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Say what? I get 7.1 just fine from my PS3 to my Denon 4306 over HDMI (set to LPCM). Movies (Crank, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, etc) and games (Resistance: Fall of Man, Heavenly Sword, etc). Sounds like your receiver has an issue accepting LPCM? The Future Proof receiver thread at AVS seems to indicate your receiver should be capable of doing it.... Where some AVR's aren't up to snuff is getting more than 5CH over LPCM, and if they can perform their DSP on it... My Denon is also a "Level 6" receiver and performs PLIIx on any 5.1 ch mix. Quite easily remedied flawlessly with a $15 IR receiver (I'm using the Nyko). I use my Harmony 720 and have full functionality in Blu-ray movies and even games on everything except the PS button. No lag. "turbo" speed when I hold down the arrow pad. All with info straight from the Harmony DB and no "learning" required. Here's the AVS thread: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=761809 Jump at least to page 20 or so to escape the people using the PS2 contraptions....

10,000 Yen is a great price. Would be very nice to keep it around $100 with Fast Packs. They'll need to redo the GBP again, but maybe this time we'll get removable missiles and other gimmicks added to the 1/48. Hopefully they can stay away from the Micky Mouse hands and needing extra shoulders. And DEFINITELY avoid the falling off codpiece on the original (one area where the removable nose cone probably makes more sense).

HLJ has more pics up. Including one I hadn't seen before of the YF-21 Battroid with FAST Packs "in flight" on the stand with a gunpod in hand. They're saying April release?

Love it. I still like the 5 x 1/60's I already have but will definitely be buying these. Love the 1S head sculpt and that it looks like a front/back seam instead of the stupid 1/48 left &right half with the seem straight down teh middle. I'll definitely be getting a Roy and at least two CF's. I'd love for them to do a 1A, 1J, 1S low-viz squadron/team, as well. Bring on the 1/60 Regult!

Even then the new LCD's only match brightness. They don't come close to matching SXRD-level blacks, for example. Especially the Sony Bravias. Plasmas are comprably still very expensive for 1080p 60" or bigger... It's definitely a shame, though. I was planning on a 70XBR5 and moving my 60XBR1 to bedroom duty. Guess I'll save up a bit more and get a Black Pearl projector and a 123" Vutec Silverstar instead.

That said, I dream of a 1/60 Regult I can buy 4 or 5 of.

SV-51 and YF-21 are enemy mecha in their series. YF-21 ends up going good but then goes kamikaze, of course.

I brought that up a few pages ago.

I definitely think it's overrated. That said, it's got some good sci fi at it's core. Too many of it's premises are dated now, though... Especially the whole Japanese-Corporate-run-future thing.

Whoah Thread Necromancy. For awhile I thought we were talking about a NEW game until I saw the date when I got to page 3 or 4 and started feeling the deja vu all over again.

Anyone have the original trailer anymore? I want to see all that carnage again... and this time save it to the hard drive...

PS and a 360 are still the best path into high def. Both are the fastest players on either format. The PS3 is much more the full media machine letting you browse the Internet, stream your stuff over and now with DivX/XVID/WMV today. 360 also adds DivX/XViD. Both have great visualizers for stored music and, of course, play games.

Some XViD appears to work... up to the first 2GB that is... The new visualizer for music is great! Detailed shots of the Earth... Here's some pics: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=956907

Not having been previously burned, my inclination is "no." That said I voted yes for those of you who value MISB. I'm an opener myself but definitely don't want to get burned on someone else's ghetto fabuluousness.

Just had to order one. Can't wait. Haven't done a preorder since the Low Viz I got way back when....

Yeah that looked pretty good. The outside visuals of the city don't remind me much of the original Batman Begins though (which seemed like it was always at night). Bigger and better, I suppose... Looks great, though. Can't wait.

Sure. I'm just saying Megatron as a more primitive Galvatron makes more sense than a tank and all the other silliness they do for him these days. Nothing has ever really been very plausible about Transformers, what with the mixed series (Diaclone, Microman) and all the corresponding mixed scale business - Megatron, Soundwave, etc versus the larger scale trucks, jets, etc.

