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First footage of Netflix on PS3 {Joystiq}
Nov 6th 2009 1:29PM I got this in this morning.
I can confirm it supports and plays back 720p.
At first I thought it did not as the first title I tried seemed to "hang" (Leverage TV Series) however another title I tried did in fact play and does so @ 720p
-K
Andy Ihnatko on Verizon Droid "iDon't" ads: baloney (mostly) {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Nov 5th 2009 10:18AM Erm. That was a *horrible* rebuttal article. His basic take was "these claims are all true but I don't care"...c'mon :)
Adobe engages Apple in passive aggressive warfare with iPhone's Flash message {Engadget}
Nov 3rd 2009 7:03AM @NohOne:
Very well-written and well reasoned...and it would have stayed that way until your imagined coup de grace:
The QuickTime container format is an open standard, has been for years, and is the container format for the mpeg 4 video specification. Either that, you don't know what "proprietary" means, because "MOV" is just as proprietary as engadget, windows, McDonald's fries and just about everything else. It is owned by someone :)
If you mean non-interoperable, well, note what I said before.
Nintendo officially announces large-screen DSi LL, hits Japan Nov. 21 {Joystiq}
Oct 31st 2009 7:45AM What the DSi LL demonstrates, in a nutshell, is that Nintendo's business is customer and market-driven, whereas, Sony (PSPGo we are sooo looking at you) seems to begrudgingly acquiesce to customer demands.
Sony seems to plan its strategy around forum and blog anticipation...but doesn't actually look at what is being bought and sold and by whom. The corporate culture there is similar to Apple's with regard to dictating what you want and need.
Sometimes it works. When it doesn't, they are VERY monolithic and slow to respond...to their detriment.
-K
Review: DJ Hero {Joystiq}
Oct 31st 2009 6:49AM I think the word all of you "DJs" (except the one) is looking for is "turntablism"...which is a wholly different style and class than (merely) beatmatching
There are some that posit that beatmatching lacks a level of showmanship...and only at the very advanced levels, such as key mixing, is really mowadays that much of a skill with the advent of so much software and hardware assistance.
That is to say, a kid with a bit of coin and 3 weeks of summertime constant practice and a sense of rhythm can put together a playlist that can be beat mixed fairly convincingly...but turntablism requires a level of manual dexterity and hand eye coordination.
Most of the "DJs" that I hear fobbing it off as dated are highly incapable of actually doing it in the first place :)
-K
Review: DJ Hero {Joystiq}
Oct 31st 2009 6:35AM I don't understand the "it costs too much" argument.
The game costs the same as any other game for ps3 or xbox360: $60.
The controller costs the same as any other Red Octane controller: $60.
*shrug*
-K
I heart my Apple TV, but as for 3.0 ... {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Oct 30th 2009 9:42PM So much for the "hardware/software" notion :)
Once you deconstruct it and then essentially install a different front end, hooks and extensions...I think it is a stretch to still refer to it as Apple TV as it clearly isn't the "hardware and software" product that Apple developed and delivered :)
-K
Survey says, yes, teens and tweens still want video games this holiday {Joystiq}
Oct 28th 2009 4:47AM I feel the same way, really. My oldest son, who is a teenager has, of course as he's gotten older, seen an R-Rated flick or two (some of the most thought-provoking films ever made are R-rated) and has played his share of FPS and such (I personally don't care for them...I call them "stress factories, lol) but my younger children...not so much.
There is a "knee-jerk" reaction it seems from "both sides" of the issue and a lot of adult gamers, you know in that 18-24 up to 30 demographic, seem to forget that there is a generation *between themselves* and the Boomers that aren't nearly as idiotic and irrational bout games and gaming.
Those would be our PARENTS.
You know, the ones that gleefully bought us all the stuff you guys consider "retro" when you are being polite. They are the ones oddly enough with the crazy talk simply because they remember the stuff they bought us wasn't as graphic.
They remember incorrectly, of course, but there is no talking to your folks sometimes. You know what I'm sayin' :)
We simply need to wait for a few more of them to die off to get a set of talking heads that know what they are talking about :)
Relax.
-K
Survey says, yes, teens and tweens still want video games this holiday {Joystiq}
Oct 28th 2009 12:21AM Some of these replies kind of disturb me, simply because I am a parent and a gamer too...with kids in elementary, middle and high school.
There seems to be this idiotic notion that everything that is appropriate for adults is appropriate for kids *when talking about game to gamers* simply because some gamers without children seem to think the mere discussion of this will somehow take "their" games away.
Honestly, I have LESS of a problem with the replies than I do with the initial notion floated in the piece in the first place.
But I suppose this is what happens when you have neither editors editing nor somewhat reasonable adults doing the writing in the first place.
The whole last paragraph was completely pandering to you guys...you know that, right?
:)
-K
New Gay Tony in-game anime is all too familiar {Joystiq}
Oct 27th 2009 7:21AM One thought about the odd political bent this took:
It is interesting to note that historically, Liberals and
Ultra-Liberals have a disconcerting tendency to suppress speech the
dissents...and usually, oddly enough, claiming a moral high ground
that justifies the suppression of opposing ideas and quashing of
other freedoms based on some sort of intellectual superiority...when
in fact it could be said that it is intellectually corrupt to do so.
Just something to think about, considering the way this comment
thread has run...
-K
