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So I was at a friend's place tonight, and he and his wife made the comment that they really didn't see what all the fuss about DVD was, VHS looks the same, doesn't it?

Bren R.

On a crappy TV, a good VHS doesn't look all that different from DVD. As the TV gets better, the difference between DVD and VHS gets more apparent.

Did you look at their TV ?

My brother-in-law just picked up a DVD player. They got the good one -- $40 -- not the $25 piece of junk

Their only reason for upgrading was because VHS tapes were becoming hard to rent. Yes he is building a home theater in his basement but we haven't had a chance to talk equipment yet. I'm assuming the $40 player will not move down to the basement.

I think you hit on something pretty important here.

Like, I am the only one-the only one!-in my family who has anything close to a full fledged home entertainment system!

My oldest daughter has a large RPTV, but continues to use the on-board speakers! My son has surround-sound; sub and all, but it's on his computer! with little bitty sats and a module "sub"! And he thinks it sound "good"! or even "Great"!

"WE" take great pride in our hobby and think it's a major part of our lives(It IS!) But "THEY" don't, and in fact they really don't seem to give a sh....a darn.

Which brings me to another question, one that maybe deserves its' own thread.

This one concerns the "Canadian Sound"

My understanding is that the Canadian sound is more accurate and perhaps a little dryer than "The American" sound(not that Canada isn't as American as the U.S. But Canada has the NRC. Know what I mean?)But(and maybe I should do some more research here)perhaps we are in the minority here in prefering the more accurate side of neutral. That the rest of the world would rather have something warmer and more colored.

I had read-and it stuck with me-back in the sixties in one of the major Hi-Fi mags that some folks like cool sound, some like warm, even mushy sound, but that the vast majority would gravitate towards the warmer side of neutral.

I read very nearly the same comment when starting to get back into audio/HT about five years ago, in a couple of on-line and paper publications. That the majority of people like a warmer sound. Like what you hear in the average movie theater?

>>That the majority of people like a warmer sound. Like what you hear in the average movie theater?

I was with you right up to the last sentence. Maybe I haven't been to enough movies recently but I never thought movie theaters had a "warmer sound". A shrill sound, a "peaked up in the midrange" sound, occasionally even a "they turned the bass drivers up too loud again" sound but I don't think I have heard many (any ?) "warm" movie theater sound systems.

I agree with bridg. I don't go to a lot of movies, but when I do, I do notice the sound. I would characterize the sound in movies theaters as being shrill, maybe a little too intense. I really don't mind it, but I do notice it and have wiggled my pinky finger in one or both of my ears more than once.

Ya know something guys? I was with me up to that point too.

When I checked to see if the thing had posted, I didn't like the way that sentence sounded either-too late to delete it though now.

So....Here's a public and profound retraction:

Disreguard that last comment, it didn't come out at all like I meant it to! In reality I was more visualizing what I remember movies sounding like when I went to the theater a lot, when I was a kid, and it made an impression on me....

In the fifties!

Rich.

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In the fifties!

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There were movies theaters back in the fifties?


Hmmmm, you learn something new everyday!

Has this person ever seen a dvd on a reasonably good tv?

Yeah! Really!! There was! And in "Color" too!!

My Dad even told me of when he worked part-time at the town theater as a projectionist.

In 1914!!

My subwoofer cabinet is a re-build of our old "Home theater" speaker cabinet.

Of 1946!!

Yup, my memories of "Going to the Show" are of $.14 matinee' and heavy tube sounding audio. An "A" movie, a cartoon, a serial feature, coming events and a "B" movie. Walk in and out any time you want to, just don't lose that ticket!

Rich.

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Yup, my memories of "Going to the Show" are of $.14 matinee' and heavy tube sounding audio. An "A" movie, a cartoon, a serial feature, coming events and a "B" movie. Walk in and out any time you want to, just don't lose that ticket!

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Hey Rich, I remember turning in Meadow Gold milk carton coupons for free passes to the movie theater, I'm thinking this was in the mid sixties, in Oklahoma City, OK. Was the first time I ever watched 'The Blob'...had me scared for weeks!