Toshiba, one of the main backers of HD-DVD has joined the Blu-Ray fold with the rumoured release of it’s first Blu-Ray player (and recorder for its home market). Having been thoroughly beaten in the format war (how much good that’s done the BDA is unknown at this point) Toshiba wisely cut it’s losses, pulled out of the HD-DVD format and 18 months later has gone one stage further and will actually be bringing Blu-Ray player to market. Ouch that smarts.

[Via Engadget & TechRadar (and machine translation)]

Megatron, check. Megan’s ass, check.

And it’s confirmed. Megatron is back, the shard left over from Transformers puts something in our main character’s mind, and Megan’s ass looks visually stimulating when appropriately bent over:

As a lot of our readers may know I’m not a big Apple/Macintosh fan but I do use iTunes (because Serato Scratch Live works off iTunes) So…

Apple/iTunes Announced yesterday that it would be hosting High Definition Movies yesterday effective IMMEDIATELY. The movies will be $4.99 to rent and $19.99 to buy. Available already are titles like Role Models, Wall E and The Dark Knight. Certain movies like Quantum Solace and Twilight are even available for Pre-Order so that once they’re available they will automatically begin downloading.

This is what I saw

Look who is joining the HD Band Wagon.  You can chalk up another “Simpsons did it” for becoming one of the first primetime cartoons to go high definition.  The first HD episode of the Simpsons will air toinght on FOX. (Check your local listings.)  But not only that, they finally have a new intro segment.  They haven’t had a new intro segment since 1989!  Congrats to the Simpsons.