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  1. Re:Reaching behind the TV on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1

    You can't just sneak in "Now, this was for an HD matrix" and change the topic of the whole thread. That's not what anyone was talking about other than your brief mention.

  2. Re:Reaching behind the TV on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1

    In fact, I think some of these devices are probably too advanced and that's why it's failing HDCP. What you really need is one that hard disconnects the pins when you're switched to the other output. I think the problem is that it tries to be a phantom monitor to prevent the device from thinking the screen was disconnected. Might cause the screen to flash a few times when you switch back to the input, but it would be purely mechanical and electrically equivalent to unplugging one cord and plugging in the other.

  3. Re:Still don't get 1080p on 4K Ultra HD Likely To Repeat the Failure of 3D Television · · Score: 1

    Which is great, but not an order of magnitude reduction that would make it convenient.

  4. Re:You may want to rethink that cunning plan... on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1

    Probably good to have for portable screens, too. It's true that 720p is common on most of those, but maybe not the cheapest ones.

  5. Re:Reaching behind the TV on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1
  6. Re:No media server support upsets me on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1

    And I have a measly AMD FX-6100 (six-core) - very bad for a dual-core game emulator. But a Dolphin 4.0 came out last month - completely rewritten faster OpenGL backend and accurate HLE Audio. So we're getting closer.

    https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2013/09/22/dolphin-40-release-announcement/

  7. Re:You may want to rethink that cunning plan... on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's changed since you visited, but I see different.

    "What screen resolutions will PS4 support?" "The PS4 system supports 480p"

    It actually says "The PS4 system supports 480p, 720p, 1080i, and 1080p video standards via HDMI output."

    For that matter, does PAL-vs-NTSC even exist at all anymore?

    Yes - it does. The resolutions might be the same, but PAL video is at 25fps vs. our 29.97 (or double for interlaced). Their SD video is 576p.

  8. Re:Conflict of interest on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 2

    They still have to pay through MPEG-LA and BDA. There's the whole issue of being able to play Dolby or DTS audio or using MPEG codecs that does require royalties outside of Sony.

  9. Re:No media server support upsets me on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1

    Can't possibly connect two devices to the same TV? I realize that ease of use is an issue for a 3 year old. I am using Plex via Roku as a MythTV frontend. I use a modified mythlink.pl to create a directory of symlinks with season and episode number in the filename and Plex does a great job grabbing the metadata. It does require running a Plex server - and you may or may not have the spare cycles on the MythTV backend.

  10. Re:No media server support upsets me on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 1

    If you got a fast enough HTPC you could get a Wii U. But Dolphin is almost as slow with GC games as it is with Wii games. I keep going back and trying Dolphin and realizing that it's too early.

  11. Re:No media server support upsets me on Sony Issues Detailed PS4 FAQ Ahead of Launch · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's the hobbyist way to buy MP3/AAC tracks. They come with their own lossless backup.

  12. Re:A Feature! on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 1

    Annoyed that this is getting modded "troll" when that's exactly what Apple would do and always seems to do.. And I'm an Apple customer.

  13. Re:A Feature! on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are you kidding? They would delete the comments on the community discussion board and tell the users they're smelling it wrong.

  14. Re:A Feature! on Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Hey, but at least they're not ignoring customers like Apple would have done.

  15. Re:Open source w/o the source code? on Cisco Releases Open Source "Binary Module" For H.264 In WebRTC · · Score: 1

    My guess is that they're distributing the binary and paying the fees associated with its distribution. The source code is coming: https://github.com/cisco/openh264 but it's only useful to tick the "open source" checkbox. The important thing is that they're paying the fees and that the binary module is under a BSD license.

  16. Re:Pretty common support forums policies on Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch · · Score: 1

    Censorship is never justified

    spam?

  17. Re: Another day, another anti-Apple story on Apple Blocks Lawrence Lessig's Comment On iOS 7 Wi-Fi Glitch · · Score: 2

    If English isn't your first language, don't make fun of someone using common phrases correctly.

  18. Re:Why is anyone surprised? on LinkedIn's New Mobile App Called 'a Dream For Attackers' · · Score: 1

    What honestly does surprise me a bit is that Apple doesn't automatically blacklist/nuke from the app store, and generally unleash hell upon, any outfit that tries to deploy these things as though they were 'apps', to institutionally unaffiliated end users.

    Speaking of this, if you're an institutional end user already on a configuration profile, does this overwrite/replace it?

  19. I've never liked any of the Apple apps.

    I'm guessing you never used Final Cut Pro before X. I will be sticking with that until it's long past obsolete.

  20. Re:Gotta search 'em all! on 87-Year-Old World War II Veteran Takes On the TSA · · Score: 1

    Or, removing the shoes is just faster than any alternative. The alternative could be effective but slow. If they're not actually taking an alternative inspection when someone can't remove their shoes, then that's the real issue.

  21. Re:As good a time as any on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    I didn't say they should be released without being exonerated. That's a separate problem.

  22. Re:As good a time as any on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    In practice, not having the death penalty would be another check and balance to our legal system. Better to let a bad man live than let an innocent man die.

  23. Re:Buy American! on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 2

    And that we then move that production to China where cheap costs will allow us to execute 100x the number of people.

    We can't have lead in our lethal injection drugs.

  24. Re:Why can't we make it here? on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    The issue would be resolved if Germany were removed from the competition, too. The problem is that it would take a while for a company to come in, get everything approved, and ramp up production before the current supply runs out.

  25. Re:Hangings on US Executions Threaten Supply of Anaesthetic Used For Surgical Procedures · · Score: 1

    If we're butchering animals, can we eat the meat? If I don't even get the benefit of cannibalism, what's in it for me? I for one wouldn't want an 85 year old grandmother executing nor being stuck in a hung jury.