About 6 months ago a friend of mine purchased a new Samsung HDTV. He got it for a pretty good price and I’m pretty impressed with the picture quality. We don’t really watch BluRay movies on it, but his Phillips DVD player (model DVP-5990) with 1080p upconversion via HDMI cable and USB video playback looks very nice on it. We compared playing DVDs with the standard RCA cables and the HDMI cables and there is a very noticeable difference when watching a movie with upconversion. I didn’t really think it would really play movies back much clearer with the HDMI cable, but I love it. I would definitely recommend the Phillips DVP-5990 to anyone who is looking for a great DVD player that has 1080p upconversion and also plays DivX/XviD video formats. We hooked up a few different USB devices, such as a standard USB flash drive, an external Western Digital 1TB MyBook, a 16gb SDHC card with a USB card reader, and a 500gb Western Digital Passport drive, and everything played flawlessly. The only thing you have to do is be sure your USB device is formatted to FAT32 instead of NTFS file system. Videos also loaded quite a bit faster from USB, compared to load times from CD and DVD media. I own the same Phillips DVD player. You can even download custom firmware to load on the Phillips DVP-5990 to change how the menus look, add your own splash screen while the player is loading and add more functionality to the player, such as skipping to a specific time while watching DivX videos. The Phillips DVP-5992 is the same DVD player, but it is silver instead of black.
Another video player I would recommend is the Western Digital WDTV Live HD player with network support. You can find it for about $99 and it plays nearly every video format you can think of. It even plays HD .mkv x264 videos, which I have been using for my home videos, to save space and video quality.
I love stuff like Johnny Knoxville’s “Jackass” and Bam Margera’s “CKY” videos. I recently started watching a show called Kenny vs Spenny on Comedy Central. I had no idea that the show had been airing in Canada for 3 previous seasons. South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are probably the only reason why the show made it onto American television via Comedy Central. The first time I caught Kenny vs Spenny on tv was when I was bored and flipping through channels trying to find something to watch. I turned the channel to Comedy Central and stumbled onto something that quickly became one of my favorite shows. Netflix currently has Kenny vs Spenny season 1 (from 2003) in case anyone didn’t know.
If you haven’t seen Kenny vs Spenny, here is a random clip from the show:
*Warning: video contains foul language and/or vulgar material.
I just came across this video on LiveLeak. This guy walks up, not even 10 feet from where a cop is talking to a woman and he steals the womans car. All caught on video in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I’ve always been a huge fan of Howard Stern. I’ve probably got a hundred VHS tapes from recording the shows back on the E! channel. I subscribed to Sirius Satellite Radio for a while just to listen to Howard’s show, but after a while I had to choose between Sirius and the Howard TV OnDemand programming and I chose Howard TV. They could update the OnDemand content alot more frequently than they currently do, but I really enjoy it none the less. The only thing I find completely useless about the programming is this new “Miss Howard Stern Show” that they premiered back in October. Andrea aka “Miss Howard Stern” (pictured above) is one of the most annoying, useless, spoiled whores I’ve ever seen. She’s kind of hot, but the moment she opens her mouth you forget about anything that makes her remotely attractive. Once in a while when there’s nothing new on Howard TV I will go to the Miss Howard Stern section and try to watch an episode. As soon as the episode starts and I hear her speak, I can’t bare to keep watching.
The Miss Howard Stern show actually has great production. It really shows that if the Stern team wanted to create something original and worth watching, they could definitely do it. Too bad the talent is being wasted on something as annoying as Andrea. I would pay good money just to see someone walk up and sucker punch this girl in the throat. Oh yes, it’s that serious.
I just thought that I would share this with everyone.
Here’s a clip for anyone who thinks I’m exaggerating:
According to news reports, the smartest man in America lives in Northern Missouri.
…Christopher Langan lives on a northern Missouri farm surrounded by fields and animals. For decades he has worked on a theory. But if you see what he writes, how much of his cognitive theoretic model of the universe would you understand?
“My theory is mapping a correspondence between language of thought and the real world,”…
The new movie “Mr. Brooks” starring Kevin Costner, Demi Moore and Dane Cook looks great. It is a different type of role for both Dane Cook and Kevin Costner, so it will be interesting to see how they both portray their characters in this crime thriller. From what I’ve seen on the trailer, they both did a great job. This role is especially different for Dane Cook, as he has always been a comedian and comedic actor.
I’ve always been a huge fan of Dane Cook. I think he’s a brilliant comedian and I believe he has great potential as a dramatic actor after seeing this trailer.
You can view movie information and more about the upcoming film “Mr. Brooks” at IMDB.com (Click Here)
If anyone didnt see Saturday Night Live this past Saturday (April 14, 2007), check out this Digital Short.
Awesome.
Edit: I guess people are upset about this video due to the Virginia Tech killings. I don’t think the killings, although they are terrible, should have anything to do with this video. This video is a parody of an episode of The O.C. and was made before the Virginia Tech incident happened. Some people need to be a little less sensitive. Great video.
Also, for those who have been asking, the song that plays in the video is called “Hide And Seek” by Imogen Heap
About 6 months ago a friend of mine purchased a new Samsung HDTV. He got it for a pretty good price and I’m pretty impressed with the picture quality. We don’t really watch BluRay movies on it, but his Phillips DVD player (model DVP-5990) with 1080p upconversion via HDMI cable and USB video playback looks very nice on it. We compared playing DVDs with the standard RCA cables and the HDMI cables and there is a very noticeable difference when watching a movie with upconversion. I didn’t really think it would really play movies back much clearer with the HDMI cable, but I love it. I would definitely recommend the Phillips DVP-5990 to anyone who is looking for a great DVD player that has 1080p upconversion and also plays DivX/XviD video formats. We hooked up a few different USB devices, such as a standard USB flash drive, an external Western Digital 1TB MyBook, a 16gb SDHC card with a USB card reader, and a 500gb Western Digital Passport drive, and everything played flawlessly. The only thing you have to do is be sure your USB device is formatted to FAT32 instead of NTFS file system. Videos also loaded quite a bit faster from USB, compared to load times from CD and DVD media. I own the same Phillips DVD player. You can even download custom firmware to load on the Phillips DVP-5990 to change how the menus look, add your own splash screen while the player is loading and add more functionality to the player, such as skipping to a specific time while watching DivX videos. The Phillips DVP-5992 is the same DVD player, but it is silver instead of black.
Another video player I would recommend is the Western Digital WDTV Live HD player with network support. You can find it for about $99 and it plays nearly every video format you can think of. It even plays HD .mkv x264 videos, which I have been using for my home videos, to save space and video quality.
