Off Topic: Last 3 days as an ALT, Barney and DVD vs BR

[TheModMan]

Back for a little bit. I wanted to see if any of you on here have ever taught any baby lesson. I have to do once I start my new job, and it only has to be 30 mins long. If you have, what did you do?

[Richard_BenoitEnglipedia Drone]

Like infants? I taught 2 year olds before.

[Otaku]

I've taught 3-6 year olds but not younger than that.

Look at ACTION ABC in the ALPHABET section of the ES site for a video.

[Paul]

Here is your friend for younger learners!

[jeisensei]

My eyes! O_O

[moolooman]

Why did you even have to blight this forum with that image. Why?

[Paul]

Ahhh come on, it's for the rugrats and curtain climbers! Barney is your friend!

Kind of reminds me of this guy too!

[jeisensei]

Yes, but Barney wasn't called out for smacking the old herring (terrible metaphor but the only one I can think of at the moment) at a porno theater. Though, it would be a riot if he were.

[pakalikaPakalika]

pee wee, he is a Broadway star now. barney, i love you, you love me, we a great big family.. having kid you know a lot. but was just wondering those of you that have taught 1-2 years, what have you done.

[Paul]

pee wee, he is a Broadway star now. barney, i love you, you love me, we a great big family.. having kid you know a lot. but was just wondering those of you that have taught 1-2 years, what have you done.

I used Barney VHS tapes along with other child orientated videos.

Keeping things visual is important, and including music along with a fun play time attitude helped. The idea is to immerse them with English.

[moolooman]

Do they laugh at your arse when you bring out the VHS tapes?
Although, I remember being all proud cause our family had the first video in town.

[jeisensei]

Do they laugh at your arse when you bring out the VHS tapes?
Although, I remember being all proud cause our family had the first video in town.

My family went betamax (does anyone remember those?). We got the first betamax player on the block and after about a year of usage there were hardly any more new tapes so we were forced to switch over to VHS.

[moolooman]

I remember the Beta section in the video shop. It was a sorry arse section in the far corner with about 31 movies.

[jeisensei]

I remember the Beta section in the video shop. It was a sorry arse section in the far corner with about 31 movies.

Indeed. I guess the Betamax/VHS battles were the forerunners to the HD-DVD/Blue ray battles. My family chose wrong on the first battle, but they at least chose correctly on the second

[Paul]

Do they laugh at your arse when you bring out the VHS tapes?
Although, I remember being all proud cause our family had the first video in town.

I copied all my vhs to dvd!

[moolooman]

Who is winning the blu-ray vs DVD face off?

[jeisensei]

Who is winning the blu-ray vs DVD face off?

If the price of BD and players would go down more than likely DVDs would become defunct in a couple of years.

[himitsu]

Watching films being one of my hobbies, I decided 2 years ago to get a laptop with a bluray drive and start switching to blurays.
Yet to be honest I`m still not convinced of it, actually I still enjoy DVDs much more. Reasons:

- last place where I stopped watching a bluray not remembered (in contrast to dvd). Thus, not only I have remember that myself and look for it, but even more annoying I have to watch all the intros, commercials and piracy warning stuff every bloody time! I really hate that.
- loading time: It`s ridiculous, they say it`s such a great technology, advanced, making dvd look like sth primitive, but you have to wait for contents to download (like a software)... no thanks.
- happened a couple of times that content couldn`t be read properly, so I couldn`t watch making ofs aso. Never happened with dvds.
- no real difference in quality: I know many people will disagree here, but I really don`t see much difference. Actually dvd colors often look brighter and nicer. I rather have the impression that you only notice a difference if you watch it at the same time next to each other.

Apart from my own opinion, maybe it`s different in the West, but I don`t have the feeling that Japanese are too crazy about blurays (surprisingly, considering how they go for every new technology). Most rental and dvd shops have rather small bluray corners, as far as I could see.
Also, prices for new dvds are already ridiculously high, but blurays are just a joke. I`ll never pay 4-5000 for a disc! In Europe they have been selling blurays even for 7-8euros (also newer good films) for years already.

