4k is used by the digital effects teams when they're rendering for really large screens and 2k just won't cut it (or the director is greedy, to be honest). So yes, there is a call out there for editors that work with that resolution, and Apple would like to sell to people who are used to using their stuff for 2k work and don't want to swick to the likes of Quantel. When you need a reliable Gb/sec or more in order to store all that, though, you're still talking a BIG box.
On the DVD deinterlace issue, it depends on how the DVD is mastered. Some are done 'properly'; i.e. the progressive fields are stored with info on how the player should interlace them, and that works well on most players. Some, however, are mastered on the cheap with the interlaced frames, and it's those ones that normally end up being a mess on cheaper players. There's a good description at Home Theater Hifi that makes far more sense than I can.
For what it's worth, I know a few people who have taken their 1080i HDTV captures of films and deinterlaced them for 1080p playback on their computers, and they look absolutely stunning, so it must be possible.
Your buddy's dongle only works because his player has a handset hack that disables the HDCP copy protection on the HDMI output. So we'll need to wait and see if any of the HD players have one of those, too.
That's a decoder chip for both formats. All the chip manufacturers have either got these already or are beavering away on them furiously. It's not even massively difficult, as the codecs are the same for both formats; only the disc structure and interactive layers differ.
The complex bit will be the drive mechanism, as they are rather more different. You're right that it'll happen eventually, however.
"You can't simply merge the frames and show at half the rate because each half of the frame happens at a different time."
This is, naturally, only true for non-film sources. Which, quite frankly, I really struggle to care one jot about. I fully expect most discs to be 720p not 1080i anyway, so it's a rather moot point.
Incidentally, the reason the Pioneer BluRay player is $1800 compared to the Toshiba HD-DVD player's $500 is largely because it will apparently deinterlace film to 1080p for you.
One tiny thing: The players were unveiled this week, but should be going on sale at the end of March. The last Tuesday of March also sees Batman Begins and a bunch of other HD-DVDs come out. I forget the full Warners list off the top of my head, and most other studios haven't confirmed release dates yet, or I'd name more. I do know that the latest Potter is amongst those following a fortnight later, if that helps.
Quoth the AC: "Because that US DVD player probably won't output PAL, and it might not even accept 220V. Not much of a solution."
1) Name me a modern TV of any quality whatsoever in Europe that doesn't accept an NTSC signal. You'll really struggle.
2) Stepdown converters are cheap. It's true that a basic multi-region DVD player is also cheap, but the original poster may have had a really nice player to start with.
Back in '97 the cheapest DVD player was over $1000. This isn't like consoles where they sell the hardware at a loss.
But by all means wait until they hit a price you're prepared to pay. Here in the UK my first DVD player was £500. My supermarket now sells players with more functionality for £20.
By NL do you mean The Netherlands? Just get either a step-down adaptor so you can still use your old DVD player, or if that isn't an option, get a Region Free player from somewhere. They start at less than £20 on Amazon UK, so you should be able to find a reasonable one easily enough.
Is that really Tim Edwards' work? I thought it was Jim Rossignol, what with it being reproduced on his blog, where he introduces it as "the text from my account of a trip to South Korea in April 2005", and all.
In which case, you'd be looking at two PSPs anyway - you can't make one play both emulation software and the latest games and media, because Sony keep fixing all the kernel holes that the emu writers exploit to run their own code on the machine.
It sounds it. I'm really enjoying single-player Mario Kart at the moment. But the Wifi doesn't want to play with my router, so I've not got it working online, sadly - Nintendo decided not to support WPA, and my attempts at changing all the local network stuff over to WEP failed horribly so I gave up.
What I'd really like is a new follow-up to my iPod Mini. The shiny, sturdy aluminium case feels great and seems a lot less easy to damage than the white plastic ones you can currently get. But I wouldn't mind having the video capabilities and colour screen from the full-size iPod.
Oh well, I guess I'm stuck behind the times. At least my firewire dock cable still works.
I don't know of plans available for customizing a bike you already own, but if you're starting from scratch, take a look at the Reebok Cyberrider - http://www.reebokcyberrider.com/ - it has USB and Playstation 2 compatibility, apparently.
