Prime Time Geek

This is one of those moments where something completely unexpected pops into my head, and I can’t get past it and move on to something else without finding it, reading it through, getting the giggle out of it that made me remember it in the first place, and then recording it somewhere so that i [...]

Late Wednesday, as one media outlet put it, “the last domino fell.”
Paramount, the last of the major Hollywood studios backing HD-DVD, had been notably silent in the two days following Toshiba calling it quits and Universal switching sides to Blu-Ray. On Wednesday, in a statement issued through The Hollywood Reporter, Paramount Home Entertainment finally (and [...]

So the war’s over.
Toshiba made it official this morning, and the story’s been all over the web all day long, so I won’t belabor it here. I’d reported on the rumors last Friday, and so I’m glad they didn’t drag it out. Their official exit apparently releases all the studios previously committed to HD-DVD from [...]

This morning on their company gadget blog, CheckOut.com, Wal-Mart officially announced they will support Blu-Ray exclusively as of June 2008. They will begin emphasizing Blu-Ray in both online and brick-and-mortar store operations immediately, while slowly phasing out HD-DVD hardware and software. Here’s what they had to say:
“We’ve listened to our customers, who are showing a [...]

Just a short post today…
It aired on “Good Morning America” this morning, and shortly afterward it was posted on the official Indiana Jones website, so here it is: the first trailer for “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”, due in theaters this May:
Indy trailer (sorry it’s just a link–like the “Star Trek” [...]

And the hits to HD-DVD keep on comin’ …
Yesterday, two major announcements with major implications for the ongoing format war came within hours of one another. The first was by Netflix, the world’s leading provider of online movie rentals, saying that they were immediately ceasing all stock orders of HD-DVD and will phase out HD-DVD [...]

Well, how about that, folks? No posts for two weeks and now two in one day!
Just HAD to put this one up because I hadn’t seen it yet before today (since I don’t tune in to Sci-Fi Channel much anymore)–it’s apparently one of the latest promos for the final season of Battlestar Galactica. [...]

So it’s been a while, not only since I’ve added to this blog, but also since I’ve done a review/recap of a Smallville episode. Last week’s episode “Persona” did a whole lot more than continue the “return of Bizarro” story arc and showcase the return of James Marsters as “the Brain-Interactive Construct”, or as we [...]