Sound & Vision

I'm just back from going to see "The Social Network" at the cinema in Eastleigh. A great film and if you get the chance do go and make sure that you see it at a cinema. The main reason for that being that one of the best things about the film is how the music adds to the overall experience and you will need to have a fairly special home cinema set up to replicate to sound in the cinema.

The last film that I saw (Inception) also had a similarly impressive soundtrack that also added to the films tension, excitement and drama. While all these directors are spending millions of dollars on 3D production, including "retro fitting" (Stars Wars will be the next series to "benefit" from the experience) maybe they should be spending that money on the soundtrack.

After all most cinemas theses days do have state of the art sound systems in 5.1 surround sound etc and you can add lots more to the overall experience with the sound than in most cases you ever will with 3D.

At one point, mainly by the use of the music, "The Social Network" made the actor playing Mark Zuckerburg look cool while coding the first version of "The Facebook"!

Face to face

So in case you hadn't worked this out from my last blog, I am the proud owner of an iPhone 4.

My contract was renewable in August and I initially decided that the "Samsung Galaxy S" was the phone for me. the problem with that was that being an Android phone, it would have meant effectively buying again all the apps for that operating system that I had already bought for my iPod Touch (and which work on an iPhone at no extra cost). The clincher was that the iPhone 16GB was the same amount each month as the Samsung phone, albeit the iPhone had to be purchased but for a reasonable amount for what it gave me.  (Well that's what I convinced myself anyway!!!)

I've had it a month now and it's great, although having had an iPod Touch first does diminish the "WOW" factor. As a result some of it is no more than "Hmmm" as it enhances the iPod experience, but no more.

BUT it does have some stuff that is awesome. The phone is simple to use which may sound obvious but with my last Nokia, the hardest thing to do was actually make a phone call!! In addition it has "Facetime" which it is no more than video calling, but as it uses wifi is a free and novel way to talk to your friends in America. (Well it would be if someone kept his iPod and wifi on *cough* Gibbs *cough*).

It also has a 5 mega pixel camera (with flash) which also shoots HD video. Again all simple to use and top quality.

Oh and it looks and feels wonderful, like a beautiful, shiny phone/media jewel thing.

But be warned, it will also use up one months whole data usage in a day if you watch Kylie on the BBC news app and don't close it down properly!!!

I made my excuses and left

Writing this blog has become somewhat  harder of late and I'm not sure why? This is to such an extent that I only posted one blog in September.

Reasons why I don't blog:-

• too tired
• too bored
• nothing to say
• football/good comedy/film to watch
• no inspiration
• the words won't come
• my son rings me on "facetime" while I'm trying to blog.
• have to go out.
• too busy playing "angry birds" on my iPhone4.

So let's try harder shall we????