Posted November 29th by David Rodriguez in Music, Reviews, Xbox 360
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Video games wouldn’t give players a great experience if they didn’t feature a stellar sound design. Gears of War 2 is one of this year’s most highly acclaimed games for the Xbox 360. Epic Games went all out when it went to composing its soundtrack. The score was composed by Steve Jablonsky and recorded with the Skywalker Symphonic Orchestra and Chorus at Skywalker Sound. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted November 28th by David Rodriguez in Reviews, Video Games, Xbox 360
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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. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted November 26th by jamesdtj in Blu-Ray, DVD, Reviews
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I am a huge fan of Futurama- both in that I love the series, and I am a physically large fanboy. Bender’s Game is getting fantastic reviews, and is considered by most to be the best of the Futurama films released thus far.
However, I disagree. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted November 24th by David Rodriguez in Internet, Opinion, Video, Web 2.0
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[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.
Posted November 24th by Ted Stokes in Blu-Ray, DVD, Reviews
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By now most have seen the Band of Brothers 10-part television series. For those who haven’t it’s a World War II drama which chronicles the story of the men of the US Easy Company through training all the way to the end of the war on the European front. While the show has been on DVD for a while it has just come to Blu-ray so it’s time to take another look at Band of Brothers to ask if it is better on Blu-ray? Read the rest of this entry »
