A middle-aged nerd from the UK. I like films and write about them, sometimes for Film Stories or my blog.

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  • I’ve been very picky about music players over the years. Basically for decades (well, maybe not that long) it was PowerAmp, ever since I had my HTC Hero on Android 1.5.

    Then when I got into the whole Open Source thing, I chose Musicolet and loved it, even donated to the author.

    Sadly, on my latest phone which seems to have incredibly strict memory/power settings, I had to stop using Musicolet. The phone would kill the player a sing or two into listening no matter what tricks I would use to try and stop it happening.

    Now I’m using Phocid which has never been killed while in use.

    And I keep all my music in finders, correctly named and tagged with MP3Tag and MusicBee because, you know, Autism. 😁








  • I’ve realised that over time, a lot of my favourite films or ones that I enjoy and basically mainstream blockbusters.

    I try to broaden my horizons but quite often, I find these amazing acclaimed films boring.

    It’s not quite the same but I was amazed when I got the Criterion edition of Armageddon. All these bonus features about a great blockbuster film.

    So imagine my disappointment when every other release from Criterion is a film I’ll probably never watch in the first place.

    Example, I took a chance on Brazil because I was in a bit of a Terry Gilliam phase. I quite enjoyed that one. Then I tried Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. That DVD never got a second play.


  • The only one that I unsubbed to pretty fast was the 8bit guy. I generally enjoyed his videos and then in one of them, he had a fairly rare IBM PC and for some reason, he sticks a screwdriver into the power supply and blows a component.

    But what really turned me off was when footage of him turned up on Reddit, taken by himself, of shopping in a place like Costco with his assault rifle on his back. I think he was taking pleasure in scaring some of the customers too.

    (I think I’ve remembered that correctly)

    Anyway, never went back to his channel after that.

    EDIT: I found this Reddit page where someone asked what he did. Didn’t realise that was 5 years ago now!





  • Didn’t they update that scene twice? The first Special Edition release and then updated the Jabba CGI a second time for another release. (The Blu-ray’s? I’m not sure)

    It’s all a bit moot anyway as everything in the “new” Jabba scene is almost a repeat of what was said in the Greedo encounter a few scenes earlier.

    And they forced in Boba Fett which was cool at the time but just seems out of place now.





  • Didn’t Blu-ray win because it was basically neck and neck with the amount of studios backing HD-DVD vs Blu-ray. I think everyone was waiting to see what the final studio would pick (off the top of my head it was either Fox or Warner Bros).

    Sony paid said studio basically a massive multi $m bribe to pick Blu-ray (to help promote their new console, the Playstation 3) which they duly did and that format was declared the winner.

    HD-DVD would’ve been great as the winner as the specifications don’t include any form of region protection. But blurays hold more data and therefore allows for better quality encodes.