Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan
Universal announced today that they would stop producing HD DVD discs and instead support Blu-ray.
That leaves Paramount as the only major studio still supporting HD DVD, though they’re likely in the process of drafting their own press release right now.
Paramount is still under contract to produce HD DVD discs, so I would expect to [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan
With the Game Developers Conference underway in San Francisco, what’s one of the funnier things that could happen to Microsoft at the expo?
If you said to have one of their demo units get the infamous Red Ring of Death (RRoD), you’d be right and they did.
At their own booth one of the demo machines has [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan
The Apple online store went offline today for a bit earlier this morning and when it came back there were two changes:
The price of the 1GB iPod Shuffle has been dropped from $79 to $49
A new 2GB version has been announced and will be priced at $69
The new price on the 1GB version is effective [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan
Several hours ago Toshiba had a press conference in Japan, and even before Toshiba president Atsutoshi Nishida took the stage a press release hit the wires:
“Toshiba Announces Discontinuation of HD DVD Businesses”
After talking a bit about how great the HD DVD format was, Nishida announced that Toshiba was existing the HD DVD business and his [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan
This is pretty amazing.
Every Windows user has likely heard any number of annoying sounds for events like a program error, Windows shutting down, etc.
What if you were to take all those sounds from Windows 98 and XP, play around with the pitch a bit, and try to arrange them into a song?
Someone with the handle [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan
According to more than one tipsters/GameStop employee, beginning tomorrow GameStop will no longer be accepting HD DVD discs for trade-in.
So much for turning in a few HD DVD discs so you can buy an overpriced used video game (oops, did I say that?).
UPDATE: Its official–GameStop will no longer take HD DVD movies for trade-in. Check [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan
You may have see a few different blogs posting that iPhone 1.1.4 firmware was rumored to be just around the corner, possibly coinciding with a release of the iPhone SDK.
Oops, just a prank.
Kelly at Tiny Code thought the fake leak would be funny, and that’s what the different sites have been reporting on–his prank.
“Tiny-Code never [...]
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Posted on February 19, 2008 by Dan
Could Epic Games, creators of Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and the Unreal Engine (among others), be an acquisition target for Microsoft?
GamePro editor Travis Moses thinks so and in the latest issue of GamePro he says “Microsoft will buy Epic Games for $1 billion this summer.”
“Epic Games is one of the few highly regarded indie [...]
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