R.I.P. Sydney Pollack

PS:

1. His brother, Bernie Pollack, is Harrison Ford's personal costume designer, including for the latest movie "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull"
2. Sidney Pollack and Harrison worked together in "Sabrina" and "Random Hearts".

Tun Mega, what gold box on June 2-9 ?

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Added on May 27, 2008, 8:20 pmThis one ar?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/goldbox/

This post has been edited by aiman04: May 27 2008, 08:20 PM

Enjoy bro!


Dulu boleh. I remember early this year I got refund even for promotional offers. Remember also the last BOGO, I also received price-difference refund even for the free title!

But now, yes, I've tried too, they always say cannot refund for purchases made during promotional offers. I guess they saw the glitch already. It's fair la...

This post has been edited by aiman04: May 28 2008, 11:03 AM

Actually, should be the other way around. it's DOUBLE LAYER DVD, with the content ripped from BD. Try to put it in a cap ayam DVD player, it will play.


Maybe the title is not the free one?

Transformers Blu-ray Gets Detailed



Paramount Home Entertainment has revealed the specs for the upcoming Blu-ray release of Michael Bay's blockbuster hit 'Transformers', due to hit store shelves on September 2nd. On this two disc special edition, video will be presented in 2.35:1 1080p AVC and be accompanied by both a 5.1 PCM and 5.1 Dolby TrueHD lossless soundtracks.

Extras for the release are massive, and include:

* Commentary: Commentary by Director Michael Bay
* Featurette: OUR WORLD:
* Featurette: The Story Sparks HD
* Featurette: Human Allies HD
* Featurette: I Fight Giant Robots HD
* Featurette: Battleground HD
* Featurette: THEIR WAR:
* Featurette: Rise of the Robots HD
* Featurette: Autobots Roll Out HD
* Featurette: Decepticons Strike HD
* Featurette: Inside the AllSpark HD
* Featurette: Transformers Tech Inspector (TBD) HD
* Trailers: TRAILERS (will play after the feature via a menu)
* Trailers: Iron Man Trailer HD
* Featurette: MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE
* Trailers: Transformers Teaser Trailer HD
* Trailers: Rise of the Autobots HD
* Other: Transformers H.U.D. (Heads Up Display)
* Other: BD-Live Features (TBD)
* Featurette: From Script to Sand: The Skorponok Desert Attack HD
* Featurette: Concepts HD
* Trailers: Trailers HD:
* Trailers: Teaser Trailer 1 HD
* Trailers: Theatrical Trailer 2 HD
* Trailers: Theatrical Trailer 4 HD
* Easter Eggs: EASTER EGGS:
* Easter Eggs: Michael Bay Cameo HD
* Easter Eggs: Girl in Dress HD
* Easter Eggs: Bay Bot HD
* Easter Eggs: Casting Mojo HD

Source: Blu-ray.com

This post has been edited by aiman04: May 28 2008, 11:18 PM

Yes, I agree. Especially the fight during the night, with the bad guys playing that musical instrument (don't know what), throwing darts, etc. They made good use of surrounds there. But the PQ is just 3 stars for me, definitely much better than DVD, but not as good as the Hollywood top releases.

I'm sure you've seen it before on DVD or TV. But if you haven't, you'll love it if you like UFO stuffs and Spielberg. The PQ is superb, but the amount of grain might distract if you don't like it. It has both Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA in 5.1 surround, which is fantastic but a little bit tinny for me, maybe because of how old the sound mix is.

A must buy for true fan (like me! ).


Just the way it should be. Lossless audio. The previous release on the other format only has Dolby Digital Plus, just because they don't have enough space on the disc.

The PQ is good, very good actually. Just saying it's not up to other Sony releases like Spider-Man 3 which is TIER 0 standard. This one could be TIER 1 or 2 only.

I'm still waiting for Shaolin Soccer. That's my favorite Chow Sing Chi movie. Of course, his old LOL comedies I love too.

I thought about getting a universal remote. But I'm too lazy to configure, especially the many buttons of the receiver's remote. And the price is quite a biggy too.

Anyone got the one Adam Sandler used?

RX must be disappointed that we are actually talking about Harmony instead of Horny.

Beowulf will be the exact same transfer from the UK version. Thank God. Not sure for the extra stuff though. Have to go back and check my copy.

You're right, there's no mention of Director's Cut. But if same transfer should be the same version I think.

Not sure. Didn't watch on the big screen.

You know guys, all these old movies to be released on BD, I already own them on original DVDs. Would you guys replace them?

I would. But not immediately, slowly but surely.

You're 20 years older bro!

And so am I.

This post has been edited by aiman04: May 29 2008, 11:27 AM

Standard shipping always like that la bro. Sometimes you can get it in just 7 working days. But other times it can be even 6 weeks.

Anybody watched Crank? It says 6.1 on the review sites, but my receiver is showing 7.1. I can hear sound coming out from both back speakers without turning on PLIIx.

Usually when I matrix to 7.1, the source indicator will always say 5.1 or 6.1 while the PLIIx indicator lights up on the receiver. But with Crank it the source is showing 7.1.

Another thing, the back cover doesn't say anything about 6.1 or 7.1, just PCM Uncompressed. Like the studio also not sure how many channel.

http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=175&show=review
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/crank.html
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/26089/crank/?___rd=1

Yes, they usually do. But all 3 sites from the links above says 6.1. It's not annoying or anything, I actually welcome it to be 7.1 Really superb 5 star AQ (and PQ too).

Just curious. Did I get a special copy?

Even using optical you won't get to hear "true" sound. HDMI is the only way.

The signal you received already downmixed by your PS3 to stereo. Pro-Logic, as it's name suggests, uses logical algorithms to matrix the stereo into 5.1 (or 5.2).

Get a dedicated HDMI receiver to truly enjoy the wonderful lossless HD sound. The new yamaha RX-V663 costs around RM1.8k only.

If there are too much problems with customs, yes.

I've been buying things from StarWarsShop.com since 2002, but last year I was surprise that they don't ship to Malaysia anymore. I wrote an email to them, and they replied saying the reason was "issues with customs". I bought my "Crystal Skull" t-shirt last year and had it shipped to my friend in U.K. instead. So, be careful guys. Seriously.

With your setup, the best is optical. You'll not get to hear the lossless audio though.

With optical, you need to set BD/DVD output as bitstream, not Linear PCM, or you'll always get 2-channel PCM no matter which audio format you listen too.

If bitstream selected, Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD MA will be downgraded to the normal Dolby Digital (448 or 640 Kbps) and DTS (1.5 Mbps, still hi-res at least) respectively. But for uncompressed PCM audio is worst, it will still be downmixed to 2 channel even with bitstream. So at least you don't have to use pro-Logic with DTS and Dolby.

That's the best setting for your current setup, for now. I'm smelling HDMI receiver in the near future!

And yeah, get the splitter.


Yes. This is serious guys. Kastam will start to target Amazon if the size of the boxes keep getting bigger and bigger. And Amazon will start doing marketing analysis. Will the big number of package returns/lost still acceptable for them to do business with us?