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Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 03 Jul 2008, 20:08

tom2681 wrote:Hale and Delisle aren't actors, they're dubbing artists.
An actor is someone who can deliver a performance without saying anything. Think Anthony Hopkins.

Speech is only 50% of the acting.
When you watch a dubbed film, you're still getting half a performance.

Put the crack-pipe down Tom!

. Anyone who gives a performance is an actor, doesn't matter if it is audio-only, or a silent physical performance.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 03 Jul 2008, 20:15

tom2681 wrote: Think Anthony Hopkins.

He was da bomb in Beowolf

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jul 2008, 21:12

Shingster wrote:Anyone who gives a performance is an actor, doesn't matter if it is audio-only, or a silent physical performance.

Fair point but would you say a voice actor (or artist for that matter) is "acting"?

tom2681 · Post by **tom2681** » 03 Jul 2008, 22:02

Shingster wrote:Anyone who gives a performance is an actor, doesn't matter if it is audio-only, or a silent physical performance.

Every guy who's on Youtube is an actor, then?
And they say I'm full of shit...

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Jul 2008, 22:30

No you're, it is I who they say are full of shit

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Shingster · Post by **Shingster** » 03 Jul 2008, 23:06

tom2681 wrote:Every guy who's on Youtube is an actor, then?
And they say I'm full of shit...

lol well obviously I was talking in the professional context, duh! But any dickhead off YouTube can give a performance in a film/play/animation and be at least credited as an actor, yes. Doesn't make them a professional actor of course, but either way we are a long way from Eva's original point, the people he listed are professional voice actors. Full stop.

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 04 Jul 2008, 12:26

Boys From Brazil comparison-looks a massive upgrade from the SD,will be picking this up soon

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film/DVDCompar ... brazil.htm

Markgway · Post by **Markgway** » 04 Jul 2008, 15:02

Sam, you ever thought about playing Mystere...?

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 04 Jul 2008, 18:23

saltysam wrote:Boys From Brazil comparison-looks a massive upgrade from the SD,will be picking this up soon

WOW! That's some improvement.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jul 2008, 12:13

The Mummy Returns BD:

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1442/mummyreturns.html

What's important here is how Universal are handling their re-releases instead of the film itself, which is rubbish

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romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Jul 2008, 18:14

Mmmm standard dvd for 50p, HD DVD for £3 or Blu Ray for over £12......

let me think.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jul 2008, 19:29

Don't you get bored of saying that?

. Not everyone is Dual Format (like us) and thus the HD-DVD is useless to them.

Besides the audio could be worth an upgrade but seeing as the same encode is used the picture quality won't be.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Jul 2008, 19:34

No the audio aint worth the ugrade at all haha

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jul 2008, 19:50

Your opinion is as reliable as any other, less so than some

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It's worth remembering the HD-DVD has DD Plus at 1.5Mbps not DD Plus/DD at 640Kbps so that alone may mean it's not worth it "at all". Who knows, neither of us have compared the HD-DVD DD Plus with the BD DTS-HD MA, to say for sure.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 08 Jul 2008, 19:52

I asked over at High Def. Digit but as it's an American site, they don't have a scooby doo (or care) if this is region locked or not.

Has it been confirmed anywhere if any of the Universal BDs are region locked or region free? Cheers.

romerojpg · Post by **romerojpg** » 08 Jul 2008, 20:08

As far as I am aware region free all Universal titles so far , no idea where I read it mind you

but I mostly read about this stuff on AFSforum and I know a few peeps on there have the Universal discs already.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 12 Jul 2008, 12:32

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/878/one ... snest.html

Pity the AV isn't too hot and annoyingly the Mono has been dropped. Thankfully at least it sounds like the DD5.1 is basically Mono anyway.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 22 Jul 2008, 10:53

Escape from New York - UK BD

The specs sounds great, I'll pick it up. Also confirmed to be region free.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 22 Jul 2008, 13:08

Me too. Isn't it RA + RB not Region Free?

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 22 Jul 2008, 14:26

The specs in that review say Region B but the reviewer says it's an "allregion" disc.

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 22 Jul 2008, 15:10

bradavon wrote:Isn't it RA + RB not Region Free?

The review says that it's all region, as Salty said. But does it matter? You personally have said "who cares about Region C?" many times, more or less.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 24 Jul 2008, 21:48

Trainspotting: Japanese BD:

http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1671/tr ... ng_jp.html

saltysam · Post by **saltysam** » 29 Jul 2008, 00:00

Starship Troopers usa BD
http://bluray.highdefdigest.com/1033/st ... opers.html

EvaUnit02 · Post by **EvaUnit02** » 29 Jul 2008, 09:44

Thanks Salty. I'm pleased that they've compared to it to the Buena UK BD and that the disc is region free.

bradavon · Post by **bradavon** » 03 Aug 2008, 13:29

T2: UK BD:

http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/te ... t-day.html

Sadly it's another HD-DVD port

. My German UE is on the way

. £20 delivered from AVForums classifieds, that's not much more than the UK BD.