Joshua Zyber

Email Josh:
joshzyber AT highdefdigest.com

Josh's Bio:
A long-time movie buff and video collector from laserdisc to DVD and beyond, Joshua Zyber has previously written for DVDFile.com and DVDTalk.com. He is also a regular contributor to Home Theater magazine. When he isn't busy writing reviews, putzing around on the internet, or hammering away at that Great American Screenplay he'll never finish, Josh toils at a very Dilbert-like office job.

In addition to the below-listed reviews and articles, Josh responds to reader questions about home theater topics for our HD Advisor column.

Josh's Disc Reviews:
- Licence to Kill (Blu-ray)
- Knowing (Blu-ray)
- The Man with the Golden Gun (Blu-ray)
- Fletch (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Blu-ray)
- The Machinist (Blu-ray)
- Three Days of the Condor (Blu-ray)
- 2010 (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 (Blu-ray)
- Spears & Munsil High Definition Benchmark (Blu-ray)
- Moonraker (Blu-ray)
- The World is Not Enough (Blu-ray)
- Winged Migration (Blu-ray)
- Never Say Never Again (Blu-ray)
- Synecdoche, New York (Blu-ray)
- Vanishing Point (Blu-ray)
- French Connection II (Blu-ray)
- The French Connection (Blu-ray)
- Changeling (Blu-ray)
- W. (Blu-ray)
- Any Given Sunday (Blu-ray)
- Quarantine (Blu-ray)
- Being There (Blu-ray)
- Election [1999] (Blu-ray)
- Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Blu-ray)
- Death Proof (German Import HD DVD)
- Death Proof (Blu-ray)
- Planet Terror (Blu-ray)
- Young People F---ing (Canadian Import Blu-ray)
- La Femme Nikita (Blu-ray)
- Resident Evil: Degeneration (Blu-ray)
- The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Blu-ray)
- The X-Files: Fight the Future (Blu-ray)
- Lost: The Complete Fourth Season (Blu-ray)
- Live and Let Die (Blu-ray)
- The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (Blu-ray)
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Blu-ray)
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Blu-ray)
- Thunderball (Blu-ray)
- Baraka (Blu-ray)
- From Russia with Love (Blu-ray)
- Dr. No (Blu-ray)
- Night of the Living Dead (UK Import Blu-ray)
- Beetlejuice (Blu-ray)
- Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Blu-ray)
- L.A. Confidential (Blu-ray)
- How the West Was Won (Blu-ray)
- Leatherheads (Blu-ray)
- Day Watch (Blu-ray)
- Night Watch (Blu-ray)
- Kill Bill Vol. 2 (Blu-ray)
- Kill Bill Vol. 1 (Blu-ray)
- Nixon - Director's Cut (Blu-ray)
- Belly (Blu-ray)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (Blu-ray)
- Redbelt (Blu-ray)
- The Counterfeiters (Blu-ray)
- Starship Troopers 3: Marauder (Blu-ray)
- Starship Troopers (Blu-ray)
- OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (French Import Blu-ray)
- Gangs of New York (French Import Blu-ray)
- Gangs of New York (Blu-ray)
- The Illusionist (Italian Import Blu-ray)
- The Professionals (Blu-ray)
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (Blu-ray)
- Youth Without Youth (Blu-ray)
- A Passage to India (Blu-ray)
- The Golden Compass (Blu-ray)
- Tideland (German Import HD DVD)
- The Triplets of Belleville (French Import HD DVD)
- Initial D (Blu-ray)
- Into the Wild (HD DVD)
- 1408 - Director's Cut (Dutch Import HD DVD)
- Ghost in the Shell (Japanese Import Blu-ray)
- Resident Evil Trilogy (Blu-ray)
- Resident Evil (German Import HD DVD)
- Resident Evil: Apocalypse - Extended Version (German Import HD DVD)
- 3:10 to Yuma [2007] (Blu-ray)
- Resident Evil (Blu-ray)
- Resident Evil: Extinction (Blu-ray)
- Lost: The Complete Third Season (Blu-ray)
- Flash Point (Hong Kong Import Blu-ray)
- Stardust (HD DVD)
- Superbad (Blu-ray)
- Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 (HD DVD)
- Transformers: The Movie [1986] (UK Import Blu-ray)
- Starship Troopers (UK Import Blu-ray)
- Carlito's Way (HD DVD)

Josh's Hardware Reviews:
- VUDU Movie Download Service
- Panasonic DMP-BD30 Blu-ray Player
- Toshiba HD-XA2 HD DVD Player

Josh's Articles:
- 2.35:1 Constant Image Height Tutorial
- Commentary: 2007 Year-End Studio Report Cards
- High-Def FAQ: Uncompressed vs. Lossless Audio
- High-Def FAQ: Blu-ray Profiles Explained
- Commentary: Living in Fear of the Niche
- Commentary: Specs vs. Reality
- High-Def FAQ: Blu-ray and HD DVD Audio Explained
- High-Def FAQ: What's the Big Deal About 1080p24?
- Commentary: Combo Discs - What Went Wrong?
- Commentary: A War of Hype, and Paramount's Big Bombshell
- High-Def FAQ: Is HDMI 1.3 Really Necessary?
- Memo to the Studios Revisited: Our Readers Speak Out
- High-Def FAQ: Why Don't the Black Bars Go Away?
- Memo to the Studios: Ten Ways to Improve High-Def Discs

Josh's Equipment List:
- BenQ W10000 1080p DLP projector
- Panamorph UH480 anamorphic lens
- DVDO iScan VP50Pro video scaler
- Panasonic DMP-BD50 Blu-ray player (via HDMI)
- Sony Playstation 3 (via HDMI)
- LG BH200 Blu-ray/HD DVD combi player (via HDM)
- Toshiba HD-XA2 HD DVD player (via HDMI)
- Denon AVR-3808CI receiver
- Cambridge Soundworks (CSW) Newton MC600HD left/right main speakers
- CSW Newton MC300 center speaker
- CSW Newton S305 left/right rear speakers
- CSW Newton S100 center rear speakers (2)
- CSW Basscube 8 powered subwoofer

Josh's Links:
- Complete List of Josh's Reviews
- Cinema Zyberdiso