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Those who are on the Speaker’s Bureau Circuit cannot get to all those who desire to have them speak to their groups. It is unfortunate these great people in demand cannot get to all these locations fast enough, as it means that their knowledge is not passed onto others. But what if there were a way to make sure that their best presentations and speeches were preserved and could be shown to others. That would be great you say, but don’t we already do this now with videotaping? Yes, surely we do, but what if we could take this to a whole new level? How so you ask?

Well, what if we used the latest HDHI Technologies to make it even more life like. What is HDHI? Well it stands for High-Definition Holographic Imaging, which incorporates the latest holographic 3D and 4D technologies along with synthesized light and particle manipulation to render the object opaque rather than translucent. In other words you are looking a colored light in the form of an object, which appears to be solid.

As these Holographic Technologies and specifically HDHI becomes more readily available to commercial industry thru transfer technology programs from the United States Military, the applications for civilian use will be endless. I believe that perhaps there could be no better use of this technology than to supplement the supply and demand issue of those on the Speaker Bureau List. Additionally thru careful use and proper copyrights HDHI syndicated speaking engagements will be a killer application indeed. Think on this.

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Nominated for 15 Golden Globes and 25 Emmys, including two for Outstanding Drama Series, The Waltons enjoyed nine seasons of high audience ratings and notable critical acclaim. Premiering on CBS in the Fall of 1972, the hour-long drama series chronicled the lives of a tightly-knit mountain family living during the Depression era. Creator Earl Hamner Jr. based The Waltons on his true-to-life story of growing up in the Hamner family. Noted for its family-oriented subject matter (and absence of torrid sex and violence), The Waltons paved the way for the success of the popular TV series Little House On The Prairie (1974). And, in the aftermath of the cancellation of The Beverly Hillbillies (1962) and Green Acres (1965), proved wrong the assertion of some CBS executives that shows with rural settings were becoming unpopular. Celebrated for its raw depiction of the human experience, The Waltons towers above modern day television dramas by laying claim to the added weight today’s critics give to “realism” in a series while simultaneously avoiding the bad language, adult content, and gratuitous violence that often accompany those shows which earn such a designation…

The Waltons follows the daily lives of the various members of the Walton family as they make a living working their humble saw mill on Walton’s Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Set in the 1930’s, the series unfolds through the eyes of John Boy (Richard Thomas). An aspiring writer, John Boy chronicles life on Walton Mountain where his parents, John Sr. (Ralph Waite) and Olivia (Michael Learned), raise their seven children (John Boy, Jason, Mary Ellen, Erin, Ben, Jim-Bob, and Elizabeth) with the aid of live-in grandparents Esther (Ellen Corby) and Zeb (Will Greer) Walton. A wide array of supporting characters live near the Waltons, including Reverend Fordwick (portrayed by Three’s Company star John Ritter), the Godseys, the Baldwins, and various others. As the trials of the Great Depression fade into the tribulations of World War II, the Waltons connect with every facet of the human experience - love, marriage, birth, death, aging, social ills, and the numerous travails of life, making The Waltons one of the most popular shows in television history…

The Waltons (Season 2) DVD features a number of memorable episodes including the season premiere “The Journey” in which Maggie McKenzie would like to see the ocean one last time in her life, and John Boy agrees to take her, although he must miss an important dance in order to do so. Meanwhile, Grandpa Zeb and the kids nurse and injured bird back to health. This episode is also notable because it boasts of being the only show of series in which creator Earl Hamner (playing the role of Maggie’s wife) appears… Other notable episodes from Season 2 include “The Fawn” in which Erin nurses an injured fawn back to health while John Boy becomes a collections agent for a notorious landlord, and “The Honeymoon” in which John Sr. and Olivia enjoy a belated honeymoon in Virginia Beach…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Waltons (Season 2) DVD

