Yearly Archives: 2011

Space Shuttle Atlantis is still scheduled for launch on Friday morning, even though severe thunderstorms passed over the launch pad area and lightning struck a water tower 515 feet away.

Paramount Pictures has announced they will launch an in-house animation division and tap into the properties owned by Viacom - most specifically the Nickelodeon brand. The division, called Paramount Animation, will produce CGI animated films with budgets of up to $100 million.

Best Buy is hosting another Midnight Sale on their website tonight. Is there enough reason to keep you up until the midnight hour? Your guess is as good as mine. Best Buy hasn't released any info on Midnight Sale items and we haven’t found anything leaked yet.

Derek Jeter might be facing quite a bit of pressure these days, not only with the anticipation of his 3000th hit but with HBO and MLB film crews trailing him day and night. The two parties have partnered to create a documentary about Jeter's quest for 3k, a statistic only reached by 27 other Major League Baseball players.

Panasonic has opened its VIERA cloud-based TV service to IPTV developers who want to create apps for VIERA HDTVs. The apps, of course, will...

Netflix announced the company will offer streaming services to 43 countries throughout Latin America and the Caribbean later this year. Residents in those areas, including Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean, will be able to watch streaming movies and TV shows on PCs, Macs and supported mobile devices.

Amazon's Blu-ray Deal of the Week is a 5-disc set containing all 17 episodes of the British TV series "The Prisoner." The episodes have been digitally restored from their original film prints with audio offered in both mono and newly mixed Dolby Digital 5.1.

Some great stuff on Blu-ray this week including a 282-minute two-disc collector's edition of Das Boot, a limited collector's edition of Gettysburg and...

Best Buy is having a July 4th sale from Sunday, July 3 through Monday, July 4. A few highlights we found in the electronics...

Netflix just added several Star Trek series to their lineup including for the first time commerical-free streaming episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek: Enterprise. The additions also mark the first time "TNG" has been available in a digital format. So how much Star Trek can you watch?