I have a Tivo Series 3 and a Tivo HD. On both of my systems, I was seeing channels that had a number in front of them (i.e. “1 Womens HD”). Any of these channels that had a number in front of them had no channel guide information and just stated “To Be Announced”. I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Movies and TV’
Terminator – John Connor
I’ve been a pretty big fan of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. I like the characterizations and the story keeps moving and changing. The special effects are decent for a TV Sci-Fi show. I’ve been rewatching the Terminator movies with Xander (a friend of his watched them and so he asked). There are scenes that [...]
Movie/Film Reviews
Reviewers, in general, are there to get as big of an audience as they can. Since I love movies, reviews, spoilers and the like, I have had a great deal of opportunity to listen, read, view many reviewers. In that time, my observations lead me to believe that most of them try to achieve audience [...]
Pixar doesn’t care about Copyrights
What a great post that Crunchgear made regarding how Pixar violated copyright law. Apparently, they don’t respect the current copyright laws and are, by example, telling us to not respect the laws either. Maybe we should re-write the existing laws so they work in today’s world to increase content creation rather than limit it. The [...]
Movie Review: Speed Racer
I took Xander and Mitchell to see Speed Racer today. I was a little apprehensive about seeing it. The previews looked interesting but it also seemed like an odd direction for the movie. Overall, the movie was fair to good. There were some tremendous action scenes. One was an actual fight scene while the rest [...]
Our HDTV Update
If you remember a few posts ago, I mentioned that our 5 year old HDTV died. Kathy was just watching it and the picture went off and a light on the front panel started blinking. Generally not good. As a customer of this Pioneer Elite Rear Screen Projection TV (which is no longer made), we [...]
Movie Review: Jumper
Kathy and I saw Jumper yesterday. Before I comment on this movie, I do want to note that I’ve actually read the 2 books that this movie was based on. You can check out my comments on Jumper and Reflex if you’d like. The books premise is that a teen is abused by his father [...]
Returned Toshiba HD-DVD Player
Well, after about a week of using the two Toshiba HD-DVD players that I bought (see previous posts) I decided to return them. I had several motivations. First and perhaps least, the video from the Toshiba HD-DVD player was great but the video on upscaling DVD players is pretty good too. I know my kids [...]
HD DVD Player – Toshiba HD-A3
Kathy’s folks gave us a generous Christmas gift (they really didn’t need to but we are grateful anyway!). With some of it (and returning a upscaling DVD player I had just bought), I decided to get 2 HD-DVD players. I’m not really attached to either side of the format wars (HD-DVD vs Bluray) but since [...]
Mitchell playing Basketball
Check out a new video of Mitchell playing basketball with his team, The Wolves. You can get to you via our Gallery at the top of the page, then Videos, 2007 or follow this link: Mitchell’s Basketball Enjoy!
New Video Camera
I got a new video camera today. I still need to play with it some more to give it my complete verdict. It is a Panasonic HDC-SD5 which uses SD-HC memory instead of tapes, hard drives for the movies. It is also an HD camera doing true HD video. In my sample below, you will [...]
Ordered a new camera
We ordered a new video camera. It’s on back order but hopefully will be here before our trip to visit our family. The camera is a Panasonic HDC-SD5 which is a High Def camera that records to solid state media. I’m pretty excited about it as it should improve pictures and the like but also [...]
Started Looking for a TV
I’ve started the process of looking at TV’s. It’s not our main TV but to me, it’s an important TV. It’s for my Gym so I watch it nearly everyday for quite a while. I mostly watch movies though I watch a bit of TV (and as I watch TV, I’ve become increasingly needing HD [...]
More Video Soon
As I noted in an update in the last post, I had to change the video I posted because it was just too darn long. Also I didn’t like the edit (or more correctly, Kathy didn’t like the edits and made me change it). The video up there now is part one. I’ve got to [...]
New Video
I’ve got a new video Up. It’s a long one too. It’s the entire period between November 1999 and March 2000 (I called the movie Alexander 1999 to 2000). It’s about 21 minutes long. It’s got a couple of firsts – haircut, walking, feeding himself – all good stuff. Enjoy it. The next one introduces [...]