Episode 26 (The Journey) Air Date: 09-13-1973
Episode 27 (The Odyssey) Air Date: 09-20-1973
Episode 28 (The Separation) Air Date: 09-27-1973
Episode 29 (The Theft) Air Date: 10-04-1973
Episode 30 (The Roots) Air Date: 10-11-1973
Episode 31 (The Chicken Thief) Air Date: 10-18-1973
Episode 32 (The Prize) Air Date: 10-25-1973
Episode 33 (The Braggart) Air Date: 11-01-1973
Episode 34 (The Fawn) Air Date: 11-08-1973
Episode 35 (The Thanksgiving Story: Part 1) Air Date: 11-15-1973
Episode 36 (The Thanksgiving Story: Part 2) Air Date: 11-15-1973
Episode 37 (The Substitute) Air Date: 11-22-1973
Episode 38 (The Bequest) Air Date: 11-29-1973
Episode 39 (The Air Mail Man) Air Date: 12-13-1973
Episode 40 (The Triangle) Air Date: 12-20-1973
Episode 41 (The Awakening) Air Date: 01-03-1974
Episode 42 (The Honeymoon) Air Date: 01-10-1974
Episode 43 (The Heritage) Air Date: 01-17-1974
Episode 44 (The Gift) Air Date: 01-24-1974
Episode 45 (The Cradle) Air Date: 01-31-1974
Episode 46 (The Fulfillment) Air Date: 02-07-1974
Episode 47 (The Ghost Story) Air Date: 02-14-1974
Episode 48 (The Graduation) Air Date: 02-21-1974
Episode 49 (The Five Foot Shelf) Air Date: 03-07-1974
Episode 50 (The Car) Air Date: 03-14-1974

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The Waltons (Season 2) DVD.

At last, we can legally download movies from the internet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/03/business/03down.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

As always, the marketing spiel sounds good at first.
You can download the same day the DVD is released.
It will cost $20-$30. You can download it before it appears in rental shops.
Studios believe that we want to own our own copies of movies - Correct “The internet…is a viable method of distributing our content”; President of Universal Pictures - Correct

Why it will fail
“CinemaNow will only allow the movies to be played only on a single computer”
“Movielink will allow the movie to be copied onto a DVD, from which the movie can be downloaded to two other computers, but it cannot be played on a conventional DVD player.
Movies will also not play on handheld players.

So I can pay for the DVD, in much the same way as I would if buying it in a store, and can then only play it on my computer. Are they insane? The lifetime of a DVD is almost infinitely more than that of a computer. I would speculate that few of us still use a computer that we had in 2003 - am I right? Whereas I’ve got videos and DVDs pre-dating 2003 by many years and intend to keep them for many more years, that was the whole point of buying them in the first place. This has to be a classic case of not thinking something through and simply rushing to market to be seen as a “player”. The hare has lost already and the tortoise will be triumphant.

It gets worse. The downloaded movies are [a] more expensive than if purchased in the store and [b] do not contain the bonus footage on the store DVDs. So where is the incentive for me to download a movie again? I’ve forgotten. Furthermore, where are the savings that a realised in online distribution (through not producing DVDs for a start) passed on to the consumer? How on earth did the price manage to increase?

I don’t think this will fly, it will be interesting to see if I’m proved wrong.

Who am I? Why choose to work with me?

My background and experience is mainly project management within diverse environments such as large corporate financial institutions, medium-sized technology consultancies and smaller start-ups. Having held positions including Operations Director (COO) and Head of Process Management, I recently decided that the time is right to take a calculated risk and leave corporate life for good…the entrepreneurial side of my character is prevailing.

My focus is on becoming an “Un-natural Entrepreneur”. I want to work with people and companies that have vision. I can offer key values and skills to help bring your ideas to fruition. If you are a “starter”, then I am your “finisher”. My approach to a challenge is to clarify, understand, problem-solve, develop and deliver.

To take an idea or concept through from its inception to its execution requires a consultative approach - a partnership. I am a rational and pragmatic thinker and can work within an existing management structure, or create a new management team through my extensive network

I awoke today with the view of attaining new employment after an uneventful couple of years working in the internationally renowned NHS. This globally recognised and revered institution is a mainstay of life in Britain. But alas, instead of plunging into the depths of the local press and seemingly endless archives of vacancies listed on the world wide web, I find myself glued, no, hang on, mentally and physically dependant on what appears on the TV screen in my very home.

