BluRay Binge
Apr. 23rd, 2010 09:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnmpsnMy new BluRay/entry level surround sound system (spoils of a tax refund -- still not used to that!) needed something to play -- whatever would it be? It seemed like I should buy something symbolically IMPORTANT for the first one, you know? (case in point: first CD ever bought was Sonic Youth "EVOL," making good on my "yeah, yeah, I'll start buying CDs when SST starts putting them out." Hey, it was important in, uh, 1986!)
So I thought about "Serenity" or something, but I've already got that (2 copies) and really the up-conversion works quite nicely on my 32" LCD.
So I went for something awesome that I've been wanting that was sure to look great in HD -- the first season of "Pushing Daisies." Good price at Amazon, click, click, on its way.
But not instantly available. And the next day, there in my email inbox was a sale notice from DeepDiscount, and click click click on the way were 2 box sets: the krazy kookoo 4-disc extravaganza "Watchmen--Ultimate Cut" (to go with the Absolute print edition I have, I suppose), and a 3-disc set of modern Chinese action classics -- "Crouching Tiger...", "House of the Flying Daggers," "Curse of the Golden Flower" (to go with the VHS tapes of 80s Hong Kong actioners on my shelf.) Super on-sale, on the way.
And yetstill not instant. My HTiB was delivered, a day early even. I had to go out to the store to buy speaker mounts for the rear speakers. Armed with a couple of Best Buy coupons I ventured out; and ventured home with "Doctor Who: The Complete Specials" box set.
Finally, some instant gratification. And oh well worth..whatever. (Subsequent days continued to gratify: "Pushing Daisies," eye popping as expected; the Chinese stuff came today and "...Flying Daggers" is giving my rear speakers a workout; haven't assailed "Watchmen" yet, but the package so matches the Absolute that I almost need to put it on that shelf.)
To finish off the binge, and in honor of Earth Day*, yesterday I click clicked and bought a really, really on sale for one day only BluRay of "Planet Earth." And now I'm done.
For now.
*because earth day is all about buying things online that have to come to you in planes and trucks and......
(really, the sound is awesome on this movie. I didn't buy the set up so much for all-out surround sound as for a general, modest sound upgrade, and tidiness. One unit now for music (CD, radio, iPod dock) and video (DVD, BluRay, Tivo, various streaming media, iPod dock that can be rigged to play video!, etc etc etc.) But oh, I am enjoying the surround!)
So I thought about "Serenity" or something, but I've already got that (2 copies) and really the up-conversion works quite nicely on my 32" LCD.
So I went for something awesome that I've been wanting that was sure to look great in HD -- the first season of "Pushing Daisies." Good price at Amazon, click, click, on its way.
But not instantly available. And the next day, there in my email inbox was a sale notice from DeepDiscount, and click click click on the way were 2 box sets: the krazy kookoo 4-disc extravaganza "Watchmen--Ultimate Cut" (to go with the Absolute print edition I have, I suppose), and a 3-disc set of modern Chinese action classics -- "Crouching Tiger...", "House of the Flying Daggers," "Curse of the Golden Flower" (to go with the VHS tapes of 80s Hong Kong actioners on my shelf.) Super on-sale, on the way.
And yetstill not instant. My HTiB was delivered, a day early even. I had to go out to the store to buy speaker mounts for the rear speakers. Armed with a couple of Best Buy coupons I ventured out; and ventured home with "Doctor Who: The Complete Specials" box set.
Finally, some instant gratification. And oh well worth..whatever. (Subsequent days continued to gratify: "Pushing Daisies," eye popping as expected; the Chinese stuff came today and "...Flying Daggers" is giving my rear speakers a workout; haven't assailed "Watchmen" yet, but the package so matches the Absolute that I almost need to put it on that shelf.)
To finish off the binge, and in honor of Earth Day*, yesterday I click clicked and bought a really, really on sale for one day only BluRay of "Planet Earth." And now I'm done.
For now.
*because earth day is all about buying things online that have to come to you in planes and trucks and......
(really, the sound is awesome on this movie. I didn't buy the set up so much for all-out surround sound as for a general, modest sound upgrade, and tidiness. One unit now for music (CD, radio, iPod dock) and video (DVD, BluRay, Tivo, various streaming media, iPod dock that can be rigged to play video!, etc etc etc.) But oh, I am enjoying the surround!)
