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Flying saucer on Roswell ranch captures international imagination

July 8, 2010 Doug Groves Aliens, cover up, i want to believe, pop culture, Project Mogul, Roswell, weather balloon6 Comments

It was 63 years ago today, on July 8th 1947, that the Roswell Daily Record ran the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”, which launched the most well-known UFO ‘cover up’ in modern history. Subsequently, the crash was attributed to that of a Project Mogul balloon loaded with crash test dummies and designed to detect Soviet atomic test blasts. Of course, one has to wonder why there would be crash test dummies on what’s supposed to be a high altitude, unmanned balloon, but outside of that…

Sony 3D Launch interview

July 3, 2010July 3, 2010 Doug Groves 3D, blu ray, Bravia, canada, Future Shop, Gaming, interview, Playstation, Playstation 3, Sony, TV2 Comments

A couple of weeks back, we had a chance to go hands on with Sony’s new line of 3D TVs and PS3 games. While at the launch, we also got a chance to talk with Karol Warminiec about some of their plans.

Walking Dead blog: Robert Kirkman and Greg Nicotero interviews

June 29, 2010 Doug Groves AMC, Comic, Frank Darabont, Greg Nicotero, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Zombies4 Comments

It’s pretty obvious why AMC is going all out on the official Walking Dead blog. It’s mainly publicity, and a dash of assauging the fear of some fans that an adaptation of the comic into TV format might water down the gruesome contents. On the latter, I think there’s little to fear now, as they’ve been pretty open that this isn’t going to be a PG show. Of course, fans of AMC’s other shows, Mad Men, and the absolutely brilliant Breaking Bad probably guessed this right out of the gate….

Crowd sourced funding and distribution brings Pioneer One TV series to life

June 17, 2010June 17, 2010 Doug Groves bit torrent, crowd sourcing, Kickstarter, P2P, Pioneer One, torrent, VODO, vodo.net4 Comments

It was just yesterday at NXNEi that we were talking with Perry Chen, one of the founders of Kickstarter about how the site has really helped facilitate crowd sourcing funding for creative projects, and how it can really help independent creators off the ground. Even as we were talking to him, a Kickstarter funded TV project called Pioneer One saw the premiere of it’s pilot episode (includes .torrent link), via crowd sourced distribution network VODO.net. Pioneer One, which is political thriller with a science fiction element as it’s jumping off…

Walking Dead: Zombie School

June 13, 2010 Doug Groves AMC, Comics, Frank Darabont, Gale Anne Hurd, Image Comics, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Zombie School, Zombies7 Comments

The folks over at AMC are certainly doing a good job of using the Walking Dead series blog as a production diary. Besides some of the make up work that they released images of, they’re including more and more behind the scenes featurettes and shorts. The latest is “Zombie School“, where the zombie extras are actually trained in zombie choreography. They’ve also put up the first production still (the image above, natch) and you can see the high res version, as well as the video, after the break…

The Walking Dead enters production

June 3, 2010June 3, 2010 Doug Groves AMC, Comics, Frank Darabont, Gale Anne Hurd, Image Comics, Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead, Zombies2 Comments

It’s no secret that The Walking Dead is one of our favourite ongoing comics here at rgb HQ, so when it was announced a TV series based on it was in the pipeline, we couldn’t be happier. A TV series based on the book could be potentially awesome, if handled properly, and eveything seems to be lining up in that direction. Although AMC’s list of original series is short, their track record is impeccable, what with Mad Men, and the best show currently on TV, Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad in…

Season Finale of FOX’s “House” Shot on Canon DSLR!

May 3, 2010May 3, 2010 kingpinlei 5d, Canon, DSLR, FOX, HD, House, Mark2, MarkII, Mk2, MkII, Philip Bloom, TV5 Comments

I found out about this via DP (Director of Photography) extraordinaire Philip Bloom’s website and it simply blew my mind. And it is big news for all you filmmaker-tech-heads out there! It appears the upcoming season finale of the FOX medical TV series “House” was shot entirely on the Canon 5D Mark2 DSLR.

Windows Media Center in HDTVs, Xbox Live TV around the corner… dare I say “synergy”?

April 29, 2010April 30, 2010 Doug Groves Microsoft, Windows 7, Windows 7 Embedded, Windows Media Center, Xbox 360, Zune Marketplace, Zune Pass3 Comments

Microsoft has talked in the past of making the Xbox 360 an ‘all-in-one’ set top device, capable of providing DVR and TV capabilities, but little substance has come from it. Now, Game Focus is reporting that according to their own trusted source, that an Xbox live TV service will be coming to both the US and Canada by 2011, and that this would work in conjunction with a major telecommunications company, which narrows it down to basically Rogers or Bell. Users will have access to live TV feeds, recording capabilities…

Zacuto’s HD-DSLR vs Film Shootout!

April 21, 2010May 31, 2010 kingpinlei Canon, Digital Single Reflex Camera, DSLR, Film, HD, High Definition, Nikon, Panasonic, shootout, Still, Zacuto4 Comments

**UPDATE: Zacuto has finally released Part 3 of their incredible HD-DSLR vs 35mm Film Shootout! This EP focuses on resolution tests with all these cameras plus the new Canon T2i and green-screen compositing tests. The green-screen tests are VERY interesting indeed. Hit up the link at the end of this article to watch all the camera goodness. HD-DSLRs have arrived! While indie filmmakers –including yours truly– have applauded its arrival, many professionals in the Film and Television industry still think of them as a fad, not to be taken seriously. …

New Rogers 500gb HD PVR released

April 20, 2010April 20, 2010 drsquid 8642HD, Bell, Cisco, DLNA, HD, MoCA, MPEG-4, PVR, Rogers, TV3 Comments

Rogers 8300 HD PVR has been on the market for over 5 years now, and a lot of users have been wondering when Rogers would release an updated HD PVR. The 8300’s capacity and technology is definitely well past being cutting edge, and with the release Bell’s dual tuner 9241 HD PVR last year the pressure was on for Rogers to bring out something new to compete with it. Finally, after a long wait, Rogers announced the availability of their new Cisco 8642HD PVR on their Redboard blog. Strangely even…

Bell bringing 3D Masters to Canada

April 9, 2010April 9, 2010 Doug Groves 3D, Bell, HD, Samsung, satellite3 Comments

Bell announced today that it will broadcast a 3D HD version of the Masters golf tournament, at least in a limited time frame. This marks the first 3D HD broadcast in Canada since January’s Consumer Electronics Show rode the Avatar wave to make 3D an important check box in the tech specs. Bell will be showing 2 hours of the tournament in 3D, between 5pm and 7pm Eastern, on channel 1000. To watch it, you have to be a Bell HD subscriber with the right package, and don’t bother looking…

The Pure Pwnage Showcase Premiere

April 2, 2010April 2, 2010 Doug Groves Bloor Cinema, Jarett Cale, Joel Gardiner, Pure Pwnage, Showcase5 Comments

Ryan and Dave head over to the Bloor Cinema to check out the TV premiere screening of Pure Pwnage. Though there were no wedding proposals this time around, Ryan did get a chance to talk to Jarett Cale and Joel Gardiner about working on a TV schedule and a lot more.