What's Noo?
A blog for noobies by Patric Welch, techie and all around fun guy.
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Summer is fast approaching and for the second year in a row my wife and I have decided not to put our kids in any summer camps. This is a luxury we have because I work out of my home but I won't try to sugarcoat it—it's a challenge keeping our kids occupied all day. And by occupied I don't mean watching television and playing video games all day. That would be the easy way out. The hard part is getting them to play outside, read a book or work on some sort of creative project. But this year, I… Continue reading...
If you haven't heard, Redbox will be raising their prices on DVD rentals from $1.00 to $1.20. The Blu-ray and game rental prices will remain unchanged. The price increase is effective October 31, 2011. You want to know what I think about the price increase? Well, all of the following two word sentences pretty much sum it up for me. Big deal. Yippy skippy. Who cares? Sure, on paper, it's a 20% price increase but c'mon people! 20 extra cents for a DVD rental?!? Back in the days of Blockbuster, movie rentals were $3.99/night. Amazon Instant Video rentals are $3.99.… Continue reading...
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This week's edition of Weekly Wrap-up with Mr. Noobie™ covers the new family of Amazon Kindles, the iPhone 4S announcement, Steve Jobs's death and Netflix's attempt to fix customer relations by putting an end to Qwikster. If you can not see the embedded video above please use the following link: Weekly Wrap Up with Mr Noobie 10-14-11 Audio Transcript Hello, this is Patric Welch, otherwise known as Mr. Noobie™. Today, I am creating this video to try and give birth again to something I started a few years ago but then let fizzle out. I'm talking about a segment I… Continue reading...
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Let me ask you a question. How long has high definition (HD) content been available? I'm talking about high definition channels on our televisions and digital devices and Blu-ray discs for our DVD players. A couple of years? Maybe more? So why am I still paying more for high definition content vs. the standard definition (SD) counterpart? Take a look at these examples: DIRECTV Pay-per-view movie: SD: $4.99 HD: $5.99 DIRECTV Live Event (UFC): SD: $44.95 HD: $54.95 Redbox 1 night rental: DVD: $1.00 Blu-ray: $1.50 iTunes Movie Rental: SD: $3.99 HD: $4.99 iTunes Movie Purchase: SD: $14.99 HD: $19.99… Continue reading...
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A lot of people are upset about Netflix after their recent announcement regarding their new pricing models. I'm not one of them. In fact, I'm as happy as ever with my Netflix service. Here's two reasons why: 1. I only have the streaming service so the separation of streaming and DVD plans has no effect on me. I already figured out that the DVD service no longer works for me. I sat on the DVDs too long and I didn't like being restricted to my living room to watch them. But watching the streaming movies and television shows on my… Continue reading...
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