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“Two Face Story Has Been Told” - Christopher Nolan

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Attended the blu ray community screening for the Dark Knight where Christopher Nolan was answering questions from the fans. To tell you the truth, most questions could have been answered by watching the behind the scenes featurettes. Some questions had obvious answers such as:

“Why do you think Ledger’s performance as the Joker is so beloved by critics and fans alike”
and

“How was it shooting in Chicago”

I wish they didn’t filter the questions too badly. I was really wondering about the inconsistencies about the movie such as Batman always getting knocked out while being perfectly fine falling from his penthouse while rescuing Rachel. Most of the questions he answered were for behind the scenes.

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Dec 18 2008 09:54 pm | The Dark Knight and PS3 and Blu-ray and Technology | No Comments »

Xbox 360 Scratches Games and Movies

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The Xbox 360 is turning out to be a mess.  There’s several problems with the console: red ring of death, noisy fan, maps not loading.  Now, the latest known problem: scratching DVD games and movies.  Most of you are aware that I had to return my 360 four times before finally getting one that was working properly.

I’ve read on message boards before that there 360’s were scratching games and movies but never thought much about it.  Now there’s a lawsuit from a person who is suing MS for scratching his DVD’s.  His attorney said that MS already knew about the problem before launching the system but decided to ignore it.  You can read the detail report here.

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Dec 18 2008 04:12 pm | Xbox 360 and Technology and Video Game | 1 Comment »

Dark Knight DVD & Blu Ray Exclusives

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There’s so many exclusives for Dark Knight on DVD & Blu Ray that I’m getting confused. Below is a list of the exclusives and the prices from the major retailers. Thanks to Speedy from cheapassgamer.com for the early prices. The prices are for the exclusives, not the regular DVD set.

Best Buy:
They have the most exclusives, including figures and masks and joker trading cards. The Joker figure looks pretty cool but probably not worth the $10 price tag. The masks are crap.

Best Buy Ad Scan Dark Knight Exclusives
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Dec 07 2008 01:19 am | DVD and Blu-ray and The Dark Knight and Nerd and Comics and Technology and Film and Movies | 4 Comments »

Fancast.com - The Youtube For TV Shows?

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 Fancast Logo

Bumped into a site called, fancast.com.  Unlike youtube, where users upload their own videos, fancast uploads tv shows and movies by themselves.  There is a good and bad side to this.

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Sep 26 2008 12:06 pm | Video and TV and Technology | 7 Comments »

S.P.E.A.R. - Mobile Command Center To Save More Lives

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Concept Art - Elliptical Solutions S.P.E.A.R.
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Imagine having a natural disaster in your community, like an earthquake or hurricane. You want to get aid from the government as soon as possible so they can give you shelter, food and help out the community. Currently, it can take several days to get relief from the government because it takes time setting up a command center. In terms of disasters, time = lives. The sooner the government can help, the more people will be saved. How would you like it if the prep time for a command center is cut down to minutes and operation in extreme conditions?

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Sep 24 2008 08:37 pm | Nerd and Technology | 5 Comments »

HD DVD Reviews - Clearance Edition

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With HD DVD getting its ass kicked by Blu-Ray, some stores are having fire sales. One store in particular is Hollywood Video, selling their HD DVD’s for about $10 a piece or if you have a coupon 2/$15. So I went on an HD DVD binge and bought 6 movies, even ones I didn’t really like at the theatre. Yes, addiction is bad for you. Here we go:

1) Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix

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Mar 21 2008 03:33 pm | Technology | No Comments »

It’s Official: Blu Ray Wins the DVD Format War, HD-DVD is OUT !

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Eary this morning the AP confirmed what many already knew to be the case, that Blu Ray has won the DVD format war.  Toshiba will stop producing HD-DVD players and recorders:

Toshiba quits HD DVD business

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP

Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video.

“We concluded that a swift decision would be best,” Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at his company’s Tokyo offices.

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Feb 19 2008 07:34 am | Technology | No Comments »

Bye bye HD-DVD

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Warner Brothers on Friday announced they will Blu-Ray exclusive after May. A couple of days later, New Line, WB’s sister company also announced exclusivity to Blu. Yes, my fellow movie geeks, Lord of the Rings will only be released on Blu-Ray. With the recent announcements, only Universal and Paramount/Dreamworks have full support HD-DVD, while Blu-Ray has Disney, Fox, WB and of course Sony’s movie division, Columbia.

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Jan 08 2008 06:51 pm | Technology | No Comments »

What’s Wrong with the Future?

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So I was at a party and we were talking about a Sci-Fi TV show.  It somehow ended up to a conversation about how it’s geeky to be into spaceships and NASA and all that jazz.  So that got me thinking.  Why is being able to fly a space craft into space considered nerdy and not like the coolest thing in the world?

I wonder if people in the past century called Henry Ford nerdy for dreaming of a mass assembly automobile line? 

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Dec 19 2007 10:02 am | Technology | No Comments »

Beowulf



Everytime I see this preview, I want to go choke a bitch. Yes, Beowulf will be epic. Yes, it will look badass in IMAX 3D (just because it’s in 3D! Who would’ve thunk that!). But the one thing that will hinder me throughout the whole movie is pretty much unavoidable. You guessed it. It’s the fact that they’ve modeled thei 3D characters after the actors involved in it.

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Nov 14 2007 06:47 pm | Technology and Movies | No Comments »

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