Samsung BDP1400 Disussion Thread - Page 348

Originally Posted by Smarty-pants

Yah, Appaloosa was a little iffy for me. I like westerns, even the boring and slow moving ones. My biggest criticism of this film is the editing and structure of the final product. Seems as though they took a 4 hour movie and edited it down to it's present state. At one point I actually rewound the movie because I thought I missed something or accidentally hit the forward skip button or something.
I will say no more as to not "spoil" it for anyone. I don't think Renee was really the right person for that role either.
I digress....

Originally Posted by Smarty-pants

Yah, Appaloosa was a little iffy for me. I like westerns, even the boring and slow moving ones. My biggest criticism of this film is the editing and structure of the final product. Seems as though they took a 4 hour movie and edited it down to it's present state. At one point I actually rewound the movie because I thought I missed something or accidentally hit the forward skip button or something.
I will say no more as to not "spoil" it for anyone. I don't think Renee was really the right person for that role either.
I digress....

Originally Posted by Barney_DaPurple1

Well, if you had used your 1400 to play one of Ed Harris' commentaries, he did say that she was a very convincing "manipulating" bee-otch for the role.

Originally Posted by Barney_DaPurple1

BTW, you and Phoobah havin' a contest on who has the most pair of leotards... I mean avatars?

Originally Posted by Smarty-pants

That may very well be. For some reason I have an "eye" for editing, and this movie was just edited way too much. It seemed like every 15 minutes, the story line jumped forward about a year with no explanation.
I dunno, maybe she was a manipulating beeotch, but I never saw much of that except for in you know where with you know who.
I liked Appaloosa, but expected more form Ed Harris. Maybe my expectations were set too high, hoping for an "awesome western" to be born again .
I bought this one as a blind buy. Still debating wether or not to put it in the sell pile .

Originally Posted by Smarty-pants

Ya, thought I'd thow a promo up for my sister's band, but I can't seem to find an image with the name big enough to read. Still workin on it...

Hey, where's YOUR avatar... get to work already .

Originally Posted by Barney_DaPurple1

oh, I thought it had something to do with satanic worshippin' or something .

Originally Posted by Barney_DaPurple1

working? this time of the night buddy? Man, I'm bout to start the technical review for Saw V in 7.1 surround but waiting for the babies to go to sleep first . I'll crack open a cold one just for ya buddy while watching some serious satanic worshipping !

Originally Posted by Smarty-pants

surfing AVS, all while sittin here in my jammies .

Originally Posted by Barney_DaPurple1

I have always thought it's more like the Sin City style of a movie. Seamless branching stutters while playing it with your 1400 !? That's blasphemy! Totally unheard of.

Originally Posted by hansangb

Oh you know, I meant to write that. It was very much like Sin city in terms of style. Blatant copy as a matter of fact!

Ironic that it's called "seamless" branching! But interestingly enough, this is the first movie that I had the stuttering problem with.

Originally Posted by jmatman

I'm sorry guys but I'll have to disagree, SIN CITY is an excellent movie, very well done artistically, Max Payne is a sh%&^& movie. I rented it and thought it would be something like SIN CITY (I have to agree that the cover of the movie is a blatant copy of SIN CITY) but the movie was nothing like it, it was too slow, I was waiting for it to "begin" the whole time I was watching it but it never did.

Originally Posted by jmatman

I'm sorry guys but I'll have to disagree, SIN CITY is an excellent movie, very well done artistically, Max Payne is a sh%&^& movie. I rented it and thought it would be something like SIN CITY (I have to agree that the cover of the movie is a blatant copy of SIN CITY) but the movie was nothing like it, it was too slow, I was waiting for it to "begin" the whole time I was watching it but it never did.

Originally Posted by btokars

It seems to me that BD movies played on my 1400 (connected to an Optoma HD80 projector via HDMI through an Onkyo 706 AVR set to through) are much darker than they should be, Certainly less bright than any other source via HDMI or component going into the projector.

Originally Posted by newdadmike

Hello everybody. I'm a new owner of the 1400. Bought it used yesterday for $120. Is that a good deal? Anyways I haven't had a chance to watch a blue ray movie yet. But I have watched some sddvd's. When I turn off my the 1400 in the middle of a movie than turn it back on the movie starts all over. Is this normal? My last dvd player would start right where the movie left off.

Originally Posted by Smarty-pants

120 is not really that great of a deal, considering you can get 1.1 profile players for about the same price, and a quality 2.0 profile player for maybe $50 more. If you enjoy the player, that's what counts.

The resume, or NON-resume function you are experiencing is most likely due to the Java on a lot of the discs. The discs that encorperate this can not be resumed after the discs is stopped. What makes it even worse, is a flaw with the 1400 where if you keep it paused for more than 5 minutes, the dang player will stop the disc. Then if that disc is Java enabled, you have to start all over... again .

Originally Posted by newdadmike

well this sucks. I'm usually one to get good deals too. My whole system cost me less than $2k. Anyways at least I got a blue ray player now. The non-resume function sucks too. Does this also happen with blue ray disc or just dvd's?

Originally Posted by newdadmike

well this sucks. I'm usually one to get good deals too. My whole system cost me less than $2k. Anyways at least I got a blue ray player now. The non-resume function sucks too. Does this also happen with blue ray disc or just dvd's?

Originally Posted by lujan

All of them.

Originally Posted by conqst99

Hi All -
Perhaps this has been mentioned before regarding the movie stopping and starting from the same spot. I stumbled upon this by accident. Not really sure why this happens but it works. I was watching "Invincible" the other nite. I have my 1400 connected to my V663 Yammy with the HDMI output going from there to my Panny 50" plasma. When I turned the movie off to go to bed, I accidently hit the power button for the tv first (I usually turn off the AVR and 1400 first and the tv last out of force of habit though not sure there is a correct way of doing all of this). When the tv turned off, it automatically stopped and turned off my 1400. That in itself surprised me. I guess the HDMI signal loss to the tv was sensed by the 1400 causing it to stop? But then it turned itself too.
In any case, normally when I turn off a BR disc and start it back up the following day, I gotta go thru all the BS before the movie starts as you guys know. But when I went to watch the rest of the movie the following nite, oddly enough when I turned everything on, Invincible automatically started playing right from the spot when I had turned the tv off the night before. I didn't even have to hit the play button. Hmmmmm...........

Originally Posted by Barney_DaPurple1

you can do this with one other title I know, Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Turn the 1400 off (on standby), and not stop first. The next time you turn on the 1400, it resume at the same location.

now if you really see how elaborate BD-Java can be if implemented right, try the Walk Hard Dewey Cox Story boomoo. The dang thing asks you do you want to resume play at the same location even after you play another disc before it.