film

Apple snubs Media Center and looks beyond traditional PVRs

Crave So different that it represents a quiet revolution for Apple, and a major change in the way we view film and television. Apple sees the Internet as the television- and film-delivery system of the future.

Tags: film, television, media center, row

13 October 2005, 10:40

Harry Potter and the Order of the HD DVD interactive features

Crave Luckily, Nate had the foresight to buy the film on HD DVD, which means he can watch it on his HD DVD player with a friend in a far away land and they can help each other overcome their fear. The Harry Potter HD DVD allows them to chat as the film...

Tags: scenes, playing, hd, film

23 November 2007, 11:15

The monster awakes: Kong set for groundbreaking online release

Crave He'll also get the film posted to him on DVD. One movie pirate we spoke to (who didn't want to be named, for obvious reasons) explained how he often bought DVDs of movies he'd downloaded, but would not be using the new service from Universal...

Tags: industry, film, itunes, universal

27 March 2006, 7:58

Micro Four Thirds vs Samsung: This means war! (eventually)

Crave In photographic terms, format broadly means size, the term carried over from the days when film format defined the size and shape of a camera. The reason this is interesting is because it's a step closer to a true digital take on the flexible...

Tags: olympus, micro, film, mirror

9 September 2008, 11:26

Crave Talk: Is iTunes right for movies?

Crave But in the fantasy world of the film companies, people still like retail and they still like paying whatever price the studios set. Also, this does nothing to solve the film industry's abuse of consumer rights by preventing people from watching...

Tags: apple, industry, jobs, consumer

21 June 2006, 11:05

Camcorders at CES 2007: What can we expect?

Crave The resolution is there, now we're just looking for film-like colours and frame rates. For the low-budget indie filmmaker, we'll be keeping an eye on the burgeoning market of 35mm adaptors, which allow you to use film camera lenses on prosumer...

Tags: model, film, hard disk, camcorders

28 December 2006, 11:42

Madagascar: digital cinema's animal tales

Crave So excited that we could barely hold on to our popcorn, we sat down in reclining chairs, eager to see how digital could possibly compare to film -- a medium with a 100-year history. Disappointment set in as the trailers displayed all the scratches...

Tags: film, wait, cinema, empire

26 July 2005, 10:24

Chris's Christmas Shopping: Sony uber-cam

Crave For any video filmmaker, the holy grail is the 'film look'. There's something dream-like about the 24 frames per second of cinema film, and the F900H can simulate a whole variety of frame rates, including 24fps.

Tags: sony, field, christmas, crave

20 December 2005, 10:38

Batman Begins on Blu-ray: Dark Knight preview kicks Bat-ass

Crave It's worth saying at the outset that there's one thing on this Blu-ray that makes it very exciting indeed, namely a 6 minute preview of the new film The Dark Knight, which is the opening scene of the new movie.

Tags: film, scene, preview, ray

10 July 2008, 15:45

Incoming: Canon camcorder does 1080 lines

Crave One of the appeals of the XL range has always been the lens binding, which allow those with generous credit card limits to use expensive film camera lenses, which, in many cases, cost several times what the camcorder itself does.

Tags: canon, film, frame, frames

6 October 2005, 11:24

Photos: Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX3 hands-on

Crave It's 24mm, equivalent to a 35mm film camera, which is one of the widest angles in the compact market. As well as the usual smorgasbord of scene modes, there are six colour and three monochrome film modes that replicate the effects of certain films.

21 July 2008, 13:58

Sony PSP to land in September

Crave The film comes on Sony's UMD disc format, which offers DVD-level films on much smaller discs. The first one million buyers in the US were treated to the film, but over here customers will not get the disc in the box, but will instead have to...

Tags: sony electronics, inc., disc, sale, console

26 April 2005, 8:59

Fujifilm S100FS, Olympus 1030 SW, GE G2 and E1050, Sony DSC-T300 and Sigma DP1 from PMA

Crave The other big development was Sony's 35mm CMOS sensor, a 24-megapixel chip the same size as a frame of 35mm film. A system for expanding dynamic range by film simulation is available, as is a whopping maximum sensitivity of ISO 10,000.

4 February 2008, 13:54

Toshiba HD DVD players: A couple of tasty updates

Crave If you're a film fan, 24p means that you'll no longer have the 4 per cent PAL speed-up that has plagued DVDs for years, because film runs slightly slower than video, and the conversion meant an unnatura- sounding movie experience.

Tags: toshiba, hd, ray, blu

6 July 2007, 10:38

B-movies on Blu-ray: Strippers, flying saucers and sea monsters

Crave But these movies are a beautiful illustration of how to make a delightful film without costing more than a ham sandwich. Chaos and nudity ensue and the film's climax (sorry) will defy plausibility, as well as biological fact.

Tags: ray, earth, film, sea

13 October 2008, 11:31