remeber hanging out in arcades - 10 tokens for a buck. Those were the days... Defender (I have this on one of the Nintendo hand-helds) Galaga Xaxon Battlezone The football game with the roller balls???
  11. History, Discovery, A&E, Science, Nat Geo & Military is about all I watch these days...
  12. QUOTE (wordsmith @ Mar 27 2009, 02:23 PM) And I must confess that I got a tear in my eye several times: particularly when the fleet flew off into the sun with the original BSG theme from 1979 played beautifully. Me too!
  13. http://z.about.com/d/animatedtv/1/0/j/T/timmy_CrippleFight_400.jpg
  14. Yep... I really enjoyed it too. I'm never letting my daughter leave the house.
  15. Here's my new German Shepherd, Bryant... http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i318/jmsmooch/P1240001.jpg
  16. QUOTE (Nootch @ Dec 23 2008, 02:41 PM) QUOTE (liddybuck01 @ Dec 14 2008, 07:07 AM)hope that you appreciate being old! Old? I just celebrated my 21st birthday in September. The 21st anniversary of my 21st birthday that is. I came to Rush in 1980 when I first heard The Spirit of Radio. While I haven't been able to see a concert yet... I will next time through. It's always been fun buying that new Rush recording and opening it the first time. There is always that anticipation right before playing it. I really haven't been disappointed yet. GO WINGS!!!! GO LIONS!!!!! woe and 16 You've not seen them live...my sympathy.
  17. QUOTE (Lerxster @ Dec 15 2008, 04:57 PM) Wha didja type sonny? Post louder!
  18. QUOTE (Finbar @ Dec 15 2008, 03:48 AM) QUOTE (GeddyRulz @ Dec 14 2008, 07:19 AM) Concerts were $12.50, and T-shirts were $15, I think. Yeah, it was cool. f*cker. Best I can remember... My ticket for Moving Pictures tour was $9.50, and I got front row, center for Power Windows for $40. Those were the days...
  19. Yep... I heard on the radio. Bummer... "Timeline" is one of my favorite reads.
  20. I can't wait! This is going to be a great flick. I'm a big Trek nerd, and personally, I don't care if there are some minor inconsistencies. I just need something good. In my opinion, everything since the Wrath of Khan was crap.
  21. QUOTE (The Owl @ Oct 16 2008, 09:01 AM) They were supposed to be putting a live album out about now. But that is on hiatius, but on a more promicing note read my next post. Yep...at the Atlanta show, Mr Wilson asked for more crowd response...they were recording for a live release. I had forgotten about it until I read this post. I'll take a DVD though...
  22. MrHands

    Very First Time

    Tom Sawyer in 1981, I was 13 or 14... I was lying in bed listening to Q104 as I was going to sleep. When I heard the drumming (I was a young drummer then) I soiled myself. I went to school the next day and was talking about it, and this dude who was a couple of years older than I said it was Rush...off the new album "Moving Pictures". I went and bought the LP, and the rest is history.
  23. QUOTE (launchpad67a @ Jun 6 2008, 01:46 PM) Here's my lame definition of what "progressive" means: If the majority of your songs have more than 3 time signature changes, then you are a progressive band. And, they don't have the typical verse, chorus, middle eight, out on chorus structure.
  24. Reading this has forced me to put on "Monolith".
  25. 05ric is first rate material. I ordered it from Burning Shed a couple of months back...it's gotten serious play time.
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