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He’s Looking to Steal My “Captain Obvious” Title

Tuesday, 6 May, 2008 – 22:56

Normally, I would just have included a link in my daily del.icio.us posting to this article at GigaOm that somehow references part of a review that’s behind a pay wall at another site (I’m not sure I understand it myself), but I wanted to take the time to comment on some of the quotes pulled [...]

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Is “Confusinger” a Word?

Tuesday, 21 August, 2007 – 00:42

Some of this information will be duplicated in my daily links post from del.icio.us tomorrow morning, but I find it irritating enough that I should say something about it.
What an… interesting day today in the format war between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray Disc. I found out about it via a Twitter post from Microsoft’s Major [...]

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Ah. Slashdot paranoia leads to misdirecting headlines once again.

Friday, 28 January, 2005 – 10:21

Guess what?
It turns out that those MGM DVDs aren’t improperly formatted at all.
Seems that someone is suing for false advertising that the “widescreen” presentation of those movies had more visual information than the full-screen. The problem is that these are all “matte” aspect movies, where the movie is filmed 1.33:1, and then matted on [...]

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DVD alert! Check your shelf for MGM movies!

Friday, 28 January, 2005 – 10:15

Well, it appears (via Slashdot) that MGM has a few things to make up for, and I know for a fact that I have a few of the movies mentioned in the article:

Apparently all of MGM’s ‘theatrical wide screen’ DVD releases for the last few years have been the pan-scanned versions with the top and [...]

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Sweetness.

Friday, 7 November, 2003 – 14:15

There has been somewhat, half-official, super-duper confirmation that the Star Wars (original) Trilogy will be headed to DVD in September of 2004. What those discs will involve, who knows? But I can finally trash my old VHS letterbox copies of the things and get to see them with actual picture detail.
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Whoa.

Wednesday, 5 November, 2003 – 15:43

The Matrix Revolutions is getting slaughtered in reviews. I didn’t expect this much backlash at all.
I figured that, since people were so harsh on Reloaded, they’d be a little more considerate towards the third movie in the trilogy - after all, you can’t hate everything, can you? And I had figured that a [...]

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