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Video Preview – A closer look at ‘The Hobbit’ trailer
February 16th, 2012 
Casey Going Video Preview – A closer look at ‘The Avengers’ Super Bowl trailer
February 16th, 2012 Casey Going Samsung’s dismissal of the forthcoming Apple television is moronic – here’s why
February 16th, 2012 Aaron Holesgrove 
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Oh, I love a good laugh.
If you haven’t already heard the hilarious headlines that hit the web yesterday, Samsung‘s AV product manager Chris Moseley boasted in an interview with Pocket-lint that Apple‘s ‘iTV‘ is nothing to worry about because his company have great picture quality. As Business Insider put it, the guy is utterly delusional.
There’s a few things to add to this conversation though that makes this statement look even more stupid than that, though.
Samsung cancels plans for new Nexus phone – what it really means
February 16th, 2012 Aaron Holesgrove 
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Surprising news hit the interwebs today that Samsung had been planning to launch a 32gb version of the Galaxy Nexus and that after some consideration, they decided to can the idea at the last minute. Reading blog coverage of the news, the implication out there seems to be that Samsung might be reconsidering their love affair with the Google reference design phone and are already moving on to greener pastures.
Nonsense.
Here’s what I think really happened.
Sleeping Dogs – The next True Crime (and the next Grand Theft Auto)
February 13th, 2012 Casey Going 
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We all remember True Crime: Streets of LA on the original Xbox and PS2. Well, I do.
If you don’t, True Crime was an open world game much like GTA 3 and was released very soon after it. It focused much more on the police side of the criminal world, which was great as it was in contrast to the running-over-old-grandma-stealing-everything-you-could-and-killing-everything that was the Grand Theft Auto franchise. Despite its similarities to the competition, it was still heaps of fun and it had some really awesomeand random cheats in it like the swapping of the normal head for a donkey.
JB Hi-Fi’s NOW music service is releasing a mobile app soon – an improvement but still not good enough
February 13th, 2012 Aaron Holesgrove 
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Just before Christmas, I went on record as saying that I thought JB Hi-Fi’s NOW online music service was a steaming lump of hot turd. Primary amoungst my gripes about the service was its crazy and confusing content layout, it’s lack of customisation to the user, it’s ‘beta’ label (not ready for primetime) and it’s lack of a mobile phone app.
Well, it looks like they’re finally fixing the last one on that list.
Video – The Amazing Spider-Man trailer is, simply, amazing
February 12th, 2012 Aaron Holesgrove 
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If you haven’t seen this yet, you have to.
Finally, Spider-Man is getting the ‘Batman‘ touch, where the movie is taken seriously with all of the kiddie crap cut out of it. To the guys who have put this thing together, I’m proud.
I’m not the only one saying this too -- check out this Forbes report that sings the similar praise of the work of the new Spidey team. Maybe, just maybe, the bad taste of the first three Spider-emo-kid movies will leave our mouths.
Enjoy.
George Lucas pays out on Star Wars fanboys
February 12th, 2012 Aaron Holesgrove 
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Well, this is certainly surprising.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, George Lucas seemingly did a brain snap when asked about the ‘controversal’ change in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope in which the classic Greedo vs Han Solo scene was mucked around with in the latest Blu-ray editions released to the public.
Says Lucas:
Well, it’s not a religious event. I hate to tell people that. It’s a movie, just a movie.
Lucas also rambled on about his justification for the change with a whole bunch of verbal diarrhea that I’m sure you couldn’t care less about.
Video Unboxing – The iPhone “appBlaster” gun
February 2nd, 2012 Casey Going Hi gadget loving people!
Here is an unboxing of the appBlaster, a little known add on that turns your Iproduct into AR device. Pretty cool huh.
Here is the unboxing below. Stay tuned for a review!
Wednesday Quickie – Putting the new YouTube statistics into perspective
January 25th, 2012 Aaron Holesgrove 
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News hit the interwebs today that YouTube is now serving up 4 billion video plays daily. That number is simply incredible.
Now think of this: last year, YouTube announced that it had served up one trillion video plays in 2011. With these latest numbers, and assuming that YouTube doesn’t grow any more popular throughout the year (which is highly unlikely), 4 billion plays daily equates to about 1.5 trillion plays for the year. If YouTube doescontinue to grow, it is highly probable that the service will double the amount of traffic it did last year, eclipsing the barrier of two billion plays in 2012.
Double. That would be amazing.