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High Def Delight

August 2nd, 2008

Another Netflix player! The LG BD300

We seem to be having a slew of Netflix players as of late, between the Roku and the Xbox 360.
The latest to the list is the LG BD300. Consumer Reports wrote up a brief post on it, as well as many other blogs, but the skinny is that it will cost something less than […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 0 comments

July 25th, 2008

Helvetica (Blu-ray) Review

I recently had the pleasure to watch the movie Helvetica in Blu-ray. The movie is a documentary on the life, history, use, and opinions surrounding the font of the same name.
I’m a font snob, so I loved it. If you can tell the difference between Arial and Helvetica, if you hold strong opinions […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 0 comments

June 30th, 2008

Ctrl-Z: Netflix Profiles are Back! Or, that is, won’t leave.

Like every other Netflix subscriber, I recently was told that Netflix Profiles would be going away, and that we would lose all of out ratings and queues stored in our non-primary profiles.
Today they did a Ctrl-Z (Command-Z for those Mac fans out there) after all of the outrage this caused: Netflix Profiles are here […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 1 comment

June 25th, 2008

Netflix on my PS3 or Xbox 360?

There have been some rumors floating around the net for a few months that the Netflix would be getting a dedicated player or console (i.e., PS3 or Xbox 360) player. This quieted down mostly after the Netflix Roku Instant Watcher was unveiled.
However, Netflix also has a “Future” portion on the “Netflix Ready Devices” section […]

By Christopher Swenson -- 0 comments

June 21st, 2008

Make It A Blockbuster Night…..I Don’t Think So

The other day I was at my resident Blockbuster picking up the newest and hopefully greatest (although not lately) and as I was browsing the candy I overheard something very disturbing.  The rewards program is changing.  That is right, I said changing.  For all those like me that purchased the membership so that you didn’t […]

By Tiff -- 0 comments