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In Reply to: Anyone remembers Hud? posted by Victor Khomenko on December 12, 2003 at 13:54:51:

this post started I CANNOT get this film out of my head sooo tonight I will grag out my letterboxed laserdisc and watch it on my brand new
(delivered yesteterday afternoon) and as yet uncalibrated by ISF wizard and good friend Jim Doolittle SONY 51" RPTV with a "warm" color temp and 3/2 pulldown in action.
After my layman attempt at "calibration" using the Video Essentials DVD I sat throgh my zillionth session of the latest DVD of 2001: A Space Oddyssey in 5.1 Dolby Digital over my all Magnepan (four 1.6's and their new CC-3 center channel) Home Theater. The 3/2 pulldown does add a fluidity and does enhance the syspension of disbelief.
Still to arrive this week is the Panasonic XP-50 progressive scan DVD player which I was able to scoff up new for $400 plus shipping over the internet. I can't wait!
Also on its way is a replacement new Pioneer Elite DLC-79 laserdisc player as a replacement for its twin which bit the dust. I am currently using an old Pioneer LDS-2 which, superb build quality aside, just doesn't match the 79 in terms of picture and sound.
The 79 is a late model effort by Pioneer before they dumbed them down in the last years of laserdisc manufacture. It offers separate CD playback with a separate drwawer which, when engaged, disconnects the video circuitry for a truly high end CD experience. The CDL-79 also offers 5.1 Dolby Digitial playback for the few later issue laserdiscs I have (out of some 900) which offer this playback option. I bought the origial 79 as backup for the LDS-2 and actually ended up using it as a replacement since (its inferior build quality aside) it has better picture and sound than the LDS-2.

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Topic - Anyone remembers Hud? - Victor Khomenko 13:54:51 12/12/03 (6)

Re:Watched it last night... - rico 07:21:23 12/15/03 (0)

Re: Ever since... - rico 08:57:41 12/14/03 (0)

Brandon de Wilde. - Prokofief 12:37:00 12/13/03 (0)

Yeah, but the reason they do IS Paul Newman. You may - tinear 07:00:09 12/13/03 (0)

Re: I love it... - rico 14:02:18 12/12/03 (1)

Shot in a small town in Texas, and here's something most folks here probably don't know: - Audiophilander 23:24:38 12/12/03 (0)

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Re: Ever since... - rico 08:57:41 12/14/03 (0)

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