pobject width=”480″ height=”295″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/D3Kvteht2rchl=enfs=1″/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramparam name=”allowscriptaccess” value=”always”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/D3Kvteht2rchl=enfs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowscriptaccess=”always” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”480″ height=”295″/embed/object/p pThe less said about the 1994 game-to-film adaptation of Street Fighter the better, and fans can be forgiven for wanting a decent remake of the most successful fighting game franchise of all time./p pWell, director Andrzej Bartkowiak (Cradle 2 The Grave, Doom, Romeo Must Die) is having another pop next year with Street Fighter: The Legend Of Chun-Li and thankfully there are no muscles from Brussels anywhere to be seen. /p pbr / /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a8b44b/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Teaser Trailer Released For New Street Fighter Movielink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/31/teaser_trailer_released_for_ne.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Teaser Trailer Released For New Street Fighter Movielink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/31/teaser_trailer_released_for_ne.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588739478/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44610635/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588739478/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44610635/a2.img” border=”0″//a
Argos Selling £98 Blu-ray Player
Posted in: blu-ray, hdtv, Movies, Today's Chilipspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”bush blu-ray player.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/bush%20blu-ray%20player.jpg” width=”588″ height=”221″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //spanbr / Bush is not a name you’d readily think off when it comes to quality Blu-ray devices but they do have one and now, thanks to Argos, you can pick it up for just £98. /p pConsidering that most new entry-level players are still in the £160-200 price range [online], this puts the Bush BD01 way out in front as the cheapest Blu-ray player on sale in the UK. Sadly, it looks it too. /p pIt wasn’t always this cheap though as the player has been reduced from a laughable £300. We’re not sure what it’s like in terms of performance but here are the key features:/pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a808f8/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=Argos Selling £98 Blu-ray Playerlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/31/argos_selling_98_bluray_player.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=Argos Selling £98 Blu-ray Playerlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/31/argos_selling_98_bluray_player.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588731805/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44566776/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588731805/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44566776/a2.img” border=”0″//a
HANDS-ON: Sony’s Flagship BDP-S5000ES Blu-ray Player
Posted in: blu-ray, hdtv, Movies, ps3, Today's Chilipspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”s5000es front_cr.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/s5000es%20front_cr.jpg” width=”583″ height=”300″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span/p pDedicated Blu-ray players – excluding the PS3 – have been slow to come down in price. This Christmas though, there were quite a few new sub-£200 players on offer, from the new a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/11/28/sharps_new_bluray_player_costs.html”Sharp BD-HP21H/a to the BDP-S350 from Sony. That doesn’t mean though that there’s aren’t still Blu-ray playersout there designed of offer the best possible HD performance while simultaneously stomping all over your credit card. The Sony BDP-S5000ES [ES stands for ‘Elevated Standard] is just one device, sporting an anti-recession price tag of £1,100. Over the break, we managed to get hold of one to see if there’s £900-worth of reasons to buy this over the £200 S350, itself an admirable spinner. /p pThe first thing you notice about the S5000ES is that it’s big, like two fat DVD players strapped together. It weighs in at 10KG, making you at least feel like you’re getting more Blu-bang for your buck, so to speak. The reinforced chassis is designed to reduce unwanted vibration during playback./p pAround the back there’s just about every connection option you might want – although there is no SCART. Still, if you’re spending over £1,100 on the ultimate in HD viewing, connecting anything by SCART is no longer a consideration. Ironically, it has a composite connection [sub-SCART quality] and a bundled cable but no HDMI cable. Why there’s no bundled HDMI cable with a machine this expensive is both a mystery and a disappointment. /p pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”s5000es back.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/s5000es%20back.jpg” width=”588″ height=”411″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span/p pJump now to see the main features and connectivity options before we get down to the meaty bit: how does it perform? /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/2a68580/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=HANDS-ON: Sony’s Flagship BDP-S5000ES Blu-ray Playerlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/30/handson_sonys_flagship_bdps500.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=HANDS-ON: Sony’s Flagship BDP-S5000ES Blu-ray Playerlink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/30/handson_sonys_flagship_bdps500.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588690765/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44467584/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27588690765/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/44467584/a2.img” border=”0″//a
Amazon.com is selling a large number of Blu-ray movies at 50% off in an extended deal that lasts until January 4th. The internet retailer is clearly hoping to entice the growing number of people who’ve bought players in the new format.
According to figures released by the Blu-ray association, Blu-ray players are seeing a huge purchasing growth in the U.S. during the holiday season.
But the best value among the available titles is the one that stars the little champion of truth, ingenuity, and true American humor. I’m talking about the Nova Robotics Robot Johnny Five, in his original starring vehicle Short Circuit, of course.
If you scoff at the notion that this movie is one of the great new classics of the cinema, well, Sir or Madam, I will say without reservation that you have no heart. You probably share the sentiments of a former co-worker, who fastidiously dismissed the movie as the ‘ultimate in painted 1980s cheese.’ But said man is a duplicitous snob raised on the dry, colorless Scandinavian cinema of Ingmar Berg-man and is obviously cursed with ice-cold blood and little feeling.
But I’m talking about robots here.
Johnny Five is not just a robot with a penchant for reading novels every two seconds, or one easily duped by moronic henchman preying on the sweetness of his disposition. Yes, he’s a sensitive soul that can barely crush a grass hopper. But he is also one who, along with R2, T2, and various other animatronic creatures, set a standard for entertaining usefulness that will always have a place in the cultural history of robot-human relations and has inspired many a boy or girl to get into robotics in the real world.
