Zip.ca is better offline than online
July 30, 2008 at 9:11 pmA few weeks ago, Sharon and I signed up for the free trial at Zip.ca, which is Canada’s equivalent to Netflix. We rent movies fairly regularly, usually at the local Blockbuster. The appeal of Zip.ca was the larger library of titles – Blockbuster’s selection is pretty limited. When our free trial expired at the [...]
Tags: blockbuster, dvd, entertainment, movies, netflix, rentals, zip.caFormat-shifting: HD DVD to Blu-ray
February 20, 2008 at 6:47 pmBy now you’ve probably heard that Toshiba has thrown in the towel and will stop making HD DVDs. That means Sony has finally won a format war! Good for them, I guess. Not so good for the consumers who invested in HD DVD, however. What are you supposed to do with the player and [...]
Tags: blu-ray, discs, dvd, encoding, formats, hd-dvd, toshiba, transcodingGoodbye optical discs, hello write-once memory cards!
November 21, 2007 at 9:16 pmEngadget posted yesterday about 1GB write-once memory cards from SanDisk that would cost around $5.99 USD. My first thought was that it would never work. Why buy a memory card you can only use once for $6 when you can buy a rewritable one for as little as say $15? It wouldn’t make sense. [...]
Tags: cd, dvd, memory cards, sandisk, sd cards, storage, technologyWhy are blank CDs so expensive?
November 8, 2007 at 11:42 pmI never thought I’d write something like this, but blank CDs are freaking expensive! It wasn’t long ago that I could care less about turning a CD into a coaster, but now I do care. I don’t know what changed, but for some reason CDs have become incredibly expensive relative to DVDs.
Here is the current [...]
10 Reasons For Simultaneous Movie Releases
May 14, 2007 at 6:40 pmIn my humble opinion, the way movies are released today sucks. First they hit the theatres, then DVDs, then video-on-demand services, and finally television. The movie studios really like these different release windows for some reason. Why not release movies to all of these distribution channels at once? It makes a lot of sense to [...]
Tags: comcast, dvd, entertainment, hollywood, movies, simultaneous release, theatresMost New TV Shows Require Too Much Effort!
January 24, 2007 at 11:55 pmI don’t watch a lot of television, save for hockey, news, and Smallville. I guess I am “an Internet child” and that’s definitely where most of my time is spent. I think there’s more to it than that, however. Almost all of the new TV shows being produced require a lot of effort from the [...]
Tags: 24, dvd, fox, internet, media, television, trends, tv showsMy kids don’t know what a DVD is!
March 1, 2006 at 6:43 pm[Obviously I don't have any kids, so play along would you?]
Sometime in the not too distant future…
The strangest thing happened today! My daughter came home from school and started telling us all about her exciting day in the first grade. Then out of nowhere, she asked what a DVD was! I guess her class had [...]
