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On the face of it, I'm not entirely sold on the Eleventh Doctor. On the Confidential Episode last evening, I wasn't really feeling him in the interview sessions. It wasn't until they had clips from his other work (including Ruby in the Smoke with Billie Piper) that had a vague "Doctorish" vibe...

Bottom-line, I will miss RTD as he has stated that he will never write for Doctor Who again after the specials. Bring on 2010!

Re: The Stolen Earth OH MY GOSH! The entire episode, I was on the edge of my seat! I loved the "Children of Time." I loved the blast from the past with whom we are familiar (and I'm not talking about Rose). Next Saturday can not come quick enough. Best cliffhanger ever! Of course, I do...

It is moving from BBC2 to BBC1 for a one week mini-story arc. According to Julie Gardner (BBC Wales bigwig and Exec Producer for Doctor Who and Torchwood) says she wanted to make it event television. I'm just happy it is continuing as I liked the first series and really liked the second series...

I really did find myself enjoying "Turn Left" even though it is very depressing from Donna's right turn on. Unlike many in Doctor Who fandom, I don't have any issue with RTD's scripts. I like "Love & Monsters," I LOVED the Utopia/Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords trilogy last series, and...

In "Fires of Pompeii" Donna quite enjoyed the Doctor's squirt gun! Otherwise, I know there have been other examples, I just can't remember them. She is certainly more worldly than Martha and Rose and therefore not so in awe of every thing. Pragmatic one could say.

Whilst running the risk of turning this into a "What companion is best" digression, I have absolutely LOVED Donna in this series so far. Quite frankly, with the foreshadowing from "Fires of Pompeii" and "Silence in the Library," coupled with Catherine Tate's public declaration that she is doing...

I had the same problem of everything being on tonight. Luckily, the DVR indicates that it is on on Friday evening as well. It indicates that it is a repeat of the 2nd Season debut and I am taking it at face value!

No offense taken. I readily admit I not necessarily the mainstream. That being said, I view my actions as a probable statistical representation of a segment of the population. The studios have been complaining about flat sales numbers and even some declines in some markets. So. Do they care what...

There was also a Boxed Set of "The Usual Suspects" that also had the commentary on the second tape. As my comments in the Ratatouille Review thread (and to a lesser degree, the Transformers Thread) bear out, yes I was VERY ANGRY at the segregation of commentaries lately. It appears that...

Your point is one that is fully supported by a lot of data points that have come out from various consumer surveys. My iPod is used to listen to audiobooks, commentaries, and spoken word podcasts 95% of the time. Music is a very low priority for my personal digital media consumption. On a...

I did succumb to the age-old trap of the internet of reading a comment and taking it at face value. From the press releases and other product literature I could find, you are correct in that there is NO commentary on the Blu-Ray disc either. My anger is now at a 7 instead of a 9. That being...

I totally agree. As I mentioned in one of my recent rants against the "Transformers" Single Disc edition vs. the Deluxe edition, I feel a commentary is the single most important extra for my money. I view commentaries as a first-person lecture on the film. I watch the video featurettes once...

I really loved this movie in the theaters and I am really getting tired of always complaining about DVD releases these days, but I am again sorely disappointed...yet again. I used to pony up the "big" bucks to get the great 2-Disc A Bug's Life, Ultimate Toy Box Collection, Tarzan, Atlantis...

I have over 2600 titles in my collection. It is extremely unruly finding the space to store them. Then there is the whole cataloging thing. Dusting. Worrying about disc imperfections causing a disc to have read errors, etc. Then there is the money aspect. I have way too much money tied up into...

Thank you David. I know that you really do care about the product that you put out. I simply am tired of being taken for granted by the studios and this release has really rubbed me the wrong way in that regard. Your statement that "in a perfect world only the 2-Disc edition would exist"...

With a DVD collection that numbers over 2,600, I am hardly a "joe-six pack." I first got into DVD because of the siren's call of commentaries. How cool would it be if the people behind the movie would give you a lecture while watching them? Answer: really cool. Granted, I'm also one who loves...

Well Colin, prepare to eat a bug! I purchased the Single Disc edition of Transformers erroneously believing that it would be like most other single vs. 2-disc editions. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong! Going in, I said to myself "sure, I would love to watch the various featurettes, but I cannot...

I seem to remember reading in a thread about "Star Trek: The Original Series - Remastered" that it isn't necessarily an issue of infrastructure to get the HD show to the local affiliate but a matter of the storage of the HD show at the local affiliate. I really hope that someone who knows...

Thank you Jed!

Although I hate to do it, I tried to watch it on Innertube at CBS.com. The issue I ran into was that the first three segments and the commercials played properly. The last segment (at pirate court) never loads. Has anyone else successfully completed this last episode or has interest waned to the...

I can't really complain about any unresolved or unevolved plots threads at the end. All of the ones I cared about were resolved to my satisfaction. I can say that this is the best book in the series for me personally. Ever since reading an early copy Tuesday, the line in the book that...

From what I have observed, the Sony discs have badly mastered IFO's (information files that contain information about audio tracks, chapters, titles, etc) and bad sectors designed to trip up on-line piracy of DVD titles. This is RipGuard and ARcOS, two copy protection schemes for DVD. In my...

I put all my commentaries from DVDs on my iPod and can state that the Sony discs have gone to a point where there are a lot of intentionally bad sectors that are foiling both legitimate and illegitimate uses. Both Casino Royale and The Holiday exhibited difficulties using them in Apple DVD...

Which I will purchase come Tuesday...although ironically, I'm not at all interested in the extras for the Da Vinci Code whereas I am keenly interested in Pirates. Go figure.

I too am fed up with the Single vs. Double disc sets based upon the bonus materials we used to get compared to the "Deluxe Editions" now a days. It is difficult for me to believe that the companies are actually setting back and saying "let's screw the collectors." I can actually buy the line of...

This is just a guess, but I would assume that the "Charlotte" name is an anti-piracy measure to lessen the chances of a pre-release DVD master making it into the wild. I don't really know though. I would like to know for sure.

When my 1984 Tempo was totaled on my way to an early morning class in April of 2002, I was fortunate to have enough saved up to get a 2002 Silver New Beetle GLS 2.0. I love this car. The Beetle handles wonderfully in normal settings for daily driving in and around the city. There is a...

I agree entirely. Leo was always great (in fact the disrespect paid to him is a major reason I refuse to watch G4TechTv), and I was indifferent to Kate when she was on because that was the only show I knew. Mr. Norton (kilts and all) added an interesting counterpoint to the quasi-curmudgeny Leo...

I hate to be a know-it-all, but the original ScreenSavers were Leo Laporte and Kate Botello. Mr. Norton took over when Kate skedaddled over to the videgame show on ZDtv back then before leaving the network for good. That was back when TechTV was actually watchable. It is great to have the...