derek | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 15 2006 | movies, sony, dvds, htpc, media center
Need to look at this vs. online storage. It can hold 200 DVDs or CDs. One extremely cool feature is you can load it with your CD collection and batch rip! It will also play DVDs via MCE's interface. Need to figure out how flexible it is ... SDK, alternate OS compatibility, etc. Tempting to wait for a BD version, but $399.99 after rebate isn't THAT ridiculous.
I could recover some of the cost by offering "CD ripping services" for people with big collections :)
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- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 27 2008 | movies, pixar, wall-e
Definitely gonna see it this weekend.
Quoted: Actually, I'm not sure exactly what Wall-E is. I just know I've never seen anything like it. This is full-blown science fiction, with all of the future shock and cautionary punch the term warrants. It's also an often-wordless robot romance with the dexterity and emotional heft of Chaplin's City Lights. Take either of those elements and you have a film that boldly goes where no cartoon has gone before. Put them together and you have something dangerously close to the sublime, a film that will be dissected and enjoyed for years to come.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - May 30 2008 | reviews, movies, steroids, performance, america
This looks quite interesting.
Quoted: Bigger, Stronger, Faster* movie reviews, trailers - Check out Rotten Tomatoes Bigger, Stronger, Faster* clips, pictures, critic and user reviews, forums and the Tomatometer!
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 20 2008 | movies, media center, netflix, plugins
Includes "watch now" capability, pretty cool.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 16 2007 | movies, coen brothers, fargo, no country for old men
Looks like the Coen brothers are back.
Quoted: NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN reviews from the nation's top critics and audiences. Also includes movie info, trailer, poster, photos, news, articles, and forum. Also known as No Country for Old Men.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 15 2007 | books, movies, blogs, obituaries, ira levin, rosemary's baby
Quoted: Rosemary's Baby (both the book and the movie) is suspenseful and unnerving. Obstetricians of the era warned their pregnant patients not to read the book or see the movie.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 09 2007 | movies, american gangster, denzel washington, russell crowe
Good flick ... heard buzz about it being the "Black Scarface", but it reminded me of Blow far more than Scarface.
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- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 10 2007 | movies, onion
When I saw the headline for this feature, I knew exactly what #1 was going to be. I was right.
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- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 26 2007 | movies, rescue dawn, christian bale
Heard about this on NPR tonight -- sounds like Mr. Bale and Mr. Zaun are quite dedicated to their craft. Losing 50+ lbs a piece and eating maggots surely has to qualify.
See also: http://www.filmwad.com/featured-why-christian-bale-is-a-badass-3312-p.html
Quoted: RESCUE DAWN reviews from the nation's top critics and audiences. Also includes movie info, trailer, poster, photos, news, articles, and forum. Also known as Rescue Dawn.
derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 30 2007 | ratatouille, movies, pixar, 3d, animation
Ratatouille is awesome ... one of Pixar's best without a doubt.
Quoted: So many computer-animated movies are brash, loud and popping with pop-culture comedy, but Ratatouille has the warm glow of a favorite book. The characters are more than the sum of their gigabyte-consuming parts -- they feel handcrafted.
- derek | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 22 2007 | movies, michael moore, health care
Quoted: Michael Moore has never before made a film that stated his bedrock ideological principles as clearly and accessibly as “Sicko.”
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- derek - Sep 15 2006
You must be Derek's friend before you can comment on this Fave.There's alot more to do with 400 bucks, dude. It'll probably still be a techno-geek thing until later.
I don't know. I'm pretty sure we need another black box.
When BD / HD-DVD come out, these sorts of devices will make a lot of sense. 25GB per disc is not happening on hard drives!
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