I recently discovered that iTunes had some Mountain-Biking videos for download and I couldn’t resist them.
The first I downloaded was ‘Seasons’ from the Collective which was amazing, loads of good footage, some excellent filming and a good mix of riding. At about an hour long you just can’t go wrong for £1.89. The sound track was good too and it just made me want to get out and ride.
Here’s the Trailer for Seasons:
Next up was Kranked 7 which was pretty good, but not quite as good as seasons in my view. I also downloaded ‘Virtuous’, which was a little shorter but just as good. Some really good downhill footage, although I wasn’t so sure about the soundtrack on this one as it would require an ‘explicit’ tag so I couldn’t really let Morgan watch it.
If only iTunes had some windsurfing movies too as it is so easy to download them and at £1.89 each you don’t mind paying for them. I know you can get such things for free if you look in the right places, but I’d prefer not to do that – I must be the only person who has actually acquired all of his video, music and software legitimately – if the products are available at a sensible price then I’d much rather buy them and support the people making them. It isn’t as though I don’t already give Apple enough of my hard earned cash, so they may as well provide my media as well!
Head on over to iTunes now and get inspired to get out there on the trails. Even the Guardian has an article about Mountain Biking video clips. All I need now is to find a way of viewing them on the TV in the living room.
New Toys!
All of our new home entertainment equipment arrived on Thursday. Delivery from eBuyer was quick, although we did have to contact them as they tried to give us a free HDMI cable which was then out of stock and wo8ld have meant we would have to wait for everything else until the freebie was in stock.
They sorted this though and everything arrived as described. I then had the task of sorting out the spaghetti of cables and installing everything. The TV looks good, just the right size (32″), clear and bright with OK sound. It has a ridiculous number of input ports, 2 scart, component video, 3 HDMI inputs and some others that we’ll never use. We don’t get the best digital reception here so it took a bit of fiddling with the singal booster box to get it looking good, but that’s not the fault of the TV, just the fact that we live ‘on the edge’.
The DVD player looks good too. We haven’t used it much but we have tested it and it works well. It’s really small too which is quite nice. It has an SD card reader and USB port so we should be able to connect hard drives to it should we wish. It does 1080p upscaling and has an HDMI output so now we need to find some HD content so that we can see if High Def is any better than Standard Def.
The digibox HDD PVR wasn’t such a success. It was a direct replacement for our 40GB Digihome PVR that died last weekend and we already had another 80GB one that we had bought for Anna’s Mum, but this third one didn’t work. It would sort of switch on and say ‘Starting’ but it wouldn’t do anything else, so that one is going back to eBuyer for a replacement.
We now need a new cabinet or stand for them to go on which will save some room in the lounge and of course some time to sit in front of it and chill!
