"One Japanese report appeared to suggest that the new technology would be able produce much higher-resolution images from existing DVDs, but did not address the apparent impossibility of this claim. It's not impossible. The Toshiba algorithm combines information from multiple frames to create a higher resolution version of each individual frame.
Different film stocks have different grain properties, and it's the size and distribution of the grains (the crystals) that hold the detail in analog film. Some film stocks have more than 3,000 crystals per inch, some have less.
And because of the random distribution of grain, the effective resolution of a moving film image increases over time. In a digital image, the pixels are always in the same place, so even if a 2K digital still was comparable to a frame of 35mm negative (which it isn't), the subjective resolution of the moving film image would be higher.
I haven't really used apt, but tools like urpmi, while great for installing, usually fall short when it comes to uninstalling software. When I uninstall a package, I usually want to remove all its (unique) dependencies at the same time. Maybe I'm missing something, but these tools don't give me an easy way to find out exactly what those dependencies are. I imagine FreeBSD's much praised ports system has the same problem.
IMO software installation/uninstallation is another area where OS X shines, at least in terms of user friendliness. Just drag the app icon into a folder of your choice. To uninstall, just throw it in the trash.
What are developers going to do ? Randomly decrease the screen brightness or turn off the screen for a couple seconds at a time ? Half the processor speed ?
Minimize access to the DVD-ROM. Spin down the drive.
Why would they do such a thing? There's absolutely no incentive for a developer to trade performance for battery life. If streaming data off the drive results in shorter loading times, I am sure developers will do so.
That said, to people living in Sweden, DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES let your law makers get ANY levy/fee/tax on blank media in at ANY amount. It's the thin edge of the wedge.
Analogue blank media has been subject to a levy in Sweden for years already, so this is pretty much inevitable.
Skimming through the proposed law, I can see no reference to the ridiculous $4/disc mentioned in the article. The only figure I can find is SEK 0.0025/megabyte i.e. SEK 1.75 (about $0.22 or â0.19) for a 80 minute CD-R.
This has puzzled me... Why are people raving about tabbed interfaces, while at the same time ridiculing MDI? Aren't they, for all practical purposes, the same thing?
Netscape's fonts look *horrible* under X, as do any word processing program you'd care to mention under Linux that doesn't do it's own anti-aliasing.
That's not my experience at all. Postscript fonts usually look pretty crap, as do scaled bitmaps, but TrueType fonts look just fine under X. This is due to TrueType's superior hinting -- IMO anti-aliasing is rarely necessary or even desirable. Anti-aliased text can be very hard on the eyes.
X's font handling is pretty fucked up, but poking around in the FontPath section of your XF86Config can make a world of difference. I just wish the distros did a better job of setting this up.
Do you need broadcast quality, or is this for something like home movies? This will *dramatically* change the budget of your project.
However, you can use a modest setup for offline editing (at low resolution), and later pay for a professional online. Just make sure your system can output an EDL (Edit Decision List).
I have recently seen this machine demoed and the software is almost exactly like our high end Avid systems.
That's what I thought the first time I saw Avid Xpress (a low end Avid system). A few hours of actually using the system proved me wrong. Compared to Media Composer, it kinda felt like editing with boxing gloves...
May be out of your price range though unless you can pick up a used rig somewhere.
May be out of your price range even if you can pick up a used rig...
Unfortunately Avid can charge what they do because the alternatives suck so bad, especially for longform, i.e. feature films. And although the features needed for professional movie post-production are not particularly advanced or sophisticated, they are unlikely ever to be supported by the likes of Final Cut Pro. The market for this sort of thing is just too small.
If you're interested in Avid, the Avid-L is an amazing source of information.
Does the new version do typographic quotes, em dashes & en dashes? Applix doesn't, WP does. Last time I checked, SO didn't. WP seems to be the only Linux word processor with decent output quality, but it is flawed in other respects.
Of course, no word processor can match LaTeX for output quality.
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Under current copyright law, the record industry is in the business of selling copies of their copyrighted works.
