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John,

Go to Wally World and get it before the end of the week.

$14.87 is a great price especially since it will go up to $19.97 very soon.

Make sure you check out the deleted scenes and see if you guys think that the guy in the Pixar hat with the glasses was the face model for Syndrome...freckles, blues eyes and all...

GREAT movie...Sarah even enjoyed it...Jamie (our 13 year old son) loved it the two or three times we saw it at the theatre. He was estatic when I brought it home last night.

Great LFE workout as well as surrounds...Gotta re-calibrate my system though...I think someone has been dinking with it...

WhatFurrer

I picked it up as well, great movie. Is it just me or did anyone else notice that the sound level (while being awesome) was a little quiet?

I had to turn it up higher than I normally watch movies. Nothing at all wrong with the sound quality, but I usually watch movies around -30 on my system, and with the Incredibles I was up to around -20 and higher!!

What is up with the aspect ratio for this movie. I checked the back of the box and it says 2.39:1... I don't think I have (personally) seen a movie on DVD that was wider than 2.35:1... Granted that even on a large (100" or so) you are only talking about 1-2 inches wider, but just seems odd that they would release it at what, to me, seems like a non-standard ratio.

Cool movie though.

Nick - Cinemascope is 2.39:1 on 35mm. Even film shot Cinemascope is usually projected 2.35:1 (and vice versa) - theatres aren't worried about the slight aspect difference to the point where they'll buy a specific lens for a feature.

Think that's wide? The original silent films were shot 2.66:1 - now that's using all the available stock! (there were no longitudinal audio tracks back then)

Goes without saying, but 16:9 widescreen is 1.78:1.

Bren R.

I am pretty much sold on the idea of 2.35:1 for my theater screen, but I want to try out my projector on a blank wall to make sure and to get the size right for how I want it to look.

Thanks for the insight on the old silent movies. Makes sense too. I have a DVD I got a while back that talks about how movies have advanced (the DVD is called Thrill Ride or something) and they talk about how they started adding audio tracks and needing to reduce the aspect ratio to fit it.

Same here. The mix and overall sound is fabulous but I did have to turn it up about 10db over "normal".

There is an interesting update today on www.thedigitalbits.com (scroll about 2/3 down the page) James Cameron talks about the Titanic special edition (yawn) but there is some interesting stuff about his take on the HD-DVD, Blu-ray format war and an amazing project that he and George Lucas are participating in.

By the way, thedigitalbits is a great site for updates on everything DVD as well as insider info on HD-DVD and Blu-ray. I check it every weekday.

Just finished watching the Incredibles.
FANTASTIC!
This one is definitely going into the Axiom audition stack.

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James Cameron talks about the Titanic special edition (yawn) but there is some interesting stuff about his take on the HD-DVD, Blu-ray format war and an amazing project that he and George Lucas are participating in.

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Ooh, an amazing project with Cameron and Lucas? Please let it be "Ten Paces, Turn and Fire!"... at least then the world will be minus one self-absorbed director.

George "I'll release the movie I want to release, you stinking peons!" Lucas and James "If my commentary on any of my movies is to be believed I started the industrial revolution and died on the cross for your sins" Cameron.

Bren R.

Cameron -- things exploding do not an artiste make.

Lucas -- we've created our own expectations. Just because he's a bazillionaire doesn't mean he's likely (or obligated) to make the movie we'd all like to see. He's making precisely the movies he'd like to make, and he's exposed himself as a hack who got lucky.