My fav LotR, the SEE version (all 3 uncut), I couldn`t find the bluray set in any shop (how is that possible anyway!?), but it`s sold on amazon.jp for mere 20.000 yen (TWENTY THOUSAND), while amazon.com 50-70$... a joke..

[azuhlLt.]

Bluray kicks the living shit out of DVD on all counts bar cost. When you can fit a 1080p movie and decent quality sound on a standard DVD, give me a shout, otherwise get a real 1080p TV and tell me there's no difference again. If you're watching it on a CRT, that might be your problem.

"last place where I stopped watching a bluray not remembered (in contrast to dvd). Thus, not only I have remember that myself and look for it, but even more annoying I have to watch all the intros, commercials and piracy warning stuff every bloody time! I really hate that."

Does that not happen on DVD any more? I'm pretty sure it does.

"Actually dvd colors often look brighter and nicer. I rather have the impression that you only notice a difference if you watch it at the same time next to each other."

In your 'professional' opinion, is that? Well, you're entitled to your opinion, how ever wrong it may be.

[jeisensei]

Bluray kicks the living shit out of DVD on all counts bar cost. When you can fit a 1080p movie and decent quality sound on a standard DVD, give me a shout, otherwise get a real 1080p TV and tell me there's no difference again. If you're watching it on a CRT, that might be your problem.

"last place where I stopped watching a bluray not remembered (in contrast to dvd). Thus, not only I have remember that myself and look for it, but even more annoying I have to watch all the intros, commercials and piracy warning stuff every bloody time! I really hate that."

Does that not happen on DVD any more? I'm pretty sure it does.

"Actually dvd colors often look brighter and nicer. I rather have the impression that you only notice a difference if you watch it at the same time next to each other."

In your 'professional' opinion, is that? Well, you're entitled to your opinion, how ever wrong it may be.

It's decided. No more coffee or caffeine of any kind for azuhl

[azuhlLt.]

I'VE ONLY HAD TWO CUPS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jeisensei]

I'VE ONLY HAD TWO CUPS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You're five behind me.

[himitsu]

1. If you're watching it on a CRT, that might be your problem.

2.
"last place where I stopped watching a bluray not remembered (in contrast to dvd). Thus, not only I have remember that myself and look for it, but even more annoying I have to watch all the intros, commercials and piracy warning stuff every bloody time! I really hate that."

Does that not happen on DVD any more? I'm pretty sure it does.

3.
"Actually dvd colors often look brighter and nicer. I rather have the impression that you only notice a difference if you watch it at the same time next to each other."

In your 'professional' opinion, is that? Well, you're entitled to your opinion, how ever wrong it may be.

1. I usually watch on my laptop, so I thought that might be the reason, but on the other hand, my first bluray experience was Transformers 2 on PS3 with a large flatscreen. I watched it with a friend and we both agreed that we don't really realize a big difference to dvd. I don't say there isn't, just I don't notice it. Like I said, it's probably different if watching a bluray and a dvd next to each other.

2. It also depends if the software / player has that function, I've used two different softwares and they remembered the last place for dvds but not blurays.

3. No, in my personal opinion, that is. Again, it might be different on big flatscreens, but on my notebook (actually pretty good new vaio) blurays definitely have a colder look.

And I remember I rented Ghost Rider bluray once, to compare with my GR dvd, and the bluray was darker, some scenes where you could see sth (like faces) on dvd, you couldn't see anything on the bluray.

[moolooman]

If a movie is good, a movie is good. If a movie is shit, then it's shit.

[Paul]

If a movie is good, a movie is good. If a movie is shit, then it's shit.

Nothing like walking down the middle of the road. What's shit to you is gold to someone else, as a wise man once said.

[himitsu]

If a movie is good, a movie is good. If a movie is shit, then it's shit.

[azuhlLt.]

1. If you're watching it on a CRT, that might be your problem.

2.
"last place where I stopped watching a bluray not remembered (in contrast to dvd). Thus, not only I have remember that myself and look for it, but even more annoying I have to watch all the intros, commercials and piracy warning stuff every bloody time! I really hate that."

