Online Photo Finishers
Below is a brief factual comparison of each of the major services based on information provided on their respective websites. The comparison examines the printing process, paper brand/types, and location. Direct quotes are used where possible. Kodak Gallery/OfotoPrinting Process: "We develop our prints with the same silver halide process used by 35mm photo labs. In addition, we use a patent-pending system for analysis and processing of each image needing correction. We print your photos on high-quality Kodak paper, a resin-coated, silver-halide color paper optimized for digital printers. A light source inside our digital printers exposes the photographic paper pixel by pixel. This process mimics traditional photography, in which light from the subject exposes photographic film inside of a camera." Paper Brand/Type: "We print all our photos on high-quality Kodak paper using state-of-the-art printers." Location: California dotPhotoPrinting Process: "dotPhoto uses state-of-the-art silver halide chemical process digital printers designed for professional photo finishers. These printers, combined with dotPhoto's proprietary imaging technology, result in the best possible prints from your digital camera." Paper Brand/Type: "dotPhoto uses a true photographic process to create your prints. Real photographic paper (just like that used in your local 1-hour film developer) is exposed in this state-of-the-art digital printer. The paper is then developed using photographic chemicals. The result is you receive real photographic prints. dotPhoto uses Fuji Crystal Archive paper for our photo prints. We believe this paper and the finishing process we currently use offer the best combination of image quality and stability, color, sharpness and fade resistance for our amateur and professional customers. Fuji Crystal Archive paper is known for its vivid colors (deeper reds, clearer yellows, more natural skin tones), along with more brilliant whites and clear and detailed highlights. Fuji Crystal Archive is also known for prints that resist fading for generations." Location: New Jersey SnapfishPrinting Process: "The prints processed are in RA-4 chemistry with separate bleach and fix and fresh water wash. While we employ printers that use lasers to expose digital images on the photographic paper, this is quite different from a laser printer that uses dry toner. Digital prints are true photographic prints. Lasers are used to expose the digital image on to the paper in place of an optical projection through a negative, which would be employed in traditional photo printing. The prints are exactly the same as prints from film. These have state-of-the-art image stability that are of archival quality. There's improved light stability - Over 100 years before noticeable fading in typical home display - significantly improved dark stability - Over 200 years before noticeable fading in the most common home storage conditions and bold, bright colors that last longer." Paper Brand/Type: "Snapfish prints on top quality HP and Fuji paper." Location: San Francisco, CA ShutterflyPrinting Process: "Shutterfly uses a silver-halide process similar to traditional photofinishing labs. Shutterfly uses state-of-the-art Fuji Frontier digital printers designed for professional photofinishers. These printers expose Fuji's Crystal Archive photographic paper using red, green, and blue lasers to produce the sharpest prints available. The exposed photographic paper is chemically processed in the same way as in traditional photo labs. These printers, combined with Shutterfly's proprietary imaging technology, result in the best possible prints from your pictures." Paper Brand/Type: "We use Fuji Crystal Archive paper, so your images will be crystal clear and bursting with rich, full colors, and sharp, crisp whites. And they’ll stay looking great for a lifetime. Fuji Crystal Archive is a resin-based paper that is noted for its unmatched archival quality. It has long been considered the finest color photographic paper available and is the choice of professional photographers and commercial labs." Location: North Carolina
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iPhone Update Complete
The process took approximately ten minutes. It included an yellow spash screen that said "Please connect to iTunes" even though I was already connected. It was followed up by a firmware update and re-activation.
