Having much (weekend) time on hand lately as mother has been away on holiday, it was a good time to wander around. Being me, wandering means spending time in shops like Gramophone, HMV and Laser Flair. Sadly for my wallet, due to this spare time at hand and surfing the forums, it was lighter by some (considerable) amount, as it was spent on buying a couple of blurays.
Since having a BR writer on my PC and also a 24" LCD monitor with HD capability, I have been trying to resist to flooding my shelf with the new format, but as it is, the numbers are growing - of course not as fast as TehPeng's collection - but still with the number of DVDs that is already on the shelf, I am certain mother will be grumbling about this soon...
Among those in the BR, was 3 titles that was already on the shelf which is now also joined by their BR siblings - Band of Brothers (I had the DVD), Tudor Season 1 (I had the DVD as well), and P&P (I had 2 of the DVDs - one the original version, then 10th Anniversary Edition as well as the VHS!). In fact this entry was because while watching the bonus features which they had talk about the popularity of the series; and they were right.
I am certain that it would be join by the other favourites when they are out in BR format - Star Wars and Dune (both movie and the mini-series and its sequel). Even the Bourne Trilogy (which has BR format out now) seems creeping into the list to get in BR format. While may not be "favourites", but Battlestar Galatica (new series), Indiana Jones Trilogy and Back to the Future Trilogy are somewhere down in the "List to get" as well. Heck, I even have a list of the prices of some titles in my PDA for reference, as a just in case! :P
One which I am not certain would be an addition - there was a "bollywood" movie version of P&P - Bride and Prejudice. Yes, some of my friends deem it very sterotyping, but it's still good fun, sounded like some of the musicals, where you have dialogue and then suddenly they started to burst into singing. Oh, the "No life with wife" was hilarious!
So, as I close this entry, the series playing on my 2nd monitor (oh how I love the LCD which is able to display HD very well), and firefox opened on the main monitor - I realised that the BR version had a better grasp in colours, especially the skin tones, although a little redder than I thot.
Now.. if only someone would be able to bring out the other Jane Austin's books in the manner which they had done for P&P - Yes, I have read almost all of them but I believe P&P will still remain my favourite of them all. Oh how conforming does that sound, but I cannot denial that fact that I really enjoyed this book very much.
P.S.: Wonder if Tehsis would be borrowing the BR to view. Then again, I don't recall her having BR player at home, maybe she can watch it in TehPeng's place instead... :P *grin*
Since having a BR writer on my PC and also a 24" LCD monitor with HD capability, I have been trying to resist to flooding my shelf with the new format, but as it is, the numbers are growing - of course not as fast as TehPeng's collection - but still with the number of DVDs that is already on the shelf, I am certain mother will be grumbling about this soon...
Among those in the BR, was 3 titles that was already on the shelf which is now also joined by their BR siblings - Band of Brothers (I had the DVD), Tudor Season 1 (I had the DVD as well), and P&P (I had 2 of the DVDs - one the original version, then 10th Anniversary Edition as well as the VHS!). In fact this entry was because while watching the bonus features which they had talk about the popularity of the series; and they were right.
I am certain that it would be join by the other favourites when they are out in BR format - Star Wars and Dune (both movie and the mini-series and its sequel). Even the Bourne Trilogy (which has BR format out now) seems creeping into the list to get in BR format. While may not be "favourites", but Battlestar Galatica (new series), Indiana Jones Trilogy and Back to the Future Trilogy are somewhere down in the "List to get" as well. Heck, I even have a list of the prices of some titles in my PDA for reference, as a just in case! :P
One which I am not certain would be an addition - there was a "bollywood" movie version of P&P - Bride and Prejudice. Yes, some of my friends deem it very sterotyping, but it's still good fun, sounded like some of the musicals, where you have dialogue and then suddenly they started to burst into singing. Oh, the "No life with wife" was hilarious!
So, as I close this entry, the series playing on my 2nd monitor (oh how I love the LCD which is able to display HD very well), and firefox opened on the main monitor - I realised that the BR version had a better grasp in colours, especially the skin tones, although a little redder than I thot.
Now.. if only someone would be able to bring out the other Jane Austin's books in the manner which they had done for P&P - Yes, I have read almost all of them but I believe P&P will still remain my favourite of them all. Oh how conforming does that sound, but I cannot denial that fact that I really enjoyed this book very much.
P.S.: Wonder if Tehsis would be borrowing the BR to view. Then again, I don't recall her having BR player at home, maybe she can watch it in TehPeng's place instead... :P *grin*