How I Spent My Weekend

[Tad]

or "How Cthulu Saved Hellboy (http://hellboyanimated.typepad.com/hellboy_animated/)"

[ChrisTheHomunculus]

That'd be Cthulhu:P

I'm a fellow subscriber to the notion that "everything happens for a reason" also. Its a good way to look at things. Why panic?

Oh and that bookstore looks amazing. We have one in my village, that would probably sell pretty cool stuff, if the guy wasn't an elitist *****. He would probably sell a few more things as well.
Chris

[Petersen]

Wow! what a story! So if you hadn't caught it..cartoon network would have had a bad copy???

Jeeeez!

Cool info on Powells too Tad!

[Donald]

I'm a fellow subscriber to the notion that "everything happens for a reason" also.

Me too! Usually that reason is to piss me off. :(

[Neil Hill]

Great story Tad! I mean, I'm happy that you at least got everything straightented out before the footage needed to be shown.

I lived in Portland for about a year and went to Powell's as often as I could. What a great bookstore! I would have lived there if they'd let me, and never run out of great stuff to read and look at. What a life that would be!

[Petersen]

There is a story for young Hellboy..getting locked in an occult bookstore by accident overnight....and the trouble he can get in with all the arcane texts...

[Neil Hill]

There is a story for young Hellboy..getting locked in an occult bookstore by accident overnight....and the trouble he can get in with all the arcane texts...

Kind of like that haunted museum movie coming out soon with Ben Stiller, right? Only hopefully much, much, much better. Sorry, I shouldn't pre-judge this film before I've even seen it, but the previews alone make me very afraid (and not in a good way).

[Ivar_L]

Hm... I don't know all the technical details behind DVD, but I think this DVD was actually *almost* ok... Every good DVD with widescreen picture should be anamorphic. NTSC picture on DVD is always 720x480 pixels. On anamorphic DVD widescreen picture is encoded as streched, so there will be no pixels/image wasted for encoding black bars.
When watching this kind of DVD on widescreen 16:9 TV, player fills it's screen with this picture (streches it horizontally to be wider, so it will look normal, circles will be round again etc).
For old style 4:3 TV DVD-player compresses image vertically and adds black bars to top and bottom, this way anamorphic widescreen image will look right on 4:3 set too.

Actually I had the same problem here last week when we (I work in TV news program) needed to show a new movie trailer from DVD-R and it just doesn't show correctly on 4:3 TV. I think in our case there was some sort of "anamorphic flag" missing from video stream, so player didn't know it was an anamorphic disk. Maybe it was the same with your DVD...

I'm glad it was fixed in time!
:)

I hope it all made sense, it really tested my English... By the way, here are some pictures explaining all this, on a very old page I made:
http://www.utv.ee/~ivar/dvd/anamorphic/index2.html

[gdeo]

WOW Tad !!!What a weekend!!!!I'm glad everything turned out okay.

[Tad]

Ivar, I thought that was what was going on at first but it wasn't. The DVD had to play correctly in anybody's computer or DVD player and obviously it didn't. Plus, the lab gave us a correct tape so I assume they know there was a screw up.

Because there is a BPRD symbol featured just a few seconds into the movie, I'm sure someone would've questioned it... I hope so.

That way I can sleep at night.

[Pumpkin King]

Wow! Nice bullet dodging. :)

[Myron L]

So, cmon ,Tad, tell us how you REALLY feel...
;)

Glad it all worked out for you !!

[6are54]

Liz SHOULD Be Greener. ;)