Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone!

Use this thread to wish everyone a happy/merry one and brag/complain about how you made out under the tree

Me, not so well, yet. I tried to pick up that Fuji HS10 from Future Shop -- figured they'd price match Amazon.ca and kick in an extra $8 (10% of the difference). Unfortunately they did not have it in store (and they wouldn't pick up the phone when I called). Oh, well, I ended up picking up Toy Story 3 from Best Buy, next door, for only $20 on blu-ray. Guess we'll watch that with the kids tonight.

Merry Christmas to all. See you in the WJHC thread.

Dash wrote:When you say "made out under the tree", do you mean in terms of what you received as in gifts, or do you literally mean making out underneath a Christmas tree?

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Holidays, and all those other politically correct greetings. I am spending a week in Ottawa.

Heh-heh. It's not that big a tree. Of course if I trim a few more of the lower branches ...

Number Twenty Nine wrote:check out Futureshop online tonight and tomorrow - it will likely be on sale....

ps. get on there by 8pm tonight - there's ony 3 left online

http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/fuji-fujifilm-finepix-10mp-digital-camera-hs10-hs10/10141897.aspx?path=a40ae16906d1c530b5886e0d2faf38a9en02

Happy Holidays to everyone. I'm lucky to live in the city of the Winter Classic, but not rich enough to afford tickets....

Doesn't appear to be on sale, and it's $80 above Amazon.ca's price.

I'm just having second thoughts

jawal wrote:Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to entire GM Community!

It has been great reading the posts. I have found this site very informative for sens and hockey info.

My new year resolution will be try to post more than once every blue moon.

A little early with the New Year's resolution We'll have to make a separate thread for that.

Dash wrote:I think jawal just volunteered for that.

I got some more nice Sens stuff to add to the collection and further adorn my Sens shrine that is my room. Mini gloves and a framed plaque of their jersey history. And pencils so I can show off my Sens pride whilst writing exams.

You'll have to post an updated pic.

Like I was saying in another thread, my main gift is a combo of birthday/anniversary/Christmas and, unfortunately, I haven't gotten it yet -- for now, a card with "Go buy a camera" written in.

That said, I got some good stocking stuffers and gifts from the kids, including the third Pirates movie on blu-ray to complete the trilogy. I think I'll need my teenager's acne cream with all the chocolate I received

My presents to my wife included a new cellphone (we just go with the Petro-Can mobility prepaid ones -- we lost our old one a few weeks ago) and a Garmin 265W GPS. So I *do* have some gadgets to play with until I get my digital camera.

dennycrane wrote:Merry Xmas everyone.

My wife bought me a couple of new wedges. She even went to the trouble of talking to a golfing buddy to see what I might need. If only she asked if I was left or right-handed....

You're not kidding?

I was listening to Team1200 yesterday (I think) and I think it was Lee Versage that said he'd been golfing with set of women's clubs for about 12 years. He got the set as a gift or something.

shabbs wrote:Shabbs went "blu" this XMAS... look what my wife gave me...

There are some good deals on blu-rays out there. I picked up Toy Story 3 (2-disc version, no DVD) for $20 and the third Pirates movie for $15. I've seen Inception for under $20 as well, but it may have been Amazon.com, so unless you have someone in the US who will re-mail it to you, you're looking at another $8 for shipping.

Amazon.ca (http://www.amazon.ca/gp/feature.html/ref=br_lf_m_1000646301_grlink_2?ie=UTF8&plgroup=2&docId=1000646301) has the Pirates trilogy for $42 (good pick up if you don't have any of them). Also LotR for $31 (I think these are the theatrical release versions, so I'm still in a holding pattern).

FutureShop.ca has some good deals as well -- all the James Bond ones are $6.99 (actually cheaper than the 3-movie box sets at $21.99 each), lots of others at that price and below (Requiem for a Dream and Eternal Sunshine are $4.99 each!!!) Blazing Saddles for $5.99. Here's the link for under $7: http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/category/id/PCBlu-raysbelow7.aspx and here is the one for $7.99 and up: http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/category/id/PCBlu-raysstarting8.aspx

Enjoy responsibly

shabbs wrote:Thanks for the links... a trip to FS is in the order for sure... heh heh.

Might be nuts in-person; on-line will probably take 6-8 days but you could get free shipping at $20 and up, I think. The player will do a nice job up-scaling your DVDs, so you could do that while waiting for the new ones to arrive.

I got Lost S5 a few days back but, stupid me, I didn't double check. I have my saved searches e-mailing me all the new deals from eBay, but every once in a while a DVD set sneaks in. Should have known the price was too good (but I did get two of the seasons for under $25 on blu-ray, and one of them was brand new). Anyhow, all that to say that even my 14 year old who claims not to care much about high-def noticed the difference right away.

I have a few DVDs that scale really well (like the Superbit editions of Spider Man, The Fifth Element and a few others) but I must admit, this Lost S5 is not very good. I hate to say this (since it's just a TV show, and I'm already watching it for the second time) but I'll have to replace it.

As far as The Fifth Element goes, I got the blu-ray version for my birthday and there is almost no difference from the DVD (the DVD is the "Ultimate" edition has the Superbit version of the film plus a bonus disc with very cool features). My TV is a rear-projection CRT that is limited to 1080i (actually I think it converts 1080i signals to 720p) so YMMV, but for good quality DVDs, and assuming a good up-scaling implementation (mine is the PS3, which is very good, but not great) the difference going to blu-ray will not be that big.