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March 2006 - Posts

HD DVD Launches in Japan

In case you hadn't seen the news, Toshiba launched their first HD DVD players in Japan today ! Only a few weeks now until I get my player from amazon.com ... the video quality on these things is amazing , and the interactivity rocks :-) The ironic thing
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Quick Intro to iHD

After posting my Hello, World sample , I realised I hadn't really explained what iHD was. You might have seen the demo of the kinds of things iHD can do, but that's not very geek-friendly, now is it? In a nutshell, iHD (" i nteractivity for H igh D efinition")
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Hello, World in iHD

It's traditional to introduce any new programming language or environment with a "Hello, World" program, so we'll do something similar here for iHD. Writing applications in iHD is a bit like writing web pages; the basic layout and styling is described
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There's more to HD than, uh, HD

A lot of consumers are under the impression that higher-resolution images are the only thing that HD DVD offers over traditional DVDs. Whilst dramatically increased video quality is certainly one of the most visible features of the new format ("visible"
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Back up and running?

Another server, another web service to code against, another job... hopefully I'll be posting more frequently again!
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High Definition Facts

High Definition Facts If you follow tech news, you’ve probably heard about High Definition movies and the two competing "shiny disc" formats -- HD DVD and Blu-ray -- and the new copy-protection system, AACS . Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation
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