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!
This is not good news for fans of the hit television show Heroes. According to this source, the writer’s strike may force Heroes to air a season finale on December 3rd after only 11 episodes. Let’s hope the strike is going to be resolved before then!
Are you upgrading to Leopard? The Unofficial Apple Weblog has some very useful articles on the topic to help guide you through the process.
First take a look at their Getting Ready for Leopard guide for tips on what to backup and how to make a smooth transition to your shiny new OS X.
When you’re ready read their Leopard How To: Clean Install guide.
I’m not making the upgrade right away. I’ve decided to wait a week or two before making the jump in order to read about other people’s experiences.
Stallone came back for Rocky and now he’s coming back for Rambo!
The first official Rambo 4 movie poster has just been released. Ooooh Aaaah!
Here is the plot outline:
In Thailand, John Rambo (Stallone) assembles a group of mercenaries and leads them up the Salween River to a Burmese village where a group of Christian aid workers allegedly went missing.
Rambo 4 is scheduled to be released on January 25th, 2008.
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The long wait is nearly over! According to several sources including Think Secret, Apple is all set to unleash Leopard during a launch event on October 26th at 6:00pm.
Leopard features a gorgeous new Desktop, Cover Flow built right into the Finder, Quick Look to view files without opening them, Time Machine for restoring files, Spaces to organize your virtual desktops and of course the ability to run Microsoft Windows!
UPDATE: It’s official. Apple made the announcement this morning! Leopard goes on sale October 26th. You can pre-order your copy and get free delivery as of today.
Slashfilm recently had the chance to sit down with Steven Spielberg on the sets of Indiana Jones 4 at Universal Studios.
Spielberg talked about his decision to shoot on film despite George Lucas’ attempts to convince him to go digital. He also joked that he’s the last guy in Hollywood still cutting film the old fashioned way. The action in Indy 4 will be cut old school. Steven is not a modern guy it seems. After all, if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull will wrap production in a few days and is scheduled to be released in May 2008.
On a weekly basis I find myself using a bunch of different cables like XLRs, 1/4″, HDMI, HD-SDI, etc. Now, I was paying attention in university during my audio techniques classes when my teacher taught us how to properly wrap cables. Mind you, this was quite a few years back and it seems cable wrapping techniques have come a long way since then.
Today I learned about a much better method of wrapping cables and frankly I’m never going back to my old ways! This method is good for coaxial, twisted pair, electrical, multicore, triax and fiber cables. This means it’s not only good for audio and video cables, but also for Ethernet and Telephone cables.
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Motion 3 is one of the most talked-about new apps in Final Cut Studio 2. It is packed full of new features like 3D environments, point tracking and image stabilization.
I’ve compiled a list of the top five Motion 3 tutorials available on the internet right now. As you can see point tracking is a very popular topic and is the subject of three of these tutorials.
Enjoy!
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