The anti-piracy message on the DVD I was watching compared the experience of watching a legal DVD and a dodgy pirate DVD (without mentioning that one of the things that makes watching legal DVDs less attractive is the bloody annoying anti-piracy messages). It compared the video and sound quality of legal DVD with the pirate by showing clips from ( Read more... )

Just bought Season 1 of The Muppet Show on DVD. The first episode I watched featured Vincent Price as the guest.

I remember this episode well as one of my favourites, particularly the skit in which a heavily made up Price, surrounded by Muppet monsters, sings "You've Got a Friend"... and for reasons I can't even guess at, this sketch is not on the ( Read more... )

By now, I should know better than to ever walk into a DVD shop during a sale. It's far too expensive.

It's not just that I tend to buy more than I intended. (I was good this time. Didn't buy the first two seasons of Northern Exposure, or the complete seasons of Buffy that I don't have.) It's the dentist bills that come from grinding my teeth when ( Read more... )