Along with Adobe’s Creative Suite 5 (CS5) is the new Encore CS5 (invariably connected with Adobe Premiere Pro CS5 – which we reviewed recently). Encore has always been a handy tool to author your video content for delivery through different kinds of media: Blu-ray Disc, DVD, or a wide range of web-enabled formats. So what
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We’re going to get our game heads on and give you the lowdown on the top Sony PlayStation 3 (PS3 ) accessories available on the planet. Gaming consoles are selling like hotcakes, and is actually trying to take over the living room, kicking digital TV right out. Currently, the PS3 is one of the few
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If you’ve already jumped to Microsoft’s “the OS Vista was supposed to be” — aka Windows 7 — then you will be happy to know that our friends from Redmond have incorporated native Blu-Ray features into their newest operating system. We’re gonna give you the lowdown on using Blu-Ray technology for Windows 7.
Blu-ray Playback
A lot
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Every year, people who deal with content and media, and the people responsible for broadcasting said content in different ways get together for a week-long extravaganza of what’s new, what’s hot, and fresh insight on all things broadcasting — this is the all-powerful NAB Show. They have been doing this for more than 80 years
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We got a 25-pack spindle of DIGISTOR’s 25GB BD-R Blu-ray media. The blank Blu-ray discs were a perfect match for our brand spanking new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray burner that we just unpacked. Here comes the inevitable burn test.
Our trusty TEST BED:
ASUS K50IJ Series laptop, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, Core 2 Duo Proc, Vista
For burning,
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All you Mac lovers out there are probably getting a bit lonely out there, what with all the bad iPad press you’re getting. So we’re gonna show you some love as we test out our newly unboxed DIGISTOR Self-Powered Blu-ray Burner on a MacBook Pro.
DIGISTOR External Blu-Ray Burner on a MacBook Pro
Let’s get the
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We talked about the launching of nVidia’s ION 2 graphics solution a week ago. This is a follow-up of its critically acclaimed first version, the nVidia ION, a graphics solution that offers a more robust video performance than the more basic but widely used Intel GMA solution.
nVidia has touted the original ION for HD viewing
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Blame it on James Cameron and his Avatar movie, or it may actually be that people appreciate 3D imaging in entertainment. Or both. Whatever the case maybe, Panasonic is reaping the rewards as its first batch of 3D-enabled TVs sell out just on the first week of sale. Caught this at Bloomberg.com:
March 17 (Bloomberg) —
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We talked up nVidia’s ION graphics solution for netbooks a while back — mainly because it gave a more robust graphics foundation to an already thin netbook platform. Where the Intel GMA integrated video fails, ION graphics gave netbooks a fighting chance for displaying better video resolutions, better gaming capabilities, high definition video, and (shock!)
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We just un-boxed our new DIGISTOR External Blu-ray Burner. We got it in the same package that contained the 250GB Portable Hard Drive that we unboxed and tested a couple of days back.
We got one of these, and we're excited!
This is the tray-load version, and connects to your system via USB 2.0. As I’ve
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