THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Mupepe on November 02, 2006, 05:13:00 PM
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Who's getting it!
I am! :D
Who's with me??
(http://www.imagemule.com/uploads/receiptyBsK.jpg)
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It's 200 dollars!? my god.
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It's 200 dollars!? my god.
Did you really think it would retail for anything less?
I get my HD DVD fix and a free copy of King Kong in HD so I'm happy.
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PS3 :-*
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PS3 :-*
Bluray hasn't been working as well.
Back on topic, have you tried it/when do you get it?
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PS3 :-*
Eh, it's a cheap fix and I'm getting a PS3 anyhow. :-*
That way I can get exclusives for both formats.
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I'm too poor to even afford a standard 360 right now, how the hell can I afford THIS contraption?! >:(
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Bluray hasn't been working as well.
Back on topic, have you tried it/when do you get it?
I get it on the 7th. I thought the official King Kong DVD didn't launch until the 14th. Kinda weird that that they're launching the player and movie first.
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I get it on the 7th. I thought the official King Kong DVD didn't launch until the 14th. Kinda weird that that they're launching the player and movie first.
So far, would you say it's worth it for movies to be in HD?
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I get it on the 7th. I thought the official King Kong DVD didn't launch until the 14th. Kinda weird that that they're launching the player and movie first.
So far, would you say it's worth it for movies to be in HD?
Well, since I don't have it yet, I can't say for this player. But I have seen an HD DVD player running on my TV and it's gorgeous. For 200 extra bucks, it's an awesome solution for anyone who already has a 360.
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Well, since I don't have it yet, I can't say for this player. But I have seen an HD DVD player running on my TV and it's gorgeous. For 200 extra bucks, it's an awesome solution for anyone who already has a 360.
You can plug it into your PC too I think if you have Vista.
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maybe for Xmas.
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Well, since I don't have it yet, I can't say for this player. But I have seen an HD DVD player running on my TV and it's gorgeous. For 200 extra bucks, it's an awesome solution for anyone who already has a 360.
You can plug it into your PC too I think if you have Vista.
Hot shit. I doubt I'll be getting a Vista PC anytime soon though.
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When is it out?
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When is it out?
The 7th.
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Will Lost appear on HD DVD or Blu Ray? Or is it a toss up at this point? Has it been announced?
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I've never seen Lost lolz. Looks boring, like Heroes
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I've never seen Lost lolz. Looks boring, like Heroes my empty life
SILENCE HEATHEN
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I've never seen Lost lolz. Looks boring, like Heroes
Come on dude.
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I like BONES, whats wrong with Heroes? I havent seen it yet.
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Heroes is pretty great, but it's got some bad dialogue that's outweighed by a good characters and fun comic book storyline. I like Jeph Loeb as much as the next guy, but it's obvious he's not cut out to write lines that come out of actual humans' mouths.
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Like how bad is the dialogue? Ive watched house of the dead so thats my low bar for bad dialogue
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Jeph Loeb writes comic books, so it's something you'd read in a copy of Batman or whatever the hell he's writing nowadays.
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Oh god the dialogue in Heroes is HORRIBLE. The show is so much fun I don't mind it though. But it has worse dialogue than the star wars prequels.
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Yeah, this is a show that wears its heart on its sleeve. You can tell everyone likes doing it - and there's really nothing like it on TV.
They just need to clean up that dialogue and then it'll poop on everything in its time slot.
I think what's funny is Cheebs said it's as bad as Star Wars prequels, and although I wouldn't go that far, it can be eye rolling at times. That said, it gets away with hokey lines because it does something the Star Wars prequels forgot to do (and the originals did do) - it doesn't take itself seriously.
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If they improve the writing the show would be unstoppable. But it is such a fun comic booky tv show that I honesty don't mind the writing.
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Well thats like Bones, all the crime solving is very Deus Ex Machina but the side stories and comedy is so fun I couldnt care less. I just pretend its a sci fi show like Stargate lol
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I've never seen Lost lolz. Looks boring, like Heroes
wtf PD?
