Quite the lazy weekend. Saturday I went to Waryas Park and got some nice pictures of the frozen river. It was kinda cool to see with all of the chunks of ice and hearing it creaking and cracking while the river rushed below the ice. Most of the rest of the weekend was spent relaxing and doing chores. I did watch most of the Superbowl though. It got pretty tense toward the end. I'm glad the Steelers won. I also gt a chance to watch Righteous Kill which I thought was a pretty good movie. Not overly exciting, but a find crime drama with a slight twist to make it very worthwhile.
I got into a mini discussion today at work with Joe about this, but wanted to basically spill my rant here as well. Now that I have my surround speakers, it is quite entertaining to watch many things, but I'm disappointed in the quality that goes into the sound channels. It seems to be all over the bar from what I can tell watching TV and movies now a days (assuming of course that everything is hooked up properly). I get great sound from some movies like Hulk, the crowd surrounding me in the Superbowl, moving around in video games, and just ambient music in Fringe. I even get flashes of greatness like in Heroes tonight where all of a sudden I heard clocks ticking all around me. Eerie and fantastic. I then get movies like Righteous Kill that hardly take advantage of a great opportunity. They used it a little in the beginning and towards the end, but really missed a lot of opportunities. Tons of ambient sound could have been used to increase the envelopment of the viewer. Then there's things like ABC which seem to simply pump everything through the middle channel and be done which is flat out unacceptable. I just wish there was a little more regularity of good examples.
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