My PC is old

Getting up to 3 years of age on this PC. I need a new one!

The new Warren Theater in Moore OK is the place for movies!

Just last month in April Warren Theaters opened its doors.

Its a 14 screen "luxury plex" and no expense was spared.

2 of the screens are in "gran auditoriums" where the screen is over 4 stories tall and 80 feet wide. These include statium and balcony seating. The balcony area is full service too, with food, booze and all your typical concession fare brougth right to your chair at the click of a call button.

Prices are a bit higher, $12 for shows before 6pm and $18 after, but for the matinee times, I think its very justifiable.

I have hated going to other theaters in the past. Always waiting in line to buy tickets, waiting in line at the concession stand, waiting in line to go into the show (and hoping to get there early enough for decent seats).

While this can happen at Warren for typical movie tickets in the non balcony area, it is completely eliminated if you get balcony seating.

You can buy your tickets up to 2 weeks in advance, and seats are reserved when you pick the seats YOU WANT.

No longer do you wait in line, get there "early" or any of that old school jazz. You can show up whenever you like prior to the show and your seats are open and waiting for you. Everything as stated is brought to you from concession goods to a full service menu with typical American Diner fare.

Not to mention that we are talking about the actual movies now, all the above is just gravy. As stated, we have HUGE screens in the grand auditoriums, but fully digital THX surround sound with a Dolby Digital and THX sound demo before every movie.

The only advertisements before the movie are the actual movie trailers. That's right, no annoying slide show advertising for local businesses on ANY of the screens. You already paid for a ticket to see the show, now you arent subjected to advertising that you didnt want to see in the first place.

All in all, I suck with words, but the Warren Theater in Moore is now my ONLY movie destination for seeing theatrical releases from now on.


http://www.warrentheaters.com

I need a new cell phone.

My current celly is a first generation Motorola Razr and its a POS. Its fine for calls and I got it for cheap compared to the early adoptors for it, but the camera sucks, and internet is total balls.

I like what the iPhone offers, but it cannot record video (WTF?) and has no real GPS. You cant even pair with a BT receiver for GPS integration of Google Maps.

I basically want an iPhone-like device with video recording, gps, and a real web browser that will allow me to access Google Maps and a lot of standard website forums to read and post from. I also want 3G speed capability. I mean whats the point of waiting 1 and a half minutes for that page to load. Ugh.

Also, "affiliate" AT&T stores suck. They have nothing but the standard flippy phones, and none with even GPS capability.

Why cant we get decent phones here in the US for affordable prices? ARRGH.

The PS3 is a fine Blu Ray player.

I finally got my free PS3 over the weekend.

For games, it sucks ass. For an online marketplace. Ass. For demos. ASS.

MS just gets everything right for being a gaming console system (and handles HD DVD great as well) but for games. UGH. For the Xbox, when you download a game or demo, its done! It is ready to play.

For the PS3, after downloading you have to install it, then play, this subtracts valuable seconds of playtime!!!

Anyway, other than the lack of quality games, or frustrating experience with their so called store, the Blu Ray movie player portion of the PS3 gets the job done nicely.

My only complaint is no IR port so my Harmony uni remote wont work. The controller for the PS3 can be used, but is a tad ackward. I will likely get a BT remote, but I think I can trudge through it.

For Blu Ray playback however, you couldnt ask for much more. Quick, speedy loads and responsiveness to your commands, excellent 1080 picture and high resolution sound!

I am now Format Neutral! Bring on the HD movies!

DirecTV continues its HD channel expansion.

Today DirecTV opened more HD channel goodness with:

FX
Cartoon Network
HGTV
Speed
Fuel TV
Fox Business HD

Keep it up!

High Definition days are here!

For years I have had DirecTV using a high definition Tivo to access a limited selection of HD channels from local broadcasters ABC, CBS and NBC. DirecTV provided HD HBO, Showtime, some ESPN, Universal TV, HD Discovery Theater and 2 channels from HD Net, and we liked it, uphill, bothways, in the snow, at midnight.

This month in October, DirecTV finally started broadcasting new HD channels using MPEG-4 compression.

This required me to get a new satelite and High Def DVR as the above Tivo can only access MPEG-2 encoded channels. I moved the Tivo to the bedroom and took delivery of the HR20 that DirecTV now uses. I dreaded it because I loved my Tivo so much. But other than the lack of Dual Live Buffers, there have been no issues.

New channels such as National Geographic, Smithsonian Channel, TLC, Food Network HD, Scient Channel, Sci-Fi HD, USA HD etc look insanely great.

Alton Brown on his show Good Eats was showing last night after Food Network went HD and the picture is glorious to behold. At a supermarket next to a huge amount of jars on shelving, you could see each individual lid in crystal clarity.

National Geographic outdoor scenes are breathtaking.

More channels are on the way like Cartoon Network and F/X.

Keep up the good work DirecTV, with roll outs like this, I will stay a customer for a long time.

Paramount gives Blu Ray the big PUNT

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/2007-08-20-paramount-blu-ray_N.htm

Today came an announcement that has surprised EVERYONE.

Paramount, previously a format neutral studio for high definition, is now going forward to exclusively supporting ONLY HD DVD. This also includes Dreamworks, Dreamworks animation, MTV and other subsidiaries.

After checking out various high definition forums on the net today, it is apparent that one thing is happening. Blu Ray fan boys heads are exploding left and right at an alarming rate. Even Bill Hunt of The Digitalbits has gone stark raving mad over this latest blow to Blu Ray.

Now while I admite I am in love with HD DVD, I will eventually support Blu Ray with the use of a combo player, unless there is the unlikely event that Fox, MGM and others support HD DVD. Until then, I will hold my breath.

Pure Cane Sugar, in your Dr Pepper!

For decades it has been difficult, if not impossible to find a soda in the United States that contains pure cane sugar in it. For those instances where you can find real sugar in your cola, it is either during Passover, or is an import from Mexico, or finally a bottling company that specializes in using sugar, instead of high fructose corn syrup.



Enter, Dr Pepper. This is not from Dublin DrPepper which as been making sugar based DrPepper for over 100 years. This appears to be a limited promotion that is showing up in some stores. Around Oklahoma City, the local Buy 4 Le$$ is carrying these large, 16 ounce, sugar based cans in 12 pack cases for $7. It is worth EVERY penny. The tast you get from sugar based Dr Pepper is a lighter, smoother, and cleaner taste, where as HFCS based sodas have a harder edge of sweetness to them.

Too bad this is only limited to a small period of time. I wish all bottlers would return to sugar for their sweetener, and not HFCS.