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About That New & Improved STTOS Shatner

shatner.jpgYou know, we keed, we keed Bill (Hunt, not Shat), but we’re following up on his Star Trek: The Original Series being remastered article on “The Bits.” He doesn’t write us, doesn’t return our calls. Sob! Here’s much more details, including pictures, from TV Guide. No news on a DVD release, but they will be on-air shortly, on Sept 16th to be exact…
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1996’s DVD Issues Foreshadowed HD Discs

Our good friends over at Twice revisit the launch of the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) format — and the roadmap to our current format war ™.
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Holy Crap! Third Format to Enter the Format Wars ™

We’re crying, we can’t think of anything to write. What kind of sick and demented world do we live it? Damn you, damn you all to hellll!
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Can Blu-ray Heat Up Hollywood Again?

Blu-RayThe LA Times delves into the whole format war ™. However, as stars (see Tom Cruise) and studios (see Paramount) are struggling, perhaps high-def DVD will save Hollywood.
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From Warner Bros.: European Launch of Blu-ray

Warner Home Video, which distributes the largest film library of any studio, announced today at IFA 2006 the company’s plans to release more than 10 high definition Blu-ray Disc titles in European markets. These countries include France , Germany , Spain and the UK . The initial films are expected to be available in late 2006 and represent a combination of recent hits and catalog favorites.
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Short Clicks: DVD Kibbles and Bits

  • Sony Delays Bluray Players Until October, giving HD-DVD player a six-month headstart. (ContactMusic)

  • Corel buy DVD authoring software, no one even knew the geniuses behind Corel Draw and Word Perfect were still around. (InfoWorld)

  • Toshiba Launches Qosmio G35 Laptop With Core 2 Duo and HD-DVD. (Gizmodo)

  • Toshiba introduces all-in-one multimedia DVD projector. (Digitimes)


  • Wha? DVD does some good? Report: DVD to help pupils succeed

    And somehow this doesn’t involve porn? Oh, it’s a British thing. Now i get it…
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    The Suki Hollywood Second: Peter

    peterskinny.jpgWelcome to the Suki Hollywood Second. Your quickest news source from the entertainment capital. Straight from Hollywood, California, here’s Suki:

    “Hey dumbass, Peter Jackson lost 350lbs on the Skull Island Diet…”

    And that has been your Suki Hollywood Second.


    The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

    peterfat.jpgThe Fake Life blog has a rundown of this week’s fresh DVDs, including Peter Jackson’s latest greatest super-duper edition of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (Theatrical and Extended Limited Edition). Boy, that fatboy is sure milking the Tolkien teet. After the dud-a-rama King Kong, he better over-deliver on his next film (and make sure it isn’t 4 hours long zzz). Or maybe he can remake Meet the Feebles with a 200 million dollar budget…
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    Lost Spoilers: Hanso Exposed Orientation Film

    Video Snack ™ after the jump…
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