Category Archive for ‘films’
Dell Inspiron, HDMI, 5.1 / DTS / Dolby Digital – Getting it to work
Wow this stumped me for ages… I knew I’d had it working before so why wasn’t it working now? Long story short I’ve got it working as follows: AC3Filter installed Main tab – Check the “Use SPDIF” box SPDIF tab Check the “Use SPDIF” box SPDIF Passthrough section check all the boxes I unchecked the [...]
Blade Runner: The Final Cut [Blu-ray]
After getting my Blu Ray player from Ebuyer I quite obviously needed some Blu Rays to ogle over, after buying Avatar (which is beautiful btw!) I went for the Blade Runner Final Cut. Any reader will know that I love my sci-fi films (see District 9) and this is one of the grand daddies, possibly [...]
Foehn & Hirsch Blu-Ray Player – Full 1080p, DTS-HD with USB Playback
Grabbed one of these beauts from Ebuyer and (for the price) I’m really chuffed… It’s a pretty small black glossy unit that is multi-region Blu Ray and DVD (don’t upgrade the firmware if you want that feature to continue… see post 136), Full 1080p, DTS-HD and even supports MKV playback from a USB memory stick [...]
District 9
To complete my District 9 ramblings… I saw it.. the wife and I both loved it. Nowhere near as sci-fi as I thought it would be. Apparently it’s based on this short film … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8 8 stars out of 10! Thus completes the extensive review.
District 9
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Sci-fi film I’ll watch em…. but when I here it’s a really GOOD sci-fi film I’m all over it like herpes on a back street pleasure lady. The Mrs doesn’t really like them so she won’t come to the cinema with me so the question is… Do I go on my own or wait [...]