About Josh Zyber
Josh Zyber is a veteran movie and video disc reviewer from Laserdisc to DVD and beyond. He previously wrote for DVDFile.com, DVDTalk.com, and Home Theater magazine.
The Roundtable took a break for a couple of weeks over the holidays, but it’s back to kick off 2011. Where I live in Boston, we had a pretty big blizzard just after Christmas. That got me thinking on the subject of movies ab...
Stephen Sommers will not be directing the sequel to 2009’s execrable live action ‘G.I. Joe’ movie. Despite earlier reports that he would be returning to drive the franchise into the ground a little further, the g...
‘Castle’ was one of the last shows I caught up with before the Christmas break, and it also happens to be one of the first back with new episodes in January. Normally, I let this series sit on my DVR for a bit before w...
I doubt that anyone will be too surprised to hear that science fiction movies are rarely scientifically accurate. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Nonetheless, when actual rocket scientists weigh in on ...
I’ve complained previously about Hollywood’s absurd obsession with the colors teal and orange. This stupid fad is truly ruining the art of motion picture photography. Unfortunately, this ugly color scheme is the sort o...
2010 was supposed to be the year of 3-D. More 3-D movies were released to more 3-D theaters than ever before, and the home theater industry rolled out brand new, high quality 3-D televisions, Blu-ray players, and Blu-ray discs. Wh...
Perhaps ABC was a little hasty when it canceled ‘FlashForward’ last year. Even though the show’s ratings weren’t that hot, its sci-fi premise sure looks eerily prescient after recent real-world events invol...
Ever since the ‘Back to the Future‘ trilogy was released on Blu-ray back in October, the quality of its video transfer has been hotly debated by fans. Some think it looks terrific, while others think it looks too ̶...
In addition to 3-D, the other big initiative from television manufacturers over the past year has been the push for web-enabled TVs with various widgets that allow access to internet features. I have to ask: Does anyone use these ...
Whoa, there sure are a lot of acronyms in this post title, aren’t there? The Consumer Electronics Show starts this Thursday in Las Vegas, and High-Def Digest will be sending a couple of our ace correspondents to the conferen...
The holidays are over and it’s a brand new year. The 2011 Blu-ray release schedule begins today with a whole lot of new discs filling retailer shelves. Is there anything worth buying? Welllll….
2011 has barely started, and already we’ve lost an acting great. British character actor with the difficult-to-spell name Pete Postlethwaite passed away yesterday at age 64. Let’s celebrate his career by watching some ...