Monthly Archives: February 2008

Oscar Results

Thoughts: It appears I’m not show­ing myself to be worth my salt at pick­ing the Oscar win­ners. I am truly sur­prised by both Actress cat­e­gories, and espe­cially by the Edit­ing award. And I couldn’t rise above the 60%. Iron­i­cally I scored the ‘reverse’ of what I wanted — 58% instead of 85%. Note: I inad­ver­tantly for­got

Oscar Predictions

After much thought and point­less delay, here are my offi­cial Oscar pre­dic­tions. Posted a mere three days before big event, no less. These are, unfor­tu­a­nately, not the same pre­dic­tions I entered against Roger Ebert and his pre­dic­tions. With­out fur­ther ado, here they are. Best Motion Pic­ture of the Year: Pre­dic­tion: No Coun­try For Old Men. Why?

HD-DVD officially dead

It’s offi­cial. Toshiba offi­cially leaves the for­mat war, leav­ing Blu-ray to take the Gold. Which hon­estly, we all knew would hap­pen. I now won­der what to do with my HD-DVD player. I now hope and pray that HD-DVD’s will drop in price and I can get some cheap hi-def films!