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Daily Archives: January 5, 2008

Warner Brothers Backs Blu-Ray

On Friday executives at Warner Brothers announced that they would be committing to support the Blu-Ray format for HD movies and would be ceasing production of movies in the HD-DVD format at the end of May, 2008.

Though the battle is far from over with technology giants like Intel and Microsoft backing the Toshiba-led HD-DVD format.  Disney and Fox have both committed to the Blu-Ray format.  WB has been producing movies in both formats until now.  With the decision to move to the Blu-Ray format, this tilts the scales in the direction of the Sony-backed format quite significantly, particularly for movies.

One possibility we may see is Blu-Ray being adopted for movies, and HD-DVD being adopted for the video game industry, particularly given Microsoft’s support of the format in it’s XBox 360 console.

Enabling the Tab Key in OS X

OK, so it’s been about a month since I installed Leopard, and there are a few things that have been bugging me.  One which is a constant source of frustration for me (since I’m really a keyboard guy at heart) is the fact that by default, OS X won’t allow you to “tab” your way through all the controls of a form.

So now I found by way of a bit of surfing (I started with this post from Knightwise) a page on LifeHacker describing just how to accomplish this magical feat.  Truth be told, I did this last year before the Leopard install, but couldn’t remember how I did it.  This post is as much for me (for the next time I have a fresh OS X install) as for the community at large.

  1. Open System Preferences (Apple Menu –> System Preferences)
  2. Click on Keyboard and Mouse
  3. Click on the All Controls radio button at the bottom of the form

Thank God we’ve got that little mess sorted out.