The "director's cut" I saw at an out of town preview screening a few months ago was about 30min longer than the version that is to be released. There are several symbolic threads in it that have been cut in order to streamline the story. You probably would have enjoyed the longer version, but it did drag on a little bit for a summer movie.

Time Bandits

If the good guys are wearing black leather, and the bad guys are wearing black leather, how are we supposed to tell them apart?

Hmm, no love for "Romancing the Stone?"

It might be just me, but none of the units picured look very "tough"

Not trying to sound like a Yankee A-hole or anything but the population of Sweden is roughly the same Los Angeles, so I think the return on infrastructure investment favors a company in Sweden over the US.

You do make a lot of good points. when I first compared large (>46") displays in person, the showroom I was in was showing a hockey game from HD net. The Sony SXRD was the brightest, with best viewing angle and motion processing. That was 3 years ago. Since then I've moved off of DLP rear pro because the cost of direct view LCD glass is now affordable in the larger sizes. color wheel (single chip) DLP sets do have trade-offs, even the LED illuminated ones, but its only a matter of time before rear pro sets start using 3 chips like the high end front projectors do. As far as the "screen door" I haven't noticed that effect on any 1080p LCD direct view sets, really only noticeable on plasma, which is a dead end technology as far as I'm concerned

Oh that was @Rick BTW

Why? Do you miss discussions about mini-disc too?
The only reason Lcos is still around (in SXRD guise) is that Sony has too much corporate pride to become a DLP (Texas Instruments) licensee.

You gotta be careful just looking at specs, you need to see the sets side by side to make a choice:
The sammys look good on paper, but the sharp aquos (92 series) blows it a way in motion processing.