Does that not happen on DVD any more? I'm pretty sure it does.

3.
"Actually dvd colors often look brighter and nicer. I rather have the impression that you only notice a difference if you watch it at the same time next to each other."

In your 'professional' opinion, is that? Well, you're entitled to your opinion, how ever wrong it may be.

1. I usually watch on my laptop, so I thought that might be the reason, but on the other hand, my first bluray experience was Transformers 2 on PS3 with a large flatscreen. I watched it with a friend and we both agreed that we don't really realize a big difference to dvd. I don't say there isn't, just I don't notice it. Like I said, it's probably different if watching a bluray and a dvd next to each other.

2. It also depends if the software / player has that function, I've used two different softwares and they remembered the last place for dvds but not blurays.

3. No, in my personal opinion, that is. Again, it might be different on big flatscreens, but on my notebook (actually pretty good new vaio) blurays definitely have a colder look.

And I remember I rented Ghost Rider bluray once, to compare with my GR dvd, and the bluray was darker, some scenes where you could see sth (like faces) on dvd, you couldn't see anything on the bluray.

I'll be honest with you, I'm a bigoted arsehole, hence my turse reply. I'm glad you didn't chew me out like I deserved.

Try and run BR through VLC and DVDs through another proggie, this way, you can mess with the Gamma settings to develop a 'look' that suits you, I'll agree with you that BR look 'colder', but this is due to presets in most programs being suited to DVD (as right now, it's the industry standard). Ultimately, if you look at them side-by-side on a 32"+ 1080p screen, you'll notice a massive difference in depth of field and general quality of picture. You can watch a 720 movie on a laptop screen, no matter how good it is, and not notice any difference between that and a 1080 print...it simply doesn't have the size and resolution to display all of the detail (Unless it's a gaming PC).

Ultimately, the facts don't lie, BR is 'better' than DVD as you can fit more detail on the larger capacity disc, also it's mostly made from paper, so there's a lower environmental impact. Then again, it'll come down to personal preference. I've not bought a DVD or BR in the past year, I don't need to when I can get 1080 prints, direct to my PC.

[himitsu]

That's ok, I don't like fighting ^^

1. Try and run BR through VLC and DVDs through another proggie, this way, you can mess with the Gamma settings to develop a 'look' that suits you, I'll agree with you that BR look 'colder', but this is due to presets in most programs being suited to DVD (as right now, it's the industry standard).
2. Ultimately, if you look at them side-by-side on a 32"+ 1080p screen, you'll notice a massive difference in depth of field and general quality of picture.

1. Yeah, I did try it with VLC that time (long ago), but don't remember if I tried to change any settings.. but I didn't want to use it for blurays or dvd because it doesn't have the "remember" feature, and the ff / rew is annoying (it doesn't return to normal speed by pressing "play")
2. Yeah, side-by-side is probably quite different.

Ultimately, the facts don't lie, BR is 'better' than DVD as you can fit more detail on the larger capacity disc

Sure, have never doubted that, was only talking about my perception and experience

[azuhlLt.]

That's ok, I don't like fighting ^^

1. Try and run BR through VLC and DVDs through another proggie, this way, you can mess with the Gamma settings to develop a 'look' that suits you, I'll agree with you that BR look 'colder', but this is due to presets in most programs being suited to DVD (as right now, it's the industry standard).
2. Ultimately, if you look at them side-by-side on a 32"+ 1080p screen, you'll notice a massive difference in depth of field and general quality of picture.

1. Yeah, I did try it with VLC that time (long ago), but don't remember if I tried to change any settings.. but I didn't want to use it for blurays or dvd because it doesn't have the "remember" feature, and the ff / rew is annoying (it doesn't return to normal speed by pressing "play")
2. Yeah, side-by-side is probably quite different.

Ultimately, the facts don't lie, BR is 'better' than DVD as you can fit more detail on the larger capacity disc

Sure, have never doubted that, was only talking about my perception and experience

A gentleman.

[himitsu]

wow, got so off-topic here ^^` was interesting though. maybe we should open a dvd/bluray thread..