Time to Take a Stand

Today I saw a very disturbing ad on the TV -- it was for the bad Robin Williams family movie RV. No, Mr. Williams' mugging wasn't the disturbing part. It was the very end of the ad, when a disembodied voice said that this giant flaming bag o' crap was available in "DVD and Blu-ray disk." All of a sudden we've decided that "Blu-ray" is the High-Definition disk of choice for America just because Sony said so? Like we'd ever pick something with such a dumb name. We need to unite and make them name it something better, or just pick a different format altogether. An American format. How about "Freedom Disks"? Wait, you're right -- that's just as dumb. How about simply calling them HD disks? You know, this is exactly how that whole DVD+/DVD- RAM/ROM thing happened. Think about it.

Oh, and America? You don't have talent. Just because 10 million people watch that bad show doesn't make it true. A dude with bad hair just played "We Will Rock You" using water glasses. This is the kind of thing that succeeds on Japanese TV, not American.

I really don't have a point here, admittedly. I probably should have led with that fact. It all seems so anti-Japan. As a counterpoint: Anime.