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| Thread ID: 87053 | 2008-02-06 06:44:00 | War of the Worlds. | Poppa John (284) | PC World Chat |
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| 637887 | 2008-02-06 19:49:00 | Check this out. http://www.thewaroftheworlds.com/ :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 637888 | 2008-02-06 22:05:00 | The kid should have died/stayed missing. Happy or saccarine Hollywood ending is typical Spielberg. There are many Spielberg movies - Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, for example - which would have been improved if someone had forced Spielberg to cut the last 5 minutes off. Same with this one. | Biggles (121) | ||
| 637889 | 2008-02-06 22:20:00 | Regardless of who wins the "War Of xxxxx" more people lose than gain. | R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 637890 | 2008-02-06 22:23:00 | I saw the movie on the big screen when it came out. Pretty disappointing, but it was a must-see given the original story and the original soundtrack I saw it on the big screen and also watched again on TV the other night just to see if it was as bad as I remembered it. And yes it was. The original 1950s film was so much better. Also as is so common these days the sound was very poor. Now my hearing is down to about 60% normal, modern films etc are just useless for me. I cannot tell what is being said. OK real life atmosphere but I get very little out of an entertainment that I cannot hear and so have no idea what is going on. A superb example of the lousy sound these days is on the Dr Phil program - he is supposed to be a doctor so should realise that stupid noises (music??) played loudly over conversations between people who are not trained actors etc is pretty pointless. I guess the average age of his sound technicians must be about 7 - but he should step in and refuse garbage. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 637891 | 2008-02-07 03:26:00 | Thomas01 may I suggest that you get something like this from the Philips range, worked amazingly well for my mother, she is 86, this is a .PDF so expect that, note you will be able to get something similar from your local Philips dealer: www.p4c.philips.com |
zqwerty (97) | ||
| 637892 | 2008-02-07 04:43:00 | playeds the PXC game, read the book some time ago, then saw the movie at the big sxcreen... the movie was appaling to say the least. basixcally the movie took the general isdea from the book ansd that was that. yet again the book was immeasurably better sorry bout the spelling my keyboarsd is buggereds |
motorbyclist (188) | ||
| 637893 | 2008-02-07 08:07:00 | Thomas01 may I suggest that you get something like this from the Philips range, worked amazingly well for my mother, she is 86, this is a . PDF so expect that, note you will be able to get something similar from your local Philips dealer: . p4c . philips . com/files/s/sbchc800_00/sbchc800_00_pss_eng . pdf" target="_blank">www . p4c . philips . com Thanks zqwerty . The link didn't work but I reckon I know what it lead to . A set of headphones that get their signal from a unit on the TV . I bought a set some time ago and yes they are really superb . I have industrial deafness which means that in a quiet room I can hear the heart beat of the cat . But if there is more than one source of noise then I am completely lost . Conversations in a noisy atmosphere have for a long time been virtually impossible . My audio specialist told me that these headphones would be useless for me and do nothing . But they make a heck of a difference - I reckon the reason is that our TV is Sony (about 5 years old) and has typical lousy Sony sound . Quite clever if you want atmosphere sounds - but I can hear nothing clearly . Use the headphones and it cuts out all extraneous noise and bounce back from walls etc . So I can hear MUCH more . I do recommend any person who has hearing problems to try these - the last person I told about a month ago is absolutely delighted . And of course masses of speakers should be avoided - I rarely use the car radio and find it best to turn one speaker off - leaving just one source of sound . Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 637894 | 2008-02-07 09:43:00 | They are wireless which is the big improvement. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 637895 | 2008-02-07 10:02:00 | Wireless an improvement? Phhhtttt! How can I get oxygen - free long chain molecular copper cables for a wireless gadget. Doesn't anybody read the brochures anymore? And what use are Wireless Headphones if I want to listen to TV ? |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 637896 | 2008-02-07 12:05:00 | R2x1 not sure if you are serious or not, the cable mentioned in the brochure is to connect the transmitter to the TV then you are free to walk anywhere around your house and still get quality TV sound through the headphones. This means that other people can be in the room doing other things and you turn the normal speaker sound off and the person with the headphones can still keep listening, also for the hard of hearing the headphones can be turned up really loud but it will not disturb others. |
zqwerty (97) | ||
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