I work for a small company called Indigita Corp. and we have been working on a fully digital VCR for MPEG2/HDTV recording for over 2-3 years now. Out technology is based off of 4mm DAT tape hardware. DDS-3 is capable of 18+GB of storage space or I think 4hrs of MPEG2 recording. (but don't hold me to that)!! With of course being able to playback HDTV recording at or very near the same quality as the original content! And with encription capabilities enabled, we can satisfy the greedy movie companies their content is safe. (heaven forbid, should anyone make copies. Oooo... chills)!!;) I have personally seen some content that just blows away DVD and is just a little shy of the full HDTV resolution!! And that is off a DAT tape. We have been evaluating a lot of different units that would potentialy be able to record this quality content, most if not ALL have some very serious limitations. Recording, playback or seak/access time, to name a few. Most of these devices just don't lend itself to the full capabilities of recording and sustaining the bandwidth needed. Some DVD_RAMS we evaluated just couldn't keep up, so you would end up with dropped frames or worse. The D-VHS format... well should I say no contest... or it just... SUCKS. We are also considering where the IEEE1394 (Firewire) would end up in set top boxes and it looks very promising. And since we are all ready established in this market with bridge boards etc. we know right where it should fit in the home. (Think of who just came out with a 1394 HD external box in the market just recently. We helped make it happen!!) Just think, you could plug in your storage/recorder device into your PC/MAC and then into your decoder box an record whatever your heart desires!! Well, there you have it.
Well, the way I see it, I don't have a problem with porting Office to Linux. I moved to Linux to get a way from the M$ crap, and I realy havn't looked back. I wouldn't touch "Office for Linux" even if my life depended on it! I'm pretty happy with Applixware and it satisfies my needs. That's my few cents worth.
We have been testing W2K for a little while now here at my office and 62,000 bugs sounds just about write. I am amazed it actually runs as good as it does with that many problems though. I still wouldn't give up my Linux box for anything, no matter how good "they" say Windows is.
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I work for a small company called Indigita Corp. and we have been working on a fully digital VCR for MPEG2/HDTV recording for over 2-3 years now. Out technology is based off of 4mm DAT tape hardware. DDS-3 is capable of 18+GB of storage space or I think 4hrs of MPEG2 recording. (but don't hold me to that)!! With of course being able to playback HDTV recording at or very near the same quality as the original content! And with encription capabilities enabled, we can satisfy the greedy movie companies their content is safe. (heaven forbid, should anyone make copies. Oooo... chills)!! ;) I have personally seen some content that just blows away DVD and is just a little shy of the full HDTV resolution!! And that is off a DAT tape. We have been evaluating a lot of different units that would potentialy be able to record this quality content, most if not ALL have some very serious limitations. Recording, playback or seak/access time, to name a few. Most of these devices just don't lend itself to the full capabilities of recording and sