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Tag Archives: consumerism
Modern Movie Consumption 2
When I first started writing this essay it was intended as a personal dig into the home entertainment industry that, through technological progress, rendered my humble DVD collection worthless and made consumers either re-purchase or abandon their home movie collection. As it turns out, that’s not quite the case. Consumers are overwhelmed with options. It’s not a battle between streaming vs. physical. We’ve almost reached a point where it’s possible to casually view a movie via streaming services, pay for it on video-on-demand, borrow it from a library, hunt down copies on physical media (new or used), and, for die hard fans and collectors, pre-order and invest in elaborate box set or steelbook editions by boutique labels. Everyone’s catered for. Continue reading
Posted in Media, Movies
Tagged 4K, BD, betrayal, blu-ray, censorship, collecting, collections, commerce, consumerism, digitization, disposability, DVD, greed, home entertainment, media player, movies, Netflix, optical media, packaging, physical media, spirits in the material world, streaming, throwaway society, UHD
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Christmas Wars
Why the fuck am I driving anywhere near such a congregation of fools with more money than time management skills — on the last Sunday before Christmas, of all days? Never before have we witnessed such masses descend upon these holy temples of consumerist worship. You may know them as malls or shopping centres; I call it the place where the cinema happens to be. Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged babes, cinema, consumerism, humanity, money-money-money, Star Wars, Yuletide
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Windows Phone is dead
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the introduction of the iPhone. The first commercial Android device was released a year later; today Android has the largest installed base of any operating system. In 2010 Microsoft also heeded the call with the ill-fated Windows Phone 7 (based on Windows CE). “Too little, too late”, one might say, nor was there an upgrade path to 2014’s superior Windows 8/8.1 generation (now based on Windows NT). And they were pretty damn good. Continue reading
Posted in Technology
Tagged consumerism, gadgetry, hardware, mobile, obituary, smartphone
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Modern Media Consumption
Now that I’ve finally gotten rid of that horrid analogue video media format named “VHS”, I’ve been thinking about what comes next. I’m referring to an all-digital format — an ethereal one that exists not even as files on your hard drive. Truth be told, I’m not really sure — because definitions of “the Cloud” vary. What I am getting at is much more sinister, and I’m not sure I like what’s coming. Continue reading
Posted in Media
Tagged consumerism, digitization, movies, old, piracy, streaming, throwaway society
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Xmas 2009
CHRISTMAS defined. Continue reading
When people are mad, toys go bad
My advice – educating your kids about airport security with this toy may actually be more harmful to them than just packing them in the damn luggage with some bottled water & hoping they survive. Continue reading
The damn job is finished!
Finding space for all the cabling and other shit that tends to emanate from the rear of a head unit can be a mission and a work of art sometimes that makes one wonder who the fuck designs this stuff? Continue reading