What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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Somebody please tell me I am grossly missing something with this new Blockbuster Direct Access announcement. Because I think it is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard.
Let me get this straight. I walk into a Blockbuster store to get a movie. They tell me all of the copies of the movie are rented out (or they don't carry the movie) but they can mail a copy to me which will arrive in 3 days.
In today's gotta-have-it-now world, Blockbuster just took a gigantic step backwards.
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I have been really slow to adopt Blu-ray. In fact, I haven't really adopted it at all. Part of the reason is that my television doesn't support 1080p and my audio/video receiver doesn't support HDMI switching. And without upgrading these additional components, I wouldn't truly be enjoying the Blu-ray experience.
Plus, try telling your wife you need to spend another $2000 replacing your television and audio/video receiver so you can "truly enjoy" the new $200 Blu-ray player you just purchased.
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I get a lot of questions from readers and clients asking me what the difference is between a notebook and a netbook. It's one of the reasons I posted the recent article The naughty and nice of netbooks. One of the disadvantages to netbooks, as mentioned in the article, is that many of them do not come with any kind of optical (CD or DVD) drive. While technically this is a disadvantage, it doesn't mean you can't work around it. In fact, my good friend Andy over at the Digitante has written his own blog post specifically teaching people how… Continue reading...
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My wife asked me today if I knew where a recent CD I received as a gift was. I tried my best to recall its location but soon realized I had absolutely no idea where it was. This may make me sound unorganized but the truth is that I didn't really care where the CD was. Whenever I receive a new CD (usually as a gift since I buy almost all of my music digitally now) the first thing I do is plop the CD in the CD drive in my computer and rip the music into my iTunes library.… Continue reading...
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I have complained about Blockbuster in the past, but this recent chain of events just became the nail in the coffin. Every Friday I do a movie night with my kids. My two sons alternate each week to see who gets to pick the movie. Usually, I am prepared and have a movie on-hand from Netflix or I take my kids to our local Family Video store or a Redbox kiosk to get the movie. But last week was a hectic week and come Friday, I found myself unprepared and without a movie. My kids summer camp is just down… Continue reading...
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