While the world waits for Apple to release official news about their new tablet computer, a few smaller (and lesser known) companies are releasing their own touch screen tablets. Â Archos has a few models out, there’s the viliv, and then there’s the whole CrunchPad thing which is now called the JooJoo. Â And I’ve never played…
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Goodbye Old G5 – You Served Me Well
This week I sold my old G5 along with a 23″ Cinema Wide Display, a BlackMagic card, Sonnet Tempo eSata card, and a Sonnet Fusion 500P populated with 5 x 500GB hard drives. It was a complete edit system including lots of fast storage, but as part of my “out with the old – in…
Cloverfield BD and DVD Bonus has major field issues
[digg=http://digg.com/movies/Cloverfield_BD_and_DVD_Bonus_field_issues] While I rarely go out to the movies (because of my awesome home theatre setup), I did see Cloverfield in the theatre. Like many others, I wasn’t a fan of the extreme shaky-cam which literally left me nauseous. I need to start with my opinion on the camera shake choice – because it’s relevant to what’s…
Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP Unbox and Review
Back when I first started this blog I had the theme of “out with the old and in with the new” and it started with the upgrade of my old G5 to a new Intel 8-core PowerMac. In that early post I mentioned the Dell Ultrasharp 2408WFP because it has loads of inputs including the new DisplayPort connector…
RED Scarlet and Epic – more exciting details
Red leader Jim Jannard has been trickling updates all day to his big November 13th announcement. This time the information first comes in the form of more upgrade options for current Red One owners.  I’m sure by now they’ve all read the announcement and are trying to figure out how they’re going to come up with…
FAIL – Windows: Life without wall
Has anyone else noticed lately that the industry hasn’t quite figured out the whole 4:3 vs 16:9 thing? This is one of many ads I saw last night during Chuck that completely ignored the fact that the majority of american televisions are still 4:3.  I have an original HD DirecTV Tivo and an HD projector. I don’t get local…
RED Announcement – HOLY CRAP this is GREAT!
[digg=http://digg.com/gadgets/RED_Announcement_is_actually_better_than_anyone_imagined] I’ve been so busy lately that I almost forgot that today is November 13th – the day of the big RED Digital Cinema announcement regarding the new Scarlet and Epic cameras. Not to be too much of a fan boy, but I have been waiting for this for a while. Scarlet had been very high…
Out with the old, in with the new – part 4
The other day I discussed Apple’s move to DisplayPort on the new MacBooks. Â Their other big news was that they completely dropped firewire on the MacBook, and only have firewire 800 on MacBook Pros. In blogger terms this is old news (over a week ago) and has already been discussed to death by many other…
Is AVCHD useful?
You may have noticed this ad on my sidebar for the Sony HD-RTG1. Â I hand picked that ad because it seemed like a great semi-pro video camera. Â It is reasonably priced, records HD video to a memory stick, and is small enough to fit in your pocket. Â It might not be as professional as a…
Hard drive install time lapse
In keeping with the current theme, here’s a video of me installing a new hard drive in a G4 Powerbook. At the start of the video all the screws had already been taken out. This was my wife’s couch computer. Â I sold it to a buddy for almost enough to completely pay for it’s replacement:…