I’m a bit late… Anyways, blu-ray and HD-DVD could have been friends if they weren’t intimate objects. Sadly, toshiba doesn’t lose (It has billions more), it’s the people who bought HD-DVD players and stocked up for collections.

It was announced yesterday that toshiba was waving the white flag to sony in the format war. It mainly died due to Warner, and Paramount who moved away from HD-DVD and went to the Blu.

Sony’s Playstation 3 also was another contributor into the downfall of HD-DVD, it was cheap (for blu-ray), it’s games used blu-ray format and henceforth you could watch blu-ray movies on it too.

No more HD-DVD units are being produced anymore as well. So, what do you do with your HD-DVDs now? You can make them blu and sell your player on eBAy. . Both formats used maxed out 1080p.

I think many people are stung by the demise of HD-DVD, luckily, there are enough movies out there in that format, so no need to chuck your player quite yet. Remember when Sony lost to VHS with it’s betamax awhile ago?

VHS became pretty much standard use. Then DVD came, and that was used. Now these two formats (or now just one I guess…). What’s next? Bigger storage, more quality, higher price… I’ll stick with my DVDs and CDs right now thank you very much.

If I was like 20 and wanted to buy either format, I’d wait till something like this happens and go with the latter. It’s a shame really, HD-DVD could have kept going if the movie producers didn’t jump ship.

Well, I guess just my random one day late ramblings, I still think it’s a loss. I have looked on eBay and there are a bunch of HD-DVD players already out there… too bad. Well, I still wonder; what is next. Little plastic/ glass blocks that store data? Well, I’m going to leave you now, with those thoughts in you head. I’m off to game.

Best to you,
nikoPSK

Guess what? My stomach didn’t like cloverfield (No, I did not throw up, I was just nauseas). Although I was mildly sick at the time, so that might have not helped either. Anyways, cloverfield was a pretty good movie, although I would have opted for normal camerawork.

It did give the movie the effect the producer intended albeit, now, I’ll just give minor details of the movie, as I would recommend it to others. Basically, a large monster comes and attacks Manhattan.

Generally, I would think this genre of style would bore me, but the plot and characters keep me amused. The first person dies around ten minutes in, getting pummeled down by this seamonster’s tentacle. The military scenes are cool although the only part that freaks me out is, the second death that occurred happened by a zergling like creature biting one of the characters.

She gets “infected” and ends up blowing up (I presume) in the makeshift medical facility they stumble upon. Behind curtains, but the blood splatter freaked me out.

Sometimes; it was way too loud. Maybe another intended effect, but it did hurt my ears. A nice sci-fi thriller. At least it wasn’t a bad movie. I would give this a 7/10.

Every time you think they are going to die, they don’t. Every time you think they are going to be okay, they aren’t. It ended quite abruptly, then a flashback of the camera.

I do hope you enjoy,
nikoPSK