Right, because it's only real if they record video evidence of them committing a felony and not using a test system set up to emulate the real-world environment.
Supporting a candidate or political party is very tangential to actual change. ANY politician in office is equally capable of making the correct decision given enough information (though it's true some won't). Money used for lobbying beats funding candidates outright. Even if it's less successful, it's overall more ethical.
In other words, playing 480p Wii content over HDMI will still look nicer. Black level was a poor choice of wording, but the ADC in my TV is lousy and buying a new Wii with HDMI will make my problems go away.
I don't want my Wii content up-scaled so much as presented to my TV with larger square pixels. No idea if Wii U will output 1080p all the time such that 480p Wii content is scaled to 960p with black bars or if it switches display modes to 480p and leaves the rest up to the TV.
HDMI 1.3 has more than the NTSC color range in its gamut. Not sure if deep color will be used by Wii U, but certainly wouldn't be for existing Wii games. There's also issues with saturation levels and overall brightness in the NTSC spec (enforced to prevent phosphor bleed) that affect component but don't affect HDMI.
For the Wii U, there is. And running Dolphin on a PC set to 1x native resolution gives a pretty accurate gauge to compare with. Well, CRT isn't capable of the level of sharpness I'm wanting on my Wii on a 1080p flat panel.
What you're saying, probably, is that you can't tell the difference between VGA (roughly equivalent to component, if not better) or DVI/HDMI on a digital flat panel. That's fine for you, but not for me. Eye fatigue from trying to refocus the slight blur of the VGA signal is gone with a digital connection for me. And again, black levels are an issue with analog sources.
So robots.txt is supposed to apply to humans now? I guess that just means that nobody can visit a web site with a robots.txt file blocking their access.
Is making a bookmark infringement? What if I print the URL on paper? Is it just making the link clickable? What if I change that link to plain text and tell people to copy and paste it into their address bar?
I think Google should just block all Dutch IP's effective immediately. See what a web without linking is really like. When the court ruling is reversed, Google access is restored.
Now that's just crazy talk. A 50ft HDMI cable presents no loss in the digital signal. It matters not that the signal is degraded, because the 1's and 0's are perfectly preserved. Component always loses quality over distance. Higher quality cable less so, but it's inherent in the system.
What are you saying about balanced cables? Balanced cables are designed specifically for long distance. The two opposite ground wires cancel out the induced noise. Balanced vs. unbalanced is hardly important for short runs, but for long runs you need a balanced connection to eliminate interference. This is why Cat5 uses twisted pairs.
Component video and HDMI may not make a big difference in picture quality for SD content, but it's enough for me to see and care about. Especially color gamut and contrast. With component, you're stuck with the NTSC gamut, and you can't get true blacks. The TV's signal processor can make up for this, but this varies widely from TV to TV.
And between the time that red is exposed and then green is exposed, fast moving objects have moved. You're getting a different picture. It's not about the pictures being lined up.
I love the Mario series, but I'm not ready to throw out my hacked Wii just yet. When I can replace my Wii with Dolphin running Wii and Gamecube games accurately on my HTPC, then I will get the Wii U for whatever the price comes down to.
I just don't want to lose out on my USB Loader vs. using actual game discs and the ability to play the two Gamecube games that I have. And I don't want to have two Wii units sitting on a shelf together.
Yeah, I don't know why this article was posted just under 30 minutes before the official US announcement from NOA. Waiting just 30 more minutes would have made the summary a lot more useful.
You can't go by just clock speed. A quad-core Core i7 is loads faster than a Phenom II x4, even at lower clock speeds. This is likely taking into account all of the speed improvements in the architecture.
Since you haven't seen any Wii games with HDMI, it's hard to go into detail, but the contrast range will be drastically improved, the color quality much improved, and sharpness as well.
If your TV has noise reduction circuitry and sharpness enhancement turned on you might see a fairly clear picture, but it's really not as good as getting the real thing in the source video.
Even if it's just to have 480p with no color fringing or dot crawl, it's an easy sell to current Wii owners. A component cable wasn't a big enough upgrade, and I shudder whenever I see composite cables connecting a Wii to a 42" HDTV.
Sync is a problem because the objects are moving! The only way around it with B&W film is to have three simultaneous cameras shooting through color filters.
And if there's an exception, where does it stop? If a court case with a testimony is videotaped and broadcast on TV, is that a violation? What if someone records that show and keeps it?
I love the "easy to forge" bit. It's easy to forge printed text, too. It's because we use these things called fonts, which ensures that all computers can reproduce character bitmaps identically from a reduced dataset.
And if it's a URL, it's probably a URL that points to a page with a serial number in the URL, which means it does no more good than inputting that serial onto the web site instead.
And why can't you just copy the QR code just like you can copy the serial number? Just because it's made with invisible ink?
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Sometimes rapidly pressing 0 instead of pressing it for each prompt gets you in faster.
Right, because it's only real if they record video evidence of them committing a felony and not using a test system set up to emulate the real-world environment.
"Shall we play a game?"
Supporting a candidate or political party is very tangential to actual change. ANY politician in office is equally capable of making the correct decision given enough information (though it's true some won't). Money used for lobbying beats funding candidates outright. Even if it's less successful, it's overall more ethical.
