Sony have announced that they will finally stop selling the storage format in Japan from March 2011.
3.5 inch floppy disk..
Earlier in the year Sony had stopped selling the Floppy Disk in most international markets because of reduced sales and the competition from other storage formats.
I’ll be honest, I thought the floppy had died out years ago, because lets face it there isn’t much you can keep on 1.4mb, not even one photo or one song. There was something nice, however, about putting a floppy into the slot, it was nice and clunky, like putting a cartridge into a snes or N64.
Avatar sold 1.5 million copies in Blu-ray on it’s first day of going on sale. Along with an additional 2.5 million DVD copies being sold.
Blu-ray.
Does the Avatar’s popularity on Blu-ray show that 3D is a format that we’re only interested in seeing at the cinema? This story seems bad news for 3D TV manufacturers, as the 3D version will not be available until early next year.
3D TV technology is new and 3D television are expensive, it’s also not surprising that far more DVD were sold than Blu-ray, showing that audiences either aren’t too interested in HD to spend more money,or haven’t made the leap into buying a HD/Blu-ray player.
It certainly might be sometime before 3D films will be the biggest buys, as Blu-ray is still playing catch up. Personally I’m not interested in buy a 3D TV at the moment simply because 2D works and looks fine and it has done for years and years.
Question
Are you excited for 3D TVs or are you happy with the one you have at the moment?
I saw this article in the news recently link about a small village which raised £37,000 to offer 200 homes the super-fast broadband that BT would not deliver.
Ethernet Snake by shadphotos.
Recently there has also been talks about a broadband tax so that the government could afford to offer everyone 2mps broadband. I’d be perfectly happy to pay a broadband tax if it were going to vastly improve the service, I pay for 16mps at the moment ad get between 10 and 16, so why would I pay for something that isn’t going to improve mine.
Why not aim to give everyone 40mps because then we’ll have an internet speed that will last a long time rather than 2mps which will need to be upgraded only years down the line.
I’d like to know whether or not you would band together with your local community to pay for faster broadband?
Werner Herzog has been discussing how he is currently making a 3D documentary about painting in the Cave of Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc.
Werner Herzog.
I must admit what he says he’s doing sounds really interesting, to someone whose not familiar with Herzog he may sound like a mad man. But as he explains no-one has ever been in this cave and the painting were created 32,000 years ago.
I wont write out what he’s been saying but rather embed two videos by Roger Ebert
If you’re sick of all the X-Factor rubbish in the charts, clogging up the air ways, then ‘The Razorbax – Something To Believe In’ is the album you need to buy. Each song is delivered with the intensity of people who love what they are doing, you can feel the raw passion from the music.
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The quality of this album in both the actual recordings and art work would put some well known acts to shame. The album is 12 tracks of pure honest rock ‘n’ roll that ‘deals with the struggles of the unemployed, drug/alcohol addiction, love, lust, heartbreak, life, death. ‘
The Razorbax are definitely a band to watch out for, with great live performances, a great sounds and great album it’s not going to be long until they get the recognition they really deserve.
Track List:
Available to Download and listen at Spotify/Amazon/iTunes et al
The Pacific is a new ten-part television World War II mini-series from the makers of Band of Brothers.
The Pacific.
The Pacific focuses on the United States Marine Corps’ actions in the Pacific Theatre of Operations.
The first two episodes were broadcast back to back on the 5th April 2010 at 9pm on Sky Movies (UK). The first two episodes are an immediate opener to what we can expect from the rest of the series. I really like the way each episode is opened but surviving war veterans speaking about their roles in the Pacific Theatre of Operations as well as Tom Hanks narration at the beginning. The visual are amazing and looks all the bit of it’s $150Million budget and is exactly what we can expect from a film produced by Steven Spielberg.
The Pacific could easily be seen as ‘another WW2 film” but it really isn’t, I think it’s a very clever move having this as a miniseries rather than a film as it gives you more time to connect with the characters, and unlike something like Lost which just seems to keep going and going, you know The Pacific has a definitive ending after the 12 episodes.
I can certainly say that The Pacific is a series not to be missed.
It’s on Monday at 9pm on Sky Movies so don’t miss it.
I must admit the title may be a little misleading as I don’t think the new layout sucks. Is it perfect? No, but was the last layout perfect? Certainly not.
New YouTube Layout.
I suppose the question as to whether it’s better or not comes down to the amount of things that are better or worse than the last one.
Parts that are better
-@ replys in the comments
-Thumbs up and thumbs down rather than 5 stars
-Tells you the amount of videos that user has made at the top
-Video quality changer doesn’t seem to stick anymore
Parts that are worse
-Too much white
-Videos in the side seem to be random and I would prefer my videos there not related.
Verdict
So it seems that there are more parts to the layout that are better, When the option to use this layout came out in beta I chose to stick with the old one. The major turn off was the thumbs up button meant favouriting the video which was the stupidest thing ever.
But as YouTube decided not to go with that and just a ‘Like’ thumbs up (There is a ‘Like’ list that almost acts like a favourites) which I think is the better option. I’m fairly happy with the new change, hopefully they’ll slightly update it with some colour but otherwise it’s a change for the better.
New YouTube Comments system.
The video shown above is ‘Gabriel’ our Film Dash 2010 Entry. Watch it here
