Amazon Starz And Sony Blu-ray Sales

Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 by MegaZone

Amazon appears to be running a couple of Blu-ray sales – one on horror titles (plus one odd man out) from Starz, and another on music titles from Sony. With discounts of up to 60%, there are some good deals here.

Starz:
Dawn of the Dead (1979) 60% off – just $11.95!
Day of the Dead (1985) 60% off – just $11.95!
Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn (1987) 60% off – just $11.95!
Halloween (1978) 60% off – just $11.95!
Masters of Horror: Season 1, Vol. 1 (2005) 60% off – just $11.95!
Masters of Horror: Season 1, Vol. 2 (2005) 60% off – just $11.95!
Masters of Horror: Season 1, Vol. 3 (2005) 60% off – just $11.95!
Masters of Horror – Season 1, Vol. 4 (2005) 60% off – just $11.95!
To Kill A King (2003) 60% off – just $11.99!

Sony:
AC/DC: Live At Donington (1992) 53% off – just $13.95!
Bruce Springsteen with the Sessions Band: Live in Dublin (2007) 56% off – just $10.95!
Celine Dion: Live in Las Vegas – A New Day (2008) 57% off – just $14.95!
Chris Botti: Live (With Orchestra and Special Guests) (2006) 55% off – just $9.95!
Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds: Live at Radio City Music Hall (2007) 53% off – just $13.95!
David Gilmour: Remember That Night – Live At The Royal Albert Hall (2007) 57% off – just $14.95!
Destiny’s Child: Live in Atlanta (2006) 55% off – just $8.95!
Futuresex / Loveshow – Live from Madison Square Garden (Justin Timberlake) (2007) 53% off – just $13.95!
John Legend – Live at the House of Blues (2005) 53% off – just $13.95!
Shakira: Oral Fixation Tour (2006) 53% off – just $13.95!
Tony Bennett – An American Classic (2006) 53% off – just $13.95!

I am very amused that the Amazon product code for the Celine Dion BD is ‘B000YEUUCK’. I really have to wonder if that’s random, or if someone in the bowels of Amazon is letting us know what they think of Celine Dion.

Picked up from Blu-ray Stats.

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It Is Time Once Again To – WIN A TIVO HD!

Posted on Sunday, April 20, 2008 by MegaZone

Fresh off our last TiVo HD Giveaway, we’re giving away another TiVo HD!1 And this time I’m making it even easier to win!

I’ll accept entries until midnight EST Friday, April 25th – that’s six days from now. Entering is simple – leave a comment on this post with a link to ANY previous, non-giveaway, comment you’ve left on the blog OR in the LiveJournal community! That’s a comment made before this post – so before midnight EST Saturday, April 19th. The time stamp on your comment is the link you need for blog posts – like this. For LiveJournal community comments there is a ‘permalink’ on each comment – like this one.

You can just post the URL, but it is neater if you use HTML links. For those who don’t know HTML, thusly: <a href="http://www.gizmolovers.com/2007/05/20/major-change-wordpress/#comment-2320">like this</a>. Obviously you’d use your comment link URL and not that one. :-) One entry per user, please.

Also, you MUST enter a valid email address in the email box when you comment. That is how I will contact the winner to get their shipping info. I won’t even consider entries without a valid email address. Don’t worry, they aren’t used for anything else.

The list at the bottom of this page may help you find your old blog comments. Remember, you can continue to donate TiVo Rewards Referral points through April 28, 2008. The more points that are donated the more giveaways there will be. Just one more donation and there will be a TiVo HD giveaway open to everyone. But the more the better – so send as many this way as possible to generate more giveaways. Remember, every seven donations is another TiVo HD.

Now, get to entering and good luck!

1If you already have a TiVo HD or a Series3 you can optionally take the WD My DVR Expander and a TiVo Glo remote instead of the TiVo HD.

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Traction Assist: The Winter in Review

Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 by Gryphon

Well, after a truly mighty winter here in the Northeast, spring accelerated dramatically over the course of last week. We had such a spectacular amount of snow that it’s still not all melted even after a full week of temps in the high 50s and above (yesterday it was reading 81° F on my car’s external temp readout when I was on my way home from Bangor!), but we’ve definitely turned the corner.

It happens, thanks to a convergence of a few unfortunate topographical circumstances, that my driveway spends most of the winter as a sheet of ice sloping deceptively gently down toward the street. What usually happens is that, after each major snowfall of the year, we have the plow guy come scrape it out (he can’t just plow forward because there’s a barn in the way), leaving about an inch of hard-packed snow in the driveway, and then, almost invariably, we have a day or two with temps juuust above freezing, so that that layer of snow partially melts and converts into glare ice. Gravity does a better job than a Zamboni. Salt laughs at an ice layer this thick (and never mind the square footage involved).

As such, I have a certain attachment to traction assistance devices. These are, admittedly, not electronic, but they do represent an application of technology for purposes of convenience (and safety), so I submit that they are, in their way, gizmos.
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May I Have The Envelope, Please

Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 by MegaZone

And the winner of the TiVo HD Giveaway is…

Now don’t hurt yourself doing those cartwheels…

Jack!

Congratulations Jack, I’ll contact you via email for your shipping information.

Keep those TiVo Rewards Referrals coming folks, the more points, the more giveaways! The next one starts soon – very soon.

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Thank You Scott

Posted on Saturday, April 19, 2008 by MegaZone

Thank you for the TiVo Rewards Referral, Scott.

That’s two down, and just one more to trigger the open TiVo HD giveaway. But don’t let it stop there – every seven after that is another TiVo HD giveaway.

And now to pick the winner of the first TiVo HD giveaway. :-)

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