This of course is another of Britain’s most loved institutions, daytime television. I find myself powerless to resist the need to find out whose baby it really is and which man (and I use this term loosely), the woman (I use this term looser still), will chose to stand by her to raise the imminent financial and emotional burden in the form of a little human being, more commonly known in these circles as a ‘baybee’. I use the terms man and woman loosely due to the fact that these people rarely are men and women, more often they are children themselves. They present themselves readily to the anticipating viewers to pour out their under-developed emotions on shows with titles such as ‘Who’s the father, my lover or my ex. DNA Results.’ Or my favourite from today’s offerings ‘My fiancé sold my engagement ring to buy lager’. No seriously, that was the title of today’s show.

I now realise that all my years at work have prevented me from making the most of televisions daytime gifts to the public in the form of these slick but predictable productions. They are predictable due to the presenters of these shows. There seems to be a few phrases that work in every situation and are consistently regurgitated in each of these shows, such as, “you need to be true to yourself”, “you need to respect each other” and not forgetting the inevitable “you need to get help/we have people that can help you”. These presenters parade themselves around our screens in their ‘holier than thou’ manner informing their guests what their problems are and how to solve them.

If this is the case then please inform me why the producers are showing clips of them on the same show in an earlier episode? I’ll tell you why, because we can’t get enough of it. Why make one show when you can make two, or three or four? The viewers take great pleasure from each new twist in the tale, every new chapter in the book of this sixteen year olds eventful life. This of course broadens the cast with each visit to the studio. Episode two, along comes the enthusiastically vocal sister (you know the one, with the massive hoop earrings and green earlobes). Episode three, we meet the inevitably obese mother, wearing her Thursday night Bingo outfit. By episode four you would expect to meet the father. This rarely occurs due to the fact that he got out as soon as he could he could while ‘kayleigh’ was still in mum’s ‘belly’. I am starting to strongly believe that the only reason these people keep coming back is so that everyone in the family can finally discover what it feels like to stay in the sophisticated surroundings of a hotel.

It appears that the only nights spent away from home for these people is at the expense of their local constabulary, or quite often at the pleasure of the person with whom they were engaged in sexual relations with that landed them on the show in the first place. This leads me nicely onto the subject of the men, or boys as they are more commonly referred to.

These men, not often out of their teenage years sit slumped in a chair, centre stage, swathed in gold, torn jeans and polo shirts with the buttons undone and the collars put up. The epitome of British youth, with their ‘undercut’ hairstyles (this is when the hair on top is long with the back and sides shaved) and patchy beards they proceed to sell themselves for the job of father. This is usually backed up with statements including the phrases “£200 a fortnight from the social” and “more when the ‘baybee’ arrives”. The point here is that these lads are never prepared for the duties of fatherhood and seem to think the only factor a child depends on is financial security which the government will provide because he can’t be bothered. Of course, once prompted, the subject of love will rear its head and the boy will wholeheartedly agree that he will love the child like it was his own. Which it may well be depending on the forthcoming DNA test results.

Once the boy has had his say it is time for the next boy to emerge to the audiences boo’s and heckling, and lunge in an uncommitted fashion for the first boy. This requires the need for the unnecessarily burly studio security to step forward in a timely manner to prevent the ensuing furore. I wish that for one time they would sit back and see if the brash, swaggering child would actually follow through with his hollow attack or hastily make out it was a rush to his chair on the realisation that the security were not going to jump in to stop either of them getting hurt. Once the initial apelike meeting is over it’s time to discuss who loves the sixteen year old more. This brings on a whole host of bleeping to disguise the lads fruitful, if not sophisticated vocabulary. When this short episode is complete it is finally time to meet the woman at the centre of this battle.

She is young and pregnant, a mirror image of her mother at the same age. She wears enough gold to sell and provide for her upcoming family for many weeks. Above all else she is an embarrassment. Not only to herself, but her family, everyone she has ever known and all the residents of the town she lives in. Actually, she is an embarrassment to me. To think that I come from the same great land that provides these people. I come from the same education system, she is my generation! She knowingly puts herself on national television to promote the fact that she has had unprotected sex with more than one person which has landed her with a child, and possibly a few STD’s judging by the boys records. This is not acceptable!

