Growing Bolder Community

It's official, HD-DVD is dead. I'm so relieved I went with Blu-Ray six months ago. It was not a decision I took lightly, since my mother still has about a hundred beta tapes at home. HD-DVD fans will likely get a good deal on existing stock of that format, and if they keep their machines in working order, they should enjoy their collection for years to come. We all know that some other format...

One day late last year, I was perusing GrowingBolder, which is a website you may have heard of. I stumbled across an article about a man who'd created an amatuer baseball league for adults, and decided to check out the league. After weeks of hitting hundreds (thousands?) of balls in batting cages, and going undrafted at one tryout, I have good news: I am a Pirate! No, not the Johnny Depp kind,...

I''m a big movie buff, with 300 or so DVDs, as well as a very well-used Netflix subscription. I love High-Def TV and movies, but hesitated to buy into Blu-Ray or HD-DVD for fear of picking the wrong side in a format war. My family sided with BetaMax in the 80's and I really resented VHS for a very long time (the picture quality is terrible on VHS!) I'm a somewhat early adopter of technology,...

My wife works at a shelter. We've been fostering dogs pretty regularly since Hurricane Katrina displaced so many animals. Right now we're about to say goodbye to "Quentin" who was illegally dumped outside a shelter just days before Christmas (Happy Holidays to the jerks who did that, BTW). He's a puppy, and therefore quite rambunctious. We love him anyway, but have 3 dogs that we own, and need...

Thinking ahead to Thanksgiving and Christmas, I realized that I have never really shot much video of family holiday gatherings, with the exception of my nephew's baptism at Thanksgiving 3 years ago. I've not really thought about why this is, but perhaps I feel that if I'm shooting much, then I'm WORKING during my time off. I do take some still pictures whenever distant family members come...

Very busy week at GB! We launched the beta site on Monday, now the real work starts. We're digging through the site, tweaking it all over the place, committed to making it better every day. Please tell us is you have any questions or concerns. Feedback from users is by far the best way to learn what's working and what is not. I am very excited to be working the video side of what is a very...

As your resident Video Guru, I will soon begin giving advice for making your videos look and sound the best they can! Send me your questions, if I don't have a good answer, I'll find one!

The momentum is building! We are very excited!