February 19, 2008
· Filed under Internet
Today I thought I would have a look at any new Google stuff, there was not much and YouTube was still classed as new. The only decent thing there really is Google Reader. Google say it can be said to be an inbox of your internet, but I say it is a glorified RSS reader without the site needing a RSS feed. The basic idea behind it is that you add a site to your subscriptions and instead of having to go through all your sites you check on, you just go to Google reader and it will show you anything new on the sites you have selected. Personally I use it to check on my friends’ blogs to see how badly they are doing and also for it to tell me when he new episode of Lost is on the internet (I watch on the internet because I cannot stand adverts interrupting).
So yes, if you have sites you check on daily I strongly recommend that you use Google reader because it just puts everything in one place and the site does not need an RSS feed to be added to your subscriptions. Just go to reader.google.com (I think you need a Google account) and just follow what it says.
February 19, 2008
· Filed under Drawings
This is a bit of a TV show concept me and Jordan put together in a maths lesson one day. For some reason Jordan was rhyming words with bean, so then characters emerged and what you see above is my impression of all the words we found that rhymed with bean on that day. The idea behind the show is that Jeff is the main character and he is picked on by everybody else because his name is not bean related, the land they live on is made of toast and every so often the evil spoon comes to attack their happy living. We have not gone too deeply into the personalities of the beans yet, all we have at the moment is that Spleen Bean is the source of all evil in the bean village, Machine Bean has a cog fetish and Kean Bean ha a book called “How to Bean”.
So yes, this is a really good foundation to base a program on I think, a few more characters are needed (like Obscene Bean) but there are plenty to go at, even an episode for each bean would make a decent series. So if you have any other words that rhyme with bean please comment.
February 19, 2008
· Filed under News
Well recently it was announced that blu-ray has won the format war, Toshiba has not admitted defeat yet but many shops are no longer ordering HD-DVD movies or players. Blu-ray has far more studios backing its format and after seeing that HD-DVDs near defeat shown in the news the public will definitely not be buying any new equipment in this inferior format. I have always said to my friends that Blu-ray will win and HD-DVD does not have a fighting chance, people could have gone down the line of thought that HD-DVD players are cheaper, but they were cheap because they were bad.
I think that the main thing that swayed things in Blu-rays favour was the fact that a Blu-ray player was as standard in the PlayStation 3, people may have not had the format war in mind when buying their PS3, as long as the games worked they would not be bothered, but when HD starts to take over they will already have the technology needed. So Blu-ray was already in people’s homes where HD-DVD was not, maybe there would have been a decent battle if HD-DVD was standard in the Xbox 360, then both formats would be in people’s homes and Blu-ray would not have the edge, but Microsoft sat on the edge so thankfully the superior format won. Another factor which gave Blu-ray a good change was its inclusion in computers, so Blu-ray was deep into the market, where HD-DVD was nowhere to be seen, people needed to find HD-DVD but Blu-ray was right in your face. The ting that won the battle for Blu-ray was its huge studio backing; I cannot be bothered making a list but blu-ray had the huge majority of the major studios so Blu-ray had most of the market. So HD-DVD had no chance from the start, right at the beginning I would have confidently bought all new equipment in Blu-ray being confident in the fact blu-ray would win. As soon as the price of the PS3 falls (maybe Christmas) more people will be getting the blu-ray technology and HD-DVD will be wiped out.
So long story short, shops are reluctant to buy a format which is barely alive, Blu-ray have many many more titles then HD-DVD do, Blu-ray is already in people’s homes with the PS3 and high end computers. So HD-DVD do not have a leg to stand on, the only good thing it has is low price, but that is a desperate act to try and keep alive. Just forget HD-DVD exists because Blu-ray has won.
