7 posts tagged “xvid”
The End of VHS in 2008
- DVD Video Discs are still strong in the Retail Market
- High Def Discs (Blueray) arent that popular.
History:-
VHS was invented by JVC and then Sony released Betamax (better but VHS won).
Then VHS VCR's ended up using licensed Sony Techonology in the VCR's to make
VHS tapes and VHS VCR's better
Apprently there "Digital-VHS"(D-VHS), (never took off thou)
records digital high definition video onto a VHS form factor tape.
D-VHS can record up to 4 hours of ATSC Digital Television in 720p or 1080i
formats using the fastest record mode (equivalent to VHS-SP), and
up to 40 hours of standard definition video at slower speeds .
DVD format - The DVD-Video format was introduced first, in
1996 in Japan,
1997 in USA
1998 in Euro
1999 in Australia.
Media Retail Company's still don't get the picture .
People didn't start buying VCR's in huge numbers till they got cheap
People didn't start buying DVD Players in huge numbers till they got cheap
People didn't start buying Movies on VHS in huge numbers till they got cheap
People didn't start buying Movies on DVD in huge numbers till they got cheap
People started buying more DVD's in value packs since they are cheap
People are slow to migrate to new techonology , if the current thing works
with your tv/screen , quality is fine , why move .
If it needs a whole new screen people arn't that to happy about it
Compression changing on computers also .
Mpeg 1 was used a lot in Video CD's and Mpeg 2 was used in Video CD's
and Mpeg 2 was used in DVD Video Disc's .
(Mpeg 2 used in the first blueray discs also before protection added)
AVI 700meg instead of VHS/DVD video disc
Early 1998-2002 I started to see a lot of Divx 3.11 movies
(Ohh look at that its the time DVD was released overseas and not AU)
Divx 3.11 was a FREE Codec hacked from an microsoft one (DIFFERENT FROM DIVX 5/6/7)
Then around 2002-2003 , XVID became the standard in compression and Divx 3.11 was getting phased out.
Today XviD supports movies from VHS Tape , DVD Video Discs , TV SD , TV HD , TV High def 720.
If you want to see a lot of media released in XVID AVI format , then view the following websites
http://vcdquality.com/ and http://rlslog.net/
Credits:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_tape_recorder
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vhs
Long wait for new tech micro gaming PC
I am considering waiting and saving for a new small gaming PC
that is portable to take to Lan Parties on my Pagsta Motobike .
I guess its looking like Aug - Oct 2009 time frame for the new PC
Why so long:
1. new tech is available and cheap . 2. Cant ride the bike till Aug 2009
3. save up pennies
Small to the size of an Asus pundit Case (miniatx mobo)
4 gig of DDR 3 RAM (avail now)
USB 3 (late 2008)
New Firewire 3000 (Due Oct 2008)
10 gig Ethernet onboard or plug in 
Cat6a lead
Pci Express v2.0 (v3 is due 2010) video card with Opengl v3.0
Maybe a Blueray Optical Disc burner (high def blank discs not cheap enough yet)
Quad Core Intel CPU with LGA1160 socket pin
True Blood - New USA TV show (June 2008)
Show Summary:
Based on the popular ‘Southern Vampire,’ book series by Charlaine
Harris, “True Blood” follows the adventures of a small-town cocktail
waitress Sookie Stackhouse (who all her life was an outsider due to her
gift/curse of being a telepath) and how her life is turned upside down
when a member of the undead (the vampire race ‘came out of the coffin’
several years earlier) walks into her life one fateful night.
Episode Plot: Strange Love
One random night while Sookie is working the night shift at her local
bar, a mysterious man walks in. Immediately she knows something is
different about him, because she cannot get any sort of mental reading
off him. But when he orders blood, Sookie realizes that she has finally
met her first vampire.
Anna Paguin is the main character in the show , shes the Rogue girl in Xmen
that you couldnt touch (BTW shes really cute)
Love-ru - New AWESOME anime series , this series ROCKS !!
Its one of these series I like for the echhi level and bit of fanservice
So basicly you have this poor guy thats not good with girls
stuff keeps happening when he is about to confess ,
suddently a cute cosplay young alien girl with a tail
comes into his life and house (naked at first in the bathtub then
his bedroom) and he is the attention of the whole school.
Of course theirs a love triangle and all sorts of wacky stuff
about to happen to this poor bastard .
