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The blog will continue to be up for a short period until the upcoming website redesign.
Toshiba announced yesterday that it will cease to develop and manufacture HD DVD players. This is the final nail in HD DVD’s coffin. As we suspected, Blu-ray will be crowned king of the next-gen HD disc formats.
Quick, rush to the store to buy a Blu-ray player!
AppleInsider has more details on the story.
In case you missed it last week. The Hollywood writers strike is finally over!
Here are a few quotes from the official WGA announcement:
“On Tuesday, members of the Writers Guilds East and West voted by a 92.5% margin to lift the restraining order that was invoked on November 5th. The strike is over.”
“Writing can resume immediately. If you were employed when the strike began, you should plan to report to work on Wednesday.”
“…with the establishment of the WGA jurisdiction over new media and residual formulas based on distributor’s gross revenue (among other gains) we are confident that the results are a significant achievement not only for ourselves but the entire creative community, now and in the future.”
You can read the full WGA announcement over at Deadline Hollywood Daily.
The folks over at Abel Cine Tech have created a great little guide for the ever popular Panasonic AG-HVX200 camera.
“Learn about HD formats, P2 workflows, camera functions, applications and specifications”
Some of the topics covered include:
You can download it here.
Here’s a blast from the past for all you Illustrator nuts! This is the original VHS video that shipped with version 1.0 of Adobe Illustrator back in 1987.
Crazy!
This is kinda funny. Before you load up tons of movies on your shiny new iPhone check this out…
If you purchased and installed Leopard over the holidays you’re gonna want to read this awesome tweaking guide from the guys at Appletell.
They walk you through some great tweaks for the dock, stacks, menu bar, icons, login window, quicklook and more…
Looks like the format war is finally over.
Warner Bros. announced recently that it would drop support for HD DVD and only release on Blu-ray and regular DVD starting in May.
I’m glad I waited before purchasing a next-gen HD player. Blu-ray’s specs are much more suited to high quality video in my opinion.
Apple Insider has some more details on this big decision.
Halloween has come and gone. Candy has been eaten. Here’s a guy that had a very original idea for a YouTube Halloween costume. This is hilarious!
