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"Within 7 years he had established himself as a respected producer and changed his pseudonym to QD3. He created tracks for many artists, including LL Cool J, Too Short, Ice Cube, Mack 10, Westside Connection, K-Dee, Lench Mob, Tech N9ne and Tupac Shakur. He has also scored films and television shows, including The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Menace II Society."
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quincy_Jones_III
DTG is a solid performer, imho.
The Ibox has been updated. Check it out!
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ Schwag :oP
Thanks for the GM Schwag!
:o)
*Joins the "We Too are Baffled Here" club.*
I really enjoyed the new Scratch: The ultimate DJ commercial. It is all about the music!
Mp3 playback is a great way for Genius Products to differentiate itself from the competition (DJ Zero).
Activision will provide unlimited Gurella marketing opportunities for Genius Products.
With Numark on board, Scratch: The Ultimate DJ will win the DJ Battle! :oD
GMGMQ needs to break a dime. Yawn.................
I know huh!
:.`)
Still waiting................... LOL
Gold and Silver should do well for the future, supply and demand will always be king! GNPR is another successful R/S. Scratch: The Ultimate DJ from Numark and Genius Products will destroy the competition! imho GLTY! :oD
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ and DJ Hero
"Scratch: The Ultimate DJ, from Genius Products, and DJ Hero, from Activision, both use a turntable controller to try to do for spinning records what "Guitar Hero" and "Rock Band" have done for rock 'n' roll. The general consensus is that "Scratch" has the better turntable, but "DJ Hero" has the marketing might of the world's largest video game company.
Additionally, the companies making both of these games have sued each other in a development I find semi-hilarious. See, back when Activision bought plastic guitar maker Red Octane and the rights to the "Guitar Hero" game, they failed to snap up the creative people who actually made the game, Harmonix. So Harmonix went on to get bought by MTV, under whose auspices they made "Rock Band" and "The Beatles: Rock Band." Clearly, this had to sting Activision a bit, right? How much more money would they have made if they'd been the first full-band game on the market and were still reaping all the benefits of having a monopoly on the music genre?
So when it's time to make "DJ Hero," Activision snaps up a company called 7 Studios, a financially troubled developer who's already making a DJ game, "Scratch: The Ultimate DJ," for Genius. So, this time they clearly learn their lesson from the "Guitar Hero" debacle and buy the creative people instead of just the name. But Genius, who spurned Activision's offer of a buyout shortly before Activision bought 7 Studios, says 7 Studios illegally kept the assets for "Scratch: The Ultimate DJ" and has sued to get them back. Tasty."
Source: http://blogs.pressdemocrat.com/default.asp?item=2386172
New Commercial for Scratch: The Ultimate DJ!
:oD
http://www.viddler.com/player/c2bb0f9e/
Rite aid has been doing well! The RS is still a possibility, imo.
GE has been performing well for it's shareholders! ;op
Higher before lower, plausible... eventually breaking a dime, imho. GLTY!
Everyone will love it, young and old, imho. Heck, even Fredman's Mom
(and Grandmom especially) have expressed interest in Scratch: The Ultimate DJ. :oD
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ will do well, as too will all investors in Genius Products! GLTA!
Thanks for the info! :oD
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ will be a huge success for Genius Products!
DJ Hero has far more brand recognition on the box, but Scratch: The Ultimate DJ has the better hardware IN THE BOX!
The Numark controller is Wireless Too! Nice Touch! :oD
http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/04/scratch-the-ultimate-dj-hands-on/
Here is a link to game play videos for Scratch: The Ultimate DJ
http://media.ps3.ign.com/media/142/14287883/vids_1.html
With USB Microphone and MP3 Playback support, Scratch The Ultimate DJ will be a huge success for Genius Products and a great deal for the Consumer this holiday season!
Not so for DJ hero...
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DJ Hero - E3 Q&A Feature
TVG sits down with Kevin McSherry, FreeStyleGames' Studio Manager, to discuss DJ Hero
TVG: "Genius Products' Scratch: the Ultimate DJ peripheral is strongly rumoured to support MP3 playback. Is this something you could see DJ Hero's turntable having when the product comes to market?"
FreestyleGames' Studio: "It's not something you're going to see in DJ Hero."
Source: http://www.totalvideogames.com/DJ-Hero/feature-14222.html
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ’s Website has been updated!
Under the Scratch 101 > The DJ’s Section is a listing of the in game DJ’s with their favorite artists. Seems to me that you wouldn’t claim a favorite artist unless that artist was in the game.
Here are the artists that are listed:
Dr. Dre
Tech N9ne
Far East Movement
RJD2
Deltron 3030
Beastie Boys
The Knux
Kid Koala
Hollywood Holt
Method Man & Redman
MF Doom
Eric B. and Rakim
http://scratchvideogame.com/dev_new/index.php/scratch/the_djs/
According to the following video, Gangstarr will also appear in Scratch The Ultimate DJ!
Check out the new Scratch The Ultimate DJ official web page!
http://www.scratchvideogame.com/
The video was very impressive indeed!
I liked how Michael Rubinelli from Genius Products commented on the Numark Scratch Deck: "This is more like REAL DJ gear!"
Rubinelli also commented on how Scratch has a Virtual Studio and how you can import your own samples and make your own personalized battle records: For Example, Rubinelli commented, The consumer can "grab an iconic sample (from the television that you love)" and scratch it up!
BOOYAH - B - B - B - BOOYAH - OO - YAH - YAH - BOOYAH - Wiki - Wiki - Wah - Wah!
Scratch will be a big hit for sure!