These people don’t need publicity, they need punishment. Not in the form of beating or jail, they need to be made to conform to a way of life that they always seem to resent. When an audience member asks if employment is a possibility to rebuild their shattered young lives they are usually met with grunts to the effect of “I aint gonna work ‘cos I’m ‘aving a baybee”. Instead these girls truly believe that a fulfilling existence requires a double buggy, a weekly trip to the post office and a boy, or two, with whom to sleep or argue, depending on how the mood takes them. These people could be successfully utilised through home working arrangements or work place training, with a crche of course. I’m not suggesting slavery, just a benefits system that relies on effort and results from the beneficiary rather than one based on a belief that this land owes these people a comfortable life for very little input.

But going back to the point of the success of these daytime chat shows, the reason they are so successful lies within the fact that we can nearly all see a bit of ourselves in these situations. We’ve all had arguments and times when we seriously want to hurt someone close to us. We just choose to settle these matters in the privacy of our own homes, but these days it seems that there is a television schedule that can put things right for us. Like it or not, have you always been true to yourself? Have you always heaped respect on everyone you have ever known? If not, you are a perfect candidate for daytime TV. You, like me should be on that phone booking your appearance. Maybe I’ll see you at the hotel.

I’m Russell Elmes, an author in the early stages of what I hope will become a career. This is my first attempt at writing seriously and hope that some of you reading this can point out my downfalls and my good points (russelmes@yahoo.co.uk). I live on the 14th floor of a council owned tower block in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, and hope that living in the situation I do can inspire me to journalise the life of an average citizen in England. I am now unemployed (short-term I hope) and would therefore appreciate any publishing offers (lol). Hope you enjoy my work, and please look out for more articles by me soon.

Nominated for 3 Emmys and 18 Gemini Awards, including five straight for Best Comedy Series, The Kids In The Hall is a legendary sketch comedy troupe whose hilarious skits have achieved cult icon status among comedy aficionados. Named after famed comedian Jack Benny’s penchant for beginning a joke by saying, “I got this from the kids in the hall” (a line referring to amateur comedians outside his office), The Kids In The Hall formed in Canada in 1984. However, the group parted for a short time when members Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney were hired as writers for the NBC show Saturday Night Live. When the group reunited, SNL producer Lorne Michaels attended a Kids In The Hall performance and loved what he saw. He had an instant vision of the group in its own sketch comedy series, and in 1988, The Kids In The Hall premiered on HBO…

The Kids In The Hall took full bloom in the late-1980s/early-1990s when the success of Saturday Night Live made sketch comedy a hot commodity. In this atmosphere, new series like In Living Color, MADtv, and The Kids In The Hall, were ripe for breakout success. Sporting a small regular cast of five (with extensive experience working together), The Kids In The Hall quickly gained a loyal and devoted audience. Cast members Dave Foley (later of Newsradio), Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson, for the most part, wrote their own material and performed their own sketches, providing the show with edge in creativity in regard to its contemporaries. This synergy between cast members and writers earned three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Writing in a Variety or Music Program (whew! that’s a long award title) and garnered The Kids In The Hall the credit and respect it deserves as one of the premiere sketch comedy shows in television history…

The Kids In The Hall DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the series premiere in which the cast perform a number of skits such as Call Girls, The Eradicator, Ballet, The Head Crusher, and even one sketch which reveals the true cause of cancer… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include “#108″ with such skits as Ping Pong, The Vacation, Chain Gang, and Dinosaurs, and “#115″ with such skits as Death Row, Man Guy, Crazy Love, Buddy’s Island, and Mechanics…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Kids In The Hall (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (#101) Air Date: 10-24-1989
Episode 2 (#102) Air Date: 10-31-1989
Episode 3 (#103) Air Date: 11-07-1989
Episode 4 (#104) Air Date: 11-14-1989
Episode 5 (#105) Air Date: 11-21-1989
Episode 6 (#106) Air Date: 12-05-1989
Episode 7 (#107) Air Date: 12-12-1989
Episode 8 (#108) Air Date: 12-19-1989
Episode 9 (#109) Air Date: 01-02-1990
Episode 10 (#110) Air Date: 01-09-1990
Episode 11 (#111) Air Date: 01-16-1990
Episode 12 (#112) Air Date: 01-23-1990
Episode 13 (#113) Air Date: 01-30-1990
Episode 14 (#114) Air Date: 04-03-1990
Episode 15 (#115) Air Date: 04-10-1990
Episode 16 (#116) Air Date: 04-17-1990
Episode 17 (#117) Air Date: 04-24-1990
Episode 18 (#118) Air Date: 05-01-1990
Episode 19 (#119) Air Date: 05-08-1990
Episode 20 (#120) Air Date: 05-15-1990
Episode 21 (#121) Air Date: 05-22-1990

