The Bleat is a regular stopping point for me. As a professional writer myself, it brings me back to earth to read James Lileks, a writer who is, oh, at least three orders of magnitude better. Fortunately he doesn’t write primarily about my area. Whew! Still, sometimes he notices home entertainment equipment and this time Sony cops it.
I am bemused by his Sony ‘amplifier [which] has — groan — proprietary plugs for the speaker connections.’ I don’t think we have one of those here in Australia. Thank goodness. He is also ‘surprised that Sony movies don’t require the installation of a third eyeball, or perhaps a cochlear implant to pick up certain wavelengths of sound.’ Hmmm. How about SDDS? Are any Australian theatres outfitted for this?