by tyler_admin | Feb 20, 2008 | Personal Life, Technology, Uncategorized
I’m like that wife on Jerry Springer… I keep getting the crap kicked out of me and I keep coming back! BestBuy (bricks and mortar and dotCa) have terrible service. There is no denying it. Quite possibly the worst service I have ever encountered, especially...
by tyler_admin | Feb 19, 2008 | Technology, Uncategorized
Days after Walmart announced that it would prefer if HD-DVD didn’t exist. HD-DVD is officially dead. Toshiba has announced that it will discontinue the HD-DVD format. For -somewhat- proud Blu-Ray owners like myself, this hopefully means that the cost of movies...
by tyler_admin | Feb 14, 2008 | Personal Life, Technology, Uncategorized
One of my guilty pleasures is to go to Amazon.com and start browsing movies or books that I have really enjoyed. Then I got to the 1/5 star reviews and read people shitting all over them. It is quite entertaining to see what some moron who thought that Independence...
by tyler_admin | Feb 12, 2008 | Technology, Uncategorized
As if Blu-Ray didn’t need any more momentum Netflix has dropped HD DVD and thrown their support behind Blu-Ray. As an owner of a Blu-Ray player this is very sweet music to my ears. Do I believe that there is any chance of HD DVD making a comeback? Nope...
by tyler_admin | Feb 12, 2008 | Personal Life, Technology, Uncategorized
So for a second I am going to forget that Amazon.com has a gamut of great products at very competitive prices, products that dotCa just doesn’t carry. For the moment I am going to focus on the fact that the identical items are frequently at very different...
by tyler_admin | Feb 5, 2008 | Personal Life, Technology, Uncategorized
Rogers loses. Last week with my new LCD TV I picked up the Rogers HD box. Does it work? Yeah, kinda. What is it lacking? HDMI! It has component video, but that is no where near HDMI. About the only solution I have at the moment is to get a DVI<–>HDMI cable...