Ive only watched ep 01 , cant wait to watch more ,
I highly recommend everyone to watch this one
Ohh its another one of these series that has a transformation sequence
which when watching it she seems to be ultra sensitve around the tail
area and gets her self off a bit (not that I am complaining !)
more info on it:
http://www.koibitoanime.com/2008/04/08/highlights-lowlights-to-love-ru/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Love-Ru
http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9091
Internet air dates of overseas (non AU) tv shows in 2008
House 4x10 (30-Jan-2008)
Primeval 2x01 (13-Jan-2008)
Sarah Connor Chronicles 1x01 15-Jan-2008 (USA)
Sarah Connor Chronicles 1x02 22-Jan-2008 (USA)
Sarah Connor Chronicles 1x03 29-Jan-2008 (USA)
Dr Who 30x01 30x02 30x03 airs March 2008
Torchwood 2x01 (17-Jan-2008)
Torchwood 2x02 (31-Jan-2008)
Torchwood 2x03 (07-Feb-2008)
Torchwood 2x04 (14-Feb-2008)
Torchwood 2x05 (22-Feb-2008)
SGA 4x11 (05-Jan-2008) Be all My Sins Remembered part 2
SGA 4x12 (12-Jan-2008) Spoils Of War
SGA 4x13 (18-Jan-2008) Quarantine
SGA 4x14 (26-Jan-2008) Outcast
SGA 4x15 (02-Feb-2008) Midway
SGA 4x16 (09-Feb-2008) Trio
SGA 4x17 (16-Feb-2008) Harmony
SGA 4x18 (09-Feb-2008) The Kindred - Part 1
SGA 4x19 (16-Feb-2008) The Kindred - Part 2
SGA 4x20 (08-March-2008) The Last Man
Supernatural 3x09 and 3x10 mentioned for 2008 , but it might be effected by usa writers stike
Stuff up in the air
Battlestar Galactica - 2 TV Movie specials & Season 4 (Nov 2007) [ S4 is 22 eps]
Bionic Woman - Season 1 (2007) [USA Wrtters guild strike effected]
Chuck - Season 1 (2007-2008) [USA Wrtters guild strike effected]
Reaper - Season 1 (2007) [USA Wrtters guild strike effected]
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New shows not to air anywere yet
True Blood (2008)
http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-12662
Caprica (BSG Spin off ) (2008 or 2009)
Preacher (Comic to tv series) HBO USA - UKNOWN DATE - annouced dec 2006
Stargate Universe (2008-2009)
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Found some new good anime series to watch this month (April 2007) , also
came across some new CRAP series that I wont mention since I have seen lots of blogs
talk about them instead . As always I am getting the XVID AVI Fansub encodes with
Asian AUDIO and english fansubs built into the file . So onto the new cool anime ....
Sola
Sola is another manga to anime series , its another one of these 12 ep series which I try to avoid
since its too short . Sola only started airing in Japan in early April 2007 , so its pretty new.
Sola is about a single school guy who has a weird camera fetish with taking pictures of the sky
He has a childhood female friend , sick sister in hospital which has red eyes and blue hair
.Then he comes across a new girl that he only see's at night time and she is violent towards
electrical goods and vending machines and admits to him , that she isnt human but infact undead
Now im not 100% sure she is a vampire , but she maybe something else since she hasn't sucked
anyones blood , but shes cute and hates daylight . Of course the childhood friend can smell other
female getting his attention as does the sister and things get good at this point .
Lunaranime are doing the fansub encodes , they did the Bleach encodes until a while ago
now DB do the Bleach ones and they dont work on the ROWA dvd player (BOO) .
They are in AVI XVID codec format , in Wide screen (boo give me Full Screen dammt)
If this series was AU$25 to AU$55 in asian format WITH OUT american audio added
in DVD boxset I would consider getting it legit . But as it is I cant find any legit anime retailer
that license's anime off the asian companys direct in Australia without american audio.
Here is some pics from other reviews on it :
Heroic Age
TBA .... Stay tuned
Gigantic Formura
TBA ... stay tuned ...
BLACK LAGOON - The Second Barrage (2006)
No of eps: 12
Offical Site: http://www.blacklagoon.jp/
Info: Sequal to Black Lagoon (2006)
Black Lagoon is the name of a Japanese manga and an anime tv series created by Rei Hiroe. The story follows a team of mercenaries known as Lagoon Company, who smuggle goods in and around the seas of Southeast Asia. Their base of operations is located in the city of Roanapura in Thailand, and they transport goods in the PT boat Black Lagoon. Lagoon Company does business with various clients, but has a particularly friendly relationship with the Russian crime syndicate Hotel Moscow. The team takes on a variety of missions - which may involve violent firefights, hand-to-hand combat, and nautical battles - in various locations of Southeast Asia. The members of Lagoon Company spend much of their down time at The Yellow Flag, a bar in Roanapura.
Black Lagoon premiered at the Tokyo International Anime Fair in March 2006 and began airing on 8 April 2006 in Japan, the series airing its final episode on 24 June that year. The second season (called Black Lagoon: The Second Barrage), started airing in Japan on the 2nd of October, 2006. It has been licensed for release in North America by Geneon Entertainment.