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Chinese Democracy Coverart
According to the Wikipedia article on Chinese Democracy, the coverart for the CD has been developed. On September 24, 2007, legendary artwork designer Neville Garrick confirms that he has worked on the coverart album cover for Chinese Democracy in April 2007. Its worth noting that there is no cited source for this information. In addition, a search around the web shows that many fans have developed their own coverart in anticipation of the CD. Labels: Guns N' Roses
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Like Finding $20 in Your Pocket
 "I shoot 35." It feels good to say it again.I recently dusted off my Minolta Maxxum STsi and photographed a college football game. Sure, it may not be a Nikon or a Canon, but it does its job. It was my first SLR and, while seven years old, still works perfectly. Why am I waxing philosophic about the days of film? It seems I had forgotten what made me fall in love with photography in the first place. I love the subtlety of film that digital can't capture. Photoshop can do wonders for digital photos to achieve these effects, but I still prefer film if quality matters. Don't get me wrong, digital is my starting quarterback for its convenience, economics, and "development" time. Still, there's something special about the anticipation of developing the film. The instant gratification of digital is left to the mind's eye and only you, the photographer, know what you captured. Take a look around the web...visit Fuji's site and Kodak's site...and take in the differences among the film emulsions. Some have more contrast; some have less. Others have vivid colors, and some are perfect for shooting weddings or portraits. With digital, you lose these subtleties that make shooting film exciting. My current favorites are Kodak's Ultra Color 400UC and 400VC for everything but sports. These films have the extra pop that lends "something different" to your photos that cannot be captured with digital. For sports, I shoot mostly Fuji's Superia 800 and and Fujicolor Pro 800Z. In the coming weeks, I plan to experiment and shoot a variety of films outside of their typical uses. I'd like to try Kodak 400UC and 400VC on the football field. I am also going to shoot a roll of Fuji Superia 1600. I am not a pro by any means. I aspire to be one though. At this point, I consider myself to be a educated consumer. Perhaps you might even call me a "pro-sumer." In fact my first digital camera was the Canon Pro 90 IS, which I almost pulled out for the college game. My other gear includes the aforementioned Minolta Maxxum, a 4 megapixel Canon SD400 Digital Elph, and a 6 megapixel Canon Sd630 Digital Elph. I have the itch for some new gear. I am thinking of trying Nikon for the first time. The Nikon D40 looks great (the D40x is slower and more expensive) as does the Canon Digital Rebel XTi. The film-based Canon EOS Elan 7ne SLR Camera has caught my eye as well. Shutterbug is my favorite photography magazine and Ken Rockwell's site is unmatched. I buy my film from Adorama and Camulet Photo. I buy my cameras from Amazon. Image: Minolta Maxxum STsi, 75-300mm telephoto zoom, Kodak Ultra Max 800, f/11, 1/1000
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The Game Plan
The name of the character played by The Rock is "Joe Kingman." This smells like a play on words to me... Joe Kingman -> Joe-king man -> Joking Man
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How To: Create an Amazon MP3 Playlist in iTunes
Want to create a playlist of all of your soongs purchased from Amazon MP3? Every song purchased from Amazon MP3 contains a song ID in the ID3 Comment Tag. Simply create an iTunes Smart Playlist rule that matches the Comment tag/field to "Amazon" using the "Contains" selection criteria. Here is an example: 
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Photo: Axl With Sebastian Bach
Amazon MP3 Store Experience
The Being Lead Down a Path FeelingI don't like when I feel like things are out of control. While Amazon seemingly takes every step to explain what is happening, I still felt the setup was invasive. When you click "Buy MP3," you are urged to download their Downloader Application. It auto-detected that I was on a Mac (nice touch), and forced me to close Safari (not so nice because I had other tabs open). Installation of the app requires double-clicking an icon which is not so mac-like. I prefer the Mac way of dragging my applications into the Applications folder. Amazon's installer does add it to the folder though. You then choose a credit card, which automatically becomes your default payment method and default one-click payment method (whether you use one-click or not). The only way to change your payment method in the future is to edit your one-click settings. This is not clearly displayed or identified, with no readily accessible options to change your default payment method. It took some digging on their page to find an explanation, although I assumed this was the way they were doing it from the start. You have to login to your normal Amazon account to change your one-click settings. Free Song?I noticed in Amazon's help files that there was a mention of a free song during the setup process. At this point, I haven't confirmed it, but I believe that the first purchase is free in exchange for downloading the Amazon MP3 Downloader. My receipt says I was charged for the song though. By the way, the song was Billy Idol's Cradle of Love. Auto-ImportsBy default, my purchased music was added to my iTunes Library with Coverart. New DiscoveriesI actually discovered some music that I was previously unaware existed. Slash, Duff, and Izzy are featured on a CD entitled, Anxious Disease. Amazon's search feature works quite well in this regard. Impact on iTunesThis service and every other music download service are the indirect result of the decisions Steve Jobs has made over the years with iTunes and the iPod. Amazon's service is the only one that seemingly does everything perfect...DRM free...~256k VBR MP3s...all starting at $.89. This is too good to be true. It won't harm Apple though. Apple lives in an inverse world where it makes money selling razors (iPods), not the blades (songs). OverallAside from the "being lead down a path feeling" of the initial setup, the experience was quite good. In fact, Amazon MP3 will become the first place I look for new tracks. iTunes will remain my jukebox and will probably service the bulk of my purchases due to its sheer volume of songs.
