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Category: Movies

  • Fantastic 4 – Rise of the Silver Surfer

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    Pretty much the same fair as the first F4 with JA looking fab as usual. Good special effects but the story line is a bit obvious …

  • Fourplay

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    SABC3 aired Fourplay’s CPT concert at the CTICC from last year on Sunday eve. As we were there, it was quite interesting to watch it from the camera’s point of view. Of course the concert was brilliant.

  • The No. 23

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    This new movie starring Jim Carrey is interesting from 2 points of view: it’s not a comedy ( I’m not saying that JC only does comedy but most of his movies are in that vein ) and secondly, it’s a very unusual non-comedy. It begins with JC’s character finding a book written by, what seems…

  • HD-DVD

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    A very interesting post on dissecting a brand new HD DVD unit can be found here and associated post here. Quite interesting is the fact that the Tosh would appear to run a form of linux ( in this case possibly Red Hat ). Let’s hope the GPL is credited appropriately. Also intersting in the…

  • Movies

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    Watched The Cave and Doom recently – TC was probably a bit better than Doom but both are mostly just for vegging. On the cinema scene, saw Firewall ( std Harrison Ford fare but still good ), 8 Below ( very good and one for the animal lovers out there ) and Underworld Evolution (…

  • AV Stuff

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    I’ve been playing around with a lot of Linux AV apps lately especially in the handling and conversion of video. Found an excellent article at linux.com which details converting any video file to dvd format. The only thing missing here is that it seems you can only do one video file per dvd. Perhaps one…