Columns, Editor's Picks, Reviews, CES-2010
The Great CES Swindle: Five Years of Flaunting and Failing
As recompense for our past sins, we've collected what we think are the past five years' most overly hyped and eventually doomed gadgets and trends. To start, here's our pick for the most over-hyped and probably doomed trend from CES 2010: 3-D TV. Yeah, we said it. Can you picture yourself sitting in your living room with a bunch of friends, wearing pricey goggles, more than once in a blue moon? Like, will you have to buy extra pairs, or will you just tell your guests, "BYOG?" We could go on and on, but we shouldn't have to do so. Proceed for more stories of CES swindles.
Big week for Pixar fans as the latest animated feature, 'Up,' is released, along with the Pixar classic 'Monster, Inc.' Warner continues to release catalogs, but with the size of its catalog, it could probably release four a week every week and still never finish. For the most part this is a good week for Blu-ray but 
October is over and before you know it Black Friday will be here, and so all the studios are preparing their holiday selection. Although this mostly consists of classics like 'It's A Wonderful Life,' 'Forrest Gump' and others, there are also some okay day and date titles like 'G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra' and 'The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3.' Next week Disney makes things much more interesting for animated feature fans though as both 'Monsters Inc.' and 'UP' will be released on Blu-ray for the first time.
So the biggest movie of the year has come to Blu-ray and is behind us, but there are plenty of hot new releases left on the docket this year -- just not this week. This week we are planning on getting a couple of movies for our kids as well as checking out the latest 'Battlestar Galactica' movie, 'The Plan.' Other than that we're looking forward to checking out Larry David in a Woody Allen movie, we mean how could that not be funny?
Here we are one more week until 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen' and 'Waterworld' are released on Blu-ray and as you might expect in October, nothing much to see here -- just kidding about 'Waterworld,' that movie stinks. If you are into scary movies then 'Drag Me to Hell' should be a welcomed addition, you know with its IDMB score of 7.5 and all. Disney does have 'The Proposal,' but we'd bet you feel the same way as we do about it; we'll pass.
You we can't help it so here we go -- we're off to see the 'Wizard' on Blu-ray this week as one of the all time classics is released in HD, but other than that there isn't much to get excited about. Sure if you like TV shows you might be interested in the latest seasons of 'The Unit' or 'How I Met Your Mother' and like usual there are plenty of other catalogs to help complete your collection, but most can keep waiting for the Summer blockbusters to open their wallets. 
There's only one thing to call this week and that's Star Trek week. Sadly, of the six 'Star Trek' Blu-ray Discs being released this week, the one we are really waiting for isn't included -- that's okay though as it'll probably take you that long to watch all of these. Universal evidently isn't out of catch up titles yet as it releases two more worth watching with 'Hot Fuzz' and 'Shaun Of The Dead.' The SciFi week is rounded out with the 'Terminator' TV Show which we still can't believe made it an entire season.
These weekly posts are starting to make us sound like a broken record. In fact we really don't know what else there's to say about another week of solid catalogs and TV shows for Blu-ray. By our count we have about another five weeks of this before the Summer blockbusters start to get released on Blu-ray.
This post gets harder and header to write each week. We mean what is there really to say about a few old catalogs and a few TV shows. It's not that we don't think anyone is going to get excited about the latest season of 'Smallville' on Blu-ray, it's just that we don't get excited about it. That's okay though as there is plenty left to watch in our queue as we wait for the fall, which not only brings with it lots of great new movies on Blu-ray, but new HDTV shows and football as well.
Another week closer to Fall and another week of so, so releases on Blu. Again this week we're excited about at least one catalog title, and the one this week is extra special. In fact we can't imagine growing up without seeing 'The Last Starfighter' and can't wait to see it in HD for the first time ever. Other than that though, we probably going to pass on everything else this week, but maybe we'll rent 'How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days' for the wife -- on second though, she'd probably make us what it with her, so scratch that.
Will Summer ever end? It certainly doesn't seem like it as we suffer these hot days inside without much to watch on Blu-ray. No worries, because football will be back before we know it and in the meantime we'll catch up with some catalog titles from Lionsgate and Sony. At the same time we'll skip the '17 Again' from New Line, but we're sure some big Zac Efron fans won't.
On this slow week in August we're happy that both Disney and Fox went to the vault and pulled out a couple of classics. The first on our list has us thinking we should have some French fried potaters for lunch, while the second reminds us of when we just were just a couple of yutes. So in other words, if you're all caught up on the recent day-and-date new releases, now's a good time to go back and enjoy some of the classics in HD for the first time.
