Picking Oscar's Best Picture just got a bit more complicated...

Months following the news there will now be ten nominees for Oscar's Best Picture award, new details have emerged about how the voting will happen.

Previously, the winner was determined by a simple mass vote: the picture with the most votes won the race. But now, according to EW's Dave Karger, the system will take on some subtleties, and it may benefit The Little Film That Could.

Here's how it will work: voters will now rank their vote for the best movie from one to ten, with their "favorite" ranked first. The film with the least votes will automatically be eliminated, and the voters who voted for that lowly film will have their second choice moved up to their first choice. This process will continue until a winner emerges.

Would it could mean, Karger notes, is that the ultimate winner may not have gotten the largest batch of #1 votes in the first round. But, this seems better than having a winner declared with only 11% of the vote, which theoretically could happen.

Whatever happens, it'll be an adventure.

How to make Mad Men look like Small Wonder

Last night, I had my first HDTV/Blu Ray experience. I won't lie: it was a 1980 episode of M*A*S*H. After that, I watched Mad Men on AMC.

My conclusion: HDTV flat screens make beautifully filmed comedies and dramas look like a sitcom taped in the mid-80s. M*A*S*H looked like a soap opera, so I figured the Blu Ray phenomenon was to blame. But no: Mad Men looked like Guiding Light circa 1963 (except in color).

What gives? Obviously the picture is crisp, and you feel like you're in the room with your favorite TV characters. The problem is, do I want to feel that way? It's the ultimate exposure: in getting up close and personal, everything looks cheap. It looked like a combination of film, videotape and 3-D.

I don't know if I can get used to this, and the question is (before I buy a flat screen), do I want to? Do I want to know which actors cover their acne with cake powder? Do I want to know that a door is made of cheap plywood and not oak? To be cliche, the mystery is gone.

I want it back.