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There's something in the water
She plays Alice Cullen and, like the rest, that character has fans.
You may be forgiven for confusing the Destructoid Home Page for Gamespot, but don't worry, it's intentional but pay attention to the header and prepare to laugh.
The Sling Media Slingbox Pro ($250, look for discounts) place-shifting video device has been available for more than a month now, but it's been only recently that its optional $50 HD Connect adapter was released. HD Connect exploits one of the best new features of the Slingbox Pro, its ability to place-shift video from HDTV sources. Now you can kinda/sorta watch HDTV from home while you're out on the road, using a laptop or smartphone, via the Internet.
HD Connect down-converts your 720p or 1080i signal into a 640x480 video stream, where the horizontal part is anamorphically compressed for transport, and then is stretched back out to that typical widescreen 16x9 format on your laptop in the field. How does it look, and is it worth $50?
Its video output looks significantly better than the stock Slingbox Pro's standard definition video, but there is a catch. You're only going to get near-HD-quality when you stream the Slingbox Pro's video within your own network. That makes it ideal for, say, watching some HD porn in your bedroom when your Slingbox is located elsewhere in the house on your wired or wireless G network. But its resolution is limited to 320x240 when you access your Slingbox from outside your own network via the InterWebs.
Here's what it really looks like, not nearly as pretty as its press photos:
A handy feature of the Slingbox Pro is its ability to connect and control four devices, and HD Connect now lets you do that with a component signal while also letting you pass that component video through to whatever viewing device you wish to use in your home theater as well.
HD Connect plugs into a port on the back right, which looks exactly like a HDMI port, but isn't:
The Slingbox Pro with HD Connect's improved quality was also noticeable using the SlingPlayer Mobile for Windows software on my Motorola Q Smartphone. Don't try watching an entire football game or a movie on the Motorola Q, though, because its lame-ass battery will give up the ghost after about an hour using the SlingPlayer Mobile software.
Overall, I give the Slingbox Pro HD Connect dongle a big thumbs-up, while at the same time wishing that it would've been included in the package with the Slingbox Pro. For more details, check out my full review at Consumer Electronics Net. – Charlie White
Slingbox Pro HD Connect [Consumer Electronics Net]
Axiomtek has released a fanless system based on one of its EPIC form-factor single-board computer (SBC) designs. The wall-mountable eBox600-FL is designed for applications such as digital signage or industrial control, and runs Linux, according to the company.
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Hardware - This Week | Last Week | YTD | LTD
1. NDS - 116,694 | 76,084 | 6,153,877 | 20,159,556
2. PSP - 75,027 | 65,609 | 2,385,574 | 6,917,703
3. WII - 54,362 | 36,230 | 2,951,022 | 3,870,665
4. PS3 - 50,564 | 39,178 | 934,310 | 1,391,868
5. PS2 - 14,875 | 8,855 | 682,503 | 20,837,362
6. 360 - 7,117 | 6,525 | 202,358 | 467,060
7. GBA - 82 | 262 | 50,247 | 15,348,326
8. NGC - 44 | 38 | 10,385 | 4,179,853
The PlayStation 3's potential is vast but it can't match the Xbox 360's features in its current iteration. By Chris Kohler.
Cultivation explores the social interactions
within a gardening community. You lead one family
of gardeners, starting with a single individual,
and wise choices can keep your genetic line from
extinction. While breeding plants, eating, and
mating, your actions impact your neighbors, and
the social balance sways between conflict and
compromise. Cultivation features dynamic graphics
that are procedurally-generated using genetic
representations and cross-breeding. In other
words, game objects are "grown" in real-time
instead of being hand-painted or hard-coded. Each
plant and gardener in the game is unique in terms
of both its appearance and behavior.
License: Public Domain
Changes:
The game now has an eventual "win" condition: open the gate to immortality and lead your fellow gardeners through it. The Lead button, used in achieving the goal, can also be used to quell a turf war. In-game tool-tips have been added to explain the buttons. The storage area has been limited to 10 items: older items are dropped once the limit is reached.
No, not the fat kid!
It's not their first 30-inch monitor, but as a big Samsung LCD fan I'd love to have one of these sitting on my desk. Like the other LCDs in the 30-inch club, the CX305T has a 2,560x1,600 resolution and a 1,000:1 contrast ratio. However, blurring won't be as big of a problem on this screen since as it is on the others since it packs the fastest response time (6ms) of the bunch. Not to mention Samsung's designers did a good number on its design. It's going for $1,640 overseas, but no word on whether it's coming to the States. I can only hope. – Louis Ramirez
Samsung CX305T [via Akihabara News]
Thousands upon thousands of games have been released, but what does 411 columnist Derek Robbins think are the ten most overrated among them? The 10th Hour this week covers the games that perhaps get a bit *too* much credit.
