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Please read this article
http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticl e.jsp?id=25310
then you can tell me exactly how much LCDs colors do suck and exactly how much LCDs are slow and exactly how bad their black levels are.

Some LCDs aren't half bad, and the newest ones are much better than LCDs from a few years ago, but for certain tasks, LCDs don't cut it.

See what video professionals think instead at Digital Producer Magazine.

Don't get me wrong, records do deteriorate, and the sampling rate of CD's is adequate for most high-fidelity reproduction. Sampling rates above 40000 Hz fulfill the Shannon/Nyquist sampling criterion (based on the assumption that human hearing is limited to 20000 Hz sound). However, it is useful to know that (reference) :

since all frequencies interact acoustically and work together to create a waveform, it seems believable and practical that capturing a broader frequency range and a more accurate resolution is justifiable. We don't yet realize the impact and result of high-frequency content above 20kHz on the emotional and physical perception of sound.[...]
The concern regarding sample rate isn't simply frequency-related. Since no one, not even the newest born baby, can hear above 25 or 26kHz anyway, the implied ideal sample rate might be 50 to 55kHz. However, there's more involved in our hearing and perception than frequency. Much of our perception comes from our stereo perception of localization and positioning on a three-dimensional plane. The messages that our brain responds to are based on a triangulation process involving both ears and the sound source. The brain calculates the time delay difference between the arrival of a sound at either ear. The time and EQ variations, as a sound moves around the head, are translated into left-right and front-back positioning cues. As the high frequencies are affected by the physical part of the outer ear, called the pinna, changes of equalization cue the brain about front-to-back positioning. Perception of left-right positioning is a product of the brain's interpretation of timing differences between the arrival time of a sound at each ear. To complete the system, combined with level changes, the human hearing and localization systems are amazingly complex and efficient.

And this is exactly what one perceives when comparing records to cd's on high-quality equipment. It's no coincidence (barring commercial purposes) that some new audio standards encode at rates higher than 90000 hZ

I have encountered mp3's made from cd audio at very high bit rates, using excellent encoders, and still presenting clear artefacts. One particular example I remember well was a Portishead cd that was awful at any encoding rate. I'd be very glad if someone could point me to an encoding process where I can't hear the difference on that one, even on everyday equipment.

InCopy 2.0 ame oout in June 2002.

even if you don't do anything but regurgitate press releases, look at some of the older ones as well.

According to this article, DCC stands for Digital Content Creation.

In 1952, a new evil surfaced.

Now, in 2003...

Evil will battle evil.

Jesse Jackson vs. RIAA: Coming to a theatre near you.

Softimage rocks. XSI was used to make the animation and effects in movies like Toy Story (and its being used for making the model in upcoming Half Life 2).

And by the way, they used to be owned by Microsoft until they were sold off to competitor Avid. May that was one of Microsoft's Mistakes?

If Betamax was supposedly so bad, then why is the NFL currently standardizing on a derivative of the format? Betamax is alive and kicking and making a ton of money. It'd sure be nice if folks who write garbage like the article in The Guardian would at least try to research the info first.

Due to the SCMS (Serial Copy Management System) circuitry that is a requirement on consumer-based CD-Recorders, a duplicate cannot be made of a copy that is digital. The CDR 2 will automatically switch to an analog deck-to-deck dub when it detects that the source is a digital copy. However, if you can make only one copy at a time, and you need multiple copies from a particular CD, there seems no logical reason why you shouldn't make all copies from the original.

If that doesn't make it sound like an ideal machine for those who like to keep their copying options open, it will even simplify the copying of material encoded with the Serial Copyright Management System -- for example first-generation CD/R-CD/RW copies. Load one of these and copying system just switches from its default digital operation to copying in the analogue domain, running the output from the playback deck through the DAC and then back through the ADC in the CD-R/RW section.

Wow. Apple now watch Bond movies for patent inspiration. Western civilization really is in decline.

For those of you who haven't seen the new Bond movie, Bond's Aston Martin uses a technology the military have been messing about with for a while: Active camoflage. The idea being that you record the image on one side of a vehical and display it on the other making it appear [from a distance at least] largely transparent - or invisible.

I'd love to see the prior art submission "It was in a Bond movie." Would it (will anything) be enough for the US patent office to realise it's become a joke?

Two days ago I bought a Sharp 16" TFT. It cost $650, so you might say.. "shoulda got a 17 incher!" But.. it's the absolute luxury top of the range 16", with features only the best (and mighty expensive) 17" screens have.. like anti-glare, 25ms response time (compared to the regular 50ms).. and 1280x1024 res.

That all said, I hope prices don't fall! I want to be able to sell this baby for at least half what I paid for it in a year's time! Then again, whenever I buy something it seems to crash in value the week after anyway.. so perhaps I should buy an Apple Studio Display next, huh?

Which is the reason why recent benchmarks of After Effects between Apple and PC hardware had the PC thoroughly trouncing the Apple platform. Now, I will hand it to you, the antiquated bus on the Mac might have had something to do with it, but don't make it sound like they are neck and neck. Maybe you SHOULD take a comment like that seriously.

The story is from Digital Producer