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After months of spear shaking on both sides, the first skirmishes in the high-definition disc format wars have begun. In early May, I looked at Toshiba?s chosen format, HD DVD. Today, I present the very first Blu-ray disc player, Samsung?s significantly more expensive BD-P1000...
...With so much build-up, it's funny to finally sit down with the product and realize that, at best, it is what it's supposed to be: a glorified DVD player. Don't get me wrong - even if you have high-definition cable or satellite TV service, it's exciting to pop in a good movie and see how much clearer it is than a standard-definition DVD. With a picture resolution of 1920 x 1080 lines (over 2 million pixels) rather than DVD's 720 x 480 (nearly 350,000 pixels), it can't help but look nicer...
...LOUNGE Ditching the "dodgy, shapeless" look, this British company combines old-style comfort with sleek new contours. Curved backs and reclining loungers ("sofas that just happen to have beans in them")?plus 283 L of polystyrene microbeads?make for a blissful way to enjoy a chilled latte or a DVD thriller. ambientlounge.co.uk...
...Devil 2, from Thailand, is a horror movie so gruesome that two of the three DVD machines I tried to play it on rejected it; they simply refused to host this splatter-fest of mutilation. A fisherman catches a strange creature and gets a hook under his skin. Seeking medical help from a voodoo mistress, he screams in agony as fish hooks emerge from his body: his hands, chest, eyes! More elaborate mayhem ensues, involving a chic-looking teacher and her careless students. (What Cromartie High School does for boys, and Linda, Linda, Linda for girls, this one does...
...LOUNGE Ditching the "dodgy, shapeless" look, this British company combines old-style comfort with sleek new contours. Curved backs and reclining loungers ("sofas that just happen to have beans in them") - plus 283 L of polystyrene microbeads - make for a blissful way to enjoy a chilled latte or a DVD thriller. ambientlounge.co.uk