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The Kids In The Hall (DVD).

Plot points are linear links that make up the chain of traditional Aristotelian 3-act dramatic structure. This classic structure worked well in Hollywood for almost a century now. Although young movie makers are forcing the limits of this structure, plot points still rule the day as the “tent poles” that hold up of the circus of our dreams. Here are the plot points of Dead of Winter (1987), as I see them.

Dead of Winter (1987)

STARRING: Mary Steenburgen (Julie Rose/Katie McGovern/Evelyn), Roddy McDowall (Mr. Murray), Jan Rubes (Dr. Joseph Lewis)
DIRECTED BY: Arthur Penn
WRITERS: Marc Shmuger & Mark Malone

PROTAGONIST KATE’S DILEMMA: To succeed as an actor without starving for her art.

PROTAGONIST’S DESIRE: To run away from Dr. Joseph Lewis’s mansion.

HER CHIEF OBSTACLE: Fierce winter and lack of communication with the outside world.

ESTABLISHING SHOT: A lonely train station on a snowy winter night.

INCITING INCIDENT 1: A woman waiting for someone in a car with a suitcase full of money is murdered and then her middle finger is cut off.

INCITING INCIDENT 2: Kate, an aspiring actress, auditions with Mr. Murray and gets a job to replace a lead actor in a film currently shot up in Canada.

PLOT POINT 1: Mr. Murray delivers Kate’s videotaped audition tape to an unknown woman’s house.

MID POINT EVENT: Kate realizes she is actually held hostage in Dr. Joseph Lewis’s mansion.
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PLOT POINT 2: After being drugged one night, Kate wakes up the next morning with her middle finger cut off.

3rd ACT RESOLUTION: Kate kills both Mr. Murray and Dr. Joseph Lewis and wins back her freedom.

Anxious to follow up on the massive commercial and critical success of Beauty And The Beast, Disney created another animated masterpiece with Aladdin. Although not nearly as successful in terms of critical acclaim as the aforementioned film, or later Disney creations such as The Lion King and Finding Nemo, Aladdin is nevertheless just as entertaining and probably the funniest of all the animated Disney features. With the voice of Robin Williams leading the way, the film is a non-stop foray into the timeless fantasy world of A Thousand And One Arabian Nights spliced together with the rapier-like wit and quick-fire humor of one of America’s most talented comic performers…

The film takes place hundreds of years ago in the windswept sands of the kingdom of Agrabah, where a young street urchin named Aladdin wanders the streets, stealing and hustling for survival. Along the way, he’s joined by his loyal companion Abu, a clever and enterprising monkey. Yet, in stark contrast to the poverty-ridden streets below, the lustrous facade of a massive palace towers high above the urban world of Aladdin. Inside, the Sultan of Agrabah lives a carefree life of opulence and luxury with his beautiful daughter Jasmine and a cunning, ambitious adviser named Jafar.

Forced to spend her days inside the palace walls, the headstrong Princess Jasmine sneaks out in order to experience the world around her. During this dangerous trek through the streets of her kingdom, the girl befriends Aladdin who is immediately awestruck by her beauty. But when Princess Jasmine’s escape is brought to the attention of Jafar and her father, she is quickly rounded up, and Aladdin is thrown in prison. Hoping to seize the kingdom for himself, Jafar enlists the aid of Aladdin in an effort to obtain a fabled magic lamp, the purported powers of which are unlimited. Legend has it that only a “diamond in the rough” is capable of retrieving the lamp from the Cave of Wonders. All others will be swallowed whole by the endless sands of the desert.

