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Thursday, August 19, 2004
Excitement Redefined
theOtaku.com's next version is progressing nicely. I've been talking to both Adam and Justin today; Justin showed me some of his updates (which are very cool) and I revealed "Blue" to Adam. Blue's cool. You'll like it.
You know, when myOtaku started to really become a big success (which was pretty much from day one, I guess), I had wondered what role theOtaku.com would have in the future. If everyone is gravitating toward our interactive sites, what can theOtaku.com provide?
It's interesting, because now when I look at the next generation version...it makes more sense than ever. The new site is like one giant hub. It makes navigation really easy and it has plenty of cool additions and features. I don't want to give anything significant away here, but I think that regular visitors of theOtaku.com (and everyone else, hopefully) will enjoy it.
I am also very pleased that I've now finalized a layout for Killing-Bill.com. Phew. It's still a way off, but progress is being made.
On a similar note, I finally purchased Kill Bill: Volume 1 today. For those who don't know, Miramax made some kind of deal with the video stores in Australia, to delay the DVD release of the films. This was done presumably to drive up rentals. And it stinks.
On this occasion, Kill Bill came out in Australian cinemas at the same time as in the USA. Yet our DVDs are months behind. Volume 1 came out yesterday and Volume 2 comes out early next month. What a gyp, huh?
Interestingly though, the DVD packaging was a bit different than I expected. The rental version has a regular DVD case with the traditional yellow cover that you've seen.
But the retail version actually has yellow-dyed plastic and a fairly thick cardboard slip-cover that goes over the plastic case. It's quite nice, actually.
I don't buy many DVDs though. In fact, I own less DVDs than anyone I know. It's funny, because while I can really fall in love with certain movies, I rarely feel like spending the money to actually own them. Maybe that's because there are few movies that I'd want to watch multiple times...who knows.
Do you own many DVDs? I know some people who will buy anything that is on DVD, even if they never watch it. One of my friends has something like 100 DVDs or more, but he hasn't seen many of them. He just...buys them. lol
I guess it's a habit. ~_^
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