Blu-Ray uses Java.... Blu-Ray will need some hihgly paid expert programmers... Creating even trivial stuff becomes a complex endeavour. On the other hand, iHD is simple XML based markup (somewhat like HTML), which is something most people know nowadays.
Until someone comes out with a GUI authoring tool for BD-J (think DVD Studio Pro) or an iHD-to-BD-J compiler. Think about it: anything you can express in declarative XML can be automatically converted to equivalent Java bytecode.
Not to mention that the burnable media pricing is even worse - 60$USD for a blank Blu-Ray disc!
And the price for a blank HD-DVD is? Besides, most people will just burn HD content on cheap DVD-Rs; this is called HD-DVD-9 or BD-9.
When converting from 24fps to 60fps, data is duplicated, not lost. When converting back, the TV knows which data is duplicate and throws that away, leaving all the original pixels intact.
If your TV runs at a refresh rate of 60Hz you'll have inevitable judder, but that's not HDMI's fault.
Regular HDMI type A (you know, like the kind used by the PS3) can carry 1080p. Since movies are stored in 1080p24 on the disc, the player converts this to 1080i60 (which causes no loss of data), and then the TV performs a trivial inverse telecine to recover the original 1080p24.
A recent Ask Slashdot thread revealed several DVI capture cards on the market, but they're in the $3,000 range; and you'd need a pretty hefty computer to record uncompressed HD (and then recompress it).
It should be possible to write a law that allows national franchises, but forces service providers to serve each city on an "all or nothing" basis, thus preventing redlining.
Honestly, I don't even know what the justification is for the concept of franchising TV providers (except regulatory capture, of course).
Actually, the law was changed so that telcos don't have to share fiber lines. That's why Verizon is putting in fiber and ripping out copper wherever they go. Once you have FIOS, you can never switch to Speakeasy, Earthlink, AOL, Yahoo, etc.
Not a bad analogy. You'll be able to modify the DReaM code all you want, but you won't be able to load the modified code on your "certified robust" set top box. So it's open source, but not as we know it.
PVRs don't have uncompressed HD input because it would require expensive real-time compression chips (like from HDV camcorders) and it would piss off The Man even more than PVRs already do.
I can't vouch for it, but the $3,000 AccuStream 170 is the only DVI capture card I've seen. It looks like the cost is almost a tie between DVI capture and DVI -> HD-SDI capture.
IIRC, 64-bit mode has twice as many registers. In general, adding architectural registers increases the code size, which may reduce performance due to I-cache pressure. Modern x86 processors have good store-to-load forwarding so that spills and fills are fast; I imagine Intel and AMD are not very concerned with ease of assembly programming these days.
Most email clients support S/MIME, but there are several problems here. There are too many CAs, and it's too easy for bad guys to get a bogus (but mostly real-looking) cert. It's also somewhat difficult to make the signature chrome unspoofable.
But average Joes aren't buying $1,000 HD players; videophiles are. The people with the old analog HDTVs would seem to be exactly the people who would complain about downrezzing.
Ssssh, you're not supposed to provide examples that disprove the Slashdot conventional wisdom. Repeat after me: All DRM schemes have been cracked; all DRM schemes will be cracked.
BayTSP claims that they are already spidering torrent sites and P2P networks constantly so that they can identify and sue the "first sharer" of files within minutes. (Of course, they would say that, wouldn't they?) But supposedly the real bad guys never use P2P networks; they're hidden behind private "topsites" that are already encrypting their traffic.
There's nothing in the DVD spec that limits you to 480 lines.
The NTSC DVD Video spec is indeed limited to 480 lines. (PAL DVD is higher, of course.) You can put whatever you want on a data DVD, but if there are few or no players for it, people won't care.
So someone should just take MPEG-4, spec-out some new resolutions, and call it DVD-Ultra or something cool sounding.
It was called DivX HD, but very few players and no movies support it. It was also called WMV-HD, with a few movies and no players. AFAIK, Nero Digital HD has no movies and no players. There were several factors at work here IMO: It costs so much to establish a new media standard that you can only do it every 10 years or so. Since each standard needs to last for a decade, it needs to be a big improvement over the previous, not a small improvement. Putting HD MPEG-4 (or WMV or whatever) on a regular DVD is so easy that N different companies tried to do it in incompatible ways, and the format war killed all the formats before they even got started.
Klik appears to have a centralized server, so if your app isn't listed on the server, it can't be installed with Klik. This is no better than a kitchen-sink distro with Synaptic.
On OS X, developers can easily distribute their apps directly to users with no middlemen in the way.
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Blu-Ray uses Java. ... Blu-Ray will need some hihgly paid expert programmers... Creating even trivial stuff becomes a complex endeavour. On the other hand, iHD is simple XML based markup (somewhat like HTML), which is something most people know nowadays.
Until someone comes out with a GUI authoring tool for BD-J (think DVD Studio Pro) or an iHD-to-BD-J compiler. Think about it: anything you can express in declarative XML can be automatically converted to equivalent Java bytecode.
