The two best Star Trek movies of the last ten years are out on the same day! Sweet!

This would've been a great idea three years ago. But I think Blockbuster could still make it work, if they do the following things:
- give away set-top boxes to all members.
- put one of these kiosks in every supermarket, convenience store, and gas station.
- drop the price to a buck and, preferably, get rid of the 48-hours-to-finish-watching window.

If they can do this, I think they can sustain themselves against Netflix's streaming solution, particularly in Middle America where not everyone has the high-speed internet connection to get satisfactory service from streaming and downloading services.

This brings back fond memories of Roundhouse on Nickelodeon--a sketch comedy show that was a mashup of In Living Color and high school theater. The generic "Dad" character tooled around on a motorized La-Z-Boy.

Lindsay Price of "Eastwick," formerly of "Lipstick Jungle." "How I Met Your Mother" fans will recognize her as Chatty Cathy from "Spoiler Alert," and Josh Radnor's real-life girlfriend.

The real next step the consumers are waiting for--and what manufacturers should be focusing on--is improving the technology to make more affordable TV sets. Now that we've got one HDTV in half the households, it's time for manufacturers to make putting that second, third, or fourth widescreen TV in the house more appealing, and get those who haven't adopted HDTV yet to jump aboard. $500 for a decent (32"+) screen is still too much.

Levi: No, not magnadoodle. Clocker's talking about the childhood toy that TavisJohn better describes below--basically a waxy piece of black cardboard covered by a translucent plastic sheet. Pressing on the plastic sheet with a stylus of some sort makes the black cardboard show through. I had one as a kid as well.

What they need to do is something akin to YouTube's approach--give the manufacturers and consumers the power of choice. Just encode the two video streams (left and right) on the disc as-is, and let the player and/or the display do the crunching when it comes to the method of bringing the 3D to the viewer. If you've got a regular TV set, the player will generate an anaglyph image; if you've got a Sony with shutter glasses, it'll generate the appropriate signal; if you've got a polarized projection system, the player will do that, too. This means the companies won't have to standardize their tech and get into another format war, the consumer will choose the tech that's best for them (and upgrade if they want), and they'll all work with the same 3D-Blu disc.

::snort:: ::nerd voice:: Looks more like a Mark VII to me. Mark X? What a bunch of Pakleds.

Got a Vado HD and am happy with it, but I'm looking forward to getting a Kodak Zi8 because of its external mic input, something that's sorely lacking in many low-priced camcorders (pocket-sized and otherwise).

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$40, couple of tiny screwdrivers, a truckload of patience (there's a lot of tiny screws), and you're good to go.