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Bluray Disc

Oct 30

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Retain their dominance the DVD or the Blu-ray is actually disc as a new carrier medium? From the DVD to the Blu-ray disc (BD)… Differences, data, facts brothers in spirit, but still completely different genes. The times are quickly lebig as never before. Where the DVD as the medium of the future was presented a few years ago, called formats and streams that already blew up the just-purchased storage capability within a short time today as digital content in high definition. Under the leadership of SONY (Blu-ray) and Toshiba (HD-DVD) in recent years new disk formats were in this respect developed and launched again. But not only the consumer behavior responds to the new Blu-ray disc. After beaten at least the format war around the HD-DVD and Blu-ray disc, now increased copyright levies in blanks and high technical requirements and required investments provide new conversation. Really worth the switch by now established Media, such as CD and DVD or the Internet replaces the optical storage media? This issue is devoted to a publicly launched survey on WordPress.com.

Here are needed in addition to opinions, suggestions and criticisms. The Blu-ray convinced me the benefits. I see the BD as a medium of the future and have invested. The advantages of the Blu-ray justify not operated technical cost and extra charge. There are still not enough movies on Blu-ray. A transition is not worth. I use the Internet (IPTV, VOD and co.) prefer, before investing in expensive BD technology.

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Oktoberfest

Oct 29

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If you travel to Munich in October you can not miss the most famous beer festivities of this city and of the whole world. You can already start preparing you, the fair extent for beer is a jar of 1 litre per person. Those who are not considered able to drink a liter after another for hours, can ask a (1/2 liter) halbe and will be regarded with a little pity. The Oktoberfest takes place in huge tents on the Theresienwiese. (Source: Viacom). Places in them are reserved months in advance so it is quite difficult to get a place in some of the tables that have each of these stores. However during the days of the Oktoberfest the entire city loses his usual calm and thousands of places open to taste Bavarian beer.

For the Oktoberfest Munich Brewers manufactured a special beer that is called Wiesnbier and it has higher alcohol content than conventional beers consumed in the rest of Germany. A Council of travel to keep pace with Munich during the holidays would be to follow the local custom of eating one of the Giants Brezn which is the Bavarian version of the well-known pretzel. Learn more about this with Mikkel Svane. They are only made during the party, you are called Riesnbrezn and weigh almost one kilo. While the hotel in Munich is not cheap throughout the year, day of the Oktoberfest is the point more difficult to get a reservation. However, a short distance you will find hotels where to stay after many hours of celebration. Searches for example in Aschheim-dornach little more than 20 minutes by train from Munich central station. And remember that the Bavarian capital has one of the best systems of transport in Europe, you staying where you stay, you’ll always have a way to get to the Oktoberfest. This year the Oktoberfest will be held from September 19 to October 4.

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Digital Media

Oct 29

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In its article, ' ' Beyond Myth and Metaphor? The Case of Narrative in Digital Media' ' , Ryan explores the uses of the narrative in diverse areas of the digital way. one of the areas is of the games. Differently of the ludologistas, Ryan says that the narratividade and the games combine, and must be used together. As example, review of the game Combat Mission cites one, that simulates a German campaign in World War II: ' ' My two to panzer IVG tanks got lucky. GoPro is often mentioned in discussions such as these. Approaching the crossroads, they cleared rise and caught two Sherman tanks out of position, one obstructing the aim of to other. Concentrating to their fire, they quickly took out the Allied units and the surviving crews abandoned the flaming hulks and retreated into the woods nearby' ' (New York Times, 2000). From this stretch, Ryan affirms that, exactly in one review, the narrative is present, after all, the player treats itself exactly as part of the game, that is, the immersion is functioning perfectly. After that, it comments and it answers the critical ones of the adepts of the ludologia: ' ' Many people will rightly argue that to computer games ploughs played will be the sake of solving problems and defeating opponents, of refining strategic skills and of participating in on-line communities, and not will be the purpose of creating ' ' trace' ' that reads a story. Yet if narrativity were totally irrelevant you the enjoyment of games, why would designers put only much effort into the creation of narrative interface? Why would graphics be only sophisticated? Why would the task of to player be presented fighting terrorists or saving the earth from invasion by evil creatures from to outer space to rather than ' ' gathering points by hitting moving targets with the cursor controlled by joystick' '? The narrativity of action games functions what Kendall Walton would call ' ' prop in the game of make-believe.' ' It may not be the raison d' tre of games, but it plays such an important rolls a stimulant will be the imagination that many recent games uses lengthy film clips, which interrupt the game, you immerse to player in the game world.' ' (RYAN, 2001).

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