Archive for August, 2007

Another HD DVD Player for a Cheap Price

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

While the format war continues and people deciding what side to take, which format is the best, electronic companies are trying to make it cheaper for their consumers, well some. One of those such companies is Venturer and their HD DVD player which is going for a super low price of only $199, that is way below the other companies and their HD DVD player, for example Toshiba’s HD DVD player goes for around $300, still pretty cheap if you compare it to Blu-ray. I bet once Venturer’s HD DVD player hits the market and people start buying it Toshiba will either lower their prices and or release a new model to compete with Venturer, but that may be awhile until Toshiba can lower their production costs, and the reason why Venturer’s price is so low is because it comes out of China so it is real cheap. But I do not think it will take long for Toshiba since HD stuff is going down in prices fast, so you can always wait for Toshiba to lower prices if you do not like Venturer.

Oh I almost forgot for the Xbox 360 owners out there you can also get the HD DVD add on which is down to about $180, and right now at Amazon and buy it you get 8 free (after rebate) HD DVDs, better hurry not sure when it ends. And they still include King Kong.

And for you Blu-ray lovers you are still going to need to fork over $500 for a cheap model. And the only two companies I can think of that make them are Samsung and of course Sony, also Toshiba makes hybrids if you want both in one, but those will cost way more since it needs both lasers in it, and Blu-ray’s lasers still cost way too much to produce.

Now after the prices of HD DVD becoming so cheap I wonder how it will play in the war, I would especially like to see what happens after this holiday season. What do you guys think?

Source: Gizmodo

Justin.tv

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Well for all the internet savvy people I’m sure you all know of Justin.tv, and for all of those that do not well it is basically a site that streams lifecasts (video of peoples lives, some 24/7). And it was originally created by Justin along with some friends and an investor or two, and was just an idea he decided to run with and so far its been great for him it seems like. That site is receiving more and more viewers all the time, especially when he added more stations to his programs. For in particular is iJustine, she has drawn many viewers to her page, and most of the time had the most of the viewers than any other channel, including Justin.

justine on yahoo againWell today I went to Yahoo and guess who made front page again? Yes it was Justine, first was her viral video of her iPhone bill, and now she is the “hottest lifecaster” which I thin most can agree with, if no well okay then we all have our personal opinions.So after that I went to their site and guess what theres was a total of over 2,000 viewers and Justine had over 1,300 of them, mostly because of Yahoo, at first that was pretty damn cool and excited for Justin.tv and Justine, but after seeing the chat window, I left, since there is so many viewers, it has become mainstream so basically that means a-holes and spammers. But hey I can always go back to another channel and enjoy a slower passed chat with real people. :)

I personally find myself watching some channels on Justin.tv, not much maybe 10 mins a day, or none. If I do get to the site I mostly just browse the channels and find something interesting to watch, either Justin, iJustine, or TibTie have something good to watch. When one is busy with their work there is mostly another channel to watch. For example Just does a lot, recently he got a Sports Bike and we got to see him learn how to ride it, on Justine’s we get to watch her go to blog camps and take a test drive in a smart car, and on TibTie we get to see Optimus Prime. :) Also I think TibTie has one of the best channels on there so please if you check out the site check out their stream.

justin tv new homepageOh yeah almost forgot Justin and his crew released the new homepage, it was the beta channel viewer but now it is officially the new home page. here is a little look at it, the Apple users may recognize the look of it and will like it, I know i do, it makes it easy to surf the popular streams, plus they still have the directory of all of them to all the streams. Do any of you guys watch any Justin.tv?

FaceBook Users Poll The Best HD Format

Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

The battle is still going, and going strong. Some say HD DVD is the way, others say Blu-ray is the way. Production companies taking sides and changing sides and making their HD movies exclusively on one HD format. And well even social network users are taking a side in the war, this social network site is FaceBook. They have daily polls on the site but mostly I do not pay too much attention to them, but I saw this one and had to check out the results and see what the users think of it, and the results surprised me greatly.

facebook hd dvd vs blu rayAs you can tell from the bar graph FaceBook users who voted like HD DVD better. I thought for sure Blu-ray would have been the choice of the user but apparently they proved me wrong. Maybe HD DVD still has a fighting chance, just maybe, I know I still have hope for it, do you?Also for more information check out my thoughts and info on the war.

Blades of Glory On DVD

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

Well today Will Ferrell and Jon Heder’s comedy movie “Blades of Glory was released on DVD, HD DVD :) , and Blu-ray. Well I am pretty sure it is released on all those formats since I found them all for sale on the Amazon and well that is pretty cool so you the “valued” consumer gets to choose and not the corporations. :twisted: *Edit* After looking it over again I found out the only HD format this will be on is HD DVD :) , so I guess the corporations do get to decide what movies we watch in HD :( Reason why it is only HD DVD is because Paramount Pictures is one of the production companies behind the movie and they just recently switch from Blu-ray to HD DVD exclusively. That is why it confused me when I found on some sites they said “Blades of Glory” to be on Blu-ray, that info was released before Paramount switched. *Edit*
So go out and buy it/rent it, or even better NetFlix it, that is what I did and I never saw it in theaters so I was really happy when I saw it in the mail today. So I of course popped it in the DVD player and watched it, and it was pretty good, not great but still worth a watch and a rent for all those that have not seen it yet. I will also get a review up soon, and I still have to do one on “Shooter”, I guess I forgot about that one when my old server shut down and had to switch to this new, better one.

Superbad Wins Again!

