App Store Live

Well, through someone else’s clever means I have the 2.0 firmware early, and am impressed with the App Store so far.

Apple Remote is kinda cool, NetNewsWire works well, AIM is, well, AIM.

Next to try is OmniFocus..

Oh, yeah. And the 3G comes out tomorrow. Sigh.

Jon Lester

At Fenway Park last night for Jon Lester’s no-hitter. He didn’t look great during the first three innings, but after that he seemed to just get stronger as the game went on.

Best seats I’ve had at Fenway – eight rows behind home plate. What a blast. I’ve never seen the park that full until the end of the game; good thing I scored parking on the westbound side of Beacon Street.

Also a good chance to play with the D300. Funny how most of my pictures actually have the Nikon sign in them!

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Feeling Blu

A while back I mused that I hated format wars – though I suppose the 3.5″ floppy was more of a migration than a war – in the context of HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray.

That said, after the Great Christmas Price-Slashing of HD-DVD, I jumped on a cheap Toshiba HD-DVD player. Right before Warner Bros. defected.

Oops.

Now, due to the excellent consumer-friendly policies of Costco I wasn’t too concerned – I knew I could return the unit from whence it came. In the meantime, HD-DVDs were cheap, readily-available, and still delivered a great picture. Ergo, I purchased a few.

What I didn’t expect was how quickly inventories would be, well, eliminated. As in, vaporized. Oops^2.

So to hedge my bets, I’ve purchased a LG BH-200 SuperBlu – a dual-format player. What actually triggered the jump was new (leaked, beta) firmware from LG which added all sorts of new functionality – full, lossless 5.1/7.1 over HDMI, 1080p, Profile 1.1 (maybe BD-Live?), etc.

Fist Blu demo was with Ratatouille – wow.

Tried with Transformers on HD-DVD and it played without a hitch as well.

So far so good. Hopefully finally finished with the home theatre – for now.