If EA announced that they wanted to charge 50% extra to stores that stocked a particular unrelated but legal item (because that's what your scheme really amounts to), exactly how long do you think it would be before EB and Gamestop went running to the lawyers?
Sturgeon's Law works for me, because I don't take it as an actual indication of the value of a genre.
All it _really_ means is that for most sample sets, the very best stuff (10% or what have you) is noticeably better than the rest of the set. You can even ignore that 90%, and for the remaining samples, 90% of _those_ are probably crap compared to the very very best, too.
And yes, 90% of what I say is less insightful than me on an inspired day.
I used to think it, but I really don't buy that argument any more. The decent cans that I see most iPod owners replacing their stock earbuds with cost about as much as a Shuffle anyway (sometimes a fair bit more), so Apple phones no longer scream 'expensive player' to me.
Others have dealt with your comment about the price of 10g, but yes, it really is expensive.
On your first point, the performance tests were testing things that MySQL can do. So the fact that just about every other major database platform on the planet has features that MySQL lacks is irrelevant; they weren't being tested.
Having noted that, is it really quite so surprising that MySQL does the basic stuff it's built for well, and the big bang enterprise level competition find their "bloat" (which really comprises genuinely useful stuff that just isn't being tested here) weighs them down?
1) you can't break applications with browser patches if you don't call the browser in the applications. Virtually impossible under XP due to the way it's integrated with the rest of the OS, I'll grant you. But the "OS" of the 360 is just staying out of the way while you play games; it has nothing web-related to do.
2) Would anyone really care that much if there were 'features' (the ActiveX rubbish that causes most of the holes) that they didn't put in a silly little 360 browser that wasn't designed to replace your full PC? I don't think so.
Apart from anything, we're finally outputting to a resolution where reading text won't necessarily be a chore. It would be nice to exploit that opportunity with a sofa-viewable browser.
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4k is used by the digital effects teams when they're rendering for really large screens and 2k just won't cut it (or the director is greedy, to be honest). So yes, there is a call out there for editors that work with that resolution, and Apple would like to sell to people who are used to using their stuff for 2k work and don't want to swick to the likes of Quantel. When you need a reliable Gb/sec or more in order to store all that, though, you're still talking a BIG box.
On the DVD deinterlace issue, it depends on how the DVD is mastered. Some are done 'properly'; i.e. the progressive fields are stored with info on how the player should interlace them, and that works well on most players. Some, however, are mastered on the cheap with the interlaced frames, and it's those ones that normally end up being a mess on cheaper players. There's a good description at Home Theater Hifi that makes far more sense than I can. For what it's worth, I know a few people who have taken their 1080i HDTV captures of films and deinterlaced them for 1080p playback on their computers, and they look absolutely stunning, so it must be possible.
Your buddy's dongle only works because his player has a handset hack that disables the HDCP copy protection on the HDMI output. So we'll need to wait and see if any of the HD players have one of those, too.
That's a decoder chip for both formats. All the chip manufacturers have either got these already or are beavering away on them furiously. It's not even massively difficult, as the codecs are the same for both formats; only the disc structure and interactive layers differ.
The complex bit will be the drive mechanism, as they are rather more different. You're right that it'll happen eventually, however.
"You can't simply merge the frames and show at half the rate because each half of the frame happens at a different time."
This is, naturally, only true for non-film sources. Which, quite frankly, I really struggle to care one jot about. I fully expect most discs to be 720p not 1080i anyway, so it's a rather moot point.
Incidentally, the reason the Pioneer BluRay player is $1800 compared to the Toshiba HD-DVD player's $500 is largely because it will apparently deinterlace film to 1080p for you.
One tiny thing: The players were unveiled this week, but should be going on sale at the end of March. The last Tuesday of March also sees Batman Begins and a bunch of other HD-DVDs come out. I forget the full Warners list off the top of my head, and most other studios haven't confirmed release dates yet, or I'd name more. I do know that the latest Potter is amongst those following a fortnight later, if that helps.
Really? Sorry, my sources were probably wrong, then.
Quoth the AC: "Because that US DVD player probably won't output PAL, and it might not even accept 220V. Not much of a solution."
1) Name me a modern TV of any quality whatsoever in Europe that doesn't accept an NTSC signal. You'll really struggle.
2) Stepdown converters are cheap. It's true that a basic multi-region DVD player is also cheap, but the original poster may have had a really nice player to start with.
