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The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV |

The world’s first SSD-equipped Apple TV |
Apple TV Hacks

CellularRecombomat

A while back we had an ill-fated contest to find the best use of the Make Magazine's cellular automata video synth kit. Nobody seemed to get anything in anywhere near the deadline, but I've just found the project that would have been the clear winner- the CellularRecombomat, a bent, patchbay-equipped, optically sensing Critter built into a VTech kids toy case.

Traxdata MultiMediaDrive

The Traxdata MultiMediaDrive is a portable multimedia Hard Disk Drive that can simply be plugged into your TV set or any other type of screen for instant playback of movies, songs or photos.

[...]
The device ships with a remote control and can also be used as a standard external hard disk drive.

Traxdata's MultiMediaDrive plays the following media types: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX, Xvid, MP3, WAV and JPEG. It supports both FAT32 and NTFS file systems and has extensive DivX subtitle support. USB 2.0, composite video and audio R/L, component video cables are all included. The system costs £149.

Traxdata MultiMediaDrive

DealExtreme: $12.90 NTSC Mini Surveillance AV Camera (628x582px)

Dirt cheap NTSC security cameras-
Found Via Create Digital Motion
DealExtreme: $12.90 NTSC Mini Surveillance AV Camera (628x582px)

Popgadget: FastVDO SmartCapture Lite - Tiny USB device captures and shares video

Another USB dongle H.264 encoder, but what differentiates it from, say, the Turbo264, is that this one has its own analog input and it claims to encode in real time.

Popgadget Personal Technology for Women: SmartCapture Lite - Tiny USB device captures and shares video

Create Digital Motion - Record Your Gigs and Legacy Media to H264: Blackmagic Video Recorder

CDM shows us a nice looking hardware H.264 encoder from Blackmagic, your choice of inputs.
Create Digital Motion - Record Your Gigs and Legacy Media to H264: Blackmagic Video Recorder

5 minute romp through the IP - Patch based modular analog video computer run by a gentleman in a viking hat.

I am speechless.

Forums are up

I just set up public forums for Video Thing! I put in some basic topics, but for the most part anything goes. Have fun.

I'm live bogging Digital Cinema Summit at NAB

ProVideo Coalition.com: HD for Indies by Mike Curtis

...and I'm typing this while walling with my iPhone.

Cool panel on 3d - all my notes posted at Above link

MAKE: Blog: Panoramic video experiment

Another Make Magazine reader named Dr. Photon attempts Cementimental's Christmas bauble 360 degree lens hack. Unfortunately Mr. Photon does not have any video available to view from what I saw.

Quadruplex - Call for Submissions

Pete from Quadruplex writes:

hi wiley,

Hi, I really enjoy your blog and the videothings that you find.

I'm putting together a video screening that I think would be right up
video thing's street [...]

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the 2 mile
QUADRUPLEX
Video bending and noise films

Please Forward!

The 2 mile Quadruplex is a new film organisation that is pro-magnetism and
anti-narrative.
We are looking for video in the following (made-up) genres:

* noise
* video-synthesis
* video-bent
* demoscene
* trash/broken
* old media
* data bending/'Mush'-inima
* ear-eye experiments
* VHS nostalgia
* other...

for an evening of video, film and live performances in Hull, UK.
Deadline: 30th May 08

Screening in late June, exact dates TBA

Please send DVDs, mini-DVs or twisted VHS tapes to:
Pete McPartlan
The Quadruplex
140 Worthing St
Hull
HU5 1PR
UK

Or contact Pete about submitting online on: info(at)quadruplex.co.uk
Please don't directly e-mail video files...

www.quadruplex.co.uk

Create Digital Motion - The Battle for Analog: VHS and the Evils of DVD

From CDM:

"We know a little bit of our soul died when we brought in all this digital tech to our work. (Happy side note, though: my eyes now glow red. It’s totally awesome at parties.) So, we now proudly present The Battle for Analog, a completely nonsensical look at the analog world we might leave behind. (Well, unless you carry some mobile VHS decks to a gig, which could be a great idea … a little magnetic distortion live, anyone?)"

Create Digital Motion - The Battle for Analog: VHS and the Evils of DVD

Cute, but it sure is heavy on the, uhh.... digital effects.

Wednesday YouTube Scanimate videos:

More awesome Scanimate footage via youtube:

Tech Digest: Texas Instruments' Pico chipsets go into production - projection coming to mobile phones in 2008?

Tech Digest: Texas Instruments' Pico chipsets go into production - projection coming to mobile phones in 2008?

Thanks Gentry!

Japanese Pixelvision cameras

From videothinger Bohus Blahut:

Just thought that you might be interested in the PXL-2000 article i just wrote. It's about the PXL's that were made in Japan in the late 90's.
http://www.retrothing.com/2008/02/pixelvision-mys.html
I will be posting a video review of a modified PXL very soon. I'll let you know when it happens. Seems almost dumb to shoot a review of the PXL in HD.

Apple TV 2.0 vs. Blu-Ray, DVD & HD Cable: The Comparison [updated] | iLounge

Apple TV 2.0 vs. Blu-Ray, DVD & HD Cable: The Comparison [updated] | iLounge

Apple TV Take 2 released in the wild

The AwkwardTV folks are already at work hacking it. First word is that the OS is still 10.4.7, which means that old hacked plugins may still work.

Downfall of HD-DVD

Macworld Keynote: Apple TV Take two

Live from the MacWorld Keynote- the next big update to iTunes and the Apple TV: HD movies, 5.1 Audio $2.99 and $3.99 movie rentals from all the major studios (4.99 HD rentals), flickr and .mac photostreaming, rent movies directly on the AppleTV without a computer. Similarity engine movie reccomendations, and subtitle support (finally). If only they would let you add perian and movie subfolders or playlists without hacking it, I'd start giving them out to everyone I know as gifts. They're still too scared to address that "user with 800 divx movies with .srt subtitles" market. I guess I can't blame them.