Tag: hd
Supernova add-on for Galaxy on Fire 2 announced
Fishlabs has issued a press release telling customers about the upcoming second add-on for their popular space RPG Galaxy on Fire 2. From the press release:...
Instacast HD screenshots for your viewing pleasure
Vemedio has published some screenshots of their podcatching application, Instacast, for the iPad. We should say upfront that we’ve been testing it throughout the beta...
Panasonic releases promised AVCCAM Importer plug-in for Final Cut Pro 7
Panasonic this week made good on their promise to create a plug-in for Final Cut Pro 7 that allows direct importing of Panasonic’s AVCCAM format...
PopCap celebrates 30m Peggle players with HD version while Bejeweled 2 goes free
Plink plonk. That’s the sound of 30 million people playing PopCap’s Peggle across all platforms. Released back in 2009, Peggle managed to replicate its PC...
Angry Birds HD cuts price to $1.99
When you’re flying high, is there really any need for a price cut? With sales going so strong, cutting potential income doesn’t really make much...
Apple TV sales to pass 1 million units — Are we impressed yet?
Apple just announced today that they expect sales of the Apple TV to pass 1 million units sometime later this week. A million of anything...
Review: Freetalk® Everyman HD
Recently, Freetalk® has come out with a new webcam that broadcasts and records in HD. The Everyman HD is made to work flawlessly with Skype...
iPad HD apps and what it means for us
If you haven’t heard yet, and you probably should have considering the Apple echo-chamber was in full effect yesterday, developers have decided that HD should...
Getting non-encrypted Blu-Ray content to play on your Mac.
The lack of Blu-Ray support in Mac OS X is slowly driving me insane. As my Blu-Ray collection grows, my disdain for Apple executives snowballs....
Mac Users Need Some High-Def Love
The High-Def format war has been over for almost a year and a half now. That fact begs the question “When will us Mac users...
A Beginner’s Guide to Video: Part One
Complexity is an unfortunate byproduct of technology. Many substantial innovations we have seen in the last hundred or so years are very hard to understand on the surface. The process of compression is incredibly hard to understand in full unless you feel like studying volumes upon volumes of specifications for codecs (Compressor/Decompressors). Luckily, we don’t have to understand the intricacies of compression to use it handily. Before I continue further about compression, there are some important highlights about video sources that I need to touch on.