Slog - Comments on A Couple of Weeks in Geek

Comment by Mr. Poe

Mr. Poe — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:07:26 -0800

Blu-ray has won. 100%. They have Blockbuster, Hollywood Video, Target, et al. It's over for HD-DVD.

Comment by The General

The General — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:20:22 -0800

zomg.

That Lego man thing KILLS ME! I love it.

Comment by Stephanie

Stephanie — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:34:51 -0800

"Finally! - TSMC says MSFT to use 90nm DRAM process for Xbox! Just thought you should know."

I just cried laughing.

Comment by Peter

Peter — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:37:12 -0800

never mind hyperstereo -- here's Seattle in gigapixel form, as presented earlier this month at Siggraph:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5UUrxL_2t0

Comment by Jonathan Golob

Jonathan Golob — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:53:27 -0800

Anthony,

I've been really pleased my homebrew mythtv box. Commercial skipping + DVD archiving of shows >= TiVo.

Comment by ka_chunk

ka_chunk — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:02:30 -0800

We just got TiVo HD, & if you have Comcast, you're in for nothing but problems. We've called them three times in less than one day because they can't seem to figure out how to activate the CABLEcards. So if anyone out there gets one, take the day off & prepare to talk to people who admit they don't know what they're doing.

Comment by Tiffany

Tiffany — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:19:49 -0800

MythTV is nice, but no cablecard means no recording of HD sources that are protected by the cable company. Personally, I'm waiting until Vista w/ cablecard machines start to come down in price, because the Tivo cannot play my digital music collection.

Comment by and

and — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:24:46 -0800

i have that comcast/motorola box too and it sucks. the only good box i ever got was from dishnetwork, but they didnt have the channels i want. so now i refuse to have anyone unless i can get project runway canada.

Comment by Darcy

Darcy — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:28:10 -0800

and like all 25-year-olds, it�s best days are behind it and it will soon be dead

Ouch, that smarts.

Comment by COMTE

COMTE — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:36:12 -0800

Well, the Taser C2 is certainly no Bowel Disruptor, but what the hey...

Comment by ProxyMoxie

ProxyMoxie — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:53:08 -0800

@1 what are you talking about Target sells HD-DVD. Unless you're referring to that myth floating around digg that confused aisle end-cap displays for blu-ray with some kind of "exclusive" deal.

oh, and fuck sony. ftw.

Comment by Jobetta

Jobetta — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:36:40 -0800

I love the reference to the EIGHT-FOOT legoman being "life-sized."