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Amazon MP3 Store
Amazon has launched a public beta of its MP3 Store. Amazon MP3 Open for Public Beta
3:04 AM PDT, September 25, 2007
We're extremely happy to announce we've launched a public beta of Amazon MP3, our new digital music service. You're officially welcome to shop Earth's biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 digital music downloads.
To put it plainly, we're music nerds who love bargains and want to be able to transfer our digital music between our computers, portable players and CD-Rs with no strings attached, so we worked to build a place where we would want to shop. We hope you're as excited about this as we are.
We've got over 2 million songs by more than 180,000 artists from over 20,000 major and independent labels, so there's plenty of great music to discover. Since our top 100 albums are priced at $8.99 and our top 100 songs are priced at 89 cents (unless marked otherwise, like, say, it's a double album or something like that), you can score high-quality mp3s from artists like Kanye West, KT Tunstall and Spoon at low prices.
You'll find more than just the bestsellers at those prices, though. More than 1 million of our 2 million songs are priced at 89 cents and most albums are priced from $5.99 to $9.99. We're bringing great selection and great prices to digital music.
Since all our digital music downloads are DRM-free, you can play them on anything that plays mp3s including PCs, Macs™, iPods™, Zunes™, Zens™, iPhones™, RAZRs™, and BlackBerrys. Plus, our Amazon MP3 Downloader application makes it easy to add your downloads to iTunes™ and Windows Media Player™, so you can sync up your devices or burn your music to CD hassle-free.
We're dedicated to making Amazon MP3 the best place to buy digital music and we're interested in your feedback during our beta. Check out the store, let us know what you like and, more importantly, what we can do to make this a better site for you by emailing us at amazonmp3-feedback@amazon.com.
Thanks and happy downloading!
~Jeff Reguilon and Alan Wiley, Amazon MP3 editors By the way, Guns N' Roses are #39 out of the top 100 artists. Pretty good considering they haven't released anything is over a decade.
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2,305 Words On “Sweet Child O’ Mine”
From Paste Magazine...This article is about the song “Sweet Child O’ Mine” by Guns N’ Roses. It’s also about nihilism, fury, lost innocence and living at the spear tip of a history that’s fraying and dissipating into irresolvability with each passing moment. “The darkness drops again; but now I know / That twenty centuries of stony sleep / Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle” (W.B. Yeats). “My best unbeaten brother / That isn’t all I see / Oh no, I see a darkness” (W. Oldham). I will write this entire article with “Sweet Child O’ Mine” looping loudly in my headphones. If you can get your hands on a copy of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and some headphones, I invite you to join me.
I always thought G N’ R were properly ridiculous, and derided them publicly on more than a few occasions. But I’m not laughing now. Back in the day, I searched in vain through obscure late-’80s college-radio playlists for my generation’s rallying anthem a la Alice Cooper’s “18” or Blue Cheer’s cover of Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues.” Unbeknownst to me, it was playing on MTV in heavy rotation before my glazed-over, unbelieving eyes. Why couldn’t I see it? Was it the hair? Or those lame heavy-metal scarves? And why all the ... apostrophes (N’ Roses, O’ Mine)? No matter. All is forgiven now. Time has washed away the ephemeral bubblegum stupidity of lite-metal L.A. culture to reveal the shining testament of late-modern existentialism that glistens before me.
