ShadowReality

I’ve been wanting a capture device for quite some time to allow me to record some some games, and so I have laid my hands on this, a USB Dazzle DVC170. There are a few USB capture devices on the market, but very few can actually record 60Hz PAL properly, and even the ones that can sometimes need to be tricked into thinking thier NTSC.

So I’ve had a bit of fun recording CoD4 and GH3 from my Xbox360, I can now get a little bit more creative and might even to some video reviews like my friend James.

This is the first blog made from my newly upgraded computer, hooray!

So most of my weekend is has been spent installing XP (I’ll install Vista at a later date), doing a bunch of windows updates, installing drivers, installing more windows updates, removing drivers that don’t work due to windows updates, and then re-installing previously removed windows updates.

Yep as you can see a lot of fun, but now that is pretty much out of the way I am now getting the useful software and games back on this new HDD and I must say I’m pretty impressed with it so far.

Also the new Call of Duty 4 Map pack got released this weekend, and on Saturday a whole bunch of us from NooBTooB had a real blast checking them out. We even managed to play with Wombat from CheapAssGamer which I thought was pretty damn cool considering I listen to their CagCast regularly. All in all a great time.

Also this weekend to top it all off it actually decided to snow here, which it really doesn’t do very often at all, infact i cannot remember the last time it did. Sure we get rain, sleet, hail, angry bees, thunder & lightening, but snow.. it’s pretty rare this south, especially at the start of “spring”.