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Rogers confirms Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 price at launch event

April 14, 2010July 19, 2010 drsquid Android, event, Rogers, Sony, Sony Ericsson, superphone, x10, Xperia7 Comments

On Monday night, at the Revival bar in Toronto, Rogers and Sony Ericsson held and launch party for the new Xperia X10 Android handset. We were there to cover the event, and we will be posting some exclusive interviews with the President of Sony Ericsson US, Anderson Teixeira, and Raj Doshi, Rogers VP of Mobile Product Management. We also got some hands on time with the phone, and the Timescape and Mediascape UI was surprising not as laggy as some early reviews had indicated. The phone is sadly only running…

rgbFilter @ TCAF 2009 – Jamie McKelvie, Ray Fawkes & Alec Longstreth

January 21, 2010May 7, 2010 drsquid Comics, event, Image, Jamie McKelvie, ka-blam, lulu, Oni Press, Phonogram, Ray Fawkes & Alec Longstreth, TCAF, tcaf 20093 Comments

Last May we attended the Toronto Comic Arts Festival, and got a chance to talk to a lot of the artists at the show. We posted 2 videos back in May, but a lot of the other interviews were put on the backburner, so, after a long delay, we will finally be posting the remaining videos, just in time to coincide with the announcement of TCAF 2010 guest list. In this video we talk to Jamie McKelvie, the artist, with writer Kieron Gillen, of Phonogram, Ray Fawkes, one half of…

TCAF 2010 website goes live with exhibitors list

January 19, 2010 drsquid Comics, event, TCAF 2010, Toronto1 Comment

The Toronto Comics Arts Festival’s website just went live with the complete exhibitors list. Along with last weeks announcement of featured guest Dan Clowes, other noteable guests include James Sturm, author of The Golem’s Mighty Swing, and Evan Dorkin, the man behind Milk & Cheese! Check out the TCAF website here for all the details.

Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Coverage, continued…

December 29, 2009December 29, 2009 drsquid Bell, Blackberry, cellphone, event, HTC, Huawei, launch, Mobile, Rogers, Samsung, Telus, Toronto, Wind Mobile9 Comments

Our continued coverage of the December 16th Wind Mobile launch in Toronto…in Part 2 Ken Campbell, CEO, and Chris Robbins, Chief Customer Officer, talk in more detail about Wind, the phones, and their initial plan offerings. Part 3 includes rest of the press conference, and their first customer getting his phone. Parts 4 & 5 conclude the coverage, with a Q&A session, some shots of their phones, their second customer, and a short interview with Chris from Wind, where he mentions Wind’s current lack of support for enterprise mail on…

Wind Mobile Toronto Launch Video, Part 1

December 19, 2009December 19, 2009 drsquid cellphone, event, Mobile, Toronto, Wind, Wind Mobile6 Comments

On December 16th Wind Mobile launched in Toronto, with a Grand Opening ceremony at their Queen’s Quay location. rgbFilter was there, and captured it all on video. Part 1 covers the ceremony outside with two wind executives, Tony Lacavera, Chairman, and Ken Campbell, CEO. Stay tuned for part 2, which includes the press conference with more details about their offerings,and a Q&A session. I will also be posting some detailed thoughts about Wind mobile, and their current offerings…so far I have come to the conclusion that currently Wind is definitely…

Boxee Media Center Beta arrives Dec 7

November 6, 2009November 6, 2009 Doug Groves beta, Boxee, event, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows0 comment

Boxee, the social media connected media center, is having a beta reveal party on December 7, 2009. The software has been in alpha for the past year or so, and brings a wealth of online content to the living room interface, whether you’re running Windows, Linux, Mac or Apple TV. From the annoucement: At the event we will demo the new Beta, launch new applications from partners and start a 4-weeks early-access for users to test the Beta before we release it to the public at CES on Jan 7th….

Toronto Zombie Walk and Hallowe’en Closing In

October 23, 2009 Doug Groves event, Halloween, make up, tip, zombie walk4 Comments

The Toronto Zombie Walk is only a day away (Saturday Oct 24, 2009), and Hallowe’en -the best holiday of the year! – is just around the corner, so for anyone thinking of really ghouling it up for the events, I thought I’d pass on some most excellent make-up tips I’ve run across via Instuctables … don’t worry, no gory picture until you click on…

Fan Expo 09: Dragon Age Origins

October 7, 2009October 9, 2009 Doug Groves Bioware, Chris Priestly, Dragon Age, event, Fan Expo 2009, interview4 Comments

Alex talks with Chris Priestly of Bioware about their upcoming game Dragon Age: Origins. It’s a wide ranging discussion about everything from sex in the game and refining moral choice options to developing the tool set for user generated content and discussing the dev team behind the new RPG. Some people have been having some issues with the Blip video frame rate so click more to see a YouTube version in 2 parts

Fan Expo 2009: Robert Duncan McNeill

September 21, 2009 Doug Groves event, Fan Expo 2009, interview, Toronto0 comment

Robert Duncan McNeill was kind enough to take a few minutes to talk with Ryan about both some of his past work, as well has his role as an exec producer and director on the fan fave show Chuck.

Fan Expo 2009: Montage!

September 16, 2009September 16, 2009 Doug Groves Aaron Douglas, anime, bloopers, Bruce Campbell, Comics, event, Fan Expo 2009, gaffes, Gaming, horror, leonard nimoy, random silliness, science fiction, Toronto, walter koenig1 Comment

The whole rgbFilter crew had a blast at Fan Expo 2009, and in the midst of putting together our interviews, we’ve cut together this montage of bloopers, gaffes and random silliness. There’s still more interviews to come after this, so stay tuned!

Gamers Looks From Behind The Monitor

September 14, 2009September 14, 2009 Doug Groves event, Fan Expo 2009, Gamers, MMO1 Comment

Whenever one goes to a convention, there’s invariably things one misses. On that list this year was the screening of GAMERS, a documentary feature film turned web series, focused on the lifestyles of, well, various types of gamers. The first episode focuses on the MMO crowd, and can be watched above. The press release follows the break…

Fan Expo 09: The Anthology Project

September 14, 2009September 14, 2009 Doug Groves Anthology Project, Comics, event, Fan Expo 20095 Comments

Nick Thornborrow, one of the members of The Anthology Project, was kind enough to sit down with Ryan for a few minutes to explain some of the details behind the goals of the project. After the video, be sure to visit their site to see some great work.