http://blog.360replays.com This is where 360 employees hang out to discuss everyday things! Wed, 14 May 2008 04:35:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So after the Vista episode - I started reinstalling Windows XP.. but ran into an interesting windows update issue. Don't know what caused it - but the symptom was it downloaded a few updates like IE7 and a few security updates, but wouldn't install them. It said it couldn't install - ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/05/wierd-winxp-windows-update-problem/ Well I decided to fire up PowerISO and mount a few ISO images. After installing PowerISO, and rebooting, the Vista Sidebar started crashing on boot. I can no longer get it to work. I did also change my drive letter for one of my drives, maybe the photo slideshow (which ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/05/vista-conclusion/ I decided since my XP box was getting fairly slow and needed a re-install, I would give Vista a go. I figured if it worked ok I'd stick with it provided my apps played nicely with it. Here's how the story went so far: I installed Vista Ultimate SP1 (most recent ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/05/finally-giving-vista-a-go/ The NAB photo gallery is up at http://www.360replays.com/gallery/ - it's kinda brief this year, probably a good sign we've been very busy. Too busy to take photos apparently 8) http://blog.360replays.com/2008/04/nab-2008-photo-gallery-is-up/ Well it's day 4 and the show floor was thinning out making it a lot easier to get around and talk to companies I hadn't been able to stop by and see.. day 4 is usually reserved for cramming in everything I kept putting off all week! Immersive Media had some ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/04/nab-2008-day-4/ It's amazing how tiring it is to stuff yourself with buffet food and drink endless quantities of alcohol (oh I know, you sympathize), we managed to survive another day at NAB and get some excellent progress on many of the projects we are working on. I didn't really get to see ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/04/nab-2008-day-3/ Feet.... so.... tired.... we've taken it easy this year at NAB and actually left the show early after a busy day of meetings and booth browsing. One interesting find was the showing of NHK's Ultra-rez HD (something like HD16k!!) which was shown on 4 x HD4k monitors. You could read ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/04/nab-day-2/ There really isn't much to write about today as it was mostly meetings with some vendors and associates, which is all super secret and junk... I walked the South Upper today and honestly didn't see a whole lot that was new this year, a lot of the same vendors selling ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/04/nab-2008-day-1/ We're gearing up for the upcoming NAB show in Vegas, an annual event we usually attend. Plans for a booth this year unfortunately fell through with the recent loss of NMT, however we'll still be keeping ourselves busy down there with lots going on. If anyone wants to get together ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/04/nab-2008-here-we-come/ Recently added to the system was realtime playback support. The video replays can now be controlled live using a Xbox360 joystick controller and will output in realtime in the same manner a standard slow-mo box or DVR would perform. With the cool exception being that you can also choose the camera ... http://blog.360replays.com/2008/04/realtime-support/