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Game Review: Sonic Unleased – A step in the RIGHT Direction

Every now and then a good Sonic game is released to the masses. Fans and critics cheer and then Sega screws up the jubilee by announcing a new Sonic game that messes with the formula. Sonic Unleased has been touted by Sega as THE Sonic game that brings the franchise back to its roots and fixes many problems that have plagued recent Sonic games. Continue reading “Game Review: Sonic Unleased – A step in the RIGHT Direction”

Widescreen becomes Default to YouTube – The Change Begins Now

[UPDATE 12/4/08: YouTube has now enabled Widescreen embeds.]

YouTube has officially switched from the default 4:3 ratio to a 16:9 ratio for videos playing on their website. This is definitely great for future web video content. Now there’s a reason to upload videos in 16:9 ratio. Obviously there’s a difference between 16:9 and true high definition, but YouTube is taking it one step at a time.

In the past, YouTube’s user generated videos and professionally produced videos looked practically identical. We’re finally getting to the point where we may see a rift occur between these user generated content and professional content. When YouTube began, it didn’t matter what quality you uploaded the video at because it looked like crap. Earlier in the year, YouTube enabled high quality video streams and now that it has defaulted to a widescreen display, there is a reason for content producers to actually care about the visual quality of their footage!

This will only help the internet web video industry as a whole. If there has been one reason why advertisers have been hesitant to step into the web video market, it has been because a lot of web video shows don’t look and feel like a traditional TV show. By having YouTube, the king website for web videos, shift their focus from low resolution videos to high resolution videos, the web video industry will grow and evolve.

This is a big day for not only web video content producers, but consumers as well. We’re finally getting to the point where quality matters.

StuffWeLike TV Player fixed

We were having some issues with shows on the StuffWeLike TV video player. Some shows weren’t display their videos.

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Star Trek XI trailer kicks some major ASS

Even if you’re not a fan of the previous Star Trek films or TV shows, you will agree that this new trailer shows that the film has potential. You simply cannot argue against a trailer that simply shows tons of amazing looking action sequences and sleek set designs. For the moment Star Trek XI looks kick-ass!

Now your opinion may change once we get more in-depth story and character driven trailers out the door in the coming months, but for now pay $10 to see the 007: Quantum of Solace and you’ll see the preview for Star Trek.

In two days the trailer can be seen on the internet in high definition – but if you’re a geek leave your computer behind and check it out on the big screen ASAP! It’ll blow you away!

A little neat factoid, Alex Blume and I were in the hanger bay scene with all the other red coats. Yeah we’re trek extras. It was awesome.