One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Thursday, 10 November 2005

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of no interest to anyone
This is probably of no interest to anyone other those who find this via Google, but the dvd surround sound side of Dualdisc version of Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better does not work in the Acura TL. In fact, all Sony Dualdiscs will not work in the Acura TL because they are not DVD-Audio. Sony makes SACD, which competes with DVD-A, so for Dualdiscs Sony chose to put only DVD-Video. So even though it says Dualdisc, and the back says "DVD side includes enhanced surround sound", it's not DVD-A, it's a surround sound version of the album in a video format that plays on the computer, which is bullshit.

I know most Dualdiscs are meant to be played on the computer or dvd player and not in DVD-A players, but still, way to fuck over the branding of Dualdisc by making some that work and some that don't. Those that buy CDs and are geeky enough to have DVD-A capability in their cars are usually the people that tell other people "buy this". Lesson learned, Dualdisc doesn't necessarily mean DVD-A, which I thought it did since all previous Dualdiscs I bought (NIN) are DVD-A and work in the TL.

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DTV is a new, free and open-source platform for internet television and video. An intuitive interface lets users subscribe to channels, watch video, and build a video library.

Cool things are happening. I've noticed since iTunes began managing video downloads I've been watching a lot more video material downloaded from the web.

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• Recording High Fidelity Audio on your iPod - use one of the most overlooked features on the iPod.
• Pan and Zoom in Photoshop Elements - Simple enough.
• How to take 'screen-based flashbulb' pictures - Do what the new iMac can do on other computers.
• A Beginners guide to mixing in GarageBand - Excellent tutorial. Read even if you don't use GarageBand.
• Recording Audio on Mac's - Damn good stuff. Bookmark the page.
• Multisession Burns Using Tiger's Disk Utility - Another excellent tutorial from Ken Stone. It is for beginner's, pass it along to those that pester you with questions on how to do this.
• Watch movies in the Software Update window - Interesting, useless Mac tutorial.

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Now BBC is trying to do that with audio, "under the Annotatable Audio project, radio listeners would be able to mark and add descriptive keywords to segments of programming they want to flag for bookmarking or sharing with others. It means they could highlight a specific item within a lengthy bulletin stream and return to that particular point later." And also this-"We decided to look towards the possibilities of user-created annotation and metadata... that might allow the collective articulation of what a programme or speech or piece of music was about and how it could be divided up and described." Man, this is important, video and audio still hard to find online, this would be a wonderful way to solve that problem.

(via BoingBoing)

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Mac Software Round-up

• MovieLogger 1.0 - MovieLogger is a text-based logging tool for QuickTime movies. Logs can be exported to Final Cut Pro’s XML file format (clip markers are automatically created from logs) or to Rich Text Format (RTF) for further text editing or printing. ($99)
• LensTweaker - Helps to remove lens distortion from your pictures. ($29)
• Front Row Remote 1.0 - Allows you to control Front Row running on one mac from another. (Free)
• Movie Jukebox 1.2.1 - Organize and play your movies, iTunes for movies. ($15)
• DoubleTake 2.0b7 - Stitches photo's into one big photo. ($12)
• MPEG Streamclip 1.5.1 - Don't know what I would do without it. For converting almost anything with video. (Free)
• DiskCatalogMaker X 3.6 - I don't use it but has following. Catalog your discs with this software. ($19)