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A few days ago my Macbook Pro wouldn’t turn on. It had been working fine. The last time I used it a day or two before I had closed it up and set it to the side. I didn’t turn it off or anything, but now it was acting as if it had a dead […]
I tell myself I’m a big fan of physical media and large cameras. It’s true that I am sweet on those things. But if I’m being honest with myself, truly, I may like those things, but I barely use them. A lot of it is just living out nostalgia. I grew up with SLR film […]
I don’t think I’ve made it a secret that I generally dislike standard definition video these days. If I had the power, I would turn all standard definition (SD) video into high definition (HD) video and all SD formats into HD formats. Native HD that is, not upscaled. Talk about a nerdy superpower. But I […]
I’ve been thinking about building a new editing PC for a while now. I want something with a good GPU. I have a 2012 Mac Mini I use for editing right now and also a 2017 15″ Macbook Pro I use as my daily driver for everything else. I also have an old 2008 Macbook […]
Yes. Of Course. But let’s argue why and why not anyway. I love physical media. I grew up with all kinds of it. Vinyl, 8 Track, Reel to Reel Tape, Cassettes, CDs, VHS, Betamax, Laserdisc, MiniDisc, DAT, DCC, DVD, Blu-Ray and now UHD Blu-ray. While I didn’t own all of these formats, I was aware […]
Previous articles (not required reading – but good anyway :) ) First Minidisc article:Â http://www.roxics.com/ode-to-the-minidisc-the-forgotten-format/ Second Minidisc article:Â http://www.roxics.com/minidisc-instead-of-vinyl/ It’s been three years since my last Minidisc article (Minidisc instead of Vinyl), so I figured it was time for a new one. Not a tone has changed for me. I got one new portable player, a Sony […]
Previous Minidisc article (not required reading):Â http://www.roxics.com/ode-to-the-minidisc-the-forgotten-format/ It’s been twenty-three months since my post titled Blu-ray is the new Vinyl. I’ve stayed pretty true to the things I said there. I still have yet to buy a new turntable or any new albums on vinyl. I cooled my jets on the format. I still think the […]
I got into DVD pretty quickly, unlike Blu-ray which took me six years after its launch to buy into it. It started with the first computer that I built. I made sure to buy a DVD-Rom drive for it because I was excited about the new movie format. This was 1998. We were aware of […]
I’ve owned two Android phones in my life. The first was some HTC deal I got many years ago that had a little rollerball on the front. I owned it for about a week before realizing I could get an iPhone 3Gs. I don’t remember what the circumstances were but I jumped ship to […]
Honestly I don’t remember the first time I used a proper desktop computer. I believe it was in the computer lab at my elementary school in the late 1980s. Maybe fourth or fifth grade. I want to say it was an Apple II, but I’m not sure. I really wasn’t paying much attention and we […]