Lost is anything but boring. The first and second seasons are like 40 hours of the Twilight Zone.
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Who's getting it!
I am! :D
Who's with me??
(http://www.imagemule.com/uploads/receiptyBsK.jpg)
i'm thinking about it.
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I've never seen Lost lolz. Looks boring, like Heroes
wtf PD?
Lost is anything but boring. The first and second seasons are like 40 hours of the Twilight Zone.
I love Lost. It's starting to get good again IMHO. Like seeing the monster thing smoke thing again.
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Quick Question: I've gotten conflicting reports, but will this add on be able to upscale DVD's via component?
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Via Component hell no, Via VGA hell yea
Its kind of stupid but i'll be honest VGA kicks components ass color wise on the 360
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Via Component hell no, Via VGA hell yea
Its kind of stupid but i'll be honest VGA kicks components ass color wise on the 360
Damn. I was hoping. I like component better than VGA on my tv though. At least for games. VGA looks washed out on my TV
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my tv does not have vga :( only hdmi and component
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VGA -> RGB adapters are relatively cheap, shedt.
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You guys must own a lot of bridges.
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i want to get a vga-hdmi for my pc i think the most
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VGA -> RGB adapters are relatively cheap, shedt.
Hm, like how much and where can I get them from? Wal Mart? :) That might be a good idea for my other tv.
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i want to get a vga-hdmi for my pc i think the most
You can't do that.
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Mupepe... not at Wal-Mart, probably at Radioshack.
Or you can just order one online! (http://www.shopperschoice.com/item_item_446769.html)
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Mupepe... not at Wal-Mart, probably at Radioshack.
Or you can just order one online! (http://www.shopperschoice.com/item_item_446769.html)
Purchased. Thanks!
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Gamestop now says it's shipping on the 8th. Cock smokes.
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I GOT IT! IT'S FUCKING BEAUTIFUL GUYS!
zomg
Gorgeous picture, gorgeous sound. Makes me want to fuck anything that moves.
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:lol
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Pics!
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Of the HD DVD, not the other thing you said.
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Of the HD DVD, not the other thing you said.
I have no digital camera, but here is a pic a guy took on GAF. Plenty of people on AVS and on GAF have said that they can't tell the difference between a standalone through HDMI and the add on through component. Bodes well for HD DVD and the add on itself.
(http://www.imagemule.com/uploads/dsc00569qf4YQqu.jpg)
(http://img506.imageshack.us/img506/3909/dsc00557wr9.jpg)
(http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/3145/cimg0395ib3.jpg)
(http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2006/11/xbox_hd_dvd29.jpg)
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That's a big drive!
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Meh, too big and ugly for my tastes.
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That's a big drive!
Yeah, it's pretty big. When they 360 is horizontal, it's about half it's width and just as long as the 360. Plus it has a power brick that's about 3 or 4 inches long.
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But it actually looks pretty sexy sitting on top of the 360. *drool*
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No.
No need to.
Ps3 will become my HD-player.
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No.
No need to.
Ps3 will become my HD-player.
I'm getting both. I need some exclusives for HD DVD and some exclusives for Blu Ray. I don't give a flying fuck who wins the format war. I just want HD content.
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I'll get both consoles too eventually. And that's why I'm not getting this add-on.
One HD-player is enough. Ps3, that is.
If HD-DVD succeeds, I'll buy the add-on. Or even better...a standalone player.
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The visual difference between component (or VGA) and HDMI/DVI is significant and very well worth it. Especially if the TV has to upscale to a 1080p set, it creates less upscaling artefacts. And the signal is clearer and sharper.
I've read recently on OA that MS could very well announce a HDMI cable for the Xbox 360 on November 22 though. That would be great.
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ohhhh I want one now, I better save it for Xmas :(
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The visual difference between component (or VGA) and HDMI/DVI is significant and very well worth it. Especially if the TV has to upscale to a 1080p set, it creates less upscaling artefacts. And the signal is clearer and sharper.
