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Raylight Ultra and Sony Vegas 9 – A Consumer Review

Raylight Ultra has been released by DVFilm as the successor to Raylight. DVFilm still supports Raylight, but development efforts in the future will be focused on Raylight Ultra. The core functionality of Raylight, and now Ultra, is coding and decoding MXF files. They do, however, both include the Raylight Plug-in for Sony Vegas: RayMaker, for converting MXF files to AVI, P2 Maker, for converting Raylight AVI to MXF, and also a control panel for working with the Raylight codec.

Raylight Ultra
Raylight Ultra

The best new feature in Raylight Ultra is a great improvement in performance. You should now be able to do real-time editing, with visual fidelity and smooth playback. Before Ultra, you would have to choose between either having smooth playback or full-resolution preview – to see proper full-res playback, the project would have to be rendered. The improved performance of Ultra allows you to preview on the timeline and have the best of both worlds.

This also means that there are now only two editing modes, instead of four. There is still a Raylight Red mode (Low Res Proxy) which allows real-time editing even on a project that’s very demanding or a machine that’s much slower – albeit with an image that significantly degraded.

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Redtape from city boards makes Internet beautiful bride for Redbox

While the success of Redbox’s red kiosks from which it rents out movies to members of the public at a price of one dollar per film is not in doubt; the company is however further setting its sights on delivering movies digitally to users via the internet.

The profits it could earn from this avenue could potentially surpass that which it earns from the Red kiosks it presently has deployed to various business premises. The internet would offer a larger and vast market to the company. In addition, it would also be able to offer a limitless amount of movies from one central web address. This would remove the additional expenses of purchasing more kiosks and revenue sharing with the business premises that houses its kiosks. Thus the end figure of marketing via the internet is somewhat less expenditure and more profits.

The move to offer its services to its consumers via the internet will also be beneficial in helping the company retain its visibility as city planning officials in a city like Wheaton, Illinois are proposing to set in place regulations which may curb Redbox from being able to physically install more of its red kiosks in other locations. Hence, the roll out of its plans to move its services to the internet is also strategic in view of the proposed regulations and other guidelines being rolled out by various city boards.

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Rabi Cycling to Generate the New Silicon Wafers

After the Mac OS X, the failure to satisfy the Moore’s law is considered as sign of apocalypse in the industry. The law is a mere conclusion from the patterns observed. According to the phenomenon, the silicon chip features are doubling once in 18 months.

Rabi cycling

A photographic circuit image is etched on to silicon wafer with photolithography techniques. The silicon chip circuit etching is controlled by the diffraction limit of light. The current optical and imaging systems fail to make tinier dots of light due to higher limits. Conventionally silicon wafers are coated with photosensitive chemicals on which a circuit image is projected using a projector. The chemical undergoes reaction upon the interference of light rays and washing in acid removes the unexposed portion of the silicon wafer. Light waves excite the chemical molecules which gets destabilized and susceptible to acid wash.

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Dawn of War & Total War

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn Of War II

Pros: Easy for novices to pick up; looks great.

Cons: Strategically shallow.

Dawn Of War II is a real-time strategy (RTS) game with elements of Diablo-style RPG thrown in for good measure, set in Games Workshop’s very popular futuristic Warhammer 40,000 Universe. It’s a mix of fantasy and sci-fi, meaning you’re facing off (or being) squads of space marines, orks and the very alien-esque Tyranid forces. For RTS purists, Dawn Of War II can’t help but feel impossibly light, with tactics something of an afterthought, base building notably absent, and an emphasis on collecting in-battle upgrades making this seem more like an MMO-style grind than anything else.

WarHammer
WarHammer

At the same time, that light-feel makes this a very accessible game for those who have found more intense RTS micro-management games a chore. The single-player campaign is, admittedly, pretty easy, but once you’ve blown through that, there’s still plenty of enjoyment to be had from the intense but fairly shallow multiplayer combat modes.

Overall I give Warhammer 40,000: Daw Of War II a 4/5.

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