Which gaming console should you buy?


Which console to buy has becoming increasingly more complex? It's now not simply a case of picking the one with the top games or the next generation console/upgrade of the one you already have. The main consoles to choose from are the PSP3, Wii and the Xbox 360.

If you read my Wii review it describes this console as the most ground breaking when it was first released changing the course of gaming for years to come and spawned the newer controllers from its competitors. Since this original review Nintedo have improved its original Wii Remote, with the MotionPlus for an improved/increased accuracy. The Wii is great value if the type of games and controller appeal to you, a very good alternative to the other power-strong consoles.

If high grade graphics is what you're after, you should be looking at the Xbox 360 or the PS3. The PS3 specification boasts the best console graphically and is free to play online. The unit also doubles as a Blu-ray player and the PlayStation Move controller gives a wireless experience similar, if not better than the Wii MotionPlus.

The Xbox 360, on the other hand have a system called Xbox Live for online use, which does unfortunately come at a cost financially (but it is very reputable). The most interesting feature is its newest form of its controller, which is something a little different called 'Kinect', a controller less system that allows the users' body movements and speech to directly interact with games, like spinning a roulette wheel in a casino. A highly ambitious project leaving us in intense anticipation of its final results.

An in depth comparison can be seen in my console comparison review.

Monday, 15 November 2010

NCH-VideoPad

The name of this product hints that it would do for video what Notepad for text files. And that's about the size of it. It is a cheap (so cheap, it's free) and cheerful video editor, but its strength lies where the NCH strength lies, in file conversion.

Do you have a .mov file, for example, like many of the new bag, video cameras, memory-based products, you hard to a video editor to load it directly, unless you have a brand new version of something like Adobe Premiere Elements or the latest video studio, either that will set you back from 70 € or so.

The Edit screen is divided into four main areas, with a browser for video clips, which you can drag and drop files or loading a camera, on the left. in addition to this are two great playback screens, one for clips and the other for sequences and running full-width below is a timeline, where you can split clips, and simple transitions; mainly disappears.

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There are a couple of effects available, with brightness and sepia tones among them, and you can add captions.The program has surprisingly good audio treatment, with the soundtrack of the video plus the two additional tracks, where you can add music or narration.Default volume control set points shall be applied, too.

Once you have compiled your video, you can save it to DVD (or CD for short ones), to a file, or uploading to YouTube, which the program can handle directly. If you pay for the Pro version, there is virtually no export obligation that you can't match.

If you just want to crop and trim your clips, perhaps they upload to YouTube or MySpace, VideoPad will do the basics for free and the result can be saved in four different formats: AVI, WMV, ASF and DVD.If you want the full series, which has more than 20, plus numerous are the image and audio formats, it will cost you a bit more than £ 40. This is perhaps too close to Premiere Elements and video studio, both of which have a lot more comprehensive feature sets.

Another thing to keep in mind is the high resolutions which some video cameras are now able, right up to 1920 x 1080 resolution of 1080p HD unless you have a pretty strong PC or Mac to edit them, you may see unwanted effects such as bad lip sync or frames click play missed more sensitive to this. VideoPad than more expensive video editors is displayed.

This is by no means a full-fledged video editor, but the basic operations you can perform on a video you can make a movie from a series of clips and use simple transitions to them together you can finally change resolution and save them in various popular formats. Unless the additional formats provided by the Pro Edition, this is all free.

free (VideoPad), from 42 € incl. VAT (VideoPad Pro)


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