In case you were wondering, I have no personal financial incentive from the selling of this movie, even if Steve Guttenberg and I share the closed chin cleavage that sadly attracts little specks of dirt.
So forget about the nasty cackling of the film cognoscenti and check it out. The Blu-ray version is supposed to come with extra features showing the full process behind the robot, as designer Syd Mead and his team of puppeteers and robot operators put the soul into Johnny.
And if you’re disappointed by the movie, well, you know where you stand with me.
Source: Amazon.com 50% Off Sale
First Blu-ray DVD Hybrid Disc Launching
Posted in: blu-ray, Gadgets, Movies, Today's Chilipspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”blu-ray dvd hybrid disc.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/blu-ray%20dvd%20hybrid%20disc.jpg” width=”533″ height=”304″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //spanbr clear=”all”br / The Japanese are set to get the world’s first Blu-ray DVD hybrid disc movies in the New Year, allowing people to play their movies in both Blu-ray and regular DVD players./p pThe disc comprises a blue laser top layer (25GB), underneath which are 2 DVD layers (8.5GB). They are separated by a semi-reflective film that reflects blue light but lets the red light lasers of DVD players to pass through. /p pThe disc has been created by Infiniti Storage Media and uses the hybrid disc technology created a few years ago by JVC. /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/29b9232/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=First Blu-ray DVD Hybrid Disc Launchinglink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/22/first_bluray_dvd_hybrid_disc_l.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=First Blu-ray DVD Hybrid Disc Launchinglink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/22/first_bluray_dvd_hybrid_disc_l.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/divbr/br/a href=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27233446848/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/43749938/a2.htm”img src=”http://da.feedsportal.com/r/27233446848/u/0/f/9581/c/552/s/43749938/a2.img” border=”0″//a
pspan class=”mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image” style=”display: inline;”img alt=”dark knight joker.jpg” src=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/dark%20knight%20joker.jpg” width=”380″ height=”333″ class=”mt-image-none” style=”” //span We’ve seen how the cost of dedicated Blu-ray players is dipping regularly under the £200 mark and now it seems, certain movies are finally driving some serious Blu-ray sales./p pThe latest outing for our favourite gadget-equipped vigilante, The Dark Knight, has managed to sell a whopping 600,000 Blu-ray copies in its first day of release. According to Warner, that accounted for an unprecedented 25-30% of total Dark Knight sales – including DVDs. /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/29925e8/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=The Dark Knight Shatters Blu-ray Sales Recordslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/21/the_dark_knight_shatters_blura.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=The Dark Knight Shatters Blu-ray Sales Recordslink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/21/the_dark_knight_shatters_blura.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/div
VIDEO: X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Posted in: Movies, Online, Today's Chilipobject width=”425″ height=”344″param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HlC0XQ6VXNQcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfeature=player_embeddedfs=1″/paramparam name=”allowFullScreen” value=”true”/paramembed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/HlC0XQ6VXNQcolor1=0xb1b1b1color2=0xcfcfcfhl=enfeature=player_embeddedfs=1″ type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” allowfullscreen=”true” width=”425″ height=”344″/embed/object/p pWolverine has always been one of the most loved comic book characters, not least because he’s a wise-cracking ball of anger and retribution. /p pDespite the third X-Men Lite movie, Hugh Jackman – who has done a remarkable job of transferring Wolverine from the comics to the big screen – will be back next year in his own flick: X-Men Origins: Wolverine. /p pFollowing his life up to, and after, he gets painfully spliced with that adamantium skeleton and pig-stickers – and before his life with Ironside and others at the mansion – this one is shaping up to be the ‘superhero’ movie that everyone has been waiting for. Alongside a href=”http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/11/14/video_new_watchmen_trailer_roc.html”Watchmen/a, that is./p pJust check out the trailer above and tell us you don’t think this movie will kick some serious box-office butt come May 1st.-Martin Lynch/p pa href=”http://technorati.com/tag/movies” rel=”tag”movies/a a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/x-men” rel=”tag”x-men/a a href=”http://technorati.com/tag/wolverine” rel=”tag”wolverine/a /pimg width=’1′ height=’1′ src=’http://feeds.uk.gizmodo.com/c/552/f/9581/s/29cb444/mf.gif’ border=’0’/div class=’mf-viral’table border=’0’trtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/sendemail2.html?title=VIDEO: X-Men Origins: Wolverinelink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/19/video_xmen_origins_wolverine.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/emailthis2.gif” border=”0″ //a/tdtd valign=’middle’a href=”http://res.feedsportal.com/viral/bookmark.cfm?title=VIDEO: X-Men Origins: Wolverinelink=http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/12/19/video_xmen_origins_wolverine.html” target=”_blank”img src=”http://rss.feedsportal.com/images/bookmark.gif” border=”0″ //a/td/tr/table/div
138 Scenes You Won’t See in Terminator Salvation
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For this week’s Photoshop Contest, we have a boatload of highly unlikely scenes from the upcoming Terminator Salvation. I’m pretty sure even McG won’t screw up the franchise this badly.
We got a ton of great entries this week, including like 30 ET jokes (sorry, I didn’t include many of them). Overall, top rate work, folks! And here’s hoping the actual movie is less laughable than these entries. If anyone can do it, it’s Christian Bale.
First Place — Pulaski
Second Place — Robert M.
Third Place — Marvko
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