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This Is Advertising

Check out the videos of the xmas 2007 PS3 advertising campaign for Northern America, as posted on the official PlayStation blog.

Boom! 😀

Those are fantastic adverts – they completely put to shame the abstract ones we get in Europe. In fact, when I saw the ads above mentioned on my RSS feed first thing this morning I didn’t even pay them a moment’s notice because of the dross I’m used to seeing. But those ads, especially the 60 second one, pretty much sum up what the PS3 is all about – it even gives a quick nod to the motion sensing controller without laying it on thick, same with the Blu-Ray capabilities.

I’d really like to see ads of that caliber for Europe for the festive season – it even reminded me that I should get around to picking up that Saliva album. 8)

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Winamp 10th Anniversary Edition

I downloaded the spanky new version of Winamp today, released to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the media player.

It doesn’t have a particularly overwhelming list of new features, but the new interface took me completely by surprise. Falling somewhere between Windows Media Player and an operating system of the future it had me quickly scampering back to the Winamp Modern skin and its more familiar territory.

I’m intrigued by Winamp Remote, though, which lets you stream your files across the internet via Winamp. 🙂

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