The “Break it Down” Blog

The Canon PowerShot SX 1 IS Review – Could Have Been Great

Introduction I just purchased a Canon PowerShot SX 1 IS (not the SX10 — which has no HD video recording) to replace my existing Canon G9 (which is an excellent camera): What I really wanted out of the SX 1 IS was the 1080p @ 30fps video recording and improved zoom for traveling. Unfortunately when the SX [...]

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YouTube Turns on HD – And it Looks Fantastic!

Well YouTube has finally done it – they’ve turned on HD for select movies uploaded in a high enough format to support it. You guys probably noticed the new widescreen player rollout a few weeks ago, it looks like that was Part 1 of the transition. Part 2 was to actually enable a “watch in HD” [...]

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Blu-ray is DOA: High Costs, Expensive Players and HD DLC

ZDNet’s Robin Harris takes a look at why Blu-ray is dead-on-arrival. Robin’s analysis, while starting with an inflammatory title, makes a lot of sense. Robing starts off by citing the first few key elements that killed the format: 2-year battle with HD-DVD took the steam out of HD Disks in general, making consumers a bit hesitant about [...]

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Giant Crysis Warhead Screenshots

Looks like the German PC Games got a hold of some stupid-huge Crysis Warhead screenshots, here they are for you and for the folks that have dual 30″ monitors to view them on: Thanks VE3D!

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Streaming Playback of 720p Media to PS3 Stutters or is Jerky

If you are like me, you probably use your PS3 to stream media from a NAS at home or something; either from the NAS directly or via a computer using TVersity. If you have begun to dabble with streaming HD content, either 720p or 1080p, you may have noticed that the PS3’s playback of that media [...]

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