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analogue SPRINKLES · Mar 15, 2007, 04:33 PM

Originally Posted by jokell82

Go have out that argument in the HD-DVD vs. BluRay thread, we don't need the fanboy crap in here. As it stands right now no one is winning and everyone (especially the consumer) is losing.

No right now BR has more players in the market, more disks for sale, more studio support, more upcoming titles, 97% market share in Japan, and most importantly double the HD-DVD disk sales.

That doesn't sound Even Steven to me.

goMac · Mar 15, 2007, 04:49 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

No right now BR has more players in the market, more disks for sale, more studio support, more upcoming titles, 97% market share in Japan, and most importantly double the HD-DVD disk sales.

That doesn't sound Even Steven to me.

He's right. Move it out of the thread if you want to debate Bluray vs. HD-DVD.

analogue SPRINKLES · Mar 15, 2007, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by goMac

He's right. Move it out of the thread if you want to debate Bluray vs. HD-DVD.

I had my say so if you want to dispute it with vaporware 51 gig disks and imaginary sales numbers feel free to do so there.

goMac · Mar 15, 2007, 05:25 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

I had my say so if you want to dispute it with vaporware 51 gig disks and imaginary sales numbers feel free to do so there.

Whatever. BG is coming out on HD-DVD. If you'd like to whine about HD-DVD, this isn't the thread to do it in.

mrtew · Mar 15, 2007, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by goMac

Whatever. BG is coming out on HD-DVD. If you'd like to whine about HD-DVD, this isn't the thread to do it in.

yeah sorry for bring up HD at all! http://forums.macnn.com/89/macnn-lou...d-who-winning/

reader50 · Mar 16, 2007, 11:48 PM

Reward for those paying attention in the latest ep (The Son Also Rises), watch the background of Adm. Adama's quarters during the discussions with Lee. I took a snapshot and kicked up the light levels:

After the insurance paid off the hundreds of thousands of dollars for the museum-grade model, I wonder if the show got the real remnants. He might be a bit more careful with it from now on.

Also, for those who missed it in the ensuing noise about HD-DVD vs BluRay, the noise was prompted by my posting some news. A complete Season 2 DVD set is scheduled for release on May 8, 2007 for $52.49 at Amazon. Personally, I passed on the dodgy 2.0/2.5 release, holding out for a properly mastered Complete Season 2. So this may be very good news for the 95% of us not currently caught up in the HD format battles.

Eriamjh · Mar 18, 2007, 11:42 AM

This show better get moving before it is cancelled. It started out great, but has stalled since they left the planet with the supernova. I'm losing interest, fast.

Buckaroo · Mar 18, 2007, 11:58 AM

What's this about insurance paying for the model ship? Wasn't it a movie prop?

Originally Posted by reader50

Reward for those paying attention in the latest ep (The Son Also Rises), watch the background of Adm. Adama's quarters during the discussions with Lee. I took a snapshot and kicked up the light levels:

After the insurance paid off the hundreds of thousands of dollars for the museum-grade model, I wonder if the show got the real remnants. He might be a bit more careful with it from now on.

Buckaroo · Mar 18, 2007, 12:02 PM

I found it:

The model ship Adama was building over the course of the series was a very expensive rental prop which Edward James Olmos destroyed in an ad-lib expression of Adama's grief over the loss of Starbuck, much to the props crew's dismay as the model was valued in the range of the $100,000s. Thankfully, the ship was insured.

Maelstrom - Battlestar Wiki

Wiskedjak · Mar 18, 2007, 12:18 PM

Isn't the whole point of props to be something that only looks like the real thing?

Buckaroo · Mar 18, 2007, 01:46 PM

Aparently someone forgot to tell Edward James Olmos that it was a museum piece.

Originally Posted by Wiskedjak

Isn't the whole point of props to be something that only looks like the real thing?

analogue SPRINKLES · Mar 18, 2007, 03:18 PM

On that note I can't believe the starboard landing bay is still a gift ship or whatever. You'd think even one of the battles now would have blown that glass out or they might actually use it as a launch bay.

reader50 · Mar 18, 2007, 04:45 PM

The forward glass window is intact, the rear got ruptured early in Season 2. We don't know the current status of the bay itself (it was a museum space), or even if the rear window got repaired. It hasn't appeared in any shot since that I can recall.

The hanger deck below it hosts Dogville / Camp Oilslick, where the civvies are camped out. Also, the forward section got used for a boxing event awhile back, so apparently the crew reserves the forward section for recreation activities. Finally, some part of the Starboard Hanger Deck (the same forward area used for recreation?) gets used now and then for large formal gatherings. Speeches, the awarding of medals, and memorial services.

In "A Measure Of Salvation" Apollo made one reference during a flight to "approaching Starboard Hanger ..." [interruption]. However, I don't see how the Starboard flight pod could be in service with all the civilians present. btw, the Gift Shop was in the Starboard viper launch facilities, within the hanger bay.

analogue SPRINKLES · Mar 18, 2007, 04:56 PM

Originally Posted by reader50

The forward glass window is intact, the rear got ruptured early in Season 2. We don't know the current status of the bay itself (it was a museum space), or even if the rear window got repaired. It hasn't appeared in any shot since that I can recall.

The hanger deck below it hosts Dogville / Camp Oilslick, where the civvies are camped out. Also, the forward section got used for a boxing event awhile back, so apparently the crew reserves the forward section for recreation activities. Finally, some part of the Starboard Hanger Deck (the same forward area used for recreation?) gets used now and then for large formal gatherings. Speeches, the awarding of medals, and memorial services.

In "A Measure Of Salvation" Apollo made one reference during a flight to "approaching Starboard Hanger ..." [interruption]. However, I don't see how the Starboard flight pod could be in service with all the civilians present. btw, the Gift Shop was in the Starboard viper launch facilities, within the hanger bay.

Sounds good but I wonder what the production background is for it if any. perhaps they did it to save money on recycling stock footage or didn't want to worry about making a mirror set for the other deck.

xi_hyperon · Mar 18, 2007, 10:19 PM

Don't know if anyone here has seen the site below, but if the spoilers posted there for next week are true, then wow. Given that some of what was posted there came to pass this evening, I'm inclined to think the rest will also.

Do *not* click on the link below if you don't want to know may transpire next week.

aintitcoolnews.com

RAILhead · Mar 18, 2007, 10:42 PM

Another good ep.

I've been thinking they'd find some way to make Saul a Cylon, and it seems they have -- though I hope they justify it well.

analogue SPRINKLES · Mar 18, 2007, 10:51 PM

Originally Posted by xi_hyperon

Don't know if anyone here has seen the site below, but if the spoilers posted there for next week are true, then wow. Given that some of what was posted there came to pass this evening, I'm inclined to think the rest will also.

Do *not* click on the link below if you don't want to know may transpire next week.

aintitcoolnews.com

I don't buy that at all.

bstone · Mar 18, 2007, 10:52 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

I don't buy that at all.

it's right on so far. scarily accurate

analogue SPRINKLES · Mar 18, 2007, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by bstone

it's right on so far. scarily accurate

It looks like they got stuff from this episode mixed in with stuff that doesn't make sense. I mean if Anders is one of the final 5