Yesterware

Make no mistake, on November 17th I'll be plunking down $600 for one of these monstrosities, but that's because I'm a technology addict. I'm not going to be recommending this purchase to any of my friends. Sony's arrogance has reached unbelievable proportions. They attempt to hawk UMD movies which often cost more than the same movie on DVD and are less useful as they have lower resolution and can only be played on a PSP. Despite the fact that most retailers won't even carry the poor-selling movies, they still declare the format a success. They are poised to do the same thing with Blu-Ray as with UMD. The only reason we have a Blu-Ray format is because Sony refused to defer to the judgment of the larger consortium of manufacturers and studios who chose HD-DVD instead. They have set an obscene price point for the PS3, and have attempted to justify it by comparing PS3 to a meal at a fine resturant vs the competition which is fast. They seem to have designed the

www.transformerslive.com has become www.transformersmovie.com and they have posted a new teaser trailer dubbed an "exclusive announcement". It has been roughly a year since the movie was officially announced, and it looks like production is well on schedule. Some cast announcements have been made and it looks like they've respectfully reworked the Transformers logo, making some cosmetic changes over the original 1985 logo, but leaving it mostly intact. That gives me hope that this movie will be based more heavily on the original Transformers characters rather than one of the dozen other series' that have followed in its steps. Some things are almost a given - there practically has to be an Optimus Prime and a Megatron - very few Transformers series' have existed without at least some version of those two. My wishlist for this movie: Peter Cullen and Frank Welker doing the voices again. Bumblebee Soundwave as a stereo It's probably too much to ask, but I c