For MP3.com to win, they would have to argue that the record industry is in fact in the business of selling licences to use their copyrighted works.
This could have very bad consequences, and it seems to me that the RIAA is actually doing us a big favour by fighting this interpretation of the law. Owning a physical copy of a work gives you rights you almost certainly would not have under a "licence to use" scheme, e.g. selling your copy to a third party, reverse-engineering it etc.
This "feature" seems to be of limited value...what's the point(aside from eye-candy, which is what the Mac interface designers seem to be shooting for these days)?
The point is that it makes the interface more tactile. This is a quality sorely lacking in most X user interfaces, including KDE and Gnome.
The Mac interface is full of little touches like this, and while they may appear useless at first, they actually improve the ergonomics of the interface by providing positive feedback to the actions of the user.
Are you saying that one could use film as a digital medium?
Film is being used as a digital medium -- albeit only for sound. Some cinema sound systems utilise the film area between perforations for storing digital sound.
However, one of the main advantages of digital is that you do not need multiple (read expensive) copies of the film to distribute. Therefore, the film could be distributed to the whole world in one go rather than the current mess of US first, then Europe, then the rest of the world. This means the current market in Europe for pirated US films would be less as the Europeans would be able to see the film at the same time as the US.
This is a common misconception. Prints are generally not shipped around the world the way you describe; different subtitling alone makes this an impractical proposition. Staggered release schedules are more to do with marketing than anything else.
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See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_resolution.
And because of the random distribution of grain, the effective resolution of a moving film image increases over time. In a digital image, the pixels are always in the same place, so even if a 2K digital still was comparable to a frame of 35mm negative (which it isn't), the subjective resolution of the moving film image would be higher.
I haven't really used apt, but tools like urpmi, while great for installing, usually fall short when it comes to uninstalling software. When I uninstall a package, I usually want to remove all its (unique) dependencies at the same time. Maybe I'm missing something, but these tools don't give me an easy way to find out exactly what those dependencies are. I imagine FreeBSD's much praised ports system has the same problem.
IMO software installation/uninstallation is another area where OS X shines, at least in terms of user friendliness. Just drag the app icon into a folder of your choice. To uninstall, just throw it in the trash.
Why would they do such a thing? There's absolutely no incentive for a developer to trade performance for battery life. If streaming data off the drive results in shorter loading times, I am sure developers will do so.
Analogue blank media has been subject to a levy in Sweden for years already, so this is pretty much inevitable.
Skimming through the proposed law, I can see no reference to the ridiculous $4/disc mentioned in the article. The only figure I can find is SEK 0.0025/megabyte i.e. SEK 1.75 (about $0.22 or â0.19) for a 80 minute CD-R.
This has puzzled me... Why are people raving about tabbed interfaces, while at the same time ridiculing MDI? Aren't they, for all practical purposes, the same thing?
X's font handling is pretty fucked up, but poking around in the FontPath section of your XF86Config can make a world of difference. I just wish the distros did a better job of setting this up.
Unfortunately Avid can charge what they do because the alternatives suck so bad, especially for longform, i.e. feature films. And although the features needed for professional movie post-production are not particularly advanced or sophisticated, they are unlikely ever to be supported by the likes of Final Cut Pro. The market for this sort of thing is just too small.
If you're interested in Avid, the Avid-L is an amazing source of information.
Of course, no word processor can match LaTeX for output quality.
For MP3.com to win, they would have to argue that the record industry is in fact in the business of selling licences to use their copyrighted works.
This could have very bad consequences, and it seems to me that the RIAA is actually doing us a big favour by fighting this interpretation of the law. Owning a physical copy of a work gives you rights you almost certainly would not have under a "licence to use" scheme, e.g. selling your copy to a third party, reverse-engineering it etc.
The point is that it makes the interface more tactile. This is a quality sorely lacking in most X user interfaces, including KDE and Gnome.
The Mac interface is full of little touches like this, and while they may appear useless at first, they actually improve the ergonomics of the interface by providing positive feedback to the actions of the user.