E3 09: First look at Genius' Scratch
Earlier this week, Genius Products invited us out to their offices to get an exclusive, early hands-on of their upcoming turntable-based music game, Scratch: The Ultimate DJ.
While the game will officially be revealed to the world this Wednesday night, we got a first-look at the controller, as well as a chance to play a few tracks. More detailed hands-on impressions will be going up later this week, but Genius' Mike Rubinelli was nice enough to chat it up with us about what you can expect when the game ships.
Watch the video here!
E3 '09 Press Conference live stream:
http://en.justin.tv/g4tv_e3
LOL, yeah really! :oD
Id like a piece of that Pi ;oD
GMGMQ is going lower, much-much lower, imho.
NCR hires Coinstar’s Camara for Blockbuster kiosk effort
Executive worked for Redbox parent for a decade
ATM-making giant NCR has tapped Alex Camara, a former executive with Redbox parent Coinstar, to head its movie-rental kiosk-development efforts with Blockbuster.
Camara, who was most recently general manager of Coinstar’s coin and entertainment unit, will be VP and general manager of NCR’s entertainment solutions division, NCR said in a statement today. Camara had been with Coinstar for 10 years.
Camara will oversee a partnership formed last year between NCR and Blockbuster to build Blockbuster Express kiosks and close the gap with kiosk leader Redbox in the rapidly-growing self-service DVD market. U.S. rental revenue from kiosks is expected to more than double between 2008 and 2011 to $1 billion, while traditional in-store sales are expected to fall during the same period, Adams Media Research said in March.
“Alex is the ideal person to drive NCR’s entertainment business and fulfill our goal of becoming the worldwide leader in entertainment self-service solutions,” John Bruno, executive VP of NCR’s industry solutions group, said in the statement.
In April, NCR agreed to acquire the majority stake in movie-rental kiosk operator TNR Holdings, which will speed up its kiosk-making partnership with Blockbuster, the largest U.S. movie-rental chain. Blockbuster CEO Jim Keyes has estimated that the partnership will produce 3,000 kiosks by the end of the year and 10,000 by the end of 2010.
Earlier this year, Coinstar bought the 49% of Redbox that it didn’t already own for about $175 million in cash and stock. Last month, Coinstar said Redbox’s first-quarter sales more than doubled from a year earlier, and it was on track to almost double its machine count to as many as 22,000 this year.
Source: http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6662151.html
Scratch: The Ultimate DJ will be featured @ the 2009 Electronic Entertainment E3 Expo this week.
http://e3expo.com/
Tuesday, June 2nd @ 7:15 PM PDT Genius Products will present Scratch The Ultimate DJ — "Put away the guitar and get ready to spin!"
Watch E3 live:
http://e3.gamespot.com/live.html
http://video.ign.com/streaming/e3-2009/
http://e3.g4tv.com/e32009/index/
Just what we need, more super gas guzzling GM vehicles!
Go Chevy VOLT!!! :oD
*Pauses for a moment of silence for all GM public shareholders*
President Obama said all common shareholders will be wiped out in bankruptcy...
It will NOT hold, going lower, imho.
GM TRADING!
Just move the decimal place to the left a few places from $3.00 to $0.03 and you are golden! ;oD
Not sure, I have yet to see a Blockbuster KIOSK in my neck of the woods.
I doubt you will see one @ Walmart...
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Wal-Mart to test E-Play game kiosks
In pilot, machines buy trade-ins and rent games, DVDs
Wal-Mart might be considering a challenge to specialty videogame retailer GameStop, if a new test of self-service kiosks that allow for videogame rentals and trade-ins as well as DVD rentals is any indication.
Kiosk operator E-Play, based in Columbus, Ohio, will install machines at 77 Wal-Marts in New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island by the end of the month. Most of those stores don’t have machines operated by Coinstar’s Redbox unit, the U.S. DVD-kiosk leader that agreed last year to install its machines in most of Wal-Mart’s 3,600 U.S. stores.
In addition to offering $1-a-night DVD rentals like kiosk leader Redbox, the E-Play machines will let users turn in Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Xbox and Sony PlayStation games in exchange for credit on their credit cards, the companies said. The E-Play kiosks, which can hold about 4,000 movie and game discs, pay as much as $25 for a copy of a high-demand game such as Resident Evil 5 or as little as 50¢ for older titles, E-Play CEO Alan Rudy said. He noted that the DVD-rental function will be turned off on machines that share stores with Redbox kiosks.
“The Redbox machine does not sell games or allow for trade-ins,” said Wal-Mart spokeswoman Melissa O’Brien, who added that the company hadn’t made plans to install more E-Play machines beyond the pilot program. “We’re interested because of the added convenience of games in these units. It provides a great competitive price for games.”
Last July, NCR, the world’s largest automated-teller machine maker, bought a minority stake in E-Play in an agreement that the companies said would add several thousand DVD-trading self-service machines in GameStop and Dollar Tree stores as well as other U.S. retailers within the next few years. E-Play, which doesn’t disclose total units, also has machines in some Wal-Mart stores in Canada.
Although E-Play’s Wal-Mart machines will have the same blue-and-yellow colors as Wal-Mart stores, they won’t have a Wal-Mart logo on them, and they’ll be owned and operated by E-Play. The kiosks will charge $1 a night for both DVD rentals and game titles, and $2 for the first night for Blu-ray titles and $1 for each night thereafter.
“There’s a big difference between what we’re providing and other DVD rental kiosks,” said Rudy. “We hope there’s going to be a broader rollout.”
Source: http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6658816.html?nid=3512