Official JVC RS40/X3 Owners Thread - Page 143

Originally Posted by coolplazma

Over christmas I had a chance to use my bro's new Sony S370 and IMO it's a real dog (slow) and cumbersome menus. The player does have DLNA which he wanted, so it was something of a tradeoff with other makes/models out there. Personally, I am a lot happier with the Panasonic DMPBDT100 3D player which is at the same price point as the S470 (more like $170), but currently includes a free copy of Avatar 3D (still selling on eBay for the cost of this player). For the money ("cheap") it's a solid, basic 3D player with very good quality output.

Originally Posted by Speed Demon

No no no... NO. Nooooooo. no... NONONONONO. NO. NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!! (Q: NO??? A: NO.) No. You DO NOT want to do this. If you are starving for food, eating your own leg will not cure the hunger. If you are starving for 3D or any kind of interesting viewing experience.. "Ultimate G's: Zac's Flying Dream" will do nothing to feed that craving.

In fact, recent medical studies are on the verge of concluding that the movie may in fact be causing a massive death rate in the AV community. Those viewing on from a 2nd story building or taller have a 97% chance of throwing themselves out a window. The rest either attempt to eat the bluray so that no one else will ever have to see it (and choke to death once their tongue gets stuck in the inner hole). Or stab themselves with a needle 2,073,600 times (that's 1920x1080) to get their mind off the horror that is "Ultimate G's".

Old-time gamers: Remember when they used to slap "Extreme" on $19 value/shovel-ware games many years ago, and they were only extreme horse poopy? (I hate to say, I was actually forced to produced a few of those video games). That's how "Ultimate G" is used here.

I was one of the fortunate few to survive. I saw this was playing on dtv 103 (played fine to my Denon 4311/JVC RS40 combo so I assume not 720p sbs), recorded it and watched 7 minutes of it recently. Which is to say after watching a few mins, I fast-forwarded through the entire length (about 46 minutes?) only stopping to check "new scenes" such as some of the flying sequences. It was the fast-forwarding (and not paying $$ for the bluray) that saved my sanity; I could live with losing 7 minutes of my life and my RS40's bulb, but over 30 minutes or $$ I coulda paid towards getting Avatar 3D would have spelled the end of me.

BUT WAIT!!! Maybe you are medically blind, reading this message ala text-to-speech, and are thinking... "Well, it still may have great audio." Guess what? No. NO NO NO. No nah-nah NO-NO? NO NO! It is WORSE than "average audio". On the DTV broadcast, it actually sounded like the audio was downsampled to a 1k bit rate and a weird static-like echo added. I actually had to cycle to different audio modes to confirm nothing was wrong with my Denon 4311 receiver!

K, so getting more into the details... This basically appeared to be that some guy in some small Canadian town who either owned a pair of trainer planes used in a little dogfighting-for-fun business (or had a buddy who had this business) thought it would be great to buy a handycam, get some friends, and try to come up with a basic little story to wrap around showing a few mins of acrobatic flying. Then by doing some crappy 3D conversion (the "2d card look") they managed to get DTV to buy it for a 6 pack of Mickey's big mouth or maybe a case of budweiser.

There was maybe 1.22 mins in the movie where you get to see some nice acrobatic flying. From the distant vantage point of another plane -- not from within the plane doing the cool flying. So the view is far-removed 3rd person and totally 2d. You can find something on Discovery channel that will be 10x better. Your local new's 2 minute segment coverage of some local air show will be 9x better.

There is no saving grace to the movie, however there is a couple times (@ 4 seconds each) in the film they have a camera in the front of the cockpit looking back at the pilot where they have a nice 3d effect of the cockpit.

I had sworn to never think about this movie again. And I couldn't even get up the courage to come post here, warning you all about it. ((Sobbing) I feel so dirty and ashamed... I'm... So... (sob) Ashamed... Forgive... Please.. Forgive...). But when this title was just posted up in the RS40 thread, I knew I had to man-up and respond.

Just do me a favor.. Don't post that some wonderful Ghandi-like dude who saved a zillion children was the author of this movie, it was his life's work and he died making it (or after reading my review). Cuz then I'd just have to be a jerk and say "YOU SUCK, Ghandi-like dead-dude!!!!"

Love,
Speed Demon

Hmmm, should I append this to the old thread in the Reviews forum? Or perhaps it lacks the professionalism needed... But you stab yourself in the eye 1920x1080 times and talk to me about professionalism. I'm just saying...

Originally Posted by nightfly85

Sam,

what are the top 3D movies in your view? I need to get one or two to try it out.

thanks.

Originally Posted by zbroke

Sam's fav is THIS AIN'T AVATAR. Google it!!!!

Originally Posted by blee0120

I remember I said it was that was the best I have seen and some told me I was crazy. But it was really good

Originally Posted by blee0120

That one and Into the Deep seemed as if it was right in my theater. I thought those were really good

Originally Posted by JonStatt

I actually really enjoyed Despicable me more than Open Season for 3D. I also rank Resident evil up there as well. I thought all of the titles on the Samsung disc were mediocre.