“Sweet Child” narrates and enacts the latter 20th Century’s transition from myopically romantic optimism to increasingly troubling disillusion. It begins with the quintessential pop idealization of some dude’s girlfriend, and it ends thrashing amidst the sound and fury of encroaching insignificance. It’s like taking your date to the malt shop and winding up in a dark, subterranean catacomb. Little Suzy meets Mephistopheles. Like Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher lost in that cave with Injun Joe on the loose. “Sweet Child” is really two songs, and therein lies its ingenious tension. The first part is an innocuously beautiful power-rock love paean. Its indelible harmonic guitar riff has earned it a place on many an aerobics mix tape, and justly so. The mere tone of that unaccompanied riff at the beginning of the song ignites my pop-junkie adrenal glands in a deliciously maudlin way. Not even the opening “yea-ea-e-ah” of “I Want It That Way” can compare. Add the meandering, lyrical bass line that joins the lick after four bars, and I’m already putty in the song’s hands. It’s embarrassing to publicly admit. I should be ashamed. And yet I’m proud. Proud, I say! Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
The lyrics tell of an escapist rock ’n’ roll love, devoid of any pragmatic details, as a good pop lyric should be. “Her hair reminds me of a warm safe place, where as a child I’d hi-e-ide / And wait for the thunder and the rain to quietly pass me by.” Our heroine is not merely elevated on a pedestal. She’s not even a fellow traveler on a journey through some ideal landscape. She is actual geography—an ideal landscape in which to hide. Post-colonial feminist critics would deride Axl for his misogynistic cartography and paternalistic pet-naming. After all, woman is not a land to plunder, conquer and colonize; and she’s certainly not a child. Fair enough, but what do you expect from the auteur who penned, “I used to love her, but I had to kill her?”
In defense of “Sweet Child,” the woman is his shelter, not his stomping ground. She engulfs and encompasses him. It’s actually quite touching, in a write-something-special-in-my-yearbook sort of way. I can see our narrator (not Axl, think Richie Cunningham from Happy Days) with his Sweet Child at Lover’s Lane. “Emily, I’m just sitting here staring at your hair, and it’s reminding me of a warm, safe place where as a child I’d hide. As a matter of fact, if I stare too long, I’ll probably break down and cry.” They embrace tenderly, and then go get a milkshake.
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All the while, Slash’s guitar playing tells a backstory exceedingly more poignant and evocative than the lyric. At First, he’s hesitant to even depart from the song’s original riff. It’s working; it’s gleaming; why ruin a good thing? Then, hesitantly, he releases the side of the pool and eases toward the deep end—gradually, cautiously, never so far away from the safety of the riff that he can’t swim back and grab it again. Each lick ventures a bit deeper—a few more variations, a few more departures, and then straight back to the riff.
Two verses of this teasing, and then halfway through the second break he launches into a deft lick of chilling intention that startles and exhilarates. Suddenly we realize he’s been having us on, he knows exactly where he’s going, and we might be in for a bit of a ride. Then, just as unexpectedly as the guitar melody soared, it’s back on the ground again. Why all this cat and mouse? Why not just launch out and wail? It’s only a verse/chorus rock ballad that’s bound to go nowhere. Thus Slash fishes us in and sets us up for the second half of the song, which shatters the ’50s/’80s motif and drops us into the nihilism of postmodernism like Galileo dropped the orange.
The second half begins with a baroque minor-key guitar break that melodically resembles little we’ve heard thus far. Abrupt, eerie, and odd. No more putzing around. Definitely intentional and interesting, but not exactly impassioned. Perhaps he’s saving even more for later. But what later? If this is the bridge, how will he ever return us to the original song? Of course, he never does. The bridge has been burned. Actually, it’s not a bridge at all; it’s an extro: ... How could it even hope to return? You can’t unbake a cake. You can’t undo the confluence of historical streams. And you can’t return to the unfulfilled promise of modernism. We are left stranded in a Fatherless void that the heroic materialism of late capitalism is impotent to fill.
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The unsettling culmination of Slash’s solo wails this hollowness home. The gloves are [off], the sleeper awakes, and wanky pop-metal arpeggiating gives way to genre-defying, wah-wah-drenched fury. No longer anchored by the strictures and certainty of a structure that proved rotten and false, Slash’s melody lashes out at the darkness, comes up empty, and lashes out again. Over and over, like the neglected cry of some abandoned creature, like the grasping arms of a drowning man.
Seemingly exhausted, the guitar drops and our narrator’s voice resurfaces—deep, growling, and utterly changed. No more eyes of the bluest skies, no more smiles of childhood memories. Just a simple question, over and over. He’s asking his beloved, and he’s asking us. He wants to believe. He wants to keep on making pop records where boy meets girl and the DJ spins the tale. He wants to write intelligent articles for optimistic rock ’n’ roll magazines that negotiate the fine line between celebrating music and commodifying it. But first he must ask a simple question, over and over: “Where do we go now?”
The question repeats and builds, until it breaks loose into a falsetto wail, re-joined by the guitar, which amplifies and annotates it. The whole imprecatory riot crescendos in an epic complaint that demands an answer it knows it will never get. Twenty years later, here, at the edge of the future, we still don’t have an answer. Some of us have even given up asking the question. “Here we are now / Entertain us.”
