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Giveaway! Perfect Dark Release!

Jacob Wolfrum — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:01:01 +0000

For those of you that do not know, Perfect Dark releases tomorrow on the XBox Live Arcade. It has been remastered in 1080p at 60 frames per second and will now boast 2-8 player multiplayer online play. Which if you love the classics you’ll love this because IT’S PERFECT DARK! To celebrate its’ launch and give a little back to the members of our community, on Livestream tomorrow, I will be streaming it live for all to see from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm join us and at the end of the stream I will pick one lucky winner to receive a free 1600 Point XBox Live Microsoft Marketplace code.

You MUST be present at the end of the stream, and you must be active throughout the stream by chatting. We will randomly select an active participant at the end (7:30PM EST) to receive the point’s card.

Our stream is located at http://www.techjawa.tv/

HD Console Streaming Solution: Blackmagic Design’s “Intensity Pro”

Corey DeGrandchamp — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:04:03 +0000

Well this is exactly what we were trying to get donations for. I’ve sold some personal property as well, and was able to front some of the cash to purchase the card itself. It should be here, in all it’s glory, on Friday this week, or Monday next week!

We still need donations, so please feel free to keep them coming (go to the “Live” page to find the donate button). We still need more hardware and cabling that is just too expensive for our staff members right now.

Once all is said and done, the setup should follow this flowchat exactly. (Click for a larger view)

Once we continue collecting donations, we should be able to purchase the other remaining components and start streaming our HD consoles and even capturing some moments in HD for posting on sites like YouTube.

I will be sure to photo/video document the unboxing and installation of the Intensity Pro card, and let you all know how it works.

There has been some doubt about it working on my X58 architecture board, but some forum goers have said it shouldn’t be an issue. Blackmagic’s official take on it is “not supported” but the retailer I purchased from allows a 30 day grace period for money-back returns. If this setup doesn’t work, there are other (slightly more expensive) solutions we will strive for. I’m fairly certain this should go off without a hitch though.

Donations Are Key

Corey DeGrandchamp — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 15:34:13 +0000

Tech Jawa is trying to expand, by adding new authors for articles, as well as trying to set up a fully functional live stream of (starting with) video gaming. The issue we face now is how cheap we want to do this, and if it’s even possible.

We are going to make an attempt to get console games streaming for roughly $50, but it’s really a 50/50 chance if it will work or not. Regardless of if it works or not, we need something called an “Intensity Pro” from Blackmagic Design. It’s an HD capture card that will allow us to feed an HDMI signal straight into my PC, to allow high quality, HD streams over the internet.

We all need your help though. Donations are key in this matter, because the Intensity Pro is $200!

Let me just say that the Intensity Pro would be a WORLD of a difference in terms of quality, and viewer satisfaction.

Right now this is the current setup I have PLANNED (the cheap one)… Which will take my HDMI sources, and hopefully downsample them enough to work with cheap hardware. I have my doubts that this process will be enough though, generally you need a very expensive downscaling box that converts the digital HDMI signal to the analog composite signals.

The converter is simply a cable, and is likely our failing point.

There is another option we will try as well, which is using the AV out on the back of my TV, however I’m not sure that the TV will downscale and convert from digital to analog like that. We may have no choice but to go for the Intensity Pro after this.

I also want to point out that Jacob Wolfrum was nice enough to buy us the equipment we will try to start with before the Intensity Pro, but we need everybody’s help to get us the real professional equipment we need to complete this task.

New Live Streaming Feature

Corey DeGrandchamp — Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:53:17 +0000

If you actually visit my blog (http://www.coreydegrandchamp.com) you’ll notice the top left corner has changed a bit, I’ve switched from using Stickam as a streaming agent to uStream.tv

uStream.tv is a much better service, with less hick-ups, freezes, downtime, and is based much more around a “techie” community than a “MySpace for webcams” type site that Stickam was.

In the following days I’ll be setting up new cameras around my study, right now I’ve only had available one cam to me, which was built into my MacBook, so my live time has been very limited. By next week I should have two separate cameras positioned in my office and I’ll be able to switch between the two on the fly in the uStream.tv interface. It’s exciting for a geek like myself.

My live time is going to increase dramatically in the next few days when my new cameras arrive in the mail, so be sure to visit my actual blog and check it out! You can also click the menu in the lower right corner of the stream, and go to my uStream.tv profile, and join a live chat with me even, and you don’t even need to register for anything! I don’t anticipate many people to use that portion of the service, but if you do it’d be nice.

PS. I’ve decided to start doing reviews on AppStore applications, so look forward to some of those coming soon!