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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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Thursday, December 13, 2007 5:22 PM

HD DVD Emulator for Xbox 360!

It's finally here! The Xbox 360 HD DVD Emulator went live today, enabling content authors to test their HD DVD content in a real-world consumer player before committing it to a shiny disc. This can save a lot of time and a lot of money for those folks
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 6:56 PM

“Open Season” Hits #2; World Scratches Head

If you follow the High-Definition format war at all, you're probably familiar with the weekly sales breakdown published in Home Media Magazine and other places. If you checked them last week , you would have seen something strange. Something very strange.
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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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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:37 AM

Helpful Tracing Routines

Last time we looked at conditional compilation , and how using it with HDiSim could aid with interactive debugging of runtime exceptions. But as useful as interactive debugging is, there are three major cases where it is impractical or impossible: When
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Friday, June 01, 2007 6:07 PM

link

No, not the application.link API. A web link. Or two. Some of you may have noticed a new name on the HD DVD Forums of late: Amy Dullard . She also has a great blog that focuses on getting people up-and-running with HDi. Check it out at http://blogs.msdn.com/amyd
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Saturday, May 12, 2007 12:36 PM

HD DVD creation on the Mac and PC

Although I tend to blog about HDi and advanced interactivity in HD DVD, many customers simply want to release their high-definition video quickly and cheaply. If you are a professional videographer shooting things like weddings, corporate events, marketing
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Wednesday, November 08, 2006 1:28 PM

Script Execution Order in HD DVD

An HDi application can use multiple script files so that you can better manage your code (more manageable files; easier source control; etc.). You do this simply by listing the files inside <Script> elements inside the manifest (and of course add
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Thursday, October 12, 2006 4:04 PM

Toggling Menus with the Menu button in 100% Markup

Here's a quick one: How do you have an HD DVD menu that opens and closes when you click the Menu button, but doesn't require any script? It's pretty easy, but it relies on using a dummy element to hold your state; in this case whether the menu "can open"
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Wednesday, September 20, 2006 8:37 AM

Bare Bones HD DVD Interactivity

We spend a fair amount of time focusing on "cool" menus in HD DVD -- with animations, transparency, and so on -- but sometimes you just want to get a title out and all you really needs is a basic menu system. You may even have some assets already set
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Monday, September 11, 2006 7:28 PM

Adding Picture-In-Picture to an HD DVD Title

Picture-in-Picture (PIP) is one of those "cool" features in HD DVD that looks really difficult but is really easy to do -- contrast that with so many other things that look simple or are taken for granted, but take forever to implement... That's not to
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Friday, September 01, 2006 11:42 AM

Scrolling Menus in 100% Pure Markup

After looking at drop-down menus in 100% pure markup , we turn our attention to scrolling lists. These can be used for things like chapter menus or other long lists of items. This demo is horizontal, but you could do it vertically also (and in fact, I
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Monday, August 14, 2006 7:03 AM

First European HD DVD Title is Open Source

Well, this should get the Slashdot folks on our side :-) Andrew pinged me this morning about the Elephants Dream HD DVD relea s e in Europe. The name was familiar to me, but I didn’t know why... had it won an Oscar(R) or something? No, it’s because Elephants
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