This is why the BBC came up with Dirac. Even for them to pay developers to come up with a new codec, they still save tens of millions of pounds each year by not having to pay MPEG-LA to use their codecs. The BBC then made it open source, they made their savings internally so they have more to gain from the FOSS communities.
Dirac hasn't taken off on the web yet, main reason IMHO is because it hasn't been check out against patents in the USA, and it can get a little more CPU hungry than h264. I know this is one reason why Mozilla haven't used Dirac as a codec in their browsers. Saying that, you can use the open source Schroedinger Dirac encoder that uses CUDA, less CPU cycles used than encoding with free h264 encoders.
I'd like to see MPEG-LA try to force American ISPs to block all web sites who are not paying their royalties, or where codecs have been used that infringe on their patented technology.
They may as well start on the FOSS communities, close videolan with their infringing projects, that will get things moving.
MPEG-LA could be the next Microsoft - using their monopoly and evil ways to force out competition. I get a feeling they are already doing this anyway.
Oh the anger! I guess we wouldn't be able to moan on Slashdot, MPEG-LA would take down Sourceforge and the whole of Geeknet with it. *sigh*
Yeah, you can try to stop one Russian company from selling these weapons, but this is nothing new. The French government sell weapons like this to anyone, try stopping them.:S
A cheap, fairly slow film can resolve 140 lines per mm. Even on a 135 (35mm) film, that equates to 17MP. Obviously, a 17MP digital camera does not resolve 17MP, you have to anti-alias, so the actual resolution is less. I have never tested a DSLR, but I have tested the Red One film camera with a 4.5k sensor, with Master Prime lenses, resolution is close to 3.2k after debayering, anti-aliasing and low pass filtering.
Again it all comes back to lobbying and campaign financing.
Doesn't sound like regulation to me, that sounds like America suffers from government corruption.
Really, a large corporation should not be paying Congress to lobby so they can kill their competition. This is the type of thing you expect from Russia and China, not the USA.
You buy a car which has a fixed tow bar so you can haul your trailer or caravan. You bought it with the tow bar because it is something you specified at sale. The manufacturer one day remotely disables your car ignition until you get your tow bar cut off. They will then re-enable your ignition.
Maybe they should swap the 'Kin' and 'One' around. Rename it the "One Kin". People wont know what you are 'Two Kin' about. Just wait for the 'Four Kin'.
Maybe then we can have the Microsoft 'fucking' and 'wanking' phones.
It has problems with Firewire, PCI Express, RAID to name a few. At least they sorted out the overheating issue while playing audio (which was a software problem). We do not just want a spec update (which last years spec update was woeful), but a machine we can use as a workstation and know that they are reliable.
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This is why the BBC came up with Dirac. Even for them to pay developers to come up with a new codec, they still save tens of millions of pounds each year by not having to pay MPEG-LA to use their codecs. The BBC then made it open source, they made their savings internally so they have more to gain from the FOSS communities.
Dirac hasn't taken off on the web yet, main reason IMHO is because it hasn't been check out against patents in the USA, and it can get a little more CPU hungry than h264. I know this is one reason why Mozilla haven't used Dirac as a codec in their browsers. Saying that, you can use the open source Schroedinger Dirac encoder that uses CUDA, less CPU cycles used than encoding with free h264 encoders.
I'd like to see MPEG-LA try to force American ISPs to block all web sites who are not paying their royalties, or where codecs have been used that infringe on their patented technology.
They may as well start on the FOSS communities, close videolan with their infringing projects, that will get things moving.
MPEG-LA could be the next Microsoft - using their monopoly and evil ways to force out competition. I get a feeling they are already doing this anyway.
Oh the anger! I guess we wouldn't be able to moan on Slashdot, MPEG-LA would take down Sourceforge and the whole of Geeknet with it. *sigh*
Or you could just use EyeTV, and it will automatically transcode for iPad/iPhone/iPod and then send to iTunes. You only need to sync your iPad.
You mean the article that was supplied as a link to this article. D'oh.
I guess I have settled in to /. too well.
Rule 1 of Slashdot: Never RTFA
Rule 2 of Slashdot: Never RTFA
Source would have been good: http://www.mobile-computing-news.co.uk/industry-news/3989/sony-will-stop-manufacturing-floppy-disks-in-2011.html
Sony announced this week they are stopping floppy production soon. Never made /. *sigh*
Yeah, you can try to stop one Russian company from selling these weapons, but this is nothing new. The French government sell weapons like this to anyone, try stopping them. :S
Oh, and thank you for a funny FP. :)
Slight correction, I did my maths wrong.
One line per mm (L/mm) equates to two pixels. I was working backwards from 17MP as I know that is what I have tested.
(36x140)(24x140) = 17MP -- maths is wrong.
(36x70x2)(24x70x2) = 17MP
70 L/mm is roughly 17MP.
dangitman, I gave a source to a PDF that has Arri testing cine film that does 90-100 L/mm.
100 L/mm would give 35MP on 135 stock.
It's Nurph, not Nurf, a slight typo there.
http://nur.ph/
http://nur.ph/
I have used this on occasion. It needs a bigger userbase.
JPEG2000 never took off because it has problems with it's wavelet compression, details just blur out. Have a read: http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=317
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/JPEG_JFIF_and_2000_Comparison.png
A cheap, fairly slow film can resolve 140 lines per mm. Even on a 135 (35mm) film, that equates to 17MP. Obviously, a 17MP digital camera does not resolve 17MP, you have to anti-alias, so the actual resolution is less. I have never tested a DSLR, but I have tested the Red One film camera with a 4.5k sensor, with Master Prime lenses, resolution is close to 3.2k after debayering, anti-aliasing and low pass filtering.
This is worth a read: http://www.audioguy.co.uk/files/pdf/Arri_Digital_Camera_Basics.pdf
A good emulsion will resolve 25-30 MP on 135.
You run out of IP addresses on your LAN?
Send users to dev/null.
That's already a feature on some devices.
They will cause some people to have epileptic fits and others to have migraines, though, so that might be good for a laugh.
It never really affected the sale of cheap, single chip DLP projectors with 4x or slower colour wheels.
Again it all comes back to lobbying and campaign financing.
Doesn't sound like regulation to me, that sounds like America suffers from government corruption.
Really, a large corporation should not be paying Congress to lobby so they can kill their competition. This is the type of thing you expect from Russia and China, not the USA.
I left the country.
I used this analogy the other day:
You buy a car which has a fixed tow bar so you can haul your trailer or caravan. You bought it with the tow bar because it is something you specified at sale. The manufacturer one day remotely disables your car ignition until you get your tow bar cut off. They will then re-enable your ignition.
The only decent Sony products these days are their professional equipment. Their consumer products, such as TV's and small hi-fi are woeful.
Maybe they should swap the 'Kin' and 'One' around. Rename it the "One Kin". People wont know what you are 'Two Kin' about. Just wait for the 'Four Kin'.
Maybe then we can have the Microsoft 'fucking' and 'wanking' phones.
ARM is for RISCOS.. Yeah!
Also, do not forget the 2009 Mac Pro is a dog.
It has problems with Firewire, PCI Express, RAID to name a few. At least they sorted out the overheating issue while playing audio (which was a software problem). We do not just want a spec update (which last years spec update was woeful), but a machine we can use as a workstation and know that they are reliable.
I'm guessing they are coated with metal oxides.
Most decent monitors have AG coatings, even my 1990's CRT does. Come on Apple, this should be standard across the line of machines.
The other browsers on the App Store are simply webkit (Safari browser on iPhone) with a skinned UI.