Monday, August 27th, 2007

Well the weekend is over and the official numbers are in and who is number one this weekend? It is “Superbad” for the second weekend in a row with $18M box office sales this weekend and a total of $68.6M overall so far. That is pretty good for any movie on their second movie and very good for a comedy. Even though it has made quite a bit of money non of it is mine, that is really weird, but for some reason I have not found time to get to the theater even though I have some gift certificates, so basically it is free to me. I still got some time before it leaves the theater and heads to DVD. I really hope I do get some time and head over and go see this since it looks hilarious.

Anyways second in this weekend is “The Bourne Ultimatum” with $12.5M, that is really good for being out for four weeks now and puts total gross to $185.3M. This movie should also get over $200M, well I sure hope it does. And third this weekend is “Rush Hour 3” with $11.8M and a total of $108.5M. Both of these moves are doing very well for being the third installment in each of their series.

And for the ones that have seen “Superbad” how was it?

Source: Yahoo Box Office

Another Bourne in the Works?

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

My guess no, the three Bournes have been good and when a sequel comes out there is always talks of another one that might come out in the future and I do not think they would want to risk it and end it on a bad note. But according to StarPulse Damon said if the director of the movies calls him up in several years he would be in it ASAP.

I would love to see another Bourne since those movies are just great movies; they have great action along with some comedic relief. It is not direct comedy, and even the actors do not laugh, what I am talking about is what Bourne goes into the chiefs office and call him from his office phone and Jason asks where he’s at and the chief says, I’m in my office. Bourne then returns saying, well if you were we would be having this conversation face to face. :lol: That right there to me is just hilarious and I would think so to others. Then there is the action, and I do not think I have to get into that at all with these movies since it is everywhere in them.

Source: StarPulse

Herold & Kumar 2!

Saturday, August 25th, 2007

Note: Well I had this post written out before my server crashed and moved to a better server and well it was not in my backup so here it is, I’ll try to remember and write what I had before but if it isn’t the same well then maybe this version will be better. :)

Why YES!!! It is true there is going to be another Harold & Kumar movie, but it is still in the early stages since the trailer I saw does not have much in it yet and says 2008, so that means a long time I guess but just the little I saw it looked amazing! If anyone saw “Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle” then you know how funny this one is going to be just by remembering that movie, also if you did see it you would kind of guess there would be a second one since at the end Harold & Kumar said they should go after that girl in Amsterdam, plus they knew what was legal over there so they decided to go. It has been awhile, but it will come, it will be here soon enough. So no further a do here is the trailer I found over at YouTube.

Michael Bay’s Rant

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

Most of you may know about the format “war” with HD DVD and Blu-ray and you know my standing on the matter, and it still has not changed, not yet at least. And as you know Michael Bay’s new hit movie “Transformers” is still in theaters and it was awesome, but it will eventually be going to DVD. But for those that did not know “Transformers” was produced by Paramount Pictures, and originally they were Sony’s Blu-ray supporters and only distributed Blu-ray movies along with DVD of course. But recent news Paramount dropped Blu-ray and now only supports DVD and HD DVD, good news for those HD DVD player owners, and whatever news for those that still are holding onto DVD. Personally I am getting tired of this war, one side gets some great movies I’d love to watch in HD, then the other format gets another great movie I’d like to see in HD, all I can do is wither just get DVD version or get a dual HD DVD/Blu-ray player, which cost several hundred dollars too. Well there is another choice, I could wait till it is on a HD channel and DVR it but then I’d have to wait. :)

Well since the news of the Paramount changing sides Bay got a little mad and decided to post it on his blog about it one late night after talking to his Blu-ray player owning friends and got mad all about it and even said he would not direct “Transformers 2” since Paramount left Blu-ray. Which to me sucks since I love his movies, even though most hate him because they think he is a raciest (curse word here) along with other things. But to me it doesn’t matter, he makes great movies and that is all that matters, and I respect him as a director, and for his personal life that is hi personal life.

Well after a day and a sleep and some kool aid he had a change of mind and was happy with Paramount’s decision. Why did he change his mind, who know it could have been some money, the kool aid, :) some sleep and thinking, the smart business move since HD DVD players prices are getting very cheap and more may get them the time when this movie is released on DVD, or it could have just been because he watched 300 on HD DVD and saw the great quality HD DVD can be. And also he said he will be glad to direct “Transformers 2″, yes!

I hope next time he will think twice before he reacts and maybe he will not fall into advertising and fall into what people say is the best, because sometimes it just is not. And the only thing Blu-ray has is that it can hold way more storage, to me that is not innovative.

Overall very, very good news to me and for all that love Bay’s great action movies.

Source: Michael Bay’s Blog

I’m Back!

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Okay first off sorry for having major downtime but now I have finally moved to my new better server. Still working out the kinks and getting things back to the way it was, and only lost a day or two of work. So please bare with me for the next day or two till I can get everything back to normal and back to movie updates.

 (Update)

Well most of the site is back to normal but please let me know if you run into any dead links or just anything

Superbad In Theaters!

Friday, August 17th, 2007

Today is the day of the epic comedy movie comes out in theaters. We all laughed at the “40 year Old Virgin” and “Talladega Nights “, and now we have SUPERBAD! This movie is just good all around, if you have seen any of the trailers you just had to laugh, that is if this is your type of comedy, or if you have read any reviews they have been nothing but great, well the public reviews mostly. Over at RottenTomatoes it is official certified fresh with 87% fresh which means it is great since really anything about 60 or even 50 it is worth it and great, also the other.

Basically this movie is going to be epic and a great way to end the summer with, and a great movie to start the fall. So gather a few friends and go see it since it is going to be awesome. And for you youngins (16 and younger) you are going to have to sneak in since this movie is rated R for this movie will rock your world with great comedy! :) And for the rest of the world buy a ticket and see it, you might just enjoy it.

And here are some trailers to watch and enjoy.

And here is a second one.