When Aladdin fails in Jafar’s quest, he is left for dead. But he soon discovers the mysterious lamp and the blue genie who resides within. Granting Aladdin the ultimate power of three wishes (with certain conditions such as not wishing for more wishes or wishing for someone to fall in love with you), the genie transforms Aladdin into a powerful Prince, thus making him eligible to marry Princess Jasmine. Riding into Agrabah at the helm of a triumphant parade, only Jafar knows the true secret of Aladdin’s identity and his success, and he’s determined to scheme and connive until he gains control of the magic lamp himself…

Aside from Robin Williams, this film is easily forgettable. With him, Aladdin is transformed into a legendary blockbuster hit. In fact, the later appearances of comic voices in animated films such as Shrek (Mike Myers and Eddie Murphy), Mulan (Eddie Murphy), Finding Nemo (Ellen DeGeneres), and The Lion King (Nathan Lane & Whoopi Goldberg) can most likely be traced back to the overwhelmingly positive audience reaction to Robin Williams and the comic relief his blue genie provided. This once overlooked aspect of the animated film has since become a staple, and Aladdin is the reason why. In addition, the film boasts a beautiful soundtrack that gave birth to the chart-topping hit “A Whole New World”. Fun for children and adults alike, Aladdin is the perfect film for those who enjoy creativity, humor, and a great story…

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Aladdin (DVD).

The preeminent show of the 1990’s decade, Seinfeld grew from an idea of “a show about nothing” into a sacred pop culture icon, not that there’s anything wrong with that… The show follows the life of comedian Jerry Seinfeld and the exploits of his “short, quirky, bald guy” best friend, George Costanza (Jason Alexander), Jerry’s neurotic neighbor Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards), and Jerry’s ex-girlfriend Elaine (Julia Louis-Dreyfus). Through the years, they’re joined by a loveable cast of characters that includes Newman, Uncle Leo, the Soup Nazi, Frank and Estelle Costanza, the Bubble Boy, and countless others…

The Seinfeld (Season 3) DVD offers some of the best episodes in the series, with classic lines such as “I think it moved” (episode 18) and “These pretzels are making me thirsty” (episode 28). The third season also includes the famous two part episode guest-starring Keith Hernandez (episodes 34 & 35), where Jerry explains his theory of “the second spitter” while contemplating the depth of his male relationship with Keith. Other memorable episodes include Jerry’s encounter with an overzealous library cop named Bookman (episode 22), the one where George has sex with the cleaning woman (episode 29), the famous pez dispenser show (episode 31), and an entire episode where Jerry, George, Kramer, and Elaine wander through the mind-numbing labyrinth of a parking garage in a feeble attempt to find their car (episode 23)…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Seinfeld (Season 3) DVD:

Episode 18 (The Note) Air Date: 09-18-1991
Episode 19 (The Truth) Air Date: 09-25-1991
Episode 20 (The Pen) Air Date: 10-02-1991
Episode 21 (The Dog) Air Date: 10-09-1991
Episode 22 (The Library) Air Date: 10-16-1991
Episode 23 (The Parking Garage) Air Date: 10-30-1991
Episode 24 (The Cafe) Air Date: 11-06-1991
Episode 25 (The Tape) Air Date: 11-13-1991
Episode 26 (The Nose Job) Air Date: 11-20-1991
Episode 27 (The Stranded) Air Date: 11-27-1991
Episode 28 (The Alternate Side) Air Date: 12-04-1991
Episode 29 (The Red Dot) Air Date: 12-11-1991
Episode 30 (The Subway) Air Date: 01-08-1992
Episode 31 (The Pez Dispenser) Air Date: 01-15-1992
Episode 32 (The Suicide) Air Date: 01-29-1992
Episode 33 (The Fix-Up) Air Date: 02-05-1992
Episode 34 (The Boyfriend 1) Air Date: 02-12-1992
Episode 35 (The Boyfriend 2) Air Date: 02-12-1992
Episode 36 (The Limo) Air Date: 02-26-1992
Episode 37 (The Good Samaritan) Air Date: 03-04-1992
Episode 38 (The Letter) Air Date: 03-25-1992
Episode 39 (The Parking Space) Air Date: 04-04-1992
Episode 40 (The Keys) Air Date: 05-06-1992

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Seinfeld (Season 3) DVD.

