Family Film Archaelogy
So I find myself in possession of three small reels of 8mm film. You know, “photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion.” Don’t stare are me like that...
Tagged: DVD
Blockbuster presidents want an end to DVD region codes
(Hollywood Reporter) No less a personage than Nigel Travis, the president and COO of Blockbuster, is calling for the end of region coded DVDs (that annoying system which makes it difficult to play DVDs...
Alien Sex! Bombs! Robots! Pathos!
Mystech: I weep for the future. (Wired) LOS ANGELES — Creators of the Sci Fi Channel’s forthcoming Battlestar Galactica miniseries promised that their “re-imagining” of the 1970s classic would be darker and grittier. In...
Sanyo Fisher Unveils the World’s Lightest High-Resolution MPEG-4 Camcorder
(Mobilemag) Sanyo Fisher has unveiled the new FVD-C1 Pocket CameraCorder, only 5.4 ounces making it the world’s lightest high-resolution MPEG-4 camcorder and digital camera with memory card storage. It incorporates advanced MPEG-4 digital recording...
The Peerless Stereoscope
A friend and I went antiquing yesterday and I came across a stereoscope and a basket full of slides from the 1880s. A stereoscope was the home DVD player of its day. Essentially it...
