Tag: video
AmberFin: Snell & Wilcox launches end-to-end content creation solution: good news for consumers
At first glance, the news that a well-established company which supplies services to the broadcast industry has launched a new service for handling video content may not seem particularly relevant to consumers. Yet Snell and Wilcox’s work is something that most TV viewers in Britain will have experienced even if they’ve never heard of the company.
Yesterday I spoke to Joe Zaller (VP Corporate Development) and Simon Derry (CEO) from S&W. It’s clear that broadcasters, ISPs and telecoms companies need a system like AmberFin if they’re to deliver digital video in a variety of formats to an ever more demanding consumer, in high quality, while still making money.
AmberFin should create a win-win situation for everyone…
Wii Fit did the business – sixth most successful launch in the UK EVER
Good lord. We doubted it, we really did. We thought that the odd balancing/health/positive-thinking game would be a bit of a disaster, especially with its £70 price tag.
But no – Wii Fit managed to enter the UK charts at #1 this week, and it sold like crazy – handing it the sixth biggest-selling launch period of any game in the UK. Taking into account the £70 price point, Wii Fit actually became the third highest cash-taker of all time – taking £16.3m in the UK…
LG Roommate – audio and video in a small black box
LG has launched the Roommate – so-called I presume because it’s ideal as a bedroom audio/video system…
Shiny Video Review: Mario Kart on the Wii
Wii Fit may be on sale from today, but if you ask me, you should save all your pennies for Mario Kart on the Wii – if you can track one down, that is. I spent three hours last Saturday on Oxford Street, but to no avail.
Still, Simon has got his lucky mitts on a review copy, check out his thoughts on it in the video above, and if you’d like one, pick…
Wii Fit – out today. Will it, you know, actually sell?
With Mario Kart Wii currently hogging the #1 spot in the games charts, it’s time for Nintendo to once again reach out to “The Others” – those gamers who are more interested in “fun” than getting a 100% rating and all the gold bananas on level 128.
Wii Fit is, frankly, one of those games that us traditional gamers laugh at. Is it even a game? Can standing on a plastic pad doing yoga moves…
Shiny Video Review: Motorola U9 video preview
It’s been out for awhile now, but due to a video mix-up here at Shiny Towers, we’ve just managed to find it on our shared drive, and upload it for you!
Resplendent in its purple casing and OLED screen, the Motorola U9 is available now on various…
Shiny Video Review: Canon IXUS 80 IS digital camera
Yesterday she had a look at the 90 IS from Canon’s IXUS range, today Zara is hands-on with the 80 IS model.
Packing an 8.0-megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, Optical Image Stabiliser, Motion Detection Technology, Auto Red-Eye Correction and a DIGIC III…
Shiny Video Review: Canon Ixus 90 IS
Announced back in March, the Canon IXUS 90 IS digital camera gets a thorough look at from Zara in the video above.
Designed by Naohiro Sek, it’s got a 10-megapixel sensor, 3x optical zoom, and a unique control panel with thumb wheel that really is a…
YouTube Hits: Microsoft internal video shames even the Zune tattoo guy
Now, I love Microsoft probably more than the average tech-fan, and some may even call me a fangirl. But after watch the video above, I’m quite ashamed to be using a Vista laptop right now.
MSFT, you should’ve hired this guy to make your internal Springsteen-parody video…
First look at the Eee PC 900 running Windows XP
The first hands-on video review has been uploaded to YouTube, with the Hong Kong based PC Market gang showing off just what the Eee PC 900 offers.
They put the Eee onto the catwalk and boy, can it strut. It plays various movie files with ease, browsing the net seems to be uncomplicated, and as for hardware…
