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Red Ray Player demoed at NAB

April 27, 2009April 27, 2009 Doug Groves NAB, Red, Red Ray4 Comments

The 2009 NAB expo has wrapped up, and one of the more interesting products demoed to a small group has to be REDs Red Ray Player, a $1000 playback device that will display 4K resolution video from standard DVDs. To give you an idea of the resolution, most cinemas currently project film at 2K resolution, which is 2048 lines of horizontal resolution, or about twice as much as 1080p. What makes the Red Ray player even more impressive is not the resolution, but it’s compression technology, uses wavelets to describe…

Philips 21:9 Cinema TV Demo Cool

April 27, 2009April 10, 2010 Doug Groves 21:9, phillips3 Comments

Earlier this year Philips announced it’s 21:9 Cinema TV, which officially makes it 5 better than 16:9. Although one could argue whether the world needs 21:9, Philips has put together a really cool demo of the TV, using a bullet time type short called Carousel which can be watched here. As the film plays, watch for the the three tags in the progress bar, which work as inline commentary.

‘Pirate Bay’ Judge: Conflict of interest?

April 25, 2009 Doug Groves Pirate Bay, Sweden, torrent2 Comments

As most of you know, the guys who run The Pirate Bay, the most popular search engine for torrent files, were found guilty of, well… being pirates even though they don’t actually host the copyright infringing material. A Swedish court on Friday found the four defendants in the high-profile Pirate Bay case guilty, sentencing each to a year in jail. The defendants were also ordered to pay a total of 30 million Swedish kronor ($3.6 million) in damages to copyright holders, among them a number of American media giants. The…

Windows Mobile 6.5 Release Date May 11th?

April 17, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves opera, Windows Mobile8 Comments

Windows Mobile 6.5 was announced earlier this year at Mobile World Congress. At that point in time, the expected release date was estimated to be either late summer or early fall of 2009, with the first devices to follow soon after. According to the Windows Mobile Developers blog the long awaited update the the mobile OS will be released on May 11th at Tech ED 2009. That’s a decent bump in the schedule, and means that new devices running 6.5 should be out sooner than later. Of course, for those…

Ash Is Back

April 14, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves Lightwave, Magpie, newtek0 comment

Another couple of weeks, and another ashrants.com video. Once again, the animation is done with Lightwave, the lip sync with Magpie Pro and editing done with Newtek’s SpeedEDIT, which is a subset of the software that comes with the TriCaster hardware. The music is a jam performed by the Asphalt Potato Jam band. Enjoy!

Launching QuickPwn 2.2.5 to Jailbreak my iPhone

April 13, 2009April 29, 2009 Paul L 3 Comments

First of all, try to understand that with new barriers inserted in every software update (you’ll have to hold off on each iPhone upgrade until there is a jailbreak released specifically for it) — and Apple even attempting to make it illegal to do it in the States of America — providing jailbreaking tools for the iPhone isn’t a business with a huge growth trajectory. The people who bring us this crack and the maverick apps it enables are ‘deep geeks’ who are likely doing this out of twin loves…

Sony Vaio AW Tankbook

April 9, 2009April 9, 2009 Johnathan Leger Apple, Laptop, Sony6 Comments

Well, there comes a time every 3 years or so that I look at my current rig and decide that I need a change and with me, usually that means, drastic change. The last time this happened I opted to switch from an Apple to a Dell… Which was, to those who know me and my thoughts on Microsoft, shocking…

Windows Mobile Marketplace Info Updated

March 31, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves marketplace, Windows Mobile0 comment

After recent announcements regarding Microsoft entering the mobile app shopping fray with their Marketplace, some details are starting to come out, including: buy via phone or full web site 24 hours full refund on returns. carrier specific sub stores certified compatibility with particular devices On the developer side, Microsoft is still touting full transparency in the approval process. Probably the best bit of news for developers is that the company is dropping application updates to the 5 app limit per $99 registration. Of course, this remains largely moot. As of…

Samsung’s new line of BluRay players make the PS3 look like more and more of a bargain

March 31, 2009July 25, 2009 Danny X BluRay, Samsung10 Comments

Ask anyone who hasn’t bought a BluRay player yet why not and you’ll likely get the same response: They’re too expensive. And they’re right. With the cheapest player at Best Buy, the Samsung BDP1500, currently weighing in at $262.98, it seems the industry still has a while to go before they hit the $199 mark (the price point that many believe is the turning point for the global infiltration of a new media format). They’ve been popping up here and there, but they’re usually by brands like Vizio or Insignia…

Edgar Wright at the Bloor Cinema

March 31, 2009July 28, 2009 Doug Groves Bloor Cinema, Edgar Wright, interview, Toronto10 Comments

Alex caught up with Edgar Wright, director of Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, when he was at the Bloor Cinema during the Wright Stuff event, a series of films curated for the Bloor by Edgar Wright. The Wright Stuff wraps up Sunday April 12th.

“Film Is In The Air” At Raindance Canada

March 31, 2009April 17, 2009 Doug Groves event, indie, raindance2 Comments

Toronto native Elliot Grove, Britain’s premier independent film champion and the founder of Raindance Canada, returns to Toronto from April 20-26, to host Raindance Canada’s spring courses. The week of events will end with the intensive two day Master-Class Write and Sell the HOT Script on Saturday April 25 and Sunday April 26, 2009 from 9:30am – 6pm. Write and Sell The Hot Script is a step-by-step guide to constructing the best story possible—be it a screenplay, short story, or novel. Grove, who has taught his Write and Sell the…

Vue 7 Pioneer: Free Download

March 27, 2009July 25, 2009 Doug Groves landscape, vue1 Comment

Cornucopia 3D recently announced an update to the venerable 3D landscape software Vue, which creates everything from stunningly realistic to downright cartoony and cool worlds to plant your stories in. Beyond the commercial software, they also make Vue 7 Pioneer available for free for non-commercial use. The renders are watermarked, but what makes Pioneer interesting is that you don’t have to pay for the full program to get rid of them. Pioneer has a series of modules which you can add to the basic software which can remove the watermarks…