Various Magic Bullet plugins for after effects will crash your machine. gray screen of deathed a fresh install.

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For film and TV production, iPhones have so much potential. I've always wanted to see a calculator app that can tell me how much video I shoot will take up how much hard drive space.
Another function will be to take a photo and see how it will look in the editing room for reference.
The best feature, will be a clapper board app (that works) which gives off a unique sound to sync multiple cameras and an exportable time code/time of day reference sheet.
Oh man I need this dream application so bad! Please let me make it!

Jailbreaking was essentially the only way to get it, prior to it's release outside of the US. So it should be no surprise that Jailbroken Apps are in enormous demand. Coincidently, the most popular, functional and wishful thinking Apps are ONLY available to the Jailbreaking community.

The inception of the Cydia store is just natural progression. Intelliscreen, PDAnet, etc are all applications that thousands of iPhone users would gladly pay for if they were in the Appstore, but they aren't. They are excellent utilities, they work and most importantly are not half-assed attempts at cloning a similar application (Notes anyone?).

Everyone that's read this article after the jump/below the fold, knows that to Jailbreak is to enable options Apple hasn't yet implemented or chooses not to.

Like many, probably the majority of iPhone/Touch users, I both PAY and Jailbreak for Apps. This means there is a very gray area and the issue is by no means a black/white-illegal/EULA-legit matter.


Trolling the EULA is like wearing your heart on your sleeve, as you shake your fist at anyone who isn't.

Oh and hey, this isn't America. This is the internet. RTFM.

Speaking of asinine...
An incredible amount of people use their laptop as a desktop when they get back to their office/studio. It's also hand-in-hand and I wouldn't doubt this as the reason for the Display Port. Being mobile is imperative and powering a cinema display WITHOUT additional AC power cables is ingenious.
Go visit an on-location set for photographers, live event broadcasters or film sets and you'll usually find both laptops and cinema displays in tandem. Well, for Apple centric crews anyway.

I'm really not sure you how you can differentiate BC with this type of game other than one being from the 1st person perspective and the other being 3rd. I may be in the dark about how amazing the community for SOCOM will be in respect to building friendships through the game, but that has never really been a part of how I game, personally.
Although BC currently is shallow with it's current variety in Game Modes, the gameplay the Battlefield series has evolved from has been garnering a more involving/realistic (being in a real battlefield would probably your best way to find out) experience.
Comparing it to BC is pretty valid. Both are team and squad based. Both revolve around opposing forces and goals, vast sandbox like maps and 'real warfare'. Which is what makes the genre both of these titles falls into. Unless the publishers are going to put actual political history into the storyline, it's pretty safe to say that any game in this kind of field is going to be unrealistic.
SOCOM has the potential to become a great title. The landscapes and textures look like a lot of hard work has gone into them. If they pull it off, fantastic, I'll take 2. But from what I've seen and heard from this trailer is not selling it yet.

ANYWAY, back to the game.

The game definitely needs more polish if they think it will stand up to the Battlefield series, especially Bad Company. From what we see in this video, already BC has it beat by way of graphics and physics. Let's hope they can pull it off.

You're quite right about it trying to become too many things at once. The market isn't ready for a 'one size fits all' solution when providers do just that for it's customers, provide what's needed for their services; as is with your Dish service.

It will be interesting to see what happens with Sony's PS3 future. Their marketshare in the entertainment industry will surely creep into the Playstation Network infrastructure sooner or later.

Thanks for the rebuttal, it's like pulling teeth to get a well thought out discussion here most of the time. Here's to the hope that your son pays his own WoW bill in the future!

Will the PlayTV digital tuner DVR sway you? I believe that's Sony opening up the market for the PS3 as more of a living room media center than any other option I've seen from any manufacturer thus far.

Sure game players are going to use it for it's initial purpose of playing games, no one has said anything against that fact.

However, you can't deny that with it's ability to play hi-def movies at an affordable rate compared to stand-alone players and now the ability to watch your Television shows as well as record them as any other DVR, the market broadens it's scope significantly.

I'd be hard pressed to think Sony won't incorporate that feature in the PS3 2.0. (or 3.0 it might seem)

We all know that Xbox360 does nearly the same thing, but I think the features that the PS3 have are always overlooked. It's probably the most well rounded home theatre device on the market, period. What with its media card readers, expandable hard drive etc...

Don't these features appeal to more people that are looking for more uses for a living room media device?

Or is the target market still in need of a crowbar to get more adults to recognize it, rather than 'gamers'?

Hush. Pleos are listening.