My fifteen year-old daughter refuses to watch movies on anything but the iMac in my office. The digital clarity is amazing and it is a much more intimate experience (especially with the lights out).
I remember sitting in my high-backed, wide bottomed leather office chair a couple of years ago watching Denzel Washington's directorial debut on the i-Mac with my daughter on my lap and a son on either side of me. Man, that was good viewing. ~rave! --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I¹m going to say something that will probably have my US citizenship > revoked. > > I have a Vizio brand 52 inch LCD HDTV big screen TV, and I hardly watch it. > In fact, I think if I got rid of it, and I¹d be pretty happy. I love > watching games and an occasional movie on it ...but you know what I like > even more? I have an iMac in my office since I think 2004. I LOVE watching > movies and TV shows on my computer. When I settled in to watch Sliders > season 1 (which is still $20 at Wal Mart, btw) -- iMac. Transformers on DVD? > iMac. When I watched the LOTR DVDs it was on a much smaller TV in my > office. I enjoy watching that smaller TV with my son because we have our own > chairs to sit in and get comfortable. And he¹s 4, so it¹s not really about > what¹s on screen, it¹s the time we¹re spending together. We could be > listening to radio serials and it would have the same effect. I am waiting > for the RE-remastered TOS episodes to go to iTunes because I will download > them all and watch them at the end of the day. I watch more TV on my > computer than I do on the screen. When I¹m on the road I watch DVDs on my > laptop, and if Apple steps up their anime game...iPhone. My iTunes library > is pretty big, I listen to more music and podcasts than I watch network TV. > IN fact, if it weren¹t for TCM and football, I would only watch like 3 > hours of programmed TV a week. I know I can get most of the movies I like > on TCM from GreenCine or Netflix. I have been thinking about getting Setanta > Sports. If I could get it so that I could watch EPL games on my iMac or > laptop...I would really have no reason to watch a large screen TV. In fact, > I should run the numbers on what I would be spending if I got a package to > watch soccer on my computers and bought tickets to go SEE football games I > wanted to see in Charlotte. If I downgraded my cable package, I may actually > end up spending the same amount of money and would have more fun. > > Of course, as I say all this, I ended up getting the Blade Runner DVD for > Christmas and have not watched it yet. Once I do, I will probably be taking > all of this back. > > > > On 12/27/07 5:50 AM, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > We had one for a while, but all this cross continent moving has changed > > that. So , I have the same dreams. Hopefully, now that I am getting > > well and starting to work again, those dreams will become a reality > > > > Astromancer wrote: > >> > I haven't been to the movies in several years...I either rent DVDs or > >> download them off the net...I dream nightly of owning a big screen TV... > >> > > >> > "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> <mailto:tdlists%40multiculturaladvantage.com> > wrote: Agreed. While > >> I think you are a die hard movie goer, The big screen > >> > changes the whole movie experience. You will come to love home viewing > >> > almost as much as the theatre. Besides you can rent them on Netflix > >> > until you can by the collections. I do that with lots of series > >> > > >> > Astromancer wrote: > >> > > >>> >> Let me fix that...(big screen, big screen, big screen...) You can hav the > >>> big screen > >>> >> and buy the collections later...(big screen, big screen, big screen...) > >>> Everything will look so much better on that BIG SCREEN...this is only a > >>> suggestion... > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:KeithBJohnson%40comcast.net> wrote: > >>> >> you know, Tracey, just dicussing DS9 makes me nostalgic. I was up really > >>> late this morning, and Voyager was being shown on Spike TV at 1 am. I feel > >>> asleep, but when i awoke for a moment an hour or so later, i think i heard > >>> an ep of DS9 in the background. Fell asleep again, but remember feeling > >>> vaguely angry at why it'd be on at such an inaccesible hour. > >>> >> > >>> >> I got about two hundred bucks worth of Best Buy gift cards for Christmas. > >>> I keep bouncing back between saving them for a big flatscreen plasma TV, or > >>> getting the complete run of one of my favorite series: Avatar, Battlestar > >>> Galactica, Homicide (one of the greatest TV dramas ever), Babylon 5, > >>> original Trek, or DS9. > >>> >> > >>> >> I keep finding myself leaning towards DS9... > >>> >> > >>> >> -------------- Original message -------------- > >>> >> From: "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" > >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>> <mailto:tdlists%40multiculturaladvantage.com> > > >>> >> Refresh my memory. I forgot how it ended. Didn't the shape changers > >>> >> start melting and Odo dump Kira, who, he had loved forever, to cure and > >>> >> stay with them? > >>> >> > >>> >> Daryle wrote: > >>> >> > >>> >> > >>>> >>> The End of the Dominion War. > >>>> >>> > >>>> >>> > >>>> >>> On 12/26/07 2:38 PM, "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" > >>>> >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>> <mailto:tdlists%40multiculturaladvantage.com> > wrote: > >>>> >>> > >>>> >>> > >>>> >>> > >>>> >>> > >>>>> >>>> During our discussion about over the top with bad plot block busters, > we > >>>>> >>>> started talking about over the worse saves in speculative fiction > >>>>> >>>> movies. So far two were raised. They are: > >>>>> >>>> > >>>>> >>>> 1. "Data putting the freakin' Borg *to sleep* to save the day in Star > >>>>> >>>> Trek Next Generation > >>>>> >>>> > >>>>> >>>> 2. 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