Let’s face it… more than enough has already been said about Blade Runner. It was a thrill to see it in HD on the new projector. More HD presentations to come!

You might want to skip this paragraph about our experience with HD disc formats, unless you’re a geek too…
Some of you may know that I scooped up a bargain Toshiba HD-DVD player for a mere $70, when the company announced that they were quitting the race against Sony’s Blu-ray (BD).  Prior to that announcement, both technologies had entry-level players available for about $450. By nature, I felt bad for Toshiba, since the evidence pointed to their system being superior to Blu-ray, but that they had simply not been able to throw as much money into it as the giant Sony had… but then I remembered (showing my age here!) how Sony Betamax video tape system had been trounced by the inferior VHS standard and thought;  maybe it’s Sony’s turn to win. The Toshiba player does a great job upscaling standard DVDs to near-HD quality, and it has proved to be a real asset to MovieNight. It’s hard/expensive to find movies in HD-DVD format, and rental is not an option, so a Blu-ray player will be coming soon. In the interim, prices have fallen dramatically. Sony has a good one for $250. Woohoo!

In other news… it has been brought to our attention that the invitation to Blade Runner was rather self-congratulatory in tone, and that I seemed a bit full of myself. Could this be true? I was certainly excited about the return of MovieNight after the last hiatus, and extremely excited to show this movie in its ultimate form, especially if there was the possibility that one or more of our guests might break their Blade Runner “cherry” at MovieNight. What do you think, readers?