All of the work that I have been putting in over the last few months will finally come to a head at the end of October, when the new Boston office opens. (Yipe!) Since things will probably be getting crazy around then, we’ve decided that it would be a perfect time for Laura and Henry to go visit her father down in Louisiana.
Got some flights all booked and ready to go, and they’ll be out there for a week and a half. I’d like to get out of here and go with them, but this is the next best thing. I’ll probably be spending a lot of late, stressful nights getting things done, so being out of the immediate blast radius will probably keep all of us a bit more sane.
Between then and now still lies a lot of work for me to get done, so I’ll be getting back to it. However, if you have an itch to pick up some horror DVDs for the upcoming Halloween season, you could so a lot worse than this Buy 2 Get 1 Free Anchor Bay deal at Deep Discount.
Peter September 13th, 2007 at 9:59 pm
I saw that deal, but it pains me to purchase anything non-HD these days.
Pains me, I say!
John September 14th, 2007 at 8:16 am
OK, but the majority (all?) off those films weren’t shot in HD. Your HD player should upscale the 480p image on the DVD. So what is actually paining you?
Peter September 17th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
Doesn’t matter if they were shot in HD or not, it matter was they print from the master source. Film, real film, is technically an even higher resolution than HD standards. So, even with HD DVD/Blu-Ray the discs are still facing compression, just not as much compression as with the drastically smaller DVD.
The Thing, for example, looks absolutely stunning on HD DVD, despite obviously not being filmed in it, because the master print of it was already so pristine.
I love upscaling, it makes a huge difference, but an upscaled 480p to, say, 1080i, still has nothing on a source downscaled from 1080p to 1080i.
It’s all nerdy.
Oh, and to answer the question, the pain doesn’t necessary come from knowing that the image quality is going to suffer slightly on my TV, but that I absolutely hate double dipping. There are things I’m willing to do it on, like the new Dawn of the Dead or Goodfellas, but I like to avoid it whenever possible.
John September 18th, 2007 at 9:59 am
Aahh, that makes more sense.
(Still, I’m puzzled by the offering of Casablanca in HD. Lines of resolution aside, that film’s in a 4:3 aspect ratio. Whatever.)
I hate double dipping too, although I’ll do it for my absolute favorites. I don’t buy anywhere near as many DVDs as I used to, and it will probably continue that way until someone “wins” the format war.