Kotaku reports:
"Go on. Pick your mouths up off the floor. They'll get all dirty, then you'll get sick, and nobody wants to be sick at this time of year. Especially when people ask you how you got sick, and you have to tell them it's because you care too damn much about the Japanese hardware charts and went and freaked out upon seeing that not only had the PS3 beaten the Wii again, but that the PSP had nearly caught the DS. And that's not relying on new colours or a Final Fantasy game. Those are regular, old-fashioned sales".
Filed under: Sony PlayStation 3, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox 360
Although the PlayStation 3 doesn't launch in Europe until March of 2007 (or maybe even later), and the Wii won't be out until next month, Microsoft has fired an opening salvo across the bow of the UK while both the PS3 and Wii launch in North America.
Joystiq reader Ian
noticed that today's issue of Metro (a free UK daily newspaper) has an ad from Microsoft on every single page, including the cover, touting the 360. There are two page spreads for
Gears of War, the Xbox Vision Camera, and even
Dead or Alive Xtreme 2.
Metro boasts that it's the world's largest free newspaper, distributing over a million copies a day. No doubt Microsoft imagines that UK gamers will be inundated with TV and web coverage of the launches across the pond this weekend, and hoping to get buyers to pay attention to the fact that while the PS3 hasn't arrived yet, they've got plenty of 360s on sale.
Now quick, someone suggest a song to get "The Metro" by Berlin unstuck from our heads.
[Thanks, Ian -- p.s. can you flip those images around? We're not da Vinci.]
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Tom Cruise is set to shock film fans as a fat guy in Ben Stiller's new comedy
Tropic Thunder.
1UP's Kathleen Sanders wrote on 11/16/2007:
"It's a big, big show for you guys this week -- you might even call it massive... get it? Good. That's where we start. I talk with other Mass Effect players Bryan Intihar, Jennifer Tsao, and Mike Nelson; we all agree that it's a great game, but HOW great is still up for thorough nit-picking."
"Our own Ryan O'Donnell is a big fan of the polarizing medieval parkour game Assassin's Creed. He gathered the reviewers on this one: Crispin Boyer, Michael Donahoe, and Andrew 'Skip' Pfister to discuss the finer points of Altier's controversial adventure."
"Perhaps you have been enjoying EGM's cover story on Ninja Gaiden 2. Well, now you get to sit down with Mr. James Mielke and see it in action, with exclusive footage!"
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Attorneys for telecommunications companies from around the nation converge to answer 48 separate lawsuits charging collusion with illegal government surveillance. Ryan Singel reports from San Francisco.
New shortened trailer now available.
SQLiteDBMS is a database management server for
SQLite. It allows an sqlite3 process to be
accessed via a TCP/IP network. It provides
Extended SQL, SSL, basic authentication, query
caching, WebDAV, access control, and replication.
It includes a simple Web server that takes HTTP
requests and sends XML responses.
License: BSD License (original)
Changes:
Some bugs were fixed. Stability was improved.
With little notable improvement to the formula and steps backward in several key areas, SmackDown! vs. RAW 2008 is a big disappointment.
Saint Dymphna is a valiant attempt at distilling, or translating, the Gang Gang Dance experience into the album format. by M. Clark
The simExchange has released their monthly NPD Preview report.
Key Points
- Wii and Nintendo DS expected to lead their product groups
- 40GB PS3 Model expected to increase sales
- Activision expected to dominate the holidays
- First-person shoots are cannibalizing each other?s sales
- Sony continues to struggle with its PS3 exclusives
IMPORTANT NOTE: All unit sales forecasts on the simExchange are from market trading of game stocks and futures on the simExchange prediction market, and not the forecasts of an individual analyst employing conventional means of forecasting.
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The latest issue of the UK's Official Nintendo Magazine has an interview with Nintendo's Eiji Aonuma about the Zelda series in which he discusses plans for the future, including thoughts on a potential remake of The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.
While the Superhero Hype! staff was out the last two days, there's been a lot of activity for The Dark Knight in Hong Kong, ranging from the press conference to the filming, for which many set photos and videos turned up online. To catch you up, you can visit this page on the SHH! Boards and the subsequent pages in that thread to view the photos and videos!
