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  • PlayStation 4 Gets PornHub Support

    Familiar with the video format wars? You know why VHS beat Betamax, right? It was porn. How about HD-DVD and Blu-Ray? Porn.  Could the next generation console war be won with the ease of access to pornography?

    If you’re a PlayStation 4 owner who’s already burned out playing all 24 launch titles, you could always use your console and navigate on over to Pornhub. That’s right, according to Pornhub’s twitter page, the porn site is completely compatible with the PS4, making searches easy and video formatting to fit the screen of your TV. In other words, if you want to watch, full screen, on your high definition television, Ron Jeremy making love… then you can watch Ron Jeremy making love. The PS4 comes with its own HDMI cord, so you can plug that bad boy in and get in on the action.

    No word on whether or not PornHub will support the Xbox One. The Xbox 360, however, due to its Internet Explorer application, allows users easy access to PornHub to stream their favorite videos.

    There’s an ongoing fear of the Xbox One potentially spying on you with its ‘Kinect’ camera. Although it’s not mandatory any longer , the Kinect camera use to always have to be connected in order for the Xbox One to function. Due to the fear of being watched, Xbox One owners can purchase a cover for their camera when it’s not in use. Whereas the PlayStation 4 will only really collect what you’ve been doing (e.g. “voice and text communications, video of your gameplay, name, PSN Online ID and IP address) on the PlayStation Network.

    Folks over at Microsoft, like co-founder Paul Gharaffi, as well as potential CEO candidate Stephen Elop have both considered selling off the Xbox business. Perhaps momentum can be picked up in sales if the Xbox One allows the ease of access to pornography like Bing does.

    When  it went on sale on Friday, Sony announced that it had sold one million consoles, making it the largest console launch day in history. Now users have a little bit more to look forward to.

    Your move, Microsoft.

    (Images via Destructoid)

  • YouTube ‘Tape Mode’ Gives Videos that Old School VHS Feel

    YouTube is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the VCR with a fun new clickable inside the YouTube player.

    It’s called “tape mode,” and it turns the video you’re watching into an old, crappy-looking VHS video.

    You’ll notice a little VHS icon on the bottom of the player, right next to the settings and cc icons. This tape mode is only appearing on select videos, so you may have to search around to find one. Or, you could watch this latest Facebook Home ad in tape mode.

    “Not too long ago, the video tape was the media of choice for living rooms around the world. In celebration of the 57th birthday of the first commercial video cassette recorder, check out a fun VHS mode for the YouTube player to relive the magic feel of vintage video tapes. On select videos, you’ll find a VHS button in the bottom right of the player–just click to turn back the clock and enjoy the static and fuzzy motion of the VHS era,” says YouTube.

    And any time you pause or skip ahead in the video, you’ll see this familiar sight:

    Cute, YouTube. Hopefully, tape mode not only expands to more videos, but also sticks around for a while. It’s a nice hit of nostalgia on a Monday afternoon. Now, excuse me while I go find my sweet Land Before Time VHS collection.

  • V/H/S Gets An Incredibly Creepy Red Band Trailer

    There is one indie horror film this summer that is getting some serious attention from fans of the genre. That film is V/H/S, which debuted this year at the Sundance Film Festival, becoming an official selection.

    According to the official synopsis, the movie follows “a group of misfits hired to burglarize a house to find a rare VHS tape, only to find more found footage than they wanted to see.” The movie is divided into five segments, for each of five different horrifying tapes the protagonists have to watch. Each is directed by one of horror’s up-and-comers, including David Bruckner(The Signal), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), Joe Swanberg (Autoerotic, Cabin Fever 2), Adam Wingard (You’re Next, Pop Skull), and the masterful Ti West (House of the Devil, The Innkeepers).

    The movie has accrued a score of 75% on Rotten Tomatoes, with a huge hype score of 99% of people wanting to see it. Compare that to a fairly low metacritic score of 6.5 on IMDB. But keep in mind that it hasn’t seen widespread release, having only been screened at a few film festivals. Critics often make poor judges of horror. If the fans say its good, then it definitely tops my must-watch list.

    The film will be released in theaters across the country on October 5th.

    Synopsis via GeekTyrant:

    When a group of petty criminals is hired by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare piece of found footage from a rundown house in the middle of nowhere, they soon realize that the job isn’t going to be as easy as they thought. In the living room, a lifeless body holds court before a hub of old television sets, surrounded by stacks upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search for the right one, they are treated to a seemingly endless number of horrifying videos, each stranger than the last.

    Bringing together some of the top filmmakers in the game today, this wickedly conceived horror anthology sends the viewer through a gauntlet of suspense, terror, shock, and downright brutality—instantly distinguishing itself from a sea of lackluster found-footage horror flicks. The diverse and deviously creative minds behind V/H/Sshatter any preconceived notions about the genre, making it feel inventive and captivating once again.