Last week I noticed a blog preview of the new Amtek T770 UMPC. Apparently VIA had one at a trade show in China and it would be shipped to me as soon as it got back. Wow! That was fast I thought! We set up the camera, lights, made a few notes on the specs and started to shoot an unboxing video. It went really well. I got my lines out without stumbling. We did three takes of the introduction and they were all great! Next shot we focused on the box only. As I cut it open I spoke about the features of the T770 ... opened the top flaps ... it's default resolution is 800x600 which is great for games ... removed the Styrofoam balls ... it's in a Samsung box, that's odd ... open the box ... it's a Samsung Q1b!!! We had forgotten that we were being sent one!!! No point doing an unboxing of the Samsung Q1b. The unit's been out for a while already and we already did a video about it's features back in March. So we chose to laugh at our mistake. There are some games we'll check out on it that wouldn't run on the OQO model 02 because of the resolution. But the video caper didn't stop there.

Next up was an unboxing video of the Zonbu. I won't tell you much about the unit - you'll have to watch the video once it's complete. Filming went well. Once again, nothing ambitious. Editing was pretty straight forward but I noticed the sound was out in the preview on Pinnacle Studio. Presuming that was just a preview glitch I finished the edit. But alas, the audio was out not matter what I did. If I play the original file in Movie Maker or Media Player the sound is fine. But on the PC we use for video editing, Windows Movie Maker keeps freezing up. So at 6:30pm last night I gave in. Hope Tuesday turns out better.