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It seems that this is a week of childhood nostalgia! Aside from the DVDs I recently bought there's even more stuff coming up from my childhood. I just read that
Fabulous Films (from the UK) will be releasing
Starfleet on DVD. Squee!
Starfleet, in this case, is the European name given to the Japanese puppetry series
X-Bomber. If you will, think
Thunderbirds +
Star Wars + Giant Japanese mecha. The show ran for 24 episodes and as kids we used to watch it on
Super Channel in the early eighties. It really is one of the shows that got me and Mistoffelees started on Japanese sci-fi :)
And now it's coming out on DVD. Beautifully remastered and possibly with a few extras! I'm really looking forward to this! To whet my appetite, here are two (good quality) clips from YouTube:
The first episode and
a battle sequence (with a hilarious ending).
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Our DVD collection is getting out of hand. I've already discussed many solutions when it comes to storage, like in
this discussion at Ars Technica. For now it looks like we'll be getting a few storage racks from Ikea.
To fund said acquisition, we'll be selling off some hardware and furniture that we aren't using anymore. We'll also be selling about 5% of our current DVDs. If you're interested,
the entire list is over here. If you happen to see a title you like, just leave a comment behind. Else, just wish us luck ^_^
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In the Netherlands
Free Record Shop is generally viewed as one of the DVD/CD/Game shops that makes you go "meh". They have a huge selection, but the store has a cheap feel to it. The people who work there are usually selected on their looks it seems, as opposed to their knowledge.
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In the Netherlands
Free Record Shop is generally viewed as one of the DVD/CD/Game shops that makes you go "meh". They have a huge selection, but the store has a cheap feel to it. The people who work there are usually selected on their looks it seems, as opposed to their knowledge.
But yesterday they managed to surprise me for the second time in my life. The guy behind the counter knew exactly what I was looking for when I asked him for a movie that 99% of the populace don't know of. You see, we were out shopping for some DVDs again and suddenly it struck me to ask if the guy had
Nochnoy Dozor (Night Watch) (
Wikipedia entry). It was on the spur of the moment, I mean... Which "normal" DVD shop has a Russian action/fantasy/horror movie from 2004?
Well, they did! o_O I was well impressed. He'd actually seen the movie himself and was rather interested in hearing about part two coming out soon.
So... If you want to see an FRS where the employees actually seem to know something, visit their store in Nieuwegein :)
EDIT: Sorry
Ars Lounge, for temporarily screwing up the layout. It's been fixed already.
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iLife is my saviour (Kilala.nl (Cailin Coilleach)) by Cailin Coilleach
While my colleagues can't stop praising Mac OS X for its cleverness and ease of use, I'm thanking the $DEITIES on my knees for iLife. iLife and the Core2 Duo processor.
Back in 2004 I edited our wedding film using Final Cut Express on my Powermac G5. I was rather pleased with how it all went and I was well impressed by all the features FCE came with. I will not claim that I knew what everything did and I'll admit that I was just bolocksing about a bit. Still, things came out rather nicely, although it took me quite some time.
When I was asked to compose the wedding DVD for my in-laws I gladly accepted, although I wasn't looking forward to all the waiting and the crunching and the
schlepping.
Well, I needn't have worried! Enter my Macbook! Hero of the day, andsoforth.
I can't believe how incredibly speedy all of iLife runs on the Core2 Duo, though I'm sure the 2GB of RAM also helps ;) Switching from FCE to iMovie '06 I may have lost a few features, but I gained a lot of comfort. Things were just so damn easy! Frying everything into a DVD with nice menus was also damn easy with iDVD. Finish everything off with a slideshow from iPhoto and we're all set.
I'm quite happy with the end result! I hope Elke and Peter will enjoy their DVD.
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A little while ago I ordered the awesome Hong Kong maffia-flick
Time and tide for my brother's birthday. Since Amazon.com doesn't have it in stock I ordered it through the
Amazon Market Place instead. Ordering went smoothly and soon my brother found the DVD on his doorstep. And then another...
I immediately e-mailed the seller to notify him of his mistake since sending DVDs from the US to Finland isn't the cheapest joke around. Haven't heard from the guy since, until
Mistoffelees found yet another disc in his mailbox! Now we have three DVDs for the price of one. And the seller still hasn't replied to the e-mails I've sent him. I feel a bit guilty about it, so I'll keep on e-mailing the guy. In the meantime I'd like to thank my brother for the amusing photos he took :3
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Even though we don't really have the money to spare I just spent around twenty-five dollars on a piece of software called
VisualHub. This software takes any conceivable video format and converts it for whichever use you choose. In this case it allows me to finally watch the six episodes of
The IT Crowd that I still have lying around on the TV, instead of on my PC/laptop.
Aside from the fact that VisualHub excels in ease of use, the authors of the software also show a huge sense of geeky humor. I mean, it's the first time _ever_ that I've seen a manual where the appendix actually contains just that: a photograph of an appendix! ^_^
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