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Category Archives: TV and Movies


H.265 has been approved

by Ryan Parman • January 26, 2013 • Digital Media, Technology, TV and Movies • No comments

For my fellow video nerds, the ITU announced today that its members had agreed upon the format for the successor to H.264 video — H.265, also known as “High-Efficiency Video Coding”. H.264 and HDTV Today, most TVs support 1080p, although most content (TV shows, most video games) are only 720p. Blu-ray movies and a handful [...]


Movie Review: The Last Airbender

by Ryan Parman • July 5, 2010 • TV and Movies • 1 comments

The Last Airbender is an abomination to film making. It makes Matrix Revolutions look like The Godfather. Don’t go see it, tell your friends not to see it — don’t even wait until it comes out on DVD. Don’t waste a moment of your life on this film; you’ll thank me later. I love Avatar [...]


Movie Review: Avatar

by Ryan Parman • February 6, 2010 • TV and Movies • No comments

James Cameron has made some pretty incredible movies over the past 25 years, and Avatar will end up doing for movies what the iPod did for digital music. Most of the 3D movies I’ve seen in years-past have been very gimmicky. The 3D is overbearing, and the directors seem to think it’s funny to break [...]


Movie Makers Just Don’t Get It

by Ryan Parman • April 13, 2006 • Apple, Technology, TV and Movies • No comments

With all of the recent hoopla about Sony dropping the UMD format (here and here), it’s little wonder why. The reason? This Think Secret posting gives all the explanation we need: Cinemanow bills itself as “the #1 legal movie download store” and sells movies a-la-carte, but for the same price, if not higher, in some [...]


Best Wife Ever

by Ryan Parman • November 25, 2005 • Apple, Music, Personal, Technology, TV and Movies • 2 comments

Ryan discusses how awesome his wife is for getting him an iPod 5G.


Movie Reviews 2005

by Ryan Parman • September 24, 2005 • TV and Movies • No comments

Ryan discusses his thoughts on movies that he saw over the summer.


iCal TV Show Schedules

by Ryan Parman • September 5, 2005 • TV and Movies • 3 comments

Ryan creates shared iCalendars for his favorite TV shows.


American Idol 2005

by Ryan Parman • May 26, 2005 • TV and Movies • No comments

Ryan brags about predicting the winners of American Idol 2005 several months in advance.

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