The Yamada Family Chronicles

Advantages: Beautifully animated, entertaining and amusing in places
Disadvantages: Slightly too long - perhaps not to everyone's taste

...at children. Whilst it's easy to considered and dismiss them purely as 'cartoons', they often have great depth and appeal that goes beyond age and as such can be enjoyed by whole family's, children, or even just adults who enjoy "good drawings". 'My Neighbours The Yamadas' is a stylistic move away from the animation usually associated with Studio Ghibli. According to the blurb on the back of the DVD, writer-director Isao Takahata used "?digital production to create the feel of a moving watercolour sketch." The movie is about the lives of the Yamada family, which consists of the mother and father Matsuko and Takashi, their young son and daughter, as well as Matsuko's live-in mother. In some ways, the movie is also a move away from the typical Studio Ghibli style of story telling. Rather than being one long plot, the movie is more a series...

BlueMidget 09.04.2007 · Read review
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Yamada DVX-6700

Advantages: It plays EVERYTHING
Disadvantages: Cheap construction

...My Christmas present to myself this year was the ?Yamada-DVX-6700? ? which looks like a DVD player, works rather like a DVD player but offers a special something extra - this unit not only plays DVDs but many other digital formats too. The device cost me ~£55 ? to make it price comparable with other DVD players? It replaces a CyberHome ?CH DVD 400? which only plays bone-fide DVDs ? and cost the same 18 months ago. The build quality of the Yamada is best described as ?cheap? ? but? don?t get me wrong ? it looks OK next to the TV ? only if you look closely is it obvious that every component has been made to the tightest of budgets ? everything from the flimsy eject-tray to the front-panel plastic buttons and cheesy digital display which might have looked modern in the 1980s. To criticise the unit on aesthetics, however, is to...

bristol_steve 16.02.2005 · Read review
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YAMADA DVX 6600

Advantages: cheap and plays 99% movie format
Disadvantages: nothing

...I bought my Yamada DVX 6600 last year at around £70, this was when DVX dvd players were starting to be used. I'm sorry but i cannot remember where i purchased my player from but it was from a online shop off the net, so i guess they are easy to find. Well, what can't the Yamada play?? i don't know because my Yamada can play everything ive tried, from dvd's, vcd's, jpegs, wma, xvid, dvx. The Yamada is supposed to play 99% of movie fromats but up to now mine has played 100%. The Yamada is a stylish silver unit that is slim and easy to function, and has the caperbility to play 5.1 surround sound, with the correct speakers of course. Comes with a remote control that you can change various functions such as PAL, NTSC, screen size, volume control etc. ITs easy to install just basically plug a scart lead into the unit and into your tv...

silkyuk9 14.04.2006 · Read review
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The Young Knives - Superabundance review

Advantages: Catchy songs for any indie fan
Disadvantages: A few weaker songs on the second half of the album

...The Young Knives have recently gained more exposure on radio stations and having caught the end of a set at Reading festival I decided to give this album a try and have thoroughly enjoyed it, playing it on repeat on my CD player since then. It sees the band's follow up to the full length album The Voices of Animals and Men (2006). The album starts of very strongly with the first song "Up all Night," which is the strongest song on the album. It is three minutes of catchy indie rock from start to end. Perfect for an upbeat song that could be a favourite on any dance floor. Overall, the first half of the album is very strong, before a good, if not spectacular second half. "Terra Firma" is in a similar mould to the first song, providing an upbeat indie song you can dance to. Other highlights are "Turn Tail" and "Counters...

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Playing With Knives....

Advantages: Absolutely and positively NONE !
Disadvantages: Injury and Death.

..."Playing with knives?.." What's going on? Have I awoken from a 5-year coma following my shoulder operation 2-months ago and no one has told me? Once I overcome the grogginess following the ½ hour procedure, and had managed sufficient sleep and snoozing, I checked my mobile phone for messages noting that those that had come through all stated the same date - 29th March 2006 - that I had gone into hospital, only it was 6-hours later and I was feeling a hell of a lot more pain in my right shoulder ? plus it looked damn messy to! Yet, it appears as though the world has gone even more insane overnight than I had remembered ? 51 stabbings there were over this last weekend in the UK, 2 of them fatal. The Police currently have a weapon, or more specifically, knives amnesty in the UK, encouraging the public to give up their weapons...

newty1977 01.06.2006 · Read review
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Global Knives

Advantages: look nice, feel nice, hygenic
Disadvantages: expensive, scratch easily, oh, did I mention expensive?

...Global knives: ^^^^^^^^^ With the amount of cooking programs on television I found that my interest in cooking has increased, so much so that a few years ago my parents purchased a set of Global cooking knives for me to use in the kitchen. My enthusiasm stemmed mainly from watching Jamie Oliver on TV, I found his enthusiasm infectious and therefore found that I wanted better equipment. Global Knives were first designed way back in 1985 by a guy called Komin Yamada, he was tasked with fashioning a set of knives that would suit amateur as well as professional. The knives he designed are made from Cromova Stainless Steel and then hardened. This is supposed to ensure that they keep a razor sharp edge longer than any other steel as well as resisting stains and rust corrosion. They are also made in "one piece" in that the handle...

sjp1966 29.09.2007 · Read review
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my review of yamada 5520

Advantages: looks good, plays all dvd types
Disadvantages: sometimes slow

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mapesy 05.11.2006 (10.11.2006) · Read review
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Review of Yamada Dvdslim 5520

bedroom entertainment

Advantages: see review
Disadvantages: none

...I am often to be found awake in the wee small hours with my nocturnal 2 year old. Even when I manage to get the little prince back to sleep I sometimes find it hard to return to my dreams! Television in the small hours is not too great, unless you want to learn Spanish (too demanding for my brain at that time of the morning)! Fans of the Trisha show would be all right too but my viewing needs were just not being catered for. We have numerous D.V.D s which I am yet to get round to seeing, so the obvious answer for me was to get a D.V.D player to go in my bedroom. My husband has usually stomped off to the spare room, so this would mean I could watch what I liked-bliss! I didn't want to spend too much as we are a bit strapped for cash at the moment. I looked on the Internet and found a yamada 5520 priced at only £34.00. I thought this...

anwar 08.05.2004 (26.07.2005) · Read review
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Yamada DVX-6600 Multiregion DOLBY 5.1

Advantages: Plays divx,avi,mpeg straight from dvd or cd
Disadvantages: flimsy disc holder

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banwoir 30.03.2004 · Read review
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Hearing voices

Advantages: Original and very readable
Disadvantages: None

...at all, is that there are descriptions of sex between two men during one part of the book. This didn't bother me, but if you find homosexuality offensive, it would be best to stay away from this book. I read this book during three trips to and from work. I found it very difficult to put down and thoroughly enjoyed every scrap of it. Taichi Yamada has written another book, called Strangers, which I am looking forward to reading. The book is available from play.com for £7.49. Published by Faber and Faber, it has 220 pages. ISBN: 0571229719...

sunmeilan 25.10.2006 · Read review
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