As frankps sees the world!

The year has more or less come to an end. It has been a very exciting year for me, as I have been working with projects like accessability, web standards and Internet trends. So let me dedicate one of this years’ last blog updates to the trends that I think we will see appearing next year. And yes, you can comment on this blog now in 2008 and come back to it in 2010, and then criticize me for all the wrong predictions that I made. […] Continue reading →

Fox is planning to bring my favourite TV-series, Firefly, to Blu-ray. An online rumor mill started buzzing a couple of weeks ago, after ‘Firefly’ cast member Jewel Staite revealed to an Australian convention crowd that she’d recently been contacted by Fox in regards to contributing to a new box set release of the complete ‘Firefly’ series. A Fox representative confirmed the rumor with “news travels fast”, and that the Blu-ray release currently was […] Continue reading →

My parents visited me last week, and during their stay, my dad told me that their computer had stopped working. I had put together a computer last november, and I gave it to them. Today I fetched my new computer, and put it together: MIST, 500W, ATX 2.2, 20/24 (power supply) Lian Li Miditower, Aluminium,black OCZ DDR2 4096MB Platinum XTC Dual PC2-6400 4x1024MB 800MHz LG GGW Blu-Ray writer og HD-DVD player (internal player), black, SATA Retail w/ Cyberlink software FOX+ P35A Intel P35 + ICH9 […] Continue reading →

In a new interview, Paramount’s chief technology officer offers up the most detailed explanation yet of the studio’s technical rationale for switching to HD DVD.With reports swirling that Paramount and sister studio DreamWorks received up to $150 million dollars in incentives to drop Blu-ray, Alan Bell, executive vice president and CTO for Paramount Pictures says there’s more to his company’s decision to dump Blu-ray than simply business dealings. […] Continue reading →

Untill now only Universal has been releasing their movies on HD DVD, all others have either been releasing their movies exclusively on Blue-ray (FOX and Disney) or on both formats. That led to Blue-ray outselling HD DVD. Many already thought the winner of the format war was Blue-ray. With right reason, Blu-ray title sales were outpacing HD-DVD sales by nearly a 2 to 1 margin. But out of the blue, Paramount and (sister studio) Dreamworks Animation announced (press release) that they will […] Continue reading →