First DVD Recorder Debuts Panasonic just released the first consumer DVD recorder, the DMR-E10… this bad boy will cost you about $4,000 right now, but watch the price drop as other consumer electronics companies get in the game. Goodbye VCR.
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First DVD Recorder Debuts Panasonic just released the first consumer DVD recorder, the DMR-E10… this bad boy will cost you about $4,000 right now, but watch the price drop as other consumer electronics companies get in the game. Goodbye VCR.
Mark Burnett comes clean – Burnett and gang have admitted that they were the ones behind the little hoax that spurred weeks of speculation about who won the $1 million Survivor jackpot. According to the New York Post, he was behind the decision to doctor the CBS website to look like they accidentally revealed that Gervase Peterson, the lazy castaway, was the ultimate Survivor. Of course, when Gervase got the boot last week, we all suspected as much.
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States Accuse Record Labels of Price Fixing – So the record labels, in their haste to sue everyone and anyone that poses a threat to their profits, have now been sued. Twenty-eight states filed suit against the “big five”, accusing them of fixing prices of compact discs… hmmm… think so? The damn things cost pennies to make, the artists get next to nothing, and we still pay $15 and up… When vinyl went the way of the dodo, it was supposed to be a good thing – CD’s cost much less than records to make, but yet the prices continued to climb. It’s time to put these SOB’s in their place!
Indentured Servitude All major label record deals suck and this is why. Highlights:
“The numbers are so stacked against the people making the music that, as recent Atlantic Records signee David Garza noted, “It only works for the artist if more than a million copies are sold. Period.”The obvious problem with that, of course, is that of the approximate 30,000 albums released every year, less than one percent go platinum (certified sales of one million).
“We told our lawyer that we wanted to own our own masters and he was like, ‘Okay, when the Easter bunny gets through blowing Santa Claus then what else do you want?'” -Brett Daniel of Spoon, on negotiating the bands contract with Elektra Records.
Ogle away! Scientific proof that staring at women’s breasts is good for men’s health! Go to the gym for half an hour or ogle for ten minutes… take your pick guys, they’re both healthy! (unless, of course, if you get caught… then I suppose ogling could be extrememly dangerous)
Who needs human rights? In Malaysia, a former deputy prime minister was convicted of sodomy and sentenced to nine years in prison – his brother was also convicted and sentenced to six years and four lashes. All based on the testimony of their former family driver, who’s testimony was described by the judge as “unimpeachable” (even though during the case, he twice changed the dates he said he had been sodomized)
What a cool guy… Harrison Ford rescued a hiker who had taken ill from heat, altitude and dehydration while climbing a mountain trail. Another hiker called for help, and then along comes Mr. Indiana Jones in his Bell 407 Helicopter to save the guy. Apparently he lives part time in Jackson, Wyo., and offers his flying skills and helicopter for rescue missions.
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