mikeszekely

Well, that and wanting to wait for a subbed episode before attempting to join in on any discussion, only to find 20+ pages of posts already, a quarter of which were made before a raw was even available. It's rough when you want to discuss plot points in an episode, but to do so you have to read a book's worth of text, sifting through the debate on animation quality to see if someone already brought up your point 10 pages ago.

Okay, yeah, I can kinda see that. The blue color and the narrower head threw me off, but he's sorta got Shockwave's ears.

Is that... Whirl in one of those pics?!

Yeah... I never liked the Boondocks.

Man, am I glad for this topic! Now I know when to look for new Venture Bros! Adult Swim peaked with VB. Everything before it was just leading up to it, and everything after it is living it its shadow. My favorite episode was "Are You There God? It's Me, Dean." But every episode was gold.

You tired of wings that fold like a beetle's after awhile, and the way the VF-25's wings fold beats Kawamori's "hang 'em off the hips" phase.

Seconded.

The DVD audio was worthless. The HD-DVD wasn't bad, but the blackout scene was definitely missing a lot of the bass it had in the theater.

That was my initial reaction, too, but it actually makes a certain sense. I mean, after Children of the Atom, we had between X-Men vs. Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom a Marvel Super Heroes vs. Street Fighter. Marvel's biggest rival is DC, and Street Fighter's was always Mortal Kombat. Of course, DC vs MK is over 10 years late to the party...

Yeah, if Serenity gets a Blu-ray release, and Transformers, I'll be able to stick my HD-DVD stuff in closet somewhere and forget about it. As for Iron Man, I kinda hope that we get a Blu-ray release of the animated Iron Man movie, maybe to help promote the new one. It's the only one of the four newer animated Marvel movies that didn't get a Blu-ray release, and I own the other three. I'd like to complete that set.

I think all of them, the captain and Pixie included, are SMS (that is, I don't think that guy's the captain of Frontier-1, but of some kind of SMS command). I think it was Ozuma who used the "my guys" line, and he was probably just referring to Skull squadron. Edit: Chronocidal beat me to it.

Episode 4 isn't turning me off, Klein is. I'm fine with humor, too. Alto's training has been, in my opinion, a high point of the series, including the hazing. Heck, I'm one of the members on this board that actually liked Macross 7, so I'd say I'm fairly tolerant of silliness. But I don't find Klein amusing, at all. She's like some kind of Tenchi Muyo reject, and jarringly out of place in Frontier.

Forgive me if this has been brought up already, but I just watched episode 4 today (skipping Gattai, wait for AiA) and while I'm really digging this show, Klein Klan is the worst thing that's happened to Macross since faces on Valkyries. I don't care if they explain away her issue with some "genes are screwed up" line, taking a perfectly fine Zentraedi warrior, micronizing her, and having her turn into not just a child, but a cheesy caricature of every bossy underage girl that's ever turned up in anime is just a travesty.

Wal-Mart exclusive Mirage repaint = Challenge of the Gobots Crasher? SOLD! Oh, my poor wallet...

I installed the CCCP on all of my Windows boxes. I pretty much stick to my HTPC, but occasionally use my primary desktop for viewing stuff. I've tried Windows Media Center, but I don't have a remote for it and don't care for it as much as Front Row anyway, so I use VLC for everything now. I haven't had any trouble playing any files. Granted, I haven't bothered with the Gattai subs (I've been watching AiA, but I might try Menclave's), but my HTPC at least could play Menclave's HD Gundam 00 files. I guess that some media players are more efficient than others, but I guess if you have enough computer you can use any media player you like.

The funny thing is, I was thinking about getting some of the Cybertron Scout repaints that Target's been selling in the movie line and repainting them as Ironhide, Hound, and Seaspray. Now Hasbro's gone and made two of them for me. I'm telling you, if I could just get Jazz and Wheeljack in Universe, I'd have all the Autobots I want. Cyclonus is a welcome addition to the Decepticon ranks, but I still want the rest of the Seekers, Scourge, Shockwave, Blitzwing, and as long as we're talking repaints, maybe Swindle as a repaint of Hound.

Man, just when my interested in Universe/Classics 2.0 starts to wane, Hasbro announces at Botcon that pretty much every other character except the missing Seekers (except, if I'm reading right, we ARE getting Dirge, and Camo Seeker), Jazz, and Wheeljack that I wanted a toy for are coming. And for someone who's somehow managed to miss every other G1 Prime re-release, a G1 Prime re-release! Man, I haven't bought a toy yet in 2008 (save MP Megatron), but by the end of the year I'll remember 2008 as the year I spent more on Transformers than videogames. EDIT: From the looks of it, Dirge is a repaint of Cybertron Starscream, not Classics Ramjet. And I see another Classics Prime repaint next to Titanium Skywarp.

Constant readjustments, yes. Constant MANUAL adjustments, though? I'd have a hard time believing that, since we've had flight control computers with the main purpose of making numerous tiny adjustments to planes' flight control surfaces so that pilots can keep less-than-aerodynamic planes like the F-117 in the air since at least the late 80's. Honestly, if Mikhail's VF is dependent on standing on something to be stable enough to fire its sniper rifle, that kind of limits its role. Might as well be a Destroid.

