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Published on Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 2:12am |
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FIREFLY!! GALAXINA!! AMERICAN PSYCHO!! FIRST BLOOD!! Herc's HDTV Cellar!!
SED Said To Be In the Wings?
Still wondering to go Cathode, Plasma or LCD for your first or next HD set? Tvweek.com has an interesting piece about a fourth choice, something called SED (or surface-conduction electron-emitter display) that avoids the pitfalls of these other technologies. Read more of this here.
Shiny!! ‘Firefly’ To UHD!! Still no word on when we’re getting our first HD season-set or how much it’ll cost. Will Fox charge $150 per season (like it did when it first offered a season of “The X-files” on DVD six years ago) or more like $25 per season (as it has for “X-Files” much more recently)?
While we wait for our favorite series (or at least the ones shot on 35mm – sorry, “Jeffersons” and “Barney Miller” fans!) to be issued in 1080p, Tvweek.com reveals that every episode of Joss Whedon’s “Firefly” is being remastered to 1080i and will start broadcasting on the Universal HD channel starting Sept. 24.
There is a tiny bit of symmetry to this, since “Firefly’s” big-screen sequel, “Serenity” was the first-ever movie to be issued in HD-DVD.
Where’s The Porn?? Doesn’t everybody say porn drives every new format? Well, if I’m not mistaken, the only thing HBO and Showtime WON’T give us in HD are Mistae Munday and the rest of those nakedly cavorting late-night splooge-fests!
Same with HD-DVD and Blu-ray. Both formats have been around for months now, but the closest thing we get to spermatozoa-bait is Halle Berry in “Swordfish” and Phoebe Cates in “Fast Times”?
With muted enthusiasm I note that the late Star 80 Dorothy Stratten’s Galaxina (1980) is finally due to squeeze onto shelves Sept. 12. Let’s hope the better porn – perhaps a production or two younger than a quarter-century - lurks right behind it. If you know what I mean.
Herc’s HD Pic of the Week!!
Learn that black and white movies look just as spectacular as the color ones in HD!! Good Night and Good Luck, the tale of Murrow vs. McCarthy, pulled down six Oscar nominations. More importantly, it pulled down 95 percent positive reviews on rottentomatoes.com.
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Reader Talkback
first!
by newc0253 | Aug 8th, 2006
03:07:46 AM | Is it really that hard to
design a dvd cover???
by Shermdawg | Aug 8th, 2006
03:15:09 AM | dunno where Herc is looking,
but I'm seeing HD-porn
by crayotic | Aug 8th, 2006
03:15:34 AM | Jessica Alba + Hi Def =
by redtom | Aug 8th, 2006
03:53:16 AM | HD porn...
by 24200124 | Aug 8th, 2006
07:31:27 AM | But, there hasn't been a
LOT of HD porn.
by MattCG | Aug 8th, 2006
08:06:24 AM | My Girlfriend & I Rubbed Two
Out Last Night
by BlankGeneration | Aug 8th, 2006
09:06:55 AM | THE BLUE STAR !?!
by Messy_Dwarf | Aug 8th, 2006
09:21:29 AM | Been talking about SED for
ages
by half vader | Aug 8th, 2006
09:54:58 AM | do you really want to see porn
stars in HD?
by zer0cool2k2 | Aug 8th, 2006
10:11:06 AM | Yeah AICN needs an HD porn
section...
by torpor_haze | Aug 8th, 2006
11:10:31 AM | HD porn yeah!
by redshirt | Aug 8th, 2006
11:43:28 AM | The Reasoning Behind Bad DVD
Covers
by Froduss | Aug 8th, 2006
12:18:41 PM | Shiny!
by Flickerhead | Aug 8th, 2006
01:57:36 PM | I have HD porn...
by Frank Black | Aug 8th, 2006
05:06:28 PM | Usually I'm an early
adopter, but I'm holding
out...
by lynxpro | Aug 8th, 2006
06:06:13 PM |
by lynxpro | Aug 8th, 2006
06:07:41 PM | Custom DVD covers
by timgonmad | Aug 9th, 2006
04:10:04 PM | Know who stars in Young Guns,
according to Amazon.com?
by LlGHTST0RMER | Aug 9th, 2006
05:54:19 PM | BIG HIT Blu-Ray
by Harry Weinstein | Aug 9th, 2006
11:12:17 PM | Keep the H.364 faith, Lynxpro!
by half vader | Aug 12th, 2006
03:50:11 AM | I was SURE I typed a 2
by half vader | Aug 13th, 2006
02:48:17 AM |
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