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James R Maxlow |
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James R Maxlow |
| Home Theater Gallery | |
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This is the current iteration of my home theater (with furniture rearranged for a better camera view.) Although the Toshiba widescreen dominates the room, it's the Dolby Digital-EX / DTS-ES sound system that really makes the difference. |  |
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Here are the majority of my DVDs, flanking one of the surround speakers. The antenna to pick up high-definition tv broadcasts is, unfortunately, quite visible. |
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Here are some more DVDs. The couch is pretty comfortable, but I'll have to get around to painting the walls a dark color one of these days. | |
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Superman is probably still the best comic-book adaptation put up on the big screen, and few can deny that the sight of Christopher Reeve in the red, blue, and yellow zooming across the sky reminds us of a more innocent world. |
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A Bug's Life, in addition to being a very enjoyable movie, was also the very first direct-to-digital transfer of a movie to DVD. By bypassing the process of putting the images on film, Disney has created possibly the most impressive looking animation DVD ever. You can't imagine how three-dimensional this disc looks until you see it for yourself. | |
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Ah, Jurassic Park... what person under age 50 did not see this movie in the summer of '93? It's still one of my favorites and still puts most special effects-driven movies of the past eight years to shame. |
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Spielberg at his best... unlike so many horror movies of the past several decades, this one never loses its ability to terrorize and enthrall. It is a timeless classic made even better by a terrific DVD transfer. | |
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Independence Day is basically B-movie sci-fi with terrific special effects... it's pretty darn enjoyable if you accept it at that level. Here's perhaps the most famous scene from the movie. |
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