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Post by Venomeye on Apr 26, 2007 16:06:26 GMT -5
Noooo what I meant was the TT_TT thing (took me years to figure out what that T was).
Oh so your space must be very limited. I can see why now. I heard there are these headphones you can buy that emulate surround sound with 6 directional speakers in them. I had my chance to get them VERY cheap but I failed! AHH.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 26, 2007 21:16:51 GMT -5
I've got a pair of ear-bud headphones that do a pretty impressive 3-D effect. I was wearing them in the car, and I kept looking behind me because I heard things behind me. I'm much more dependent on sound cues than visual.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 27, 2007 14:36:43 GMT -5
Oh, I do that emote that way because I think it's clearer than the usual T_T. (It wasn't until I saw the TT_TT version that I realized what it was.)
I used to have a pair of headphones that could behave that way, but they died, and the ones that replaced them were sorely lacking in bass. Then my iPod earbuds are pretty good, but don't get the surround simulation that first amazingly cheap pair did. I miss them.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 27, 2007 16:14:26 GMT -5
I actually have a "Musical Musing!"
Has anyone ever noticed how much the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack sounds exactly like Gladiator? I know they were composed by the same guy, but without actually seeing the CD in front of me, I often forget exactly which one I'm listening to. Has anyone else noticed this?
Poofie, isn't it weird how sometimes the cheap stuff totally rocks?
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 27, 2007 17:39:01 GMT -5
More movies I am unfamiliar with, I am going to be stoned to death (or cinder blocked) any minute now.
Alot of cheap things are really good, and then making deals on things like e-Bay, thriftstores and even yard sales can be a good idea. However, the expensive stuff also rocks, probably more so *cinder blocked*. I agree though, those head phones I was talking about were 15 dollars, 6 channels of sounds! It wasn't their normal price though, it was a special deal, I still wish I got one.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 28, 2007 15:21:07 GMT -5
I noticed when watching the second movie's trailor how much the music sounded alike, but I never bought the soundtrack for that film. I should consider it thoug; that movie's got some good music in it.
It is weird, but it makes me happy when that happens. Oh, and yard sales ROCK. Sometimes the more expensive stuff rocks more, like Wacom tablets versus no-namers, but other times it works as well or better. The cyber accoustics speakers are a good example. In fact, I have two sets, one for my computer at school and one for my little TV at home.
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Post by cory5412 on Apr 29, 2007 1:31:45 GMT -5
This thread wins, just by the way. First off, congrats for mentioning John Tesh, and Nightwish! Recently, I've gotten into musical soundtracks. I'm addicted to Rent (film and broadway), Avenue Q, Wicked, and Starlight Express (a musical about trains - how awesome. ) I'm listening to Forbidden Broadway now. If nobody's heard it, I suggest Daft Punk to just about anybody, it's kind of a techno/electronic type of sound, if you've ever seen the ipod commercial with the song "technologic" or if you've ever heard "harder, faster, stronger, smarter" or "One more Time" - all of that is Daft Punk. Their albums work very well sequentially, and if you're looking for 90 minutes of visual awesomeness, the movie Interstella 5555 is basically awesome. If you're into Jazzy stuff, The Rippingtons do a good job, especially with their track "Sahara." By the way, Re:VHS, the sound is somewhat muddy, but I do think it is actually stereo, a lot of it is just televisions and VCRs that are cheap. Of course, it's a shame that S-VHS didn't fall into more common use. In addition, movies shipping on D-VHS are supposed to have really good quality, but of course, we just *have* to go ahead and keep going with discs. (D-VHS uses mpeg2 compression, and in standard def you can record loads more than on a VHS tape, which is already 6 or 8 hours depending on the tape. When HD-DVD and BluRay discs get closer to being for prime-time, and as televisions evolve, we should have 5.1 sound as standard, but the bad thing is that that's difficult to bundle with a TV, and I'm too lazy to set it up on my own. I used to love going to yard sales, I've got lots of my older computer stuff from them, they were even better in Washington - loads of interesting stuff because most of those areas were more populated more densely than here in Arizona.