...speaker in the fucking bathroom and if your dump took over 3 minutes they would call out to you
That is just frightening.
In other words, playing 480p Wii content over HDMI will still look nicer. Black level was a poor choice of wording, but the ADC in my TV is lousy and buying a new Wii with HDMI will make my problems go away.
I don't want my Wii content up-scaled so much as presented to my TV with larger square pixels. No idea if Wii U will output 1080p all the time such that 480p Wii content is scaled to 960p with black bars or if it switches display modes to 480p and leaves the rest up to the TV.
HDMI 1.3 has more than the NTSC color range in its gamut. Not sure if deep color will be used by Wii U, but certainly wouldn't be for existing Wii games. There's also issues with saturation levels and overall brightness in the NTSC spec (enforced to prevent phosphor bleed) that affect component but don't affect HDMI.
For the Wii U, there is. And running Dolphin on a PC set to 1x native resolution gives a pretty accurate gauge to compare with. Well, CRT isn't capable of the level of sharpness I'm wanting on my Wii on a 1080p flat panel.
What you're saying, probably, is that you can't tell the difference between VGA (roughly equivalent to component, if not better) or DVI/HDMI on a digital flat panel. That's fine for you, but not for me. Eye fatigue from trying to refocus the slight blur of the VGA signal is gone with a digital connection for me. And again, black levels are an issue with analog sources.
So robots.txt is supposed to apply to humans now? I guess that just means that nobody can visit a web site with a robots.txt file blocking their access.
Is making a bookmark infringement? What if I print the URL on paper? Is it just making the link clickable? What if I change that link to plain text and tell people to copy and paste it into their address bar?
I think Google should just block all Dutch IP's effective immediately. See what a web without linking is really like. When the court ruling is reversed, Google access is restored.
And doesn't the Wii U use a Power7 CPU? Or is that still just speculation?
Now that's just crazy talk. A 50ft HDMI cable presents no loss in the digital signal. It matters not that the signal is degraded, because the 1's and 0's are perfectly preserved. Component always loses quality over distance. Higher quality cable less so, but it's inherent in the system.
What are you saying about balanced cables? Balanced cables are designed specifically for long distance. The two opposite ground wires cancel out the induced noise. Balanced vs. unbalanced is hardly important for short runs, but for long runs you need a balanced connection to eliminate interference. This is why Cat5 uses twisted pairs.
Component video and HDMI may not make a big difference in picture quality for SD content, but it's enough for me to see and care about. Especially color gamut and contrast. With component, you're stuck with the NTSC gamut, and you can't get true blacks. The TV's signal processor can make up for this, but this varies widely from TV to TV.
And between the time that red is exposed and then green is exposed, fast moving objects have moved. You're getting a different picture. It's not about the pictures being lined up.
With a rotating color wheel, each color frame is exposed at a slight delay from each other by necessity.
I love the Mario series, but I'm not ready to throw out my hacked Wii just yet. When I can replace my Wii with Dolphin running Wii and Gamecube games accurately on my HTPC, then I will get the Wii U for whatever the price comes down to.
I just don't want to lose out on my USB Loader vs. using actual game discs and the ability to play the two Gamecube games that I have. And I don't want to have two Wii units sitting on a shelf together.
Yeah, I don't know why this article was posted just under 30 minutes before the official US announcement from NOA. Waiting just 30 more minutes would have made the summary a lot more useful.
You can't go by just clock speed. A quad-core Core i7 is loads faster than a Phenom II x4, even at lower clock speeds. This is likely taking into account all of the speed improvements in the architecture.
Since you haven't seen any Wii games with HDMI, it's hard to go into detail, but the contrast range will be drastically improved, the color quality much improved, and sharpness as well.
If your TV has noise reduction circuitry and sharpness enhancement turned on you might see a fairly clear picture, but it's really not as good as getting the real thing in the source video.
Even if it's just to have 480p with no color fringing or dot crawl, it's an easy sell to current Wii owners. A component cable wasn't a big enough upgrade, and I shudder whenever I see composite cables connecting a Wii to a 42" HDTV.
And if you bought that controller then you already have an extra controller for the Wii U.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who noticed his last name, but the temporal color strobing would be tough to emulate if hand-coloring.
Sync is a problem because the objects are moving! The only way around it with B&W film is to have three simultaneous cameras shooting through color filters.
It's not that well known, but now I can't un-see it.
And if there's an exception, where does it stop? If a court case with a testimony is videotaped and broadcast on TV, is that a violation? What if someone records that show and keeps it?
I love the "easy to forge" bit. It's easy to forge printed text, too. It's because we use these things called fonts, which ensures that all computers can reproduce character bitmaps identically from a reduced dataset.
Isn't forging a QR code just making a QR code?
And if it's a URL, it's probably a URL that points to a page with a serial number in the URL, which means it does no more good than inputting that serial onto the web site instead.
And why can't you just copy the QR code just like you can copy the serial number? Just because it's made with invisible ink?
Doesn't aerogel specify density more than surface area? I mean yes, it has a huge surface area, but that wasn't the single identifying characteristic.