Re: A Space Odyssey

"Alan Browne" <alan.browne@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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>
> I saw a BD v. of this classic at the store yesterday and resisted the
urge 
> to buy it.
>
> At home last night I played the standard DVD version on my BluRay player

> (Panasonic) to my plasma tv.  The player upconverts very nicely to
1080p.
>
> Fantastic.  And also discovered that the "ape" scene at the beginning
was 
> filmed indoors.  On the old television screen I would swear it was
filmed 
> outdoors.
>
> With the DVD (non-HD mind you) you could actually see errors in the
studio 
> backdrop where painting (or cleaning) had been badly done!  (Not in all 
> backgrounds but in one or two of them).
>
> Great movie, needless to say.
>
> Also at the store was a BD version of "The Fifth Element" a visual candy

> bar of a movie, and the price was pretty good.  But I remembered
somebody 
> somewhere posting that the first edition of the BD version was very poor

> technically and that it had been recalled.  So I asked the clerk to
check. 
> Sure enough she found that the store would be receiving a new version
with 
> a different catalog number (and higher price) soon. I wondered aloud why

> the one in store had not been returned... (no reply).
>
> Anyway, few good movies to buy to date, and prices remain too high.  I 
> rented "No Country..." (very good) but it was at an obscene price at the

> store... can wait.
>
> Cheers,
> Alan.


re: 2001...
Baaalows me away that was made in 67/68 and still has better sfx than
50%(?) 
of sci-fi today.