Death of HD-DVD

This past few months have been disasterious for Toshiba and supporters of HD-DVD – with now 5 out of the 7 major movie studies exclusive in Sony’s stabe – HD-DVD doesn’t have long to live now.  The way I see it Toshiba should just throw in the towel now and accept defeat – unless they [...]

How to become Popular…

Frenchman Jerome Kerviel is now in custody after out doing even Nick Leeson in terms of loss – more than $7 billion.  Shocking that one guy can actually go that far without alarm bells being rang – but its happened before and working for one of the biggest Bank’s in the world myself I can see [...]

Markets Crash

Not a good start for 2008 as world stock markets crash amid fears that the US is heading towards a recession thus dragging the rest of the world economies with it.
2007 wasn’t a good year, but 2008 is proving to be worse.  Time to tighten belts and hold on as companies start letting people go, [...]

Spotlight: Hot Toys Superman Returns v2

Okay this dude came close to being my first figure of 2008 – however it turned out to be my last figure of 2007 – and what a figure this is.
Let me get one thing straight, I never liked Superman Returns the movie.  I think I attempted to watch it twice and lost interest both times [...]

Enterbay Bruce Lee’s on the Way

Enterbay have stated on their weblog that their two versions of Enter the Dragon Bruce Lee’s will be released on January 15 – these are stunning quality high end figures.  I currently own the Medicom ETD Bruce, but no one does Bruce better than Enterbay – I’ll be selling my Medi on to get myself [...]

Blu-Ray Gets One Over HD

News has come in that Warner Bros. will be releasing its HD movies exclusively on Blu Ray – this is a major coup for Sony and a major setup for HD-DVD and its backers (Toshiba and Microsoft).  The war continues and consumers are left with no clear indication what will turn out to be the [...]

Happy New Year

Another year has passed and bring on 2008.  2007 came and went before I knew it and there has been so much ups and downs that its difficult to decide whether it was a good or bad year.
 I’ve changed the look and feel of my weblog a bit as I was getting tired of how it looked [...]