Recent content by Kevin Korom

Picked this one up after following all the reviews, since I still had the original DVD & figured it had to be a sizable improvement, and it was only $10. It is most definitely a pretty big step up from the old DVD. Unfortunately, it's also in the lower tier of the worst BRs I've seen. Too bad...

Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry- awesome!

It's a significant jump in PQ over the original; if you like this movie you should definitely get it!

I've seen it twice now, and my general impressions are very favorable. As with any source material that you're very fond of, any alterations will disappoint you, and you need to somewhat divorce yourself from the book. Technically, it's a much better film, especially cinematography. CGI is...

Yeah, I have the LD, too. It looks like P&S to me, though; the framing looks all wrong to me. I noticed the credits are anamorphically squeezed, so that they display properly on my 16x9's display. Unfortunately it doesn't stay that way throughout the whole movie!

I was looking through various website's release lists, and found this one listed for July, but with no information whatsoever about the movie. Is this the 1985 movie with Hackman and Matt Dillon? It's always been a favorite of mine...

No, no vertical banding issues. It sure sounds like setup/source problems to me- the color issues are a dead giveaway, as this is wrong, too. Be careful about judging PJs from a dealer visit. Rarely are they set up anywhere near optimum, or even acceptable.

I think you'll be very happy;) Make sure you feed it a good source; when you blow up an image that large the Garbage In, Garbage Out (GIGO)motto really applies!

There are a few questions you can ask yourself that will help you decide: 1: Can I have virtually complete light control? 2: Will I use it mainly as a movie theater? Or will it be used like a TV, on all the time, channel surfing? 3: How big an image can I throw? If you can control...

This is a fun thread! I was a LD guy, and I remember the threads on the original HTF, some of which were quite heated, about whether DVD would supplant LD or not. I was very interested but skeptical about the format's possibilities. After all, it was only 80 or so more lines of resolution-...

Wait a little while longer- there's a whole crop of DVI equipped players coming out this spring/summer. Hopefully, at least some of them will fix the problems of the current models.

A good cliffhanger would be when Dobby awakens Harry to tell him he's about to miss the 2nd tournament, and lose his "Wheezy".

1000 lumens is most likely very optimistic; it could be anywhere from a half to a third of that after calibration. For instance, my "1000" lumen BenQ 8700 is in the mid 400s when calibrated. This is very common for the numbers to be nowhere near realistic. They are usually rated at a very...

I recently bought a 8700, replaced a HS10 with it. While the +/-$3k units offer tremendous bang for the buck, there's no picture-quality category I can think of where the 8700 doesn't beat it. That said, there are plenty of people I wouldn't recommend it to, simply because they aren't as...

I personally wouldn't buy a PJ that doesn't have a DVI input with HDCP/HDMI; you'll need it in the near future, if not right now. As for the Faroudja, it's nice for analog interlaced inputs (satellite feed, cable box, LD player), but you wouldn't really need it if you get/have a top quality...