Just keep in mind that sites like DP Review are a bit biased. Remember that manufacturers usually give these sites products to review in exchange for a favorable review.
It wasn't even that nothing else was available: HD TV's are simply far better than old CRT TVs, in nearly every possible way.
CRTs still have superior color representation and contrast ratio. The gap is quickly closing however. Other CRT advantages is the ability to natively display interlaced content, resolution independence (no need to scale up content to the panel's native resolution), and no display lag/delay (important to any gamer). They also don't suffer from ghosting or viewing angle problems, but recent LCD panel tech has addressed this.
They are better at 2D because manufacturers have begun to restrict their high end/latest tech panels to 3D capable models. For example, prior to 2011, one could purchase a 2D-only Panasonic plasma with their "infinite black" panel, today it only comes on 3D ready models.
I expect when I spend that much money on a television that it last more than 2 or 3 years... more like 10 (at least) or more. Both televisions I replaced were over 12 years old. I need a REALLY compelling reason to upgrade, and there just isn't one.
Don't worry, the industry's lower quality standards, unrepairable components, and RoHS solder will make sure you needlessly replace your flat panel TV every 5 years after it fails.
The cable companies around here seem to subcontract out all their install work, mostly to people who aren't good or care about their job. Verizon still has their own employees doing the Fios installs since they have to send someone up onto the pole to run the fiber from the tap into the house. The Verizon guys appear to be better trained and better paid (not surprising since they are unionized). $53k is peanuts on the coasts, but is a decent salary elsewhere in the US.
Ever seen how well tract housing is built in newer sub-divisions? Most of it barely passes code and in some cases fails. I have been in plenty of brand new houses with poor insulation, drafty windows, walls that aren't straight (walls meet at angles that clearly aren't 90 degrees), and scary plumbing. Some have things like dryer vents routing into walls or ceilings instead of a proper outdoor outlet. Don't forget mold problems from improper/insufficient ventilation too. Building codes =/= decent, safe buildings.
I personally had to deal with both companies....1&1 in particular was UGH with that interface.... plus I had to deal with the whole RegisterFly fiasco a few years ago. ICANN'T still hasn't gotten their act together. The whole domain industry is filled with shady characters. Web hosting is too, but at least you have the option to roll your own server if needed.
Has anyone bothered to look at this "Creative America's" website? I haven't looked at it, but I'm sure statistics like the music and motion picture industry ringing in higher and higher profits year after year aren't on there. Or anything about the movie industry's evasion of royalties and profit sharing through accounting tricks. Funny how they cry foul about piracy cutting into profits when they actively avoid paying other parties for the use of said party's IP.
You can appeal the decision with YouTube, apparently its quite common for them to flag public domain content. In one instance, YouTube flagged a user posted video containing the public domain music they used for their "YouTube 1911" April Fool's Joke!
Sounds like most of Newark, NJ these days. I used to commute there daily for school, the conditions sound about right. Its gotten much worse in the past 2 years.
The reason I say "sane" is because you could've spend all that time you spent reading reviews simply doing some extra paid work. If you spent months reading reviews, you could have probably also spend those hours working, bought half a dozen coffee makers, threw away all but the one they liked and still have had more spare time and money left.
They call those people professional product reviewers, except the companies usually gives them the coffee makers for free in exchange for a generally biased positive review (so they get more freebies from the company in the future). People like to hate on Consumer Reports, but they are one of the rare places that actually buys all their reviewed products at full price from retailers eliminating a source of bias. Product research is important, but generally for expensive durable goods that you will use for a long period of time (like cars and washing machines).
The reason the name stuck around after SBC became AT&T was that Cingular was originally a joint venture between SBC and Bell South. They weren't able to rename Cingular to AT&T Mobility until the new AT&T (SBC) bought Bell South and took full control of the cellular operations.
AT&T Wireless (the old "blue" network) has had long standing coverage issues in parts of Northern NJ that have been documented for well over 10 years. Some dead zones from the TDMA days still exist and haven't been addressed. Verizon Wireless also has its fair share of dead zones, but they have actively worked to fill in the coverage gaps based on personal experience. In many cases it they had to build a new tower site to fix the problem.
Verizon was traditionally very hands off when it came to meddling with many smartphone features. For example, they always had full bluetooth support. They still mess around with Android phones though. They put Bing in as the default search on all the non-Droid branded handsets and they preload a lot of their silly VCAST apps and other junk you can't delete.
Sony brought the world's first one piece consumer camcorder to the market in the form of the BetaMovie BMC-110 in 1983. The Kodak Kodavision came a few years later using the Video-8 format.... which Sony landed up adopting and innovating with the HandyCam line.
I miss the "pop" I used to get printing Tri-X with a 2.5? (its been a while) contrast filter. Scanning the negatives and printing them out just isn't the same. Too bad I don't have the space for a mini dark room.
Interesting, I wonder if my 2001 Olympus Camedia C-3040Z has a Kodak sensor. It still takes great pictures and has image quality that revealed modern entry level 5MP cameras that were released years after it (despite being only 3.3MP). No rolling shutter either since its CCD and not CMOS.
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..and GNU HURD will be out in a year.
Just keep in mind that sites like DP Review are a bit biased. Remember that manufacturers usually give these sites products to review in exchange for a favorable review.
It wasn't even that nothing else was available: HD TV's are simply far better than old CRT TVs, in nearly every possible way.
