After seeing this I had to buy an Apple TV. I guess the next step is to get USB to fully work so we wouldn’t have to VNC into it. It’s going to make a great Myth box or Haxed up OSX TV. And hopefully soon Apple will partner with someone to get HD content to the box. My wish of a Netflix partnership looks like it fell through. Maybe a Tivo/Unbox deal will suffice. A YouTube/Google Video should be inevitable but what do they have to deliver.
Microsoft’s Xbox Live Video: HDTV and HD movie downloads for your 360 – Engadget
The service is called Xbox Live Video, and the fall update enables customers to spend their Microsoft points on standard and HD television from CBS, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1, Turner, and UFC, as well as HD movies from Warner Bros., Paramount, and so on. We’re still a little in shock, ourselves, that Microsoft was able to in one fell swoop hit TiVo, Apple, Netflix, and a handful of others, but looking at Live over the last year, the move isn’t that massively surprising. Of course, not even the vision of on-demand HD movies and TV downloads in six million homes at the flick of a switch could be without its variety of niggling concerns; being that we all know the devil’s in the details, click on to get the particulars of the service.
This is such great news. I thought it was a rumer but it’s confirmed now. The first two problems that came to my mind, ABC and Disney wont ever be on board and you can’t take the movies anywhere unless someone else has a 360.
…over 1000 hours of video will make its way onto Live for rental at about $4 a go, or for purchase (at an unstated price). Hard to imagine Xbox 360 doing for PC-free online movie downloads what all the other companies couldn’t or haven’t (we’re looking at you TiVo, Netflix, iTV, etc.), but then again Microsoft did start up with that Xbox Live music video download thing last year. Seriously though, what a coup would that be if Microsoft swooped in to make the Xbox 360 the premier digital content hub…
After finding out for sure that the Wii wont play DVDs the cost of the Wii compared to my 360 is practically the same. And if MS did something like this it would help me not have to buy an iTV or even their HD-DVD drive add-on. Wonderful rumor, I hope it’s true.
Superman Returns was pretty good. I’ll give it a five star review when Sara puts it on Netflix.
I don’t know how much the movie followed the mythos of Superman since anything goes in comic adaptive movies now-a-days, and instead of ruining most of the movie for the people who haven’t seen it, the main development of the … Read More »
June 28
Did I just overlook the DVD hike or did it just happen over the holidays. I just noticed new DVDs are selling for $19.99, inflation my ass. If they are going to charge that much for a DVD it might as well come out the same day as the theatrical release; like some studios are considering or planning. It just doesn’t make any sense to me to even have the gap since studios are making well more money on DVD sales then they are in the box office. And I don’t see it hurting the other if DVDs come out earlier because the people who go to a movies now are the same ones who buy the DVDs three months later and would still buy the DVD on the way out of the movie at the local theater. With even the three month gap I hear all the time that they rather wait until they can netflix it or buy it.
Not only would it be better for the consumer but it would be better marketing. With all the ads for theatrical releases they might as well tag the line, “on DVD now”, so that way they don’t have to spend the millions three months later for the delayed DVD release. Re-couping the fear of people not going to the theater.
Been so busy for the last few days haven’t been able to post what I have been planning.
Just to let everyone know Catwman was the worst movie ever made. Not only was the acting bad, the plot was worse. I don’t really get how it could have been made that bad, it was a comic book. How could they not get a good story of the writers? Or was it the directors and the producers fault? Anyways, we saw that last week and this week we saw Mr. 3000, now that was a great movie. Two thumbs up for 3000 and two paws down for Crapwoman.
Anyone read that text message from Lindsay Lohan to Paris Hilton about Jessica Simpson doing coke? Now Simpson and Bush have something in common.
I just recently updated my site and it looks like all the problems I used to have with older installs our now fixed, including the RSS problem. There are some new features to this beta version, one that you all might care about is you can now get an RSS comment feed to a particular post, very cool.
Today I worked on the design; you might have noticed I included a Netflix plug-in. Soon it will show my own queue; NetFlix now gives sub-accounts, so I can have an account and Sara can have an account and then we allot how many movies go to each account, currently Sara gets 2 and I only get one. Anyways what you see now up to date but not my own account since we just set up my sub account.
You might also notice I changed the look a little: I took out the top commenters but might put it back in soon, I am unsure. I hope Dave still comments, even if he is mad at me.
If you like something tell me and most importantly if you hate something tell me that too. Oh, and also tell me what you want to see.
Does anyone use the RSS/News on my site? No, I’m thinking of replacing it, But with what? A links page? With info about plugins, comments and articles, maybe.
When I first say the trailer to this movie I wanted so badly to see it. Sara and I have a little thing we do when we see trailors of movies, a little thing probably 10 million other couples do. We give a thumbs up or thumbs down to a movie we want to see. Two thumbs up means we will see it in the theatre, 1 and 1 either means netflix or a Santa Paula showing ($3 a piece), and 2 down means HBO or never.
So the first time and every time we see a trailer to this movie I give it a..[you got it]…a thumbs up and Sara..[you got it]…a thumbs down. In this circumstance I will pull out my wild-card and over rule her with the decision because I want to see this one so bad and not in SP, I want to see it in a real theater.
After seeing a plug on the making of the movie my mind is grasping to see it. The show was thescreensavers on G4techtv, my favorite show. Well anyways I want to post the clip on the web for everyone to see and I really want to get it on tape to show at the moving expressions class that I am helping Tim do at the Bridge.
What made me so exstatic about this movie is that it was all done through CG. The actors were the only things that were real, except the props that they touched (doors, chairs, ext.). And the extent of the backgrounds were actual pictures. It is so hard to explain but if you know a little about blue screens then you should understand, most of the new Star Wars was filmed this way. But with the Star Wars example in mind instead of film or CG as the background the backgrounds are primarily photos. So instead of extreme sets that cost millions they keyed in a picture and moved it around digitally.
Another thing about this movie is that it was finished from begining to end before filming started. There were actual actors created and put in through MAYA to show it off before production. This is the future of movies. No sets, all in CG. I love it.
After seeing the segment I really want to do something like this on my own because after they exposed the process, and how they used After Effects, it seems simple to me, really simple.
