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It's no surprise that Kobe Bryant is a huge game film addict, but the LA Times's look at the tech Kobe uses to feed himself massive amounts of video daily is a great read.
Formerly a Japan-exclusive, the Wii Lens Cleaning Kit has Godzilla-crawled its way across the Pacific Ocean floor to the US.
Infinity Storage Media has a hybrid disc with both Blu-ray and DVD data layers. This means that it'll play on your ancient budget DVD player but it'll also play in high-def in a Blu-ray player.
While recently unsealed documents suggests that Microsoft knew about Xbox 360 disc scratching problems all along, Microsoft has finally stepped forward to respond to the allegations.
Posted by Nick Broughall at 4:37 PM on December 17, 2008
According to the ABC, EzyDVD has gone into receivership today. They're hopeful that they'll be able to save the company from complete destruction, and blame their current predicament on trading losses and lacklustre sales. But I guess that means that we won't be seeing their digital movie store happening any time soon, if ever. Here's hoping they manage to stay afloat in these tough economic times - even though they don't really venture too far below the RRP for their movies, they do have a pretty extensive selection, and their Beat the Bomb sales are always good value...
[ABC]
Posted by Nick Broughall at 2:45 PM on December 11, 2008
This is not something I enjoy writing about, but as gadget fans, it's our duty to put pressure on companies to try and minimise the environmental impact of shipping our favourite products. The latest villain is Madman Entertainment, who shipped a copy of Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law to reader Kieran in a monstrously oversized box.
UPDATE: Received an official comment from Madman about this.
Blockbuster has announced that they will begin offering 99 (US) cent DVD titles to lure customers into their stores during these tough economic times. Whatever, I'm still not setting foot in Blockbuster again.
Confession: Until a few days ago, I'd never calibrated my TV. There are a couple reasons for this. First, and most simply, I'm not down with buying a calibration disc that I will likely use once then never touch again. And second, to me, HDTV calibration is the gadget geek's equivalent to chasing the dragon. I've seen endless A/V forum posts of new TV owners begging and pleading for that one true setting for their new high-definition slab—it's not pretty. There is an easy way, though, tucked inside hundreds of THX-certified DVDs already out there, and it's quite possibly already in your movie collection.
HandBrake has always been the go-to app for ripping your DVDs into MPEG video files for playing back on an iPod or archiving on your network, and now in the 0.9.3 release, the multiplatform app will take any video file as an input source, not just DVDs. That means if you have a tricky video file you need to transcode to play on your PMP, game console or anywhere else, HandBrake has got you covered now.
Back in April, Philips announced plans to hand over its television promotion, sales and manufacturing to Funai. Now the company has expanded those plans to what sounds like all of their home theatre products, including DVD players, Blu-ray players and surround sound equipment. Oh, you'll still see Philips DVD players for sure, but it won't really be Philips. So have a good time dropping that little factoid to your favourite, know-it-all salesperson next time they gush about the Philips brand name. [NYT]