In this new episode of the 1UP show they take a look at Crysis, Call of Duty 4, as well as the new NiGHTS game.
One shopper at a Target store in Montgomery, Alabama says he was cheated yesterday after purchasing what he believed to be an 80GB iPod classic for his daughter. Upon returning home and opening the box, however, his daughter discovered a used and scratched 30GB iPod video in place of the shiny new 80GB iPod classic pictured on the box. "How could t...
The original game won significant acclaim, and is one of the best selling games to date on the Xbox 360 console, selling somewhere in the region of five million copies. That's not Halo numbers, but it's still a significant amount by pretty much any other measure.
A new technology from Phoenix could enable laptop users to skip the three minutes or more it takes Windows to boot up, giving them instant access to e-mail, web browsing and IM apps. What's more, it may give manufacturers more independence from Microsoft in designing their computers.
These are some new images of the Nintendo Wii game Star Wars The Clone Wars
Tags: Nintendo, Wii, Star Wars The Clone Wars
Van Helsing incorporates many evil characters and here is a look into the making of this film.
Check out the last batch of cars set to hit the pavement.
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PS3-Sense writes "The following screenshot has been leaked out of the closed Home beta forums. Its a post of PlayStation Home Community Manager, TedTheDog. He gives more information about PlayStation Home 1.0 and name some new features Home will get"
Take the tedium out of lunch by upgrading your midday meal to a truly moving dining
experience at Auckland?s The Grove. This November, The Grove has partnered with
Mercedes-Benz to offer lunchtime diners an enticing lunch menu and complimentary ...
In the spirit of "keeping green", Shoreline has introduced a new laptop jacket and sleeve, both of which are constructed using recycled plastic bottles. Shoreline says that the bags are designed around a self-imposed decision to become more environmentally friendly, advertising that the materials used have saved countless amounts of energy that wou...
Okay, so we love ourselves some Stephen Colbert, we're only human. However! There's something seriously amiss when NBC' s major Sunday news show get is the Comedy Central performer, who is "running" for President in character. "Meet the Press" anchor Tim Russert devoted nearly half of his broadcast this weekend to a fake back-and-forth with a fake candidate.
NBC isn't the only one buying into the Colbert Craze; The New York Times lent Maureen Dowd's spot last week to Colbert, and the Atlantic's Josh Green spent 1,772 words (we know—so close!) trying to impress Colbert's "people" in South Carolina (three P.A.s and an exiled intern living it up on the College of Charleston's palm-trimmed quad, come on people) into yet more stunt-topping by hiring him as his campaign manager.
Now, we don't want to sound all imperious and shit, and we get the idea, add a little levity to the race, distract the cranky reporters, take everyone down a peg or two. It's good clean fun. But there's a $46 billion war on, we hear. And! Wildfires! Drought! Our mayor is under attack! Britney has once again taken two children hostage! Chuck Norris is voting!
So we're glad that Colbert did a brief out-of-character web extra with Russert, in which he chatted about his show and his upbringing, because we know some people who actually think he's for serious! They're total dumbasses, but still! We hope he's not still making the Sunday morning rounds come primary time. We like our candidates boring, bland, solemn—and, you know, a smidge electable, because they'll be the ones in charge of killing foreigners and stuff.
Exclusive! Stephen Colbert [Meet the Press]
How's this for a brilliant idea: a cigarette that will still give you all the cancer, but without any of that sweet, sweet nicotine! You get no pleasure from smoking it beyond the satisfaction of committing yourself to 10 minutes less of life. Former FDA policy director David Adams sees a world where kids finally get their own cigarettes, so they can continue to "fit in" and "look cool" while not worrying about becoming addicted or enjoying the entire chemical point of smoking. And eventually nicotine will be banned anyway and only wealthy assholes will be able to afford antique cigarettes smuggled in from Cuba or something. [NYT]
MySimBook on Monday unveiled Radiolicious, a new iPhone and iPod touch application that allows users to tap into their favorite local radio stations, while allowing broadcasters to potentially advertise to millions around the globe. The entire software setup is free to use for both radio stations and users, with MySimBook paying any costs involved, save for a small service fee for the station to b...
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Would you rather '30 Days of Night' or 'Seven Years in Tibet'?
But blame falls on Microsoft, not EA.
Check out the hot new video for Empire Earth III
Corporate networks at risk from mass outbreak...
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