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Trade Roughage 02/19/08

By Karina Longworth posted 1 year ago

Jumper only managed to clear $38.1 million at the box office over the five day weekend, which may be enough for sequel talks, but doesn’t seem like such a victory against the news that Step Up 2 made $28 million over the same frame. Meanwhile, The Band’s Visit, which is not a new release, managed the highest per-screen average of any film over the holiday weekend with $12,295 at each of its 13 locations.
With Blu-Ray declaring “Mission Accomplished!” in the costly, confusing and totally pointless HD DVD format war, technology companies are expected to turn their focus towards creating consoles to handle digital downloads.
Oscar ballots were due yesterday. Also, did you know we’re having a party?

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Watch a Movie With Friends While Watching a Movie Alone

By Christopher Campbell posted 1 year ago

I’m always fascinated with how far technology will go to make people less and less social. Yet as far away from each other as we get, with our home entertainment and our personal computers, we keep wanting to be interactive, though on a much more artificial level.

That’s why we need this new special feature on the HD DVD for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Thanks to the ethernet capability of HD DVD players, you can now watch the movie at home while your friends watch it in-synch with you via their own HD DVD players. And I guess you can chat with them through your remote control. Or you can talk on a party line like we did when I was in high school and jointly watching MTV with my friends.

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