Category: Cinema
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One HD-TV video-projector
This is the promise of Sony with its new VPL-VW50. It will soon be available and able to display in full glory 1080p television shows (the maximum resolution and quality of HDMI/HDCP for High Definition TV). But the real problem stays that the price will be over 6000$. I’m not yet ready to replace my…
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Free movie: His Girl Friday
Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Some may believe that free movies and public domain films come only from low-budgets, B series (or Z series) and cheap cinematographic efforts. This is not always the case and, today, we want to stop at one movie with famous great actors and that can be easily…
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Native HDCP at nVidia and ATI
Those hoping that the future graphic cards supporting HD-TV (High Definition TV) and being compliant with the HDCP encryption standard would stay easy-to-hack will have to forget about their dreams. Just one after the other, nVidia and ATI announced that they would not stay long with the graphic chipset + HDCP chipset solutions of today…
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Free movie: The night of the living dead
Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org The grand-daddy of all gore and zombie movies. A cult movie. George Romero invented nearly all when he did this film. A group of people isolated from the rest of the world in a farm is assaultd by flesh-eating and blood-thirsty zombies (living dead eating human flesh).…
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MSI announces its first Nvidia GeForce 7600 GT card with HDMI interface
It has been a long time since I started to tell you about the lack of HDMI-ready PC graphics cards on the market. It leads to the impossibility to display correctly HD-TV from a HD-DVD or BluRay DVD from your PC (even with the most powerful graphics cards). But, today, MSI announces such a card.…
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Science in Science-Fiction
Sci-Fi usually includes a lot of science. It has sometimes been said that it is mostly bad science, but it is science anyway. The serious scientists of the Sci-Fi Science web site give us a lot of details about what we will find or what we should notice in famous SciFi novels and movies. Examples:…