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Samsung will gladly help you check if your OLED TV has burn-in
Samsung might be all about OLED in smartphone displays, but it's steered away from using those types of screens for its TVs, instead harnessing LCD and QLED tech. As part of its efforts to remind people that OLED can be susceptible to burn-in, it has released a super-helpful (and not at all borne out of self-interest) way to check your screen for the problem.
Xbox Live Vision camera turns player invisible
Take heed, mortals, and quake as Deric twists the very fabric of reality like a pre-baked Glazin' Raisin pretzel from Auntie Anne's. Thrill as he walks between two worlds and uses the power of the Xbox Live Vision camera to make himself transparent! We're envious of this guy for a few reasons. The first is, of course, his ability to sculpt our reality with the power of his mind. Also, we envy him for his buddy, who pops in at around 15 seconds; it's not every friend will tell your when you get the power to become translucent. Some fear what you are, some are too afraid of what you could become. We're also envious of his tech/common sense skills: He said he figured out later that the camera, much many televisions, is capable of burn in, reducing his otherworldly powers to a simple product flaw. Oh, that reminds us. We're also envious of Deric that he's found something to do with the Vision camera so long that his couch got burnt in. He's already beat the rest of us, who put our faces in Rainbow Six, put our crotches on our gamercard and promptly let the thing gather dust.
iTunes to allow video burning soon?
I used the question mark because nothing is set in stone here, but TUAW reader Ann-CA tipped us off to a report at the DVD Newsroom that Hollywood might actually be close to lifting some of their over-the-top restrictions on DVD burning. This slightly loosened grip on their content could allow for things like DVD burning kiosks (it better be a darn fast burner), and it could also give the green light to vendors like the iTunes Music Store to allow burning of purchased videos.The panel in charge of making and (finally) rewriting these rules is called the DVD Copy Control Association, according to DVD Newsroom. This DVDCCA is currently working on licensing the encryption technology (Content Scrambling System, or: CSS - nothing to do with web design) to digital distribution services, which is the key to allowing video burning.No ETA is offered on when these rewritten rules could see the light of day, or when video burning could arrive in the iTMS. If Hollywood's reaction times of the past are any indication (and I genuinely hope they aren't), however, we might all be using 7th or 8th gen iPods before we can watch iTMS video on something besides Apple-branded devices.
