...Now with briquet-ray technology
I inherited a hard-working Weber Grill upon moving to Studio City in 2001, left there by the previous tenant. I had never used a grill before, so the Weber was a great teaching tool, and I have never felt the need for anything else.Well, over the past seven years of kids running through the yard, gardeners with other things on their minds, and the belief that a man's grill should never be coddled, the Weber - and who knows how long it provided faithful service to its previous owners? - has lost its legs, its replacement legs, and its winning spirit.
Seven good years.
My Toshiba HD-DVD player, on the other hand, and for reasons not entirely its fault, lasted less than a month before it got shipped off to a virtual graveyard, namely a table in my office serving a 36", 105-lb. non-HD TV. I should have known what was in the air when, upon buying an HDTV around Christmas, I was given the HD-DVD player for free.
A week later, Warner Bros. announced it was supporting Blu-ray, and then the next month Toshiba threw in the towel. Ended this format war has.
I want to get a Blu-ray player, and I want it to be a Playstation 3. I have neither Blu-ray discs nor Playstation games, but in that the PS3 is backwards-compatible with standard DVDs (as was the departed HD-DVD player), I'm more likely to scale up.
At the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the Blu-ray and HD-DVD booths faced each other from a distance of just a few yards, much like Father Merrin and the statue of Pezuzu. I remember the HD-DVD guys being very optimistic as they showed me how good "300" and "The Fast And the Furious 3: Tokyo Drift" looked.I bought a new Weber for $50 at Home Depot and feel a little ashamed and unworthy of cooking something on a device so clean and stable. But I'm hoping someone will buy me a Playstation.
For now, I am returning to my good old Sony 5-disc DVD changer with one bad tray. I'd relegated it to my office when the new HD-DVD player came home, and I regretted it; why go from four working trays to a single (very slow) one if the only HD-DVD title I had was "The Bourne Identity"?
Plus, I've had that Sony for seven good years.
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