CES
On Monday January 8th to Thursday January 11th the Consumer Electronics Show took place. This year all the talk was about who would rule the future of home movie entertainment, BuRay or HDDVD. BluRay looks for victory in the fact it has 25gb+ on a disk while HDDVD's main selling point is that it is less expensive and offers only one hour less of HD content on a duel layer disk.
CES is more then a battleground for the DVD format wars, it also show cases the newest in Television technology, cellphone Technology, minor gaming technology and future innovations, so instead of writing about the best from each category I will write about what really caught my eye from this years CES. This year many new T.V.s were show cased. One in particular caught my eye Sharp's 108-inch LCD T.V. just because how huge it is, I mean 108-inches. If you want a T.V. that big get a projector, because if you can afford that T.V. I'm sure you could afford a projector and a completely dark room to go with it (probably at the same price of the T.V.). To complement your new 108-inch T.V. how about a HDDVD and BluRay player all in one. Thats right, all in one. Lg will be releasing the BH100 a HDDVD and BluRay player in February for the price of $1200 American for this all in one package.
MacWorld
MacWorld happened at the worst time possible this year a day or so after CES, so few people were able to visit both as this was in San Francisco and CES was in Vegas. This year the main hopes and wet dreams of Mac fan boys, the Iphone, was announced, I will talk about this later. For now here is what I think of the Apple TV. The Apple TV is a wireless device that connects you Mac to your TV, you can do a wireless transfer of files to the 40 gig hard drive and watch the files on your TV, so essentially you can watch your iTunes shows, video podcasts, and listen to music on this "Micro-Mac" and use your TV as a your screen. To me this "Micro-Mac" is a good idea for people who have Macs because it is not as easy for those people to hook up there comp to the TV as it is for people wit PCs.
iPhone
The iPhone, the holy grail of cell phones, this is a cell phone with iTunes, Pictures, Internet, Huge beautiful touch screen, 2 megapixal camera, Maps and, Widgets, all for $600, that may sound expensive, but look at the price of an iPod, PDA, Cell phone and, digital camera conbine them together and you will see that it is an beautiful idea. The only really bad point is that you have to buy it with a 2-year plan from Sprint. If this phone had a pay as you go plan that you could use with it it would almost be perfect. This may be a bust with how expensive some people might find it but now it seems to be a glimpse into the future of phone technology.
Thats it, those are my views of CES, MacWorld and, The iPhone. Sorry about the large font, technical difficulties.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Don't like it, change the channel
Sorry I wanted to test my skill and see how long a update should be so I am posting one today and Monday!!
Here is my test draft
In the recent years the censorship on Television has tightened its already iron grip on "profanities". In the past few years I have noticed certain scenes in movies that appear on T.V. have vanished from the air-ways, some might say its about time restrictions but I don't think thats true. After a certain Super Bowl incident involving one of the Jacksons and Mr. Timberlake, the FCC started to pull the plug on more sexual scenes, and swearing on T.V. but not violence. The keep people slamming each other into tables, hitting each other with chairs, fist fighting, gun fights, and just look at any of the CSIs that may not always be violent but there are some disturbing scenes, and people wonder why violence is on the rise among teens and tweens. Some even go as far as placing the blame only on Video Games, only because they are interactive.
As the FCC some directors, writers, producers are getting upset, even some have dedicated episodes to making fun of the FCC or how insane there policies are, like Family guy's PTV episode that included a song and dance about how insensible there polices are, and South Park, well they showed what Comedy Central would allow, the drew Allah giving Peter Griffin a helmet, but Comedy Central stopped it, but they allowed, in the same episode, Jesus, Carson Kressly, George W. Bush and, Angelina Jolie shitting on the American Flag, mid you this was after the controversial Allah comic form the U.K. and it may be against Islam's religion to depict Allah as a picture but as I view it they make fun of every religion on the face of the planet so why should one be more special then another.
The internet is becoming more and more a valid form of entertainment, more and more internet T.V. shows come out every month. Some have critical praise, take the example of Pure Pwnage it has become so popular that the cast and crew (well the one man crew is in the show) were able to quit there jobs because the make off of their sponsors, and from selling merchandise. Hak.5 is another example. They took the idea of The Screen Savers and made it better or at least different, but recently they have added a Call For Help feel with taking calls from there viewers. This leads me to my point about the internet if this quality of Show can be produced cheaper, less limiting like if it was on T.V. and much more available then T.V. how long until the FCC want to control the internet shows.
If T.V. keeps getting more limited as its current trend then more and more people from our generation will take their ideas for T.V. shows to the net and T.V. might eventually become obsolete.
Here is my test draft
In the recent years the censorship on Television has tightened its already iron grip on "profanities". In the past few years I have noticed certain scenes in movies that appear on T.V. have vanished from the air-ways, some might say its about time restrictions but I don't think thats true. After a certain Super Bowl incident involving one of the Jacksons and Mr. Timberlake, the FCC started to pull the plug on more sexual scenes, and swearing on T.V. but not violence. The keep people slamming each other into tables, hitting each other with chairs, fist fighting, gun fights, and just look at any of the CSIs that may not always be violent but there are some disturbing scenes, and people wonder why violence is on the rise among teens and tweens. Some even go as far as placing the blame only on Video Games, only because they are interactive.
As the FCC some directors, writers, producers are getting upset, even some have dedicated episodes to making fun of the FCC or how insane there policies are, like Family guy's PTV episode that included a song and dance about how insensible there polices are, and South Park, well they showed what Comedy Central would allow, the drew Allah giving Peter Griffin a helmet, but Comedy Central stopped it, but they allowed, in the same episode, Jesus, Carson Kressly, George W. Bush and, Angelina Jolie shitting on the American Flag, mid you this was after the controversial Allah comic form the U.K. and it may be against Islam's religion to depict Allah as a picture but as I view it they make fun of every religion on the face of the planet so why should one be more special then another.
The internet is becoming more and more a valid form of entertainment, more and more internet T.V. shows come out every month. Some have critical praise, take the example of Pure Pwnage it has become so popular that the cast and crew (well the one man crew is in the show) were able to quit there jobs because the make off of their sponsors, and from selling merchandise. Hak.5 is another example. They took the idea of The Screen Savers and made it better or at least different, but recently they have added a Call For Help feel with taking calls from there viewers. This leads me to my point about the internet if this quality of Show can be produced cheaper, less limiting like if it was on T.V. and much more available then T.V. how long until the FCC want to control the internet shows.
If T.V. keeps getting more limited as its current trend then more and more people from our generation will take their ideas for T.V. shows to the net and T.V. might eventually become obsolete.
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