Posted by Derek Janssen on 07/21/07 08:02

Spurious Response wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:09:23 -0700, Jordan <lundj@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>
>>I'm getting a new TV delivered tomorrow, one of the Samsung LED DLP
>>sets... any opinions on reference quality DVDs for calibration and
>>stuff?
>>
>>Historically people refer to the Fifth Element or The Matrix, but a
>>lot of time has passed since those DVDs came out and what was once
>>reference quality (The Matrix in particular) seems outdated now
>>(compared to the new boxed set versions of the flicks.)
>
> First of all, you need not just the new, exciting TV, you also need one
> or both of the HD formats to get the best picture.
>
> The Fifth Element is BluRay, and Matrix would have been HD DVD only
> except the bat's turds rode both sides of the fence.

<registers what is commonly referred to as "a Ruthless People moment" 0_0 >

Um, believe he was asking about the modern *equivalent* of Fifth Element
and Matrix as historic calibrators of one's first DVD player, back in
the 90's?...

(All other info in the post is relatively valid, but that one...wwwWOW.)

Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net

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