Well, that would explain why they have a Second Amendment Complaint, at least.
Oh, and also see the BluRay competition. The only announced player so far, from Pioneer, is a monumental $1800.
With that, I think that maybe HD-DVD has more of a chance than some have been suggesting...
Back in '97 the cheapest DVD player was over $1000. This isn't like consoles where they sell the hardware at a loss.
But by all means wait until they hit a price you're prepared to pay. Here in the UK my first DVD player was £500. My supermarket now sells players with more functionality for £20.
By NL do you mean The Netherlands? Just get either a step-down adaptor so you can still use your old DVD player, or if that isn't an option, get a Region Free player from somewhere. They start at less than £20 on Amazon UK, so you should be able to find a reasonable one easily enough.
Ah, so on that particular game the PSP is as bad as the DS, then. Which also is WEP (or open) only, 802.11b.
Oh well. Thanks for the warning - I'd been told that the PSP worked just fine with WPA.
Is that really Tim Edwards' work? I thought it was Jim Rossignol, what with it being reproduced on his blog, where he introduces it as "the text from my account of a trip to South Korea in April 2005", and all.
In which case, you'd be looking at two PSPs anyway - you can't make one play both emulation software and the latest games and media, because Sony keep fixing all the kernel holes that the emu writers exploit to run their own code on the machine.
It sounds it. I'm really enjoying single-player Mario Kart at the moment. But the Wifi doesn't want to play with my router, so I've not got it working online, sadly - Nintendo decided not to support WPA, and my attempts at changing all the local network stuff over to WEP failed horribly so I gave up.
Yes, I am useless.
What I'd really like is a new follow-up to my iPod Mini. The shiny, sturdy aluminium case feels great and seems a lot less easy to damage than the white plastic ones you can currently get. But I wouldn't mind having the video capabilities and colour screen from the full-size iPod.
Oh well, I guess I'm stuck behind the times. At least my firewire dock cable still works.
I don't know of plans available for customizing a bike you already own, but if you're starting from scratch, take a look at the Reebok Cyberrider - http://www.reebokcyberrider.com/ - it has USB and Playstation 2 compatibility, apparently.
If EA announced that they wanted to charge 50% extra to stores that stocked a particular unrelated but legal item (because that's what your scheme really amounts to), exactly how long do you think it would be before EB and Gamestop went running to the lawyers?
And there was me thinking that there was no possible way for the website to know which IP was requesting page data, and so where to send it.
Shock horror...
Sturgeon's Law works for me, because I don't take it as an actual indication of the value of a genre.
All it _really_ means is that for most sample sets, the very best stuff (10% or what have you) is noticeably better than the rest of the set. You can even ignore that 90%, and for the remaining samples, 90% of _those_ are probably crap compared to the very very best, too.
And yes, 90% of what I say is less insightful than me on an inspired day.
I used to think it, but I really don't buy that argument any more. The decent cans that I see most iPod owners replacing their stock earbuds with cost about as much as a Shuffle anyway (sometimes a fair bit more), so Apple phones no longer scream 'expensive player' to me.
No? That's quite awesomely shit of them.
Serves me right for not reading their piss-poor article, however.
Others have dealt with your comment about the price of 10g, but yes, it really is expensive.
On your first point, the performance tests were testing things that MySQL can do. So the fact that just about every other major database platform on the planet has features that MySQL lacks is irrelevant; they weren't being tested.
Having noted that, is it really quite so surprising that MySQL does the basic stuff it's built for well, and the big bang enterprise level competition find their "bloat" (which really comprises genuinely useful stuff that just isn't being tested here) weighs them down?
OK, a few points:
1) you can't break applications with browser patches if you don't call the browser in the applications. Virtually impossible under XP due to the way it's integrated with the rest of the OS, I'll grant you. But the "OS" of the 360 is just staying out of the way while you play games; it has nothing web-related to do.
2) Would anyone really care that much if there were 'features' (the ActiveX rubbish that causes most of the holes) that they didn't put in a silly little 360 browser that wasn't designed to replace your full PC? I don't think so.
Apart from anything, we're finally outputting to a resolution where reading text won't necessarily be a chore. It would be nice to exploit that opportunity with a sofa-viewable browser.