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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 11:18 AM

What Now?

I have had some readers ask what is to become of this blog. Well, it started out discussing Office Development , then it covered Threat Modelling , and most recently it has been about HDi . There have been several posts about the Pet Shop Boys and then
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Tuesday, January 29, 2008 9:36 AM

A Concert with PowerPoint Slides?

As you may know, Howard Jones played an acoustic show in Seattle last night with Robin Boult on guitar. The performance was fantastic, and the venue ( The Triple Door ) was actually quite nice with a limited menu coming from the kitchens of Wild Ginger
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Monday, January 14, 2008 12:02 PM

Good News

Not one but two bits of good news this morning! Firstly, TWICE reported on Toshiba's plans for HD DVD this year. Probably the biggest news was that the entry-level HD-A3 player will have a new recommended price of only $149 and that the higher-end models
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Sunday, September 30, 2007 11:43 AM

Wikipedia editing

Short post: In the interests of full disclosure, I've started editing Wikipedia on various topics related to HD DVD. Initially I made several "anonymous" edits, but decided to create an account for transparency and so I can "watch" pages as they change.
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Monday, July 10, 2006 4:12 PM

More Interlaced / Progressive Info

Seems not everyone believes me when I say that for filmed content (24fps), 30i gives the same end result as 30p. Well, check out the latest review of the Samsung BD-P1000 player for a bit of a hint. The review very clearly states (and you can confirm
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Saturday, May 20, 2006 9:21 AM

HD DVD Commercial

This message was sent with low priority. Toshiba has a cool HD DVD commercial up on their website at http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/hddvd/ Unfortunately it's a Flash page so I can't give you a direct link <sigh> but you can just click on the image
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Tuesday, May 16, 2006 2:50 PM

Blogging from Word 2007 Beta 2

Just a test blog entry to see how this goes... this is pretty cool, and means I won’t need my VSTO blog posting app any more (although it’s served me well over the years)! Here’s a picture of a sample iHD menu running in iHDSim: Anyway, more coming soon..
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