Quite possibly the dumbest thing(s) I’ve ever seen: “Gangsta Gadgets”.
by
Mike
Posted March 2nd, 2010 at 10:47 am
If you love blowing money on stupid gadgets, I've got a few things that will be right up your alley. Piggy backing on the apparently popular "Gangsta Lifestyle", "Gangsta Gadgets" look to bring a little bit of the street into a geeky style with such things as shoes with speakers and DVD players, Gun remote controls, and thonged mice Gangsta Gadgets has it all. To be fair, I'm not knocking the designer of said concepts, Kristin Kerby as I am more-so knocking the ideology.
Humans already k...
Netflix CEO sealing his companies fate: “….iPhone/iPad streaming not a priority…”
by
Dirk
Posted January 29th, 2010 at 1:07 pm
Normally I'm not one to tell of impending doomsday tales and other nonsense. It more often than not ends up being nothing buy hype and fear mongering. But the type of doomsday I'm talking about today isn't for the human race. Instead, it's about Netflix.
Netflix has been a widly popular movie rental service for many years now. While other traditional brick and mortar stores such as Blockbuster have been having red ink stained year after red ink stained year, Netflix has somehow maintained...
When 50GB isn’t good enough: 67GB Blu-ray discs coming soon.
by
Mike
Posted January 4th, 2010 at 2:44 pm
If we were to add up every memory, every recollection good or bad, we would end up with terabytes if not petabytes of data. Of course, actually putting a solid number on a humans lifelong memories is near impossible. However, if you find yourself using Blu-rays to document each and every one of those moments or simply torrent legally download tons of stuff, those 50GB dual layer Blu-rays are no doubt bouncing off their limit.
For when 50GB isn't enough, you'll soon be able to reach for that...
Amazon’s “Disc + On Demand” gives you physical movie and digital stream for one reasonable price.
by
Mike
Posted December 10th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Attention all big media exec's and content owners: This is how you need to continue conducting business....
The digital hipsters and modern age, forward thinking individuals have come under fire the last several years from big media corporations and content owners for their disdain for physical products and embracing of digital counterparts. Going the digital route means companies shouldn't be charging the same due to much lower distribution costs and practically non-existent shipping costs....
DiamonDisc 1,000 year DVD wonder…
by
Mike
Posted November 13th, 2009 at 6:29 am
No matter the type of storage format, death will come at some point. We humans exist for but a mere moment when all things are considered. To leave our legacy, ideas, thoughts, and knowledge behind we rely on storage in the form of (these days) DVD's, hard drives, flash memory, and even a few cassette tapes. The problem with these formats is that they are not infinite. Physical compositions degrade, quality suffers, and before long you have a useless piece of plastic. What is the average li...
Total development costs for Gran Turismo 5 — $60 million
by
Mike
Posted November 6th, 2009 at 8:50 am
No, I didn't misplace a zero. The simulation racing game that has spanned the ages of video gaming time packs a wallop in the latest installment, Gran Turismo 5. $60 million is a lot of money, especially considering it was spent on a single video game. Now I'm not to deep in development costs for other big gaming titles, but I'm surprised to say the least. I've been playing Gran Turismo since v2 and have loved every minute....and then Forza came along. In order to keep a Forza vs. GT flame ...
All under one roof: JVC announces the video lovers trifecta — VHS/DVD/Blue-ray
by
Mike
Posted October 30th, 2009 at 5:49 am
No this isn't some sly Pizza Hut advertisement or reference as JVC's latest player to get announced literally has everything under one roof -- VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray. I stopped watching VHS movies a long, long time ago. Heck, getting spoiled day in and day out with 1080p HD means whenever I do happen to stumble upon a VHS viewing I'm left wanting so much more. But not everyone loves all HD or simply loves those golden oldies that have never made the crossover to digital. For that, VHS is stil...
Toshiba swallows pride, joins the cool kids club
by
Mike
Posted August 10th, 2009 at 6:37 am
It wasn't that long ago that two electronics giants were duking it out for your dollar and world wide supremacy. The battle between Sony (Blue-ray) and Toshiba (HD-DVD) was fought out for many months in retail stores and estores across the world. In the end, Sony and Blue-ray won out. Naturally Toshiba was just a tad sour with their loss and initially announced that they had no plans to support Blue-ray. Though the good 'ol boys in red are finally coming around to the Blue side. As they ann...
Flex DVD another “final stand” in the physical vs. digital format war?
by
Mike
Posted July 16th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Label me intrigued but not enough to buy -- Flex DVD, a newcomer in the physical format arena brings with it green promises and flexibility to boot. The Flex's claim to fame is that it needs only 50% of the raw plastic to form each disc...and of course that the disc is highly flexible without breaking. Not to mention, it's much thinner than traditional DVDs at a mere 0.6mm. Because of the diet, mailing said discs will be much cheaper as well. Super! How soon until we getting junk discs in...
Dumb*** award of the day goes to: ding ding ding…the MPAA
by
Mike
Posted May 7th, 2009 at 3:58 pm
MPAA shows how to videorecord a TV set from timothy vollmer on Vimeo.
All sane and normal human beings who actually have a tad bit of common sense know and already practice the art of ripping your own DVD's for your own personal use because, well, you paid for it and it's yours. BTFU! However, the MPAA who is thrashing about wildly and gasping for air as they die an increasingly progressive death seems to be stuck on the idea that we can't do anything with out own property. I have to ...
DVD’s apparently aren’t yours…even after paying for them…according to the MPAA
by
Mike
Posted April 23rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm
We all know the RIAA is a poisonous cancer on this earth. The MPAA, the evil twin of the RIAA goes head to head with RealNetworks over their completely legal RealDVD Software. The reason for the cat fight is that the MPAA sees the circumvention of encrypted DVD's as illegal no matter the circumstance. Apparently we all rent our movies now. The legal tussle doesn't even mention the obvious fact that copying a DVD for personal use, just as everyone does with CD's, isn't something tha...
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