Mistah HD DVD–He Dead …
Reports of HD DVD’s death may have been exaggerated, but reports of its fast-declining health have not.
Though Paramount Pictures has denied reports that it plans to abandon the next-generation DVD format, news of an escape clause in its HD DVD contract allowing it to release films on Blu-ray has the industry wondering aloud about [...]
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
CES: Comast CEO Announces 4 MegaBatman-Per-Minute Internet
“Comcast 3.0.” That was the subject of Comcast CEO Brian Roberts keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show today. And what is “Comcast 3.0?” Well, like Web 2.0 and 3.0, it’s a marketing term–in Comcast’s case, one for its transformation from “broadband” provider to a “wideband” provider.
In 2008, said Roberts, Comcast will begin upgrading its [...]
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Paramount Makes Jackass out of Itself
Odd to think that a 64-minute foray into excrement and emesis might be a defining moment in Hollywood’s transition to digital distribution. But it could.
Paramount Pictures plans to debut “Jackass 2.5,” the third installment of the “Jackass” movies, online, skipping the multiplexes entirely. “2.5” will launch Dec. 19 on Blockbuster’s new online property, Movielink, where [...]
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
iFail
Good thing Apple CEO Steve Jobs views Apple TV as the company’s hobby, because if it were a business it’d be in big trouble.
Launched amid great fanfare earlier this year, the device has since faded into obscurity. Apple hasn’t yet released sales figures for the streaming set-top box, but research outfit Forrester believes them to [...]
Friday, December 7, 2007
Well, That Was $2.8 Billion Well Spent …
Copy-protection vendor Macrovision’s decision to acquire Gemstar impressed investors about as much as one of the “Welcome Back, Kotter” reruns listed in Gemstar’s flagship magazine, TV Guide. Macrovision shares dropped 24%, to $19.66, and Gemstar lost 18%, to $4.91, on news of the $2.8 billion deal.
Seems the market’s not too keen on Macrovision spending that [...]
My DVD Business! It’s Melting, Melting … Melting
Time was, when a movie bombed at the box office, Hollywood studios could always slap it onto a DVD, ship it off to retail outlets and make some or all of their money back.
No longer. The salad days when you could rush dross like “Police Academy: Mission to Moscow” and “From Justin to Kelly” out [...]
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
