Category Archive for ‘Books, films and Games’
Dell Inspiron, HDMI, 5.1 / DTS / Dolby Digital – Getting it to work
Wow this stumped me for ages… I knew I’d had it working before so why wasn’t it working now? Long story short I’ve got it working as follows: AC3Filter installed Main tab – Check the “Use SPDIF” box SPDIF tab Check the “Use SPDIF” box SPDIF Passthrough section check all the boxes I unchecked the [...]
Crackdown 2 – from a Crackdown whore
Crackdown 2 arrived on release day to play on my new Xbox which seemed fitting as one of the first Xbox games I played was Crackdown 1. It was also one of the games I’ve enjoyed the most. Set in the familiar city that was the stage for Crackdown, the agency (of which you play [...]
Multimobile Development
As part of my day job I work with a gentlemen known to many as Matt Baxter-Reynolds. Here’s a link to his blog . Matt’s been an author and developer for quite some time so when he mentioned a new book title I was intrigued. Turns out it was something that I’ve got some experience [...]
Xbox 360 Slim – A summary and review
My delightful cherub of a son was watching TV rather closely without a nappy on. On came the sprinkler systems and my 4 year old first gen. Xbox was met with a piss-stained death. How undignified! As mentioned in a previous blog I decided to buy myself a new one (the old unit was v. [...]
Blade Runner: The Final Cut [Blu-ray]
After getting my Blu Ray player from Ebuyer I quite obviously needed some Blu Rays to ogle over, after buying Avatar (which is beautiful btw!) I went for the Blade Runner Final Cut. Any reader will know that I love my sci-fi films (see District 9) and this is one of the grand daddies, possibly [...]
Foehn & Hirsch Blu-Ray Player – Full 1080p, DTS-HD with USB Playback
Grabbed one of these beauts from Ebuyer and (for the price) I’m really chuffed… It’s a pretty small black glossy unit that is multi-region Blu Ray and DVD (don’t upgrade the firmware if you want that feature to continue… see post 136), Full 1080p, DTS-HD and even supports MKV playback from a USB memory stick [...]
Halo 3 : ODST
I’ve been playing this over the past couple of weeks pending the avalanche of new games that are incoming! To set the scene I’m not a Halo fanboy or hater.. just enjoy good games of which the Halo series has been some of them. This one however…. hmmm…. well it IS a good game, there’s [...]
District 9
To complete my District 9 ramblings… I saw it.. the wife and I both loved it. Nowhere near as sci-fi as I thought it would be. Apparently it’s based on this short film … http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNReejO7Zu8 8 stars out of 10! Thus completes the extensive review.
District 9
ooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Sci-fi film I’ll watch em…. but when I here it’s a really GOOD sci-fi film I’m all over it like herpes on a back street pleasure lady. The Mrs doesn’t really like them so she won’t come to the cinema with me so the question is… Do I go on my own or wait [...]
more about this thing that I do
So I play a bit of Xbox 360 too…. Downloaded and paid for a brilliant XBLA game… Trials HD. The game itself is brilliantly simple, control a motocross/bike through a course of ramps, jumps, loops, explosions and stunt tricks and get to the end. The game only ever moves left to right and although it’s [...]