--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "WillyTex" <willy...@...> wrote: > > TurquoiseB: > > I finally got to see this film tonight, and have > > to say that I was impressed. The trailers led me > > to believe that it was a comedy, played for laughs, > > and it was anything but. It's a serious drama, and > > Woody Harrelson pulls off a tremendous character > > role, up there with some of his best work, as in > > "Natural Born Killers." Kat Jennings is great, too. > > Well worth watching. > > So, you stayed home again on Saturday night, to watch > a movie on your laptop, and send messages to FFL. LOL!
No, Willy, actually (primarily for Bhairitu's and other video nerds' benefit) I took my laptop over to a friend's house and watched my HD download of "Defendor" on his new Samsung 3D TV, because he was curious as to whether the built-in 2D-to-3D conversion would work on MKV and AVI files played through a PC plugged into it as well is it does on 2D DVDs. It seemed to work fine, creating dis- cernible 3D effects, even though the original film is not in 3D. What did you do with *your* Saturday night, Willy? Sounds as if you should have stayed at home and read the User's Manual for your TV if you're still watching computer-based films on your computer, and assuming anyone else is. :-) The 3D thang is interesting, by the way, but not anything I'm going to rush out to buy anytime soon. You still have to wear glasses to see it, and it didn't wow me enough to think of upgrading. For my friend it was pocket change to buy one, so he did. (He has several Porsches and Ferraris so I've been sucking up to him big-time so he'll let me drive them one day.) But me, I'd rather spend the difference between 2D and 3D on several years' worth of beer and munchies to go along with the movies than on "having the latest tech." Also, for the record, my last post last night, arriving home after seeing the movie, was at 11:00 pm or so. "Saturday nights in Sitges" don't even *start* until midnight; most clubs don't even open before then, especially on a night on which Barcelona whupped another team's ass in a game that didn't end until 11:00 or so. Suffice it to say that it's not a place that TM wusses who are into "catching the angel train" would enjoy as much as I do. :-)
