God Bless Michael Bay

So, I spent the better part of this weekend glued to the computer. Bad, I know, but after the Warner news and with CES 2008 firing up, I couldn't help myself. It was like my fix I desperately needed to survive.
Anyway, Michael Bay has been an outspoken proponent of Blu-Ray for quite some time, and he was none to happy when Pay-amount Pictures dropped Blu, as he insisted that it affected the quality of his Transformers release when it had to be fit onto a lower bandwidth/lower capacity HD DVD with no BD option.

This is his latest ranting, and I find it hilarious! Enjoy.

"I know the look, color, and sounds on my own movies better they anyone in the world. I color-time every single image, and am there for every single audio tweak. I see my films in the editing and final process no less then a 100 times. I know ever single nuance. For some dick wads on these posts who think I can't make an informed choice on what format in the end, has the truer results for my own films. Well you where to shove.... My films finished in Blu-Ray are better - more true. Hd is better than DVD, but just not as good as Blu-Ray. So buying a Transformers Hd is still the best you will see this movie as of today. But when Paramount caves for Blu-Ray in the future - This will happen, then you will see Transformers one day finished in Blu-Ray and I will sure be able to tell the difference. Bay"

Warner Brothers: We're Blu, and So Can You!

Sorry, Stephen Colbert for sort of ripping of your book name in this thread title.
I had kind of decided to avoid rantings about the High Def format war, since I know it may not be of supreme interest to some of you, like it is for me.
I feel compelled today though, to make an exception. Warner Brothers, the last major Neutral content provider for Blu-Ray and HD DVD has announced their exclusive support for Blu-Ray. WB holds approximately 20% of all films under their brand, and this effectively gives Blu-Ray exclusive access to 70% of all films. Reports are buzzing around the internet calling this the final death-blow for HD DVD, and I truly believe it is, barring some sinister scheme from Microsoft, though I think it would be too little, too late. Warner, not being douche hats like Paramount will be honoring their previously announced titles and winding down support for HD DVD as of May 31st, though until exclusive support kicks in June 1st, they will be releasing those HD DVD titles after the day-and-date release of the DVD and Blu-Ray versions of those films.
This news must've caught Toshiba and the HD DVD Promotions Group off guard, as they have canceled their much anticipated 2 hour HD DVD extravaganza this coming Sunday which was the prelude to CES 2008 which begins Monday. Ouch!
The last 2 hold-outs in ending the format war are Universal Pictures, who has been HD DVD exclusive since the start, and Paramount, which went HD DVD exclusive due to 'financial incentives upwards of $150 million' last summer. Many are predicting that Universal may follow shortly behind Universal in joining Blu-Ray, at least in dual-format support if nothing else.
Unless Payamount Pictures has some built in escape clause, they will be standing all alone holding a bag of shit until 2009.
I'm personally excited that it seems like this whole damn format thing has reached a turning point and may be ending rather swiftly.
Long live Blu!

Unspecified

Christmas came and went. New Years came and went. All of it seemed to come and go so fast, as it seems most anything does anymore. I really enjoyed our little friends Christmas get-together. My family Christmas celebration was the weekend after Christmas and really helped to solidify the coming and going of the holidays. No matter how many other other get-togethers or parties, it just seems unofficial without time with the family. I seemed to connect with all of them a lot more than I generally do, which was kind of cool. I guess it means I'm growing up, though I thought I already did that. Eh.
My new years resolution, of course, is to lose this "lazy + junk food + quitting smoking" excess flab I seem to have amassed over the course of 2007. It really affects me on so many levels and I really need to take steps to get myself healthy. I guess to do that, I need to put the bowflex thats been sitting there like a pile of rubble together and buy something besides double quarter pounders.
I'm going to put together a low-carb shopping list and try to force myself to get the bowflex back into a functioning thing. My out of shapeness is starting to make me depressed. I think it has been for quite some time, but I've been suppressing it.

On a non-shitty non-depressing note, I found this video on Youtube. Please only watch if you're a fan of Star Trek: Voyager. This vid won best music video compilation at the official Star Trek convention in Las Vegas in 2007, and it is clips from Voyager matched up perfectly and beautifully with the words and meaning of the song. It's about Janeway wanting to save/protect Voyager.