Sounds like you have the same receiver I do. I'm not saying that you're wrong, but that doesn't explain why Dolby True HD and uncompressed audio tracks were playing fine on all five channels pre-firmware update. It also doesn't explain why I was only getting two channels with the regular Dolby Digital audio track. So I'm still thinking Sony's firmware update messed something up.

Thanks for the tip, I'll give it a try before I watch my next Blu-ray. I'm not ready to upgrade my receiver yet, since I live in an apartment with paper-thin walls (my neighbors probably don't complain about me because their kids are much louder and more irritating), and I want to build a new desktop computer. Speaking of computers... That's what I wound up doing. Depending on what you want out of it, it doesn't have to be expensive, either. I only spend about $350, and the only part I had on hand was a DVD-ROM I pulled from another unit that didn't really need two of them. I used an In-Win case (with 350w PSU), Gigabyte mobo, 500GB Maxtor HDD, Best Buy's store brand flash card reader, a single 2GB stick of RAM (Transcend, maybe? I forget), and a low-watt Celeron Conroe, and a Logitech Easy Call wireless mouse/keyboard combo I got on Clearance. The Gigabyte board has an HDCP certified nForce 630i chipset with integrated gigabit ethernet, GeForce 7150 graphics, HDMI video, and optical digital audio. Honestly, I bought the cheapest processor I could find, so it's not really technically HD ready, but the processor is the only thing holding it back (I'm looking to get an E8400 for the desktop I want to build, but later on when Intel starts releasing Nehalem I was going to replace the motherboard, RAM, and CPU and re-use the Wolfdale in the HTPC). The nForce chipset is fine for an HTPC, and since there's no expansion cards, the whole thing doesn't draw too much power and runs much cooler than my current desktop. And even though it's not really ready for HD, it's played everything I've thrown at it, only stuttering once on one of Menclave's Gundam 00 episodes (but not any of the other 24). My TV's a DLP, but the nForce software has settings to compensate for overscan, so widescreen video played in VLC fills the whole screen. The case hides the DVD drive and flash card reader behind a door, and the front USB and front audio behind a smaller door, so it blends nicely into my home theater without looking like a computer. And the Wii's Virtual Console be damned, but I even installed emulators for NES, SNES, Genesis, Gameboy/GBA, Game Gear/Master System, TG-16, and Sega Saturn. I moved my iTunes library to that computer, and I added a Pinnacle HD Pro Stick USB TV tuner and an external Sony DVD burner that, sitting vertically on the one end, balances the Wii at the other end. It's not the kind of computer I'd use comfortably as my main computer, but I love it for what it is and what it does. In fact, the only complaint I have with it at all is that, maybe because HDMI is sometimes finicky, but if you switch the receiver input away from the HTPC while it's still running, it'll drop the video and won't be able to get it back without rebooting.

Thanks. Anyway, I can't say I recommend YDL and MPlayer. I tried the AiA mp4 of episode 3 of Macross Frontier, as well as a DivX avi of Scrubs. Both files played without any lag or sound issues, sure, but they opened in a small window. When I set MPlayer to fullscreen, I had a tiny video playing on a huge field of black. I don't think it did anything to the settings. I double checked, and here's what I got: Under Blu-ray Audio, Optical Digital (which is what I use, since my receiver only does HDMI pass-through), I have it set to Linear PCM. Under the Settings, then Sound, I have it set to Digital Out (Optical), then for the checked supported audio, I have the following checked: DTS 5.1 Dolby Digital 5.1 AAC Linear PCM 41.6KHz Linear PCM 48KHz For my test disc, I decided to use Harry Potter and the Whatever-the-New-One-Was, since it has a Dolby Digital track followed by a uncompressed audio track. My receiver reported the same audio as the PS3, but for some reason, was only displaying two channels (even with just two channels, the uncompressed audio was noticeably better). I tried messing with the audio settings on the receiver, but I couldn't find the manual. The only way I could get it to show all the channels was if I set the receiver to Pro Logic II.

You know, I did compile MPlayer okay but I don't think I've ever tried it. I've been pretty busy studying for the A+ exams (passed the 601, taking the 602 Friday). I'll play with it tonight, see if my settings are screwy, then I'll reboot it into Linux and try watching an episode of Frontier.

Knock on wood, but I've actually had a lot of luck with consoles. I had to blow on my NES like anyone else, a broken L button and analog stick on my PSP, a cracked hinge on my DS, and a PSX that was defective out of the box, but the only systems that have actually failed after a time were my first PS2 and a Dreamcast. My launch day 360 (knock on oh so much wood) is good, my January 07 Wii was cool with Smash Bros, and my July 07 60GB PS3 is still kicking fine. Actually, I have had one tiny issue with my PS3. Ever since the last firmware update, my Blu-ray movies are only outputting in stereo. I'm talking movies that have played fine with Dolby True HD or uncompressed audio just fine before, and my receiver liked it just fine before the firmware update. Any ideas?

I'm with Gaijin, that sucks. I thought the PS3 was supposed to be the reliable one this time around.