CRTs still have superior color representation and contrast ratio. The gap is quickly closing however. Other CRT advantages is the ability to natively display interlaced content, resolution independence (no need to scale up content to the panel's native resolution), and no display lag/delay (important to any gamer). They also don't suffer from ghosting or viewing angle problems, but recent LCD panel tech has addressed this.
They are better at 2D because manufacturers have begun to restrict their high end/latest tech panels to 3D capable models. For example, prior to 2011, one could purchase a 2D-only Panasonic plasma with their "infinite black" panel, today it only comes on 3D ready models.
I expect when I spend that much money on a television that it last more than 2 or 3 years... more like 10 (at least) or more. Both televisions I replaced were over 12 years old. I need a REALLY compelling reason to upgrade, and there just isn't one.
Don't worry, the industry's lower quality standards, unrepairable components, and RoHS solder will make sure you needlessly replace your flat panel TV every 5 years after it fails.
The cable companies around here seem to subcontract out all their install work, mostly to people who aren't good or care about their job. Verizon still has their own employees doing the Fios installs since they have to send someone up onto the pole to run the fiber from the tap into the house. The Verizon guys appear to be better trained and better paid (not surprising since they are unionized). $53k is peanuts on the coasts, but is a decent salary elsewhere in the US.
Ever seen how well tract housing is built in newer sub-divisions? Most of it barely passes code and in some cases fails. I have been in plenty of brand new houses with poor insulation, drafty windows, walls that aren't straight (walls meet at angles that clearly aren't 90 degrees), and scary plumbing. Some have things like dryer vents routing into walls or ceilings instead of a proper outdoor outlet. Don't forget mold problems from improper/insufficient ventilation too. Building codes =/= decent, safe buildings.
That would be American Samoa, which looks to be retaining the UTC-11 time zone.
I personally had to deal with both companies....1&1 in particular was UGH with that interface.... plus I had to deal with the whole RegisterFly fiasco a few years ago. ICANN'T still hasn't gotten their act together. The whole domain industry is filled with shady characters. Web hosting is too, but at least you have the option to roll your own server if needed.
Has anyone bothered to look at this "Creative America's" website? I haven't looked at it, but I'm sure statistics like the music and motion picture industry ringing in higher and higher profits year after year aren't on there. Or anything about the movie industry's evasion of royalties and profit sharing through accounting tricks. Funny how they cry foul about piracy cutting into profits when they actively avoid paying other parties for the use of said party's IP.
...and thats why I have a DynDNS account even though my domain registrar offers dynamic DNS service for free on all my domains registered with them.
You can appeal the decision with YouTube, apparently its quite common for them to flag public domain content. In one instance, YouTube flagged a user posted video containing the public domain music they used for their "YouTube 1911" April Fool's Joke!
Maybe it'll be back in Firefox 18, which at this rate should be out in 2 weeks.
Kind of like Schrödinger's cat when you think about it.
Sounds like most of Newark, NJ these days. I used to commute there daily for school, the conditions sound about right. Its gotten much worse in the past 2 years.
The reason I say "sane" is because you could've spend all that time you spent reading reviews simply doing some extra paid work. If you spent months reading reviews, you could have probably also spend those hours working, bought half a dozen coffee makers, threw away all but the one they liked and still have had more spare time and money left.
They call those people professional product reviewers, except the companies usually gives them the coffee makers for free in exchange for a generally biased positive review (so they get more freebies from the company in the future). People like to hate on Consumer Reports, but they are one of the rare places that actually buys all their reviewed products at full price from retailers eliminating a source of bias. Product research is important, but generally for expensive durable goods that you will use for a long period of time (like cars and washing machines).
Another side effect is that it blocks poisoned ads carrying flash and PDF exploits delivering malware.
The reason the name stuck around after SBC became AT&T was that Cingular was originally a joint venture between SBC and Bell South. They weren't able to rename Cingular to AT&T Mobility until the new AT&T (SBC) bought Bell South and took full control of the cellular operations.
CenturyLink also took over Embarq which was Sprint's old wireline holdings.
AT&T Wireless (the old "blue" network) has had long standing coverage issues in parts of Northern NJ that have been documented for well over 10 years. Some dead zones from the TDMA days still exist and haven't been addressed. Verizon Wireless also has its fair share of dead zones, but they have actively worked to fill in the coverage gaps based on personal experience. In many cases it they had to build a new tower site to fix the problem.
Verizon was traditionally very hands off when it came to meddling with many smartphone features. For example, they always had full bluetooth support. They still mess around with Android phones though. They put Bing in as the default search on all the non-Droid branded handsets and they preload a lot of their silly VCAST apps and other junk you can't delete.
Sony brought the world's first one piece consumer camcorder to the market in the form of the BetaMovie BMC-110 in 1983. The Kodak Kodavision came a few years later using the Video-8 format.... which Sony landed up adopting and innovating with the HandyCam line.
I miss the "pop" I used to get printing Tri-X with a 2.5? (its been a while) contrast filter. Scanning the negatives and printing them out just isn't the same. Too bad I don't have the space for a mini dark room.
It likely was drop shipped from one of Tiger Direct's many distributors, such as Ingram Micro.
Interesting, I wonder if my 2001 Olympus Camedia C-3040Z has a Kodak sensor. It still takes great pictures and has image quality that revealed modern entry level 5MP cameras that were released years after it (despite being only 3.3MP). No rolling shutter either since its CCD and not CMOS.