Category: HD

…And Finally

…And Finally

| February 19, 2008 | 4 Comments

It’s now official, Toshiba have announced they pulled out of the HD format war ceasing production of HD DVD players and recorders. Universal have also just issued a statement saying they will be releasing their movies now on Blu-ray. There are no firm details as to how this will be handled, whether they will cease [...]

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RIP HD DVD

RIP HD DVD

| February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments

Yes, stop all the clocks and all that nonsense, HD DVD is as good as gone and Blu-ray has won the HD war. There have been numerous postings around the internet over the last couple of days claiming that Toshiba was about to announce they were pulling out from the HD race, and there has [...]

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Blu Friday

Blu Friday

| February 8, 2008 | 3 Comments

The trusty Pioneer DVD burner in my main PC has been wheezing and complaining for quite some time (it decided to stop writing dual layer DVDs a few weeks back, I only made five coasters before determining that), so while I was putting together an order on eBuyer yesterday (nothing particularly exciting, just updating my [...]

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Enthusiasm Overload

Enthusiasm Overload

| February 5, 2008 | 6 Comments

I will admit it, I was wrong about Call of Duty 4.  Very wrong.  I can finally see what all the fuss was about, it’s an incredible game. I floundered around on the first couple of levels and while it was initially very pretty it seemed more like a technical showcase wrapped around the old [...]

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AV Upgrade

AV Upgrade

| February 2, 2008 | 5 Comments

For the last couple of months I’ve been without sound on the PC after my Cambridge Soundworks speakers went bang rather spectacularly. So I’ve been making do with using headphones for the PC and the consoles have been outputting via the internal Samsung speakers. Not great, but hardly the end of the world. I got [...]

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