Archive for the 'Geek' Category

Joe vs. Toshiba - 5

Thursday, March 13th, 2008

Received a call back from Toshiba! Albeit a non-helpful call…
Tim was a friendly gentleman who claimed to be in the “same boat” as me, purchasing an HD-A30 just after Christmas. He claimed that Toshiba has no plans to compensate those folks who purchased HD-DVD players recently, nor do they have any plans to [...]

Joe vs. Toshiba - 4

Wednesday, March 12th, 2008

Called Maria Rappoli (973-628-8000 ext. 4250) at Toshiba Customer Support for the fourth time today and left a message, as directed by the Toshiba customer support e-mail response. I have yet to hear back from her.
Thanks for screwing my family out of $500. Let’s see if I can help drum up some Internet [...]

Joe vs. Toshiba - 3

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Circuit City rumored to allow trade-ins of HD-DVD players for a Blu-Ray player or gift card

Will Best Buy follow their lead (if it is true)?
And yeah, still no word from Toshiba. Time to call again.

Joe vs. Toshiba - 2

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

DreamWorks is still HD DVD exclusive, according to this article at Reuters. Interesting. They’re waiting for a response from Toshiba, much like I am.
I wonder what the chances are that Toshiba will say “Hey, release it on Blu-Ray. We’ve got a player coming out next month.”

Joe vs. Toshiba

Monday, February 25th, 2008

Amy still loves her iPhone that I got her for Christmas. And I’ve been really happy with the super-awesome HD-DVD player she got me — Toshiba HD-A35… Until a few weeks ago. Rumors about HD-DVD losing the format war to Blu-ray conveniently picked up steam about a month after Christmas, and now [...]

Greatest bottle opener?

Monday, November 6th, 2006

The self-proclaimed greatest bottle opener in the world. Looks kinda weird. And, you can see it in action in this short clip of the drunken Diggnation podcast.