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 29, 2007 14:01:21 GMT -5
My speakers are totally going out, there's cracks in the power cable, so I have to "bend it" underitself to keep the connection stable. Same thing happened to one of the speakers that is attached to the other. THEN my volume button is fuzzy... while turning it the right speakers fuzzes out/in. UGHHHHHHHHHHH. UGH UGH UGH. ugh
Blu-ray will take a few years before people actually want to buy them. I mean, it's like going from a 1Ghz processor to a 2 Ghz when all you do is play solitare and check e-mail. But soon they will rock everything. Then something new will happen.
More bands to listen to, funny how I haven't heard of any of them either *cinder blocked*. I am so lame.
I haven't been to a yard sale in ages, and most of what I see is usually furniature. Though I do see lots of peripherals like mice and keyboards at them all the time. Fun stuff.
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Post by cory5412 on Apr 29, 2007 17:19:39 GMT -5
the difference between standard def and high def television is immediately noticeable, it's still not something everybody's grandmother is investing in, but it's definitely a noticeable difference.
Of course, before we see everybody and his brother adopting a new standard - somebody has to win the format war.
I'm voting for BluRay, but that's because it holds more, Apple is on the BLuray commission, and it's already got more devices/media available.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 30, 2007 2:38:56 GMT -5
Ironically, my grandfather is a total fan of high-def anything. XD He was the first person I personally knew to get a DVD player or an HD reciever, and he upgrates almost continually. He's got an amazing home theater system. You should see effects-laden films like LOTR on that thing!
Stupid format war. Someone will win, but the only reason why most people, even my grandpa, haven't jumped on the next-wave bandwagon is because they want to see what will win. In fact, waaaay back when it was Beta VS. VHS, he jumped the gun and went Beta, even though it only took off in Australia and Europe, not the states.
Apple is supporting BluRay? Really? Also, I think BluRay has an advertising advantage becasue the name sounds cooler than HDDVD. It's sad, but I think that it's true.
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Post by Venomeye on Apr 30, 2007 5:20:28 GMT -5
I've never seen high-definition quality video before, maybe that will make a believer out of me. If I watched the TV that was... I forgot about that. But a high-def display for the computer would be great!
I had a Beta player a very long time ago. In fact I think it's still around, and I remember watching old cartoons on StarTrek on it. Don't ask. That's all I remember of it though, not that I noticed any difference between VHS and Beta.
I totally agree with that, may the best named name brand win.
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Post by Pipe Organ Wolf on Apr 30, 2007 7:46:25 GMT -5
What format was like DVDs that were the size of records? I remember in my first year of college, in Music History watching Wagner's ring cycle on that.
Were beta players the one with the big flat cartridges? I used to watch cartoons on something like that.
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Post by Haruo on Apr 30, 2007 14:34:35 GMT -5
Those are Laser Discs. We've had those in art class with oodles and oodles of photographs of art pieces on there. :3 Ironically, the only reason I noticed they were Laser Discs (and consequently know what they are) is because of Poofie, methinks. XD ...*wants a frisbee now*
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Post by cory5412 on Apr 30, 2007 17:02:02 GMT -5
yeah, laserdiscs were the big optical discs. the big flat cartridges were called CEDs, aka selectavision, a technology from RCA. I've heard cnsumer-beta was slightly higher quality than VHS, but professional-beta (betacam) and it's successors (betacam SP, Betacam SX, DigitalBeta, among others (like the new hdcam formats. ) are super quality, with video actually split into components instead of just composite like VHS, or y/c like svideo. I admit - I'm a video format geek.
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Post by Poofiemus on Apr 30, 2007 17:15:41 GMT -5
I miss my laser discs. Not because of their quality, but because we had some great obscure movies on laser. I wanna watch The Magic Pony now.
Yeah, the quality of beta is what got Grandpa into them in the first place. I was too young to really know the difference when our beta player croaked, though I do remember watching some weird movies on that medium too. (Anyone here ever heard of Dot and the Bunny?) . I didn't know there even WAS a professional beta. O.o
This is the second forum I've signed up on where a thread diverted to old video formats. Odd.
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