Know It Or Blow It

For the last couple of years, I’ve been buying quite a few DVD’s. However, I’m buying less and less lately, partly because I don’t know where to store them anymore and partly because I want to have them available when I want (like the On Demand features), and not wanting to physically search for them.

After our appartment has been redesigned, I decided not to have a DVD player in the room anymore, especially when I discovered Boxee, an open, connected, social media centre, which was now available for AppleTV as well.

So now I’m ripping all my DVD’s in full format to disk, playing them via Boxee on my AppleTV. I think this might become the perfect alternative for Kaleidescape, the $15.000 home entertainment system on which I’ve been drooling for a while.

It’s currently in Alpha state, on invitation only, for Mac, Linux & AppleTV. Got any of these and want to try it out ? Let me know in the comments.

After 4 weeks, the reconstruction of our apartment is ALMOST done. Lot’s of new colors, corners, cabinet, kitchen and, most importantly, gadgets (Like our Elica Twin kitchenhood and our Busch-Jaeger Touchpanel).

Final details are most likely done next week, but we can live in our house again!

Design by SuperDutch and Bas!

Was visiting the MediaMarkt today, and noticed that they had exactly ONE HD-DVD left (it was on sale!), compared to hundreds of blu-ray’s. Was witnessing HD-DVD’s final hours, almost felt compelled to buy that last one. Was King Kong though…

Don LaFontaine, died at 68. You might not recognize him, but you will surely recognize his voice.

More on him:

Darn you, PSV. Normally they made available the new schema for upcoming matches for the new soccer season as a download.
Now they suddenly decided to offer them as a Flogs thingie, which means I have to register, download&install a plugin, just to get the schema added to my Outlook agenda. No thanks! I just need a fricking schema to import…

So, for those of you with Outlook, find the Wedstrijd schema PSV 2008-2009 here. Download & save to your computer, enter your Outlook agenda and choose “import” from the file menu to import it into your agenda.

Good luck this season!