Leaving the Stream: Week of January 9th, 2011
This week, we wave a sad goodbye to some old favorites. A few movies that I watched when I was a kid and that always take me back to my childhood are leaving Netflix streaming.
Category Archives: HD Content
My Latest Addiction: ‘Game Dev Story’
Not since ‘Plants vs. Zombies’ have I been hooked on a videogame this badly. ‘Game Dev Story’ won me over and I just can’t stop.
Videogame Releases: Week of January 9th, 2011
The holidays are over. The slump is gone and we’ve got plenty of new videogames to play, including the most promising console MMO ever made.
Blu-ray Highlights for 1/11/11: What Are You Buying?
There sure are a lot of “1s” in today’s date. Numerologists will have a field date with that, no doubt. For me, I’m just glad that there’s more than one Blu-ray worth buying this week. That’s pr...
The Blu-ray 3D Title List (So Far)
It occurred to me recently that High-Def Digest is currently missing a comprehensive list of all Blu-ray 3D titles in one convenient place. So I’ve gone ahead and tried to compile one, with some useful stats on availability ...
3D Is Bad for Kids. Wait, No It’s Not.
Did you all hear that news story that made the rounds recently about how Nintendo’s 3DS (and 3D in general) is going to blind all of our children? That caused quite a little freak-out among the anti-3D crowd. No surprise, no...
Paint ‘The Town’ Teal
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...
Something We Already Knew: Consumer Interest in 3-D TV Low
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...
‘BTTF’ Now Available in Less Awful Packaging
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 ̶...
HDD Going to CES – Will Have Q&A with the BDA
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...
Leaving the Stream: Week of January 2nd, 2011
After last week’s major content switch (more titles were added to my queue than were dropped), it’s refreshing to see a week where nothing of value is lost from Netflix streaming. That is, unless you’re really in...
Videogame Releases: Week of January 2nd, 2011
I hope you got plenty of videogames for Christmas, because this is going to be another dry week for new releases. Very dry. Not until next week will things get back to normal.