I always thought Megatron as a more "primitive" artillery piece made more sense than the size-morphing/phasing hand-gun. Why would his "Scope" turn into a giant cannon anyway? Nothing I can do about chickenlegs MP Megs... but I would love to see a Masterpiece Galvatron...

I have used Twonky and TVersity to stream FLAC as well. I already had the 160GB in there. I don't listen to a whole bunch of it, since I'm increasingly an audiophile, but that's what was on my iPod and it was an extremely easy transfer.

Downloading the Burnout demo now. Hopefully I'll have a better impression d3j8. I have a 160GB drive in my originally 60GB PS3. I have about 50GB of mp3s and have a linux install, as well. Neat little device but won't really but unlocked if and until people start getting into the currently protected areas of the hardware (graphics accel, etc).

The first HDDVD I bought in a long while (well since Transformers a few weeks ago) and boy am I disapointed. The BSG set really shows the limitations of the HDDVD format that would not have affected, say... a Blu-ray version. This set shows the 3 items that are all bandwidth intensive: 16:9, lossless audio, and PiP. Further the regular Dolby Digital soundtrack (for those of you without HDMI receivers) was gimped down to 384k, which shows how bandwidth. And I can't begin to vent at how the packaging left some scratches. Everything has played pretty good on my 360 add-on except Disc 5, which is a stuttering mess.... :mad:

Only from a Warner, a studio that has habitually left 20+ GB unused on their 50GB dual layer discs (see the original release of Superman Returns for example) and a reused encode that doesn't take advantage of the superiority of the Blu-ray format (which goes to jsarclight's point). But that's neither here nor there.

Good point eugimon... i had forgotten that Peter was always alive. At the time we were simply assuming that Exploding Man (or Sylar) were the cause.... I thought Hiro was going to take him back 400 years so Adam could live it all again.... or get him killed or something. The coffin was a nice touch... still we don't know when it is, do we?

It's simply undeniable that HDDVD is more limited than Blu-ray in it's technical capabilities. This is manifest in things like the usage of lossless audio, which not everyone appreciates (and indeed not everyone can without high dollar equipment, a room with the right acoustic properties, and an ear for it), which is Blu-ray uses in an overwhelmingly superior percentage than HD DVD. The greater capabilities of Blu-ray over HDDVD are not as instantly obvious as DVD had over VHS difference, for example, but the greater capabilities in bandwidth and capacity are indeed on Blu-ray's side and they're not trivial. That is most definitely a format issue. For perspective, Blu-ray's benefits over HDDVD are similar to HDDVD's own benefits over XBL HD downloads (720p, legacy audio, etc etc). The ultimate limitations of HDDVD are far well enough beyond DVD that I wouldn't be disapointed if it won, but for the potential we will have with a Blu-ray victory. Remember, DVD had reached it's boundaries the day it was released. HDDVD has already bumped those boundaries. Blu-ray has yet to reach it's full potential yet has consistently higher ratings on the most well known HD Review sites out there, from High Def Digest to Home Theater Forum to DVDTalk. I can whip out the statistics that other folks have dug up.... my purpose isn't to fight the format war here (and the thread on that site is as representative as you'll find anywhere from AVS Forum on with most of the same players), but to correct the fallacy that claims Blu-ray is not technically superior to HDDVD. Qualitatively, one can well say the benefits aren't necessary, etc or that the cheaper prices of HDDVD counterbalance those technical advantages... but there is simply not quantitative way to dispute that technical superiority. That said, I agree 100% that format potential needs good execution. There has been plenty of laziness and craziness on both sides from Universal's glut of subpar mass releases to some of Fox's work, to say nothing of the launch wave of Blu-ray releases. Like I said, not here to fight the format war.... anyone else can have the last word on the subject.

Dunno if the gold goes with the YF-19 tan. It would sure look sharp on a Jolly Rogers scheme with white or even silver, though...