Live action PORTAL game:
Behind the Scenes:
Rita Hayworth is Stayin’ Alive:
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World’s Longest Hot Dog (thanks Conan!):
Annoyed Picard quick meme:
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Blu-ray dead in 4 years
Just watched that “Portal” video again. That’s actually some pretty impressive shit right there. Especially if you’ve played the game and understand its confusinglinessness.
Whoa. When I saw you posting that, I thought it was an older Portal video I’d already seen, but nope. Never seen this one. That’s pretty amazing, especially since it appears to be all one take. I wonder how they did that?
Also, I’m not sure I entirely agree with the notion that Blu will be dead in 4 years. Streaming is certainly getting better but look at how long it took for “them” to finally kill off VHS.
Agreed. Also, more HD streaming overall will increase the chances of HD freezing because of increased traffic, I would think.
Not to mention price. Look at what Verizon is already doing with their data plans… up, up and away!
“Blu-ray dead in 4 years” says CEO of company that makes top set boxes that compete with blu-ray players! Of course he is going to say that.
He even tries to shoot down blu-ray players that stream content. When I bought a blu-ray player, I made sure it could stream content off my computer, as well as it has a 250 gig hard drive in it to store content.
These shifts take time and high bandwidth prices don’t help.
One thing that should be mentioned, Blu-ray can’t do frame rates higher than 30fps at 1080p. Also, most HDTV’s would need to up their refresh rates to hit those frame rates as well.
Not sure how that will effect home video or theatrical releases. But could prove very interesting once The Hobbit ends its theatrical run.
VHS has been a dead medium for something like 15-20 years. Dead does not mean you have to wait for them to not make any more discs, it just means the format is no longer supported. Blu still has a long ways to go to surpass DVD in terms of support and sales, so it has a huge uphill battle to climb to stay relevant, especially since its looking like sooner rather than later that consoles are going to stop supporting physical media.
I still watch VHS
We still use the VCR, but increasingly less these days. The kids do like their netflix instead of those old videos.
Note the date of this article:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/nyregion/for-some-new-york-immigrants-vhs-is-king-for-movie-rentals.html?pagewanted=all
Also, I read somewhere that the the number of titles put out on DVD is still only about 60% of the number of titles put out on VHS.
Yep. We had another one of our ‘weekends of trash’ last weekend and ‘classics’ like Slaughter in San Francisco (starring a young Chuck Norris as the lead bad guy) and Albert Pyun’s ‘Arcade’ aren’t available on DVD as far as I can tell.
DVD has only led the industry for about 10 years, VHS dominated for close to 20.
But I still call foul on that number as true Indie films come out pretty much every minute on DVD and those rarely saw the light of day with VHS. The cost of independent production has dropped dramatically so that anyone can produce and distribute a film now.
Kurt can keep claiming Scott Pilgrim is a figment of his imagination but that doesn’t make it fucking true.
Plus, everyone knows VHS is the only proper way to watch The Trilogy.
Well, VHS is the proper way to watch VIDEODROME.