Comments on: AVRant #2: Kurt loves us! http://www.avrant.com/?p=58 Hosted by Tom Andry (of Audioholics) and Dina Clarke, this male-female team dissects home theater topics and products in a way that is funny, and makes the information very accessible to the common user. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:12:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: AVRant Home Theater Podcast » Blog Archive » AVRant #44: Killing Brain Cells http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-996 AVRant Home Theater Podcast » Blog Archive » AVRant #44: Killing Brain Cells Thu, 21 Feb 2008 13:59:34 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-996 [...] Want to become Internet famous? Write a book (or call us 978.OFF.RANT - we’ll make you as famous as Kurt). Tom said Bill Campbell but he meant Bruce Campbell. Negative 3 geek points. Viral marketing [...] [...] Want to become Internet famous? Write a book (or call us 978.OFF.RANT – we’ll make you as famous as Kurt). Tom said Bill Campbell but he meant Bruce Campbell. Negative 3 geek points. Viral marketing [...]

]]> By: Tom http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-155 Tom Sat, 26 May 2007 19:36:14 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-155 Dr: The black bars was in reference to standard definition programming in general not about American Idol. The HD version of AI is crazy clear. So clear you can see Paula's drugs wearing off as the episode runs. Dina: Really? What is it about werewolf/vampire movies? I should make you watch An American Werewolf in London. Another classic that everyone should see at least once. And then there are the Dario Argento movies which were (and in a lot of ways still are) ground breaking... So many movies, so little time. Dr: The black bars was in reference to standard definition programming in general not about American Idol. The HD version of AI is crazy clear. So clear you can see Paula’s drugs wearing off as the episode runs.

Dina: Really? What is it about werewolf/vampire movies? I should make you watch An American Werewolf in London. Another classic that everyone should see at least once. And then there are the Dario Argento movies which were (and in a lot of ways still are) ground breaking… So many movies, so little time.

]]> By: dina http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-154 dina Sat, 26 May 2007 16:22:50 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-154 "NOTLD is pretty much a home movie with lots of fake blood. George Romero has lived off of this one for years." I know. I saw it. And none of you need to try to assign me a vampire or werewolf movie. I will only refuse. “NOTLD is pretty much a home movie with lots of fake blood. George Romero has lived off of this one for years.”

I know. I saw it. And none of you need to try to assign me a vampire or werewolf movie. I will only refuse.

]]> By: DrWho http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-153 DrWho Sat, 26 May 2007 16:11:49 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-153 Hey guys! Things are coming together here with the show. Tom, nothing wrong with rabbit ears! I stuck an A/B coax switch on the upstairs TV so we could have cable (sans box) and HDTV. A $16 (on eBay) Samsung amplified indoor antenna for the locals and I get spectacular HD. CBS and Fox, especially, as the local affiliates are not using those bandwidth-sucking Total News and Constant Weather secondaries like NBC and ABC are. Yuck! There oughta be a law against these. This brings me to the American Idol reference. If you're seeing the black 4:3 bars on this season's episodes, somebody is doing something bad to your signal. It is beautiful 16:9 over the air, good enough to make me interested for the first time. Reruns are a different story. dina, NOTLD is pretty much a home movie with lots of fake blood. George Romero has lived off of this one for years. I know there are fans but the whole zombie genre does not work for me. Vampires and werewolves are a completely different story. ;) Hey guys! Things are coming together here with the show.

Tom, nothing wrong with rabbit ears! I stuck an A/B coax switch on the upstairs TV so we could have cable (sans box) and HDTV. A $16 (on eBay) Samsung amplified indoor antenna for the locals and I get spectacular HD. CBS and Fox, especially, as the local affiliates are not using those bandwidth-sucking Total News and Constant Weather secondaries like NBC and ABC are. Yuck! There oughta be a law against these.

This brings me to the American Idol reference. If you’re seeing the black 4:3 bars on this season’s episodes, somebody is doing something bad to your signal. It is beautiful 16:9 over the air, good enough to make me interested for the first time. Reruns are a different story.

dina, NOTLD is pretty much a home movie with lots of fake blood. George Romero has lived off of this one for years. I know there are fans but the whole zombie genre does not work for me. Vampires and werewolves are a completely different story. ;)

]]> By: Tom http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-107 Tom Fri, 18 May 2007 23:46:06 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-107 I'm confused... You say that like it is a BAD thing?!? I’m confused… You say that like it is a BAD thing?!?

]]> By: J http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-106 J Fri, 18 May 2007 22:15:47 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-106 oh great, thanks a lot, Tom. Now I have to watch ZOMBIE movies next week.... oh great, thanks a lot, Tom. Now I have to watch ZOMBIE movies next week….

]]> By: dina http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-105 dina Fri, 18 May 2007 14:07:37 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-105 Oh, crap. Oh, crap.

]]> By: Tom http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-104 Tom Thu, 17 May 2007 21:04:26 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-104 Oh, that reminds me, you've got homework. Watch Night of the Living Dead. Not a great surround sound movie, not a masterwork of special effects (at least not any more), but the yard stick by which all other zombie movies should be judged. And how have you gone through your whole life without seeing a Romero movie? That's wrong on just SO many levels. Oh, that reminds me, you’ve got homework. Watch Night of the Living Dead. Not a great surround sound movie, not a masterwork of special effects (at least not any more), but the yard stick by which all other zombie movies should be judged. And how have you gone through your whole life without seeing a Romero movie? That’s wrong on just SO many levels.

]]> By: dina http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-103 dina Thu, 17 May 2007 20:30:58 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-103 And what, pray tell, would you have said in response to Resident Evil was my first zombie movie? And what, pray tell, would you have said in response to Resident Evil was my first zombie movie?

]]> By: clint http://www.avrant.com/?p=58&cpage=1#comment-100 clint Thu, 17 May 2007 11:08:46 +0000 http://www.avrant.com/?p=58#comment-100 This was a GREAT episode - you guys are really starting to work well together. And all without the "crutch:" of mentioning hairy backs or stroker technology! Party on dudes... This was a GREAT episode – you guys are really starting to work well together. And all without the “crutch:” of mentioning hairy backs or stroker technology!

Party on dudes…

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