I've read recently on OA that MS could very well announce a HDMI cable for the Xbox 360 on November 22 though. That would be great.
That would be great. But as it stands, many people have said that the differences between their standalone players through HDMI and their 360 with component at 1080i being deinterlaced and upscaled by the tv is not visible. No one has said otherwise either. The general consensus is that the PQ is gorgeous.
On another note though, I think there is some faulty software though. A lot of people said it was upscaling their dvd's via component. Last night I threw in Lord of War and my TV said the incoming signal was 720p. I threw in LOTR and it said it was 480p. Lord of War did not look upscaled though. I think it's just a fault with the software.
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(http://morphix.hotarubi.net/pics/X360hddvd.jpg)
(http://morphix.hotarubi.net/pics/hdx36001.JPG)
(http://morphix.hotarubi.net/pics/hdx36002.JPG)
(http://morphix.hotarubi.net/pics/hdx36003.JPG)
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wow the player is dam nice, loads up in a few secs. Gone are the 60sec + load times of the Toshiba player. Picture quality is as good as I remember it (watching Serenity again). I need to get a couch for my gaming area, I can see watching movies out here all the time with the new GF :heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat :heartbeat
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Thats quite the mess of wires you got there morphix. Reminds me of my stuff. :lol
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:lol
yeah I'll clean it up when the PS3 and Wii get here, no reason to do it now :P
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Nice - you bought a copy of Army of Darkness! My girlfriend still hasn't given me back my DVD copy.
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yeah when I saw that one I was excited, almost as good as Serenity :D
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How is it that you have so many different nice TVs but have shitty HTiB's set up for all of them instead of buying something nice?
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The visual difference between component (or VGA) and HDMI/DVI is significant and very well worth it. Especially if the TV has to upscale to a 1080p set, it creates less upscaling artefacts. And the signal is clearer and sharper.
VGA to DVI/HDMI only reduces any artifacts introduced from DAC process or noise from poorly shielded cables. Unless the source is doing more than 24bit color and the DAC for the VGA side cannot handle it, the colors should look pretty much the same on both.
Do not put component and VGA in the same camp. It's a world apart in picture quality for color resolution (4:2:2 vs 4:4:4).
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yeah when I saw that one I was excited, almost as good as Serenity :D
Yeah, I'm totally jealous :-*
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I bought the following HD DVD's over the weekend:
Four Brothers
Goodfellas
Batman Begins
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Jarhead
Last Samurai
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleepy Hollow
Phantom of the Opera
Perfect Storm
Terminator 3
Traffic
Training Day
Troy
We Were Soldiers
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YOU WIN MUPEPE! YOU WIN!
Tho a lot of those are...questionable. Like Sky Captain. 2 hours of some guy RUNNING AWAY in an airplane.
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Sky Captain LOOKED interesting atleast
Haven't seen it yet though
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YOU WIN MUPEPE! YOU WIN!
Tho a lot of those are...questionable. Like Sky Captain. 2 hours of some guy RUNNING AWAY in an airplane.
I've never seen Sky Captain. Looked like something decent to show off HD DVD and looked a little interesting in the commercials.
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Its pretty uhh...
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Its pretty uhh...
...good?
lolz
I'm guessing not.
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Should I take it back?
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I would, yeah.
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I would, yeah.
Well, now I have something do tomorrow morning.
What would you suggest picking up that's not on my list? Those are just the ones I saw that interested me. I don't even know what else is out on HD DVD.
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I bought the following HD DVD's over the weekend:
Four Brothers
Goodfellas
Batman Begins
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
Jarhead
Last Samurai
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Sleepy Hollow
Phantom of the Opera
Perfect Storm
Terminator 3
Traffic
Training Day
Troy
We Were Soldiers
I've bolded all the ones that are a complete waste of money.
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Lol enjoying king kong mups?
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Can't believe I spent $300 on a HDDVD player, even with the 12 free movies. :yuck
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In the end, I paid dearly for my anti-Sony fanboyism. :'(
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Yeah, let's not go bumping four year old topics.