Damn!  My PS3 just stopped reading movies and games today.  I was watching the awesome show True Blood on my PS3 when it took me back to the “menu”.  I tried playing it again and the tv was just black.  It seemed like the PS3 was trying to read the disk but couldn’t do it.  I tried ejecting the movie but the blue light just kept flickering.  I turned off the system from the back and turned it back on.  I was able to eject the disk.  I put it Underworld: Evolution and it said “invalid disc”.  …

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Just when I was praising Netflix last week, I got an e-mail from them telling me that my subscription is going up by $2 in late May.  They’re charging extra for Blu-ray.  This isn’t the first time they’ve done this, they started charging me an extra $1 per month in January.  So over a course of 6 months, the price will go up by $3.  By the end of May, instead of paying $14.99 ($1 Blu-ray fee included), I’ll be paying $16.99.

$3 raise in a course of 6 months is pretty damn ballsy for Netflix.  I was pissed at …

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Remember S.P.E.A.R., the emergency command center we talked about a long time ago?  Well, it’s back in the news, Phoenix New Times has done a 7 page article on the co-founder, Simon Rohrich.  Make sure to read it as it covers his machine and the nerdy activity he likes to do that can give you scars.  If you’re in the Phoenix area, the hard edition will be out tomorrow.  Yay for NERDS!…

A/V Receiver? Check.  5 speakers? Check.  Subwoofer? Check.  These are the main components for a surround system.  You might be happy with the way your system sounds right now, but here are some helpful products that will give you a better sound system: speaker wires and calibration disks.  More after the jump! …

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Imagine having a natural disaster in your community, like an earthquake or hurricane. You want to get aid from the government as soon as possible so they can give you shelter, food and help out the community. Currently, it can take several days to get relief from the government because it takes time setting up a command center. In terms of disasters, time = lives. The sooner the government can help, the more people will be saved. How would you like it if the prep time for a command center is cut down to minutes and operation in extreme …

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With HD DVD getting its ass kicked by Blu-Ray, some stores are having fire sales. One store in particular is Hollywood Video, selling their HD DVD’s for about $10 a piece or if you have a coupon 2/$15. So I went on an HD DVD binge and bought 6 movies, even ones I didn’t really like at the theatre. Yes, addiction is bad for you. Here we go:

1) Harry Potter and the Order of The Phoenix

Movie Rating: B +
This was the first time I saw it. Didn’t care much for the previous four but enjoyed this one. We …

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Eary this morning the AP confirmed what many already knew to be the case, that Blu Ray has won the DVD format war.  Toshiba will stop producing HD-DVD players and recorders:

Toshiba quits HD DVD business

By YURI KAGEYAMA, AP

Toshiba said Tuesday it will no longer develop, make or market HD DVD players and recorders, handing a victory to rival Blu-ray disc technology in the format battle for next-generation video.

“We concluded that a swift decision would be best,” Toshiba President Atsutoshi Nishida told reporters at his company’s Tokyo offices.

The move would make Blu-ray — backed by Sony Corp., …

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Warner Brothers on Friday announced they will Blu-Ray exclusive after May. A couple of days later, New Line, WB’s sister company also announced exclusivity to Blu. Yes, my fellow movie geeks, Lord of the Rings will only be released on Blu-Ray. With the recent announcements, only Universal and Paramount/Dreamworks have full support HD-DVD, while Blu-Ray has Disney, Fox, WB and of course Sony’s movie division, Columbia.

I am saddened by this news, I always thought WB was siding with HD. They released more titles on HD than Blu. Rumors circulated that Sony paid $500 million for the exclusivity. Same rumor also …

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So I was at a party and we were talking about a Sci-Fi TV show.  It somehow ended up to a conversation about how it’s geeky to be into spaceships and NASA and all that jazz.  So that got me thinking.  Why is being able to fly a space craft into space considered nerdy and not like the coolest thing in the world?

I wonder if people in the past century called Henry Ford nerdy for dreaming of a mass assembly automobile line? …

Everytime I see this preview, I want to go choke a bitch. Yes, Beowulf will be epic. Yes, it will look badass in IMAX 3D (just because it’s in 3D! Who would’ve thunk that!). But the one thing that will hinder me throughout the whole movie is pretty much unavoidable. You guessed it. It’s the fact that they’ve modeled thei 3D characters after the actors involved in it.…