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Vince Clarke interview on RBMA Radio.

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2009 06 25 Softa
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Forget Little Boots. La Roux brings the synthpop.

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2009 06 09 Softa
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Good news for H.264 compressionists.

I’m building a video editing workstation and decided to upgrade my Canopus EDIUS 4 to version 5. While looking for info on the upgrade pricing, I found Grass Valley’s Firecoder Blu. It’s supposed to encode Blu-ray specced H.264 from HD source at speeds up to 2x real-time. That’s 48 frames per second which is far better than the 12-15 frames per second I get with a brand spanking new Intel Core i7 920. Continue reading ›

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2009 06 09 Rauta
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Hobnox Audiotools blew my mind.

Hobnox Audiotools is not a new thing, apparently, but it was news to me when I bumped into it earlier today. Imagine running a Korg Tenori-On, a Roland TB-303, a TR-808 and a TR-909 with FX units… in your web browser. I know, it’s insane!

But Hobnox has really done it. They’ve created passable emulations of Roland’s legendary boxes and made them run on Adobe Flash. I fooled around with Audiotools for a while and was utterly amazed by how well the whole thing works. Sure, the sound glitches sometimes when you twiddle the knobs etc. but that’s to be expected, I’d say.

Head on over to Audiotools and have a blast.

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2009 06 08 Softa
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Uuden Star Trek -elokuvan kunniaksi.

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2009 05 29 Softa Comments (0) Permalink

Surprise of the month: LG BD370

After some rather promising word-of-mouth I went and purchased (as LG Finland never replied to my e-mails; thanks for nothing guys!) LG’s latest Blu-ray player BD370. I won’t tell you where I bought it from, but it cost me 215 euros shipping included. I had previously tested LG’s multiformat player which supports both HD DVD and Blu-ray, but I have nothing good to say about it.

BD370 is a different beast altogether. It’s a surprisingly solid product in almost all respects — and it’s got a bunch of very interesting features I’ve yet to see in its competitors. Taking all that and its low price into account, it’s easy to make the following judgment: BD370 offers currently the best bang for buck as far as stand-alone Blu-ray players go. Continue reading ›

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2009 05 27 Rauta
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I just looove new toys.

Built a new PC today. First x264 encoding test run under way. Seeing some rather nice FPS rates and the CPU seems to overclock very nicely without any special cooling gear.

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2009 05 17 Rauta
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Se hengittää sittenkin.

Tämä viikonloppu sujui leppoisasti pöydän alla könytessä, johtoja kytkiessä ja laatikoita penkoessa (etsien lisää johtoja). Otin nimittäin itseäni niskasta tukevalla otteella ja päätin, että nyt se penteleen studio laitetaan toimintakuntoon. Continue reading ›

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2009 05 11 Rauta
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Star Trekin onnistunut nuorennusleikkaus.

J.J. Abramsin kipparoima Star Trek on nyt nähty. Tässä lyhyesti fiiliksiä pienten spoilereiden kera. Continue reading ›

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2009 05 08 Softa Comments (0) Permalink

Panasonic TH-50VX100E -plasma.

Sain tänään testiin varsin poikkeuksellisen plasmatelevision. Panasonicin uusi VX-sarja on suunnattu vakaville kotiteatteriharrastajille ja sisältää paljon ratkaisuja Panasonicin ammattilaissarjan näytöistä. Continue reading ›

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2009 04 25 Rauta Comments (0) Permalink