I’ve been brewing over QoS for a while now, and I’m ready to render judgement. It wasn’t a great movie. It was very nearly not even good. Let’s see… what went wrong? Well: Casino Royale set an impossibly high bar, is the short version. Casino Royale delivered (for Bond) realism and authenticity in its action sequences, [...]

A really good movie. Powerful, even. Excellent performances all round, especially Clive Owen and Chiwetel Ejiofor. In short: it’s the near future. No children have been born for 18 years, worldwide. The world has fallen into ruin, except proud, fascist Britain, which is maintaining a stiff upper lip and rounding up all illegal immigrants – ‘Fugees [...]

For Kasie, who wants to put her skydiving video on myspace. This post describes how to convert an unprotected DVD into a format that can be uploaded to myspace, YouTube, Google Video or any other web video host. Protected DVDs such as store-bought or rented movies require extra steps that are not covered in this post. [...]

I finally got around to seeing Miami Vice. The cinema – Greater Union Gold Class at Macquarie – had picture and audio issues. The whole movie crackled from start to finish. Big black specks littered the screen right the way through the movie. I couldn’t ignore them for the first half hour, but after that [...]

Via Ars: US television network ABC is concerned about losing ad revenue to DVR-loving, ad-skipping consumers, and it has a plan to stem the bleeding—deactivate the DVR fast forward button. Yes, we just adore those annoying unskippable sections of DVD that prevent you from watching the part you actually want to watch until you’ve sat [...]

Via Kotaku, we hear about a “credibility budget” Gamedev website Gamasutra has a feature up that puts into words a concept I’ve been struggling to explain for years. The author modestly calls it “Ken Perlin’s Law”, but I venture that his own term, “credibility budget”, is far more catchy: That’s as good a word as [...]