While you will soon be able to view movies in high definition on DVD right in your living room, there is a fight shaping up between two competitive formats — HD DVD and Blu-ray.

Toshiba leads the group committed to HD DVDs, which also includes consumer electronics manufacturers Sanyo and NEC. HBO, New Line Cinema, Paramount Home Entertainment, Universal Studios Home Entertainment and Warner Home Video are also in the HD DVD camp as are Intel and Microsoft, which recently announced that it has voted in favor of the HD DVD format.

Why is Microsoft supporting HD DVD?

Microsoft said it felt the 50GB version of Blu-ray was “nowhere in sight,” giving the 30GB HD DVD the capacity advantage for the time being. Microsoft also said HD DVD guarantees a feature they want called “manage copy,” which lets a computer user copy a high def movie to a computer hard drive to it can be beamed around the house.

Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sharp, Pioneer and LG Electronics support Blu-ray. So do PC makers Dell, HP and Apple Computer; video game maker Electronics Arts; and entertainment companies Twentieth Century Fox, Vivendi Universal and Walt Disney.

These Blu-ray supporters say in response that 50GB disks will arrive in the spring, that HD DVD has no advantage in the manage copy area and it has a hybrid disk technology as well.

Who’s winning this war?

At this point, neither HD DVD nor Blu-ray is winning the war. You, as a consumer, will have to gamble your investment in disk players and video collections on which format will prevail. Studios and video rental stores that will have to maintain duplicate high definition movies in the two formats worry that one format might have all the content consumers want. And electronics retailers will have to carry and explain the different formats.

It’s sort of like Beta vs. VHS except, in this case, there may not be a clear winner for years.

You should also know about HD Radio. This amazing, new, digital technology makes AM sound as good as FM and FM sound almost like you were listening to a CD … and its free! To learn more about this amazing new technology, just go my Web site, http://www.hd-radio-home.com, to get all the buzz. Douglas Hanna is a retired marketing executive and the author of numerous articles on HD radio and family finances.

Monday, February 27, 2006

This column is dedicated to those thuggish gangstas who relocate from inner city schools to “country” schools much like mine in years past. “Whas’ up yo!” Okay, some of these kids have roots in the city. But, we’re not going to go as far as to grant them total street cred since many are from gangsta paradises such as Long Island and suburban New Jersey. Just because you move to the country from a “city” doesn’t grant you the gangsta lean that you think you somehow deserve. Come on.

If your parents hadn’t been worried about your upbringing and getting your ass kicked everyday by real thugs, they would have never moved you away from the city to begin with. And if you really were so “hard”, why the hell would you have to leave the city? Couldn’t you fight your own battles in the “streets?” Whatever the case, the bottom line was these kids were mostly phonies. You have the saggy pants, two strap backpack wearing kid who draws amateur graffiti with sharpie pens on his sneakers and clothing. So by creating “tags” with bubble letters you are proving to us that you grew up in the worst circumstances in the “hood? Jackasses like Vanilla Ice and Marky Mark just reinforced the image.

Real disadvantaged youth from hellholes like Compton and Watts existed on MTV and deserved all the credibility in the world, but then there were also the phony white kids who acted all hard and transformed their “whitespeak” into a loose tongued southern-slang sounding mangling of the English language. “Whas’ up B?” The lanky white kid from the Garden State, yes, he worked on his father’s TOMATO farm in New Jersey and had migrated to the suburbs in the tri state area and had all of a sudden gained a “street” accent, and thought that he had qualified for Section 8. It just didn’t make any sense.

You cant’ “transform” yourself into a hardcore gangsta. If you weren’t forced to live that way due to your surroundings then you’re just a phony ass punk who deserves scorn. If only “Malibu’s Most Wanted” had been released about ten years earlier so that these dumbasses could have seen themselves on the big screen.

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