Not to mention that the burnable media pricing is even worse - 60$USD for a blank Blu-Ray disc!
And the price for a blank HD-DVD is? Besides, most people will just burn HD content on cheap DVD-Rs; this is called HD-DVD-9 or BD-9.
It's called Xeon LV aka Sossaman. Supermicro has motherboards.
It seems to me to be the single largest difference between the two formats, and the one which puts HD-DVD in a far superior position in my mind.
Superior to what? Blu-ray's BD-9 format puts HD content on regular DVD-Rs as well.
When converting from 24fps to 60fps, data is duplicated, not lost. When converting back, the TV knows which data is duplicate and throws that away, leaving all the original pixels intact.
If your TV runs at a refresh rate of 60Hz you'll have inevitable judder, but that's not HDMI's fault.
Regular HDMI type A (you know, like the kind used by the PS3) can carry 1080p. Since movies are stored in 1080p24 on the disc, the player converts this to 1080i60 (which causes no loss of data), and then the TV performs a trivial inverse telecine to recover the original 1080p24.
A recent Ask Slashdot thread revealed several DVI capture cards on the market, but they're in the $3,000 range; and you'd need a pretty hefty computer to record uncompressed HD (and then recompress it).
If the FCC mandates that cable providers open up their lines to other providers...
That's not what the article is about. The telcos want to run TV over their own phone lines, not the cable company's coax.
It should be possible to write a law that allows national franchises, but forces service providers to serve each city on an "all or nothing" basis, thus preventing redlining.
Honestly, I don't even know what the justification is for the concept of franchising TV providers (except regulatory capture, of course).
Actually, the law was changed so that telcos don't have to share fiber lines. That's why Verizon is putting in fiber and ripping out copper wherever they go. Once you have FIOS, you can never switch to Speakeasy, Earthlink, AOL, Yahoo, etc.
Trusted Linux? Anything is possible.
You can get at least a gigabit over copper these days, and probably more.
Not over thousands of feet of POTS-grade copper. The telcos are sweating just to get ~24Mbps over existing wiring.
Not a bad analogy. You'll be able to modify the DReaM code all you want, but you won't be able to load the modified code on your "certified robust" set top box. So it's open source, but not as we know it.
Yes, Sony announced that the PS3 can run Linux. But the game OS might not be Linux.
PVRs don't have uncompressed HD input because it would require expensive real-time compression chips (like from HDV camcorders) and it would piss off The Man even more than PVRs already do.
I can't vouch for it, but the $3,000 AccuStream 170 is the only DVI capture card I've seen. It looks like the cost is almost a tie between DVI capture and DVI -> HD-SDI capture.
Are you using a mouse or a tablet? Mice don't really lend themselves to drawing.
IIRC, 64-bit mode has twice as many registers. In general, adding architectural registers increases the code size, which may reduce performance due to I-cache pressure. Modern x86 processors have good store-to-load forwarding so that spills and fills are fast; I imagine Intel and AMD are not very concerned with ease of assembly programming these days.
Most email clients support S/MIME, but there are several problems here. There are too many CAs, and it's too easy for bad guys to get a bogus (but mostly real-looking) cert. It's also somewhat difficult to make the signature chrome unspoofable.
Hey, all three of the IB HCAs have OpenIB drivers now.
But average Joes aren't buying $1,000 HD players; videophiles are. The people with the old analog HDTVs would seem to be exactly the people who would complain about downrezzing.
Ssssh, you're not supposed to provide examples that disprove the Slashdot conventional wisdom. Repeat after me: All DRM schemes have been cracked; all DRM schemes will be cracked.
BayTSP claims that they are already spidering torrent sites and P2P networks constantly so that they can identify and sue the "first sharer" of files within minutes. (Of course, they would say that, wouldn't they?) But supposedly the real bad guys never use P2P networks; they're hidden behind private "topsites" that are already encrypting their traffic.
There's nothing in the DVD spec that limits you to 480 lines.
The NTSC DVD Video spec is indeed limited to 480 lines. (PAL DVD is higher, of course.) You can put whatever you want on a data DVD, but if there are few or no players for it, people won't care.
So someone should just take MPEG-4, spec-out some new resolutions, and call it DVD-Ultra or something cool sounding.
It was called DivX HD, but very few players and no movies support it. It was also called WMV-HD, with a few movies and no players. AFAIK, Nero Digital HD has no movies and no players. There were several factors at work here IMO:
It costs so much to establish a new media standard that you can only do it every 10 years or so. Since each standard needs to last for a decade, it needs to be a big improvement over the previous, not a small improvement.
Putting HD MPEG-4 (or WMV or whatever) on a regular DVD is so easy that N different companies tried to do it in incompatible ways, and the format war killed all the formats before they even got started.
Klik appears to have a centralized server, so if your app isn't listed on the server, it can't be installed with Klik. This is no better than a kitchen-sink distro with Synaptic.
On OS X, developers can easily distribute their apps directly to users with no middlemen in the way.
Maybe you should explain.