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Fan Expo 2010 – Jarett Cale Interview

By Doug Groves | Published: September 7, 2010
Every time we get a chance to talk to the guys from Pure Pwnage, it’s always a blast.  We catch up with Jarett Cale at Fan Expo this year, to talk about what’s happening with season 2 of the TV series, and where the web series stands… “Honestly, it’s a bit depressing working on the web [...]
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Fan Expo 2010 – Pressure valve

By Doug Groves | Published: September 3, 2010
As we briefly touched on in our initial Fan Expo write up, the convention was overcrowded this year, with attendance up by about 10,000 people.  It didn’t help that Expo was moved from the larger south building of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, to the north, which has approximately 20% LESS square footage. The intention of [...]
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Pure Pwnage Android app l33t Speaker beta demonstrated

By Doug Groves | Published: August 30, 2010
At Fan Expo, Geoff Lapaire of Pure Pwnage was kind enough to give us a look at the still-in-beta app that they’re developing for Android phones (an update to the already available iPhone app).  The soundboard app, l33t Speaker, will have both basic and Pro versions, and Geoff shows it off on his Nexus One.  [...]
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Fan Expo 2010 – The Big Crunch

By Doug Groves | Published: August 30, 2010
With the end of the last weekend of August comes the end of Fan Expo, by far the largest gathering of fans from across the geek spectrum in Canada, and third largest in North America. 2010 also marks the third year that we at RGB Filter have stormed the gates with video cameras and [...]
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AMC releases Official The Walking Dead Series Trailer

By Doug Groves | Published: August 25, 2010
Back in July, a handheld cam version of The Walking Dead TV series trailer, aired at San Diego Comic Con, made its way online.  While better than many handhelds, it doesn’t matter now, as AMC has put out the full trailer, above.  Well worth the watch! Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where [...]
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Fan Expo 2010 starts this Friday

By Doug Groves | Published: August 24, 2010
The end of August is the one time of year where the various geek and nerd subcultures collide in a heady mix of homebrew costumes and unadulterated hero (and heroine) worship.  Fan Expo, the ultimate Canadian merger of fandom takes place August 27-29, and brings together the Canadian National Comic Book Expo, the Science Fiction [...]
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Walking Dead trailer from San Diego Comic Con

By Doug Groves | Published: July 26, 2010
The makers of The Walking Dead TV series, on AMC, screened the first official trailer at the San Diego Comic Con this year, and at least one person in attendance managed to record it and put it up on YouTube. Though it’s a cam, the trailer holds up and it looks like they’re getting [...]
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Walking Dead dispatches

By Doug Groves | Published: July 20, 2010
AMC and the producers of The Walking Dead are managing to keep fans updated on the series production almost daily. In the latest round, there are a couple of notable interviews on the official blog, including one with producer Gale Anne Hurd of The Terminator and Aliens fame, as well as the director of [...]
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Netflix in Canada fall 2010

By Doug Groves | Published: July 19, 2010
When it comes to digital content distribution, the United States has had a huge jump on other countries, largely because most of the big distributors have all been US companies.  When Netflix first started out, it was a DVD subscription service, but they quickly embraced the digital distribution via subscription model.  This has made the [...]
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There’s a TV for that – Samsung’s Connected TV message

By Doug Groves | Published: July 12, 2010
First shown off at CES back in January, it appears that Samsung is ready to make a huge push in the TV market with their web applications on newer model TV sets and Blu Ray players, under the name ‘Samsung Apps‘, not to be confused with the mobile phone Samsung Apps.   To sell [...]
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Flying saucer on Roswell ranch captures international imagination

By Doug Groves | Published: July 8, 2010
It was 63 years ago today, on July 8th 1947, that the Roswell Daily Record ran the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region”, which launched the most well-known UFO ‘cover up’ in modern history.  Subsequently, the crash was attributed to that of a Project Mogul balloon loaded with crash test dummies [...]
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Sony 3D Launch interview

By Doug Groves | Published: July 3, 2010
A couple of weeks back, we had a chance to go hands on with Sony’s new line of 3D TVs and PS3 games. While at the launch, we also got a chance to talk with Karol Warminiec about some of their plans. Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and [...]
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