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STAR WARS CELEBRATION RADIO 
It?s four days of everything Star Wars?. This special limited-run channel takes over SIRIUS XM Stars Too from August 12-15, broadcasting from the official Lucasfilm convention.

The limited-run channel will feature interviews with stars from the Star Wars movies, as well as behind-the-scenes talent and celebrity fans. And that?s not to mention the droid races, costume pageants and more.

Star Wars Celebration Radio is hosted by Raw Dog Comedy?s Mark Says Hi and Cinemagic?s Dave Ziemer. Tune in from Thursday, August 12 through Sunday, August 15. 

   



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Already on order and I hardly ever eat sandwiches…

I'm holding off.  The pancake molds weren't exactly a success.  STill, eating a chocolate chip filled pancake in the shape of Vader?  Awesome.

vansmack wrote:
Already on order and I hardly ever eat sandwiches…

nkotb wrote:
I'm holding off.  The pancake molds weren't exactly a success. 

I've discovered you have to spray the molds with Pam (or dip in vegetable oil) with each use:

I'm still Blu Ray-less :(

vansmack wrote:

after owning one for awhile . . . and then being introduced to netflix streming, i must say i use it very rarely except to watch old collections of previous owned dvds and few blurays.  the product is best left for your top ten list of movies and the such.

nkotb wrote:
I'm still Blu Ray-less :(

Me too, but this means I can rip them and store them on a hardrive for discless playback….

Just started down this path.  Just for the record, what's the preferred file format, size, etc. for eventual playback on a tv?

vansmack wrote:

nkotb wrote:
I'm still Blu Ray-less :(

Me too, but this means I can rip them and store them on a hardrive for discless playback….

VOB files in the video_ts folder are exact copies of the disc. There are programs that will convert the folder into a single file.

nkotb wrote:
Just started down this path.  Just for the record, what's the preferred file format, size, etc. for eventual playback on a tv?

vansmack wrote:

nkotb wrote:
I'm still Blu Ray-less :(

Me too, but this means I can rip them and store them on a hardrive for discless playback….

I'm with Thirsty on this, at least for playback on TV.  Storage space is so cheap now that I no longer compress movies.

Depending on what device you use for playback, VOB rip to MPEG2 (single file conversion) for standard DVDs (about 1.5-3GB per movie), .mt2s to 1080p H.264-encoded MP4 for Blu-Ray that comes in around 15GB-40GB depnding on the movie. 

No compression here either. Pretty happy with it.

I was going to share the link to the NSFW Burlesque Battle: Star Trek vs. Star Wars on wired.com but it turned out to be not that interesting….

vansmack wrote:

nkotb wrote:
I'm still Blu Ray-less :(

Me too

:o

HoyaSaxa03 wrote:

vansmack wrote:

nkotb wrote:
I'm still Blu Ray-less :(

Me too

:o

That shouldn't be a surprise as I have not hidden my thoughts on tangible media.  When there is something I think I should own, I purchase the 1080p digital file, otherwise I stream/rent HD files from various sources.

On the rare occasion, I rip blu-ray movies with a laptop into digital files, usually to replace something I originally owned on standard dvd. 

I do not see a reason to buy a blu-ray player when my Xbox/Tivo/HTPC are all capable of doing everything a blu-ray player is capable doing, short of new audio codecs that my stereo doesn't even support anyway…

for the Boba Fett completists out there

Shoes

http://technabob.com/blog/2010/09/17/adidas-boba-fett-sneakers-theres-a-steep-bounty-on-these-shoes/

Backpack

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/bags/e57e/

some of the rarest skateboard decks out there . . . i own the jabba leia.

A public service announcement for fathers who are looking to introduce their children to Star Wars:

http://video.aol.com/aolvideo/asylum/talking-to-your-kids-about-star-wars/673618182001