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The “bam” of “Sweet Child O’ Mine” is in Slash’s guitar playing. It’s one thing to write an essay bemoaning the de-centering of contemporary humankind in a postmodern society. It’s another thing entirely to play a wailing guitar solo that viscerally embodies that de-centering. Psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan said we are born into a world of pure being, which language cannot fully express, so we are always longing for a Real we can’t describe. Slash’s solo doesn’t describe this Real, but it compassionately describes the longing we feel at having been severed from it. Without the words to properly express our estrangement, what can we do but wail? Paul of Tarsus wrote, “We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.” The guitar solo at the end of “Sweet Child” intercedes with groans that words cannot express.
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Where do we go now?
Writer: Curt Cloninger. Features, Issue 26, Published online on 03 Nov 2006 Labels: Guns N' Roses
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Appearances By The Rock
The Rock will be a guest on Jay Leno on 9/24, Regis and Kelly on 9/26 and Conan O"Brien on 9/27 to promote his new movie, The Game Plan. In this family comedy, superstar football player Joe Kingman (played by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) can tackle anything on the field, except for the arrival of a girl who claims to be his daughter.
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x = Guns + N + ' + Roses
Is it Guns 'N Roses or Guns N' Roses? You'll find spelled differently all over the web. For instance, iTunes uses the Guns N' Roses format, whereas this article uses the Guns 'N Roses format. Either way, here is what Wikipedia has to say about using an apostrophe for ommissions... Apostrophe showing omission
An apostrophe is commonly used to indicate omitted characters:
It is used in contractions, such as can't from cannot, it's from it is or it has, and I'll from I will or I shall.
The word fo'c's'le is notable in English for having three apostrophes; the alternative spelling without omissions is “forecastle”.
It is used in abbreviations, as gov't for government, or '70s for 1970s. In modern usage, apostrophes are generally omitted when letters are removed from the start of a word. For example, it is not common to write 'bus (for omnibus), 'phone (telephone), 'net (Internet). However, if the shortening is unusual, dialectal or archaic, the apostrophe may still be used to mark it (e.g., 'bout for about, 'less for unless, 'twas for it was). Sometimes a misunderstanding of the original form of a word results in an incorrect contraction. A common example: 'til for until, though till is in fact the original form, and until is derived from it.
It is sometimes used when the normal form of an inflection seems awkward or unnatural; for example, KO'd rather than KOed (where KO is used as a verb meaning “to knock out”), or n'th (an unspecified ordinal) rather than nth.
In certain colloquial contexts an apostrophe's function as possessive or contractive can depend on other punctuation.
We rehearsed for Friday's opening night. (We rehearsed for the opening night on Friday.)
We rehearsed, for Friday's opening night. (We rehearsed because Friday is opening night.) By the way, Wikipedia follows the Guns N' Roses format. If I were being really technical about this, I would say that Guns 'N' Roses is the proper format. Check out this Sun Microsystems blog entry for more. Labels: Guns N' Roses
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Sebastian Hyping Axl Again
The Albany Times Union has an article about a recent interview with Sebastian Bach. The article has been humorously censored for cleanliness. Sebastian confirms, yet again, that Axl Rose is singing three different tracks on Sebastian's upcoming CD, Angel Down. From the article, But Bach -- who rolls into the Altamont Fairgrounds on Saturday as the headbanging headliner for the daylong Edgefest -- isn't just raving about his own work. He's also raving about a special guest who appears on the album. Of course, it's not just any special guest -- it's Guns 'N Roses frontman Axl Rose.
"I can't (...) believe it. I just can't (...again) believe that Axl (...ditto) Rose is singing on my record. Not just one song, either. He's singing on three songs, dude. He's the best. He's just the best.
