JUST IN Microsoft and Intel are expected on Tuesday to pledge their support for HD-DVD, the next-generation DVD format created by Toshiba. Microsoft had previously remained neutral in the standards war between HD-DVD and Sony-backed Blu-ray, as the company’s VC-1 Windows Media Video codec will be included with both formats. Tweet betanews.com
Daily Archives: September 26, 2005
The Star Wars: Episode III DVD Features
“The deleted scenes include one that fans have been waiting a long time to see, one that shows Yoda arriving on the swamp-planet of Dagobah, where Luke Skywalker meets him in ‘The Empire Strikes Back.’” Tweet digg.com
nVidia 78.05 driver Released
If you have an NVIDIA based card and want to run Day of Defeat Source or the upcoming Lost Coast, you’re going to need these. Tweet ign.com
Anarchy Online to Teach Technical Writing
Amanda Linder, a graduate teaching assistant at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, now uses Anarchy Online to teach Technical Writing. While past teachers had students read a sci-fi novel as the context for all the writing assignments (reports, instructions, memos, and the like), Amanda has students play – and write from the context of…
ABC to repeat ‘Lost’ season premiere
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) – ABC will postpone Wednesday’s scheduled premieres of 8-9 p.m. comedies “George Lopez” and “Freddie” for one week to make room for a rerun of the season premiere of “Lost,” which will lead into the drama thriller’s second episode at 9 p.m. Tweet reuters.com
Get Smart’s Don Adams Passes Away
Don Adams, the wry-voiced comedian who starred as the fumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart in the 1960s television spoof of James Bond movies, Get Smart , has died. He was 82. Tweet comingsoon.net
Call of Duty 2 Demo Incomming!
Exciting news today, the Call of Duty 2 demo is expected in the next few hours according to Voodoo Extreme. Great! who care’s about Day of Defeat Source… Tweet co.uk
Yet Another Gmail
It would appear that Google’s lawyers didn’t do a particularly good job scouring the world for the use of the Gmail name before launching the email service. A few months ago, the company officially renamed Gmail to Google Mail in Germany after the guy who owned the Gmail trademark in Germany wouldn’t give it up.…
STAR WARS TOPS LIST AS AFI’S BEST SCORE OF ALL-TIME
American Film Institute (AFI) revealed the top 25 film scores of all time in The Big Picture-AFI’s 100 Years of Film Scores, a one-night only presentation produced by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association in cooperation with AFI. A jury of over 500 film artists, composers, musicians, critics and historians selected John Williams’ iconic score from…
Joss Whedon’s “Serenity” Premieres Friday
The Serenity movie, based off of the now popular canceled series Firefly, will premiere in theaters this Friday in the U.S. Just a reminder. Tweet digg.com