"The thing about Axl is that he's a (...and again) genius. I've heard 'Chinese Democracy' " -- the long overdue Guns 'N Roses comeback album -- "and it rocks, dude. In fact, I sing on one of the songs, 'Sorry.' He's so prolific, dude, that he's recorded enough material for at least three albums, and it's all (...encore) awesome. It has the rawness and the power of 'Appetite For Destruction,' but it also has the grandiosity of 'November Rain.' It's just (...if he keeps saying it, we'll keep deleting it) awesome." That's great and I cannot wait for Angel Down. Having seen Sebastian open for the new GN'R, I know Sebastian is going to put out a great CD. But, when will Chinese Democracy be released?Labels: Guns N' Roses
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Lotus Symphony
Check out Lotus Symphony. From the site: Be Free.Work Smart. IBM® Lotus® Symphony™ is a set of applications for creating, editing, and sharing word processing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations. Designed to handle the majority of tasks that end users perform, the Lotus Symphony tools support the Open Document Format (ODF), enabling organizations to access, use, and maintain their documents over the long term without worrying about end-of-life uncertainties or ongoing software licensing and royalty fees. By using tools that support ODF, customers are not locked into one particular vendor for their productivity tools. ODF helps provide interoperability and flexibility.
With Lotus Symphony, end users create, manage, edit, and import documents in ODF. However, Lotus Symphony tools can also import, edit, and save documents in Microsoft® Office formats or export those documents to ODF for sharing with ODF-compliant applications and solutions.
There are three applications that make up the Lotus Symphony tools: Lotus Symphony Documents, Lotus Symphony Spreadsheets, and Lotus Symphony Presentations. These applications offer a complete set of features and can serve as an end user's daily office productivity solution. For many customers and organizations, the Lotus Symphony tools are a viable alternative to purchasing, deploying, and managing typical vendor-proprietary productivity suites.
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T2: Upscaled DVD vs HD DVD
Last week I watched the T2 Extreme DVD upscaled to 1080i and was quite impressed. The quality of this transfer is infinitely better than the T2 Ultimate Edition. Last night, I watched the French HD DVD release of T2 and was sadly disappointed. The colors are dull and it did little to differentiate itself from the upscaled T2 Extreme DVD. Granted, it was not a scientific study and my thoughts are contrary to most opinions.  In addition, the menu of the HD DVD is completely different from the DVD. While the DVD features a highly detailed Terminator and stylized menu selections, the HD DVD simply offers three tabs: Film, Scenes, and Setup. Although the HD DVD menu is completely different, I can appreciate the music and scenes that accompany it. It creates an atmosphere unlike the other versions.
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Chinese Democracy - December 2, 2008?
Why Blu-Ray Should Never Have Existed
Check out Rob Enderle's thoughts on Blu-ray. From the article: A number of experts are pointing out why Blu-Ray is a mess. In hindsight, Blu-Ray should never have existed. Looking back at what happened with this technology can help us avoid similar mistakes in the future with a variety of products.
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With Blu-Ray, the warning sign was the tie-in to the PlayStation 3, which was the big crutch for the product. I was just as blind to this early on as everyone else, and didn’t realize until too late that rather than the PlayStation assuring the success of Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray assured the failure of the PS3.
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Toshiba HD DVD promotions
DVDTown is reporting that Toshiba has just announced new HD DVD promotions for this fall. All-new 3rd generation HD DVD players will ship with two movies right out of the box. It will be "300" from Warner Bros. and "The Bourne Identity" from Universal.
Furthermore, they will continue the "Perfect Offer" running from October 1st until February 28th 2008. As a result, with the purchase of any Toshiba HD DVD player, consumers will be able to select five HD DVD titles for free, from a selection of 15, via a mail-in offer.
So it will be possible to get up to 7 free HD DVD movies with the purchase of a third generation HD DVD player.
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Voice Over the Wall Cafe Press Shirts
Chinese Democracy - September 17, 2007
Is it true? Is it finally going to happen? Amazon UK is taking pre-orders for the new Guns N' Roses CD, Chinese Democracy. One can only hope this is true. In addition, HMV, the leading music retailer in the United Kingdom, is listing the release date as September 17. Conspicuous by its absence is the US version. Labels: Guns N' Roses
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Is This the New iPod nano?
The Terminator Series - HD-DVD and Blu-Ray
Toshiba HD-A2 vs Toshiba HD-A3
Cnet is reporting that both units feature identical hardware. The only differences are price and exterior dimensions. If you have invested in silver/grey components over the past few years, go with the HD-A2 while supplies last. You will save a few dollars in the process while preserving, at least to some degree, the aesthetic of your home theatre. HD-A3 ($300, October 2007): With its output resolution limited to 1080i, the primary appeal of the entry-level model is its affordable price tag. Except for the slimmer case, this looks to be nearly a clone of the current HD-A2, which is currently selling online for as little as $200. Last year's HD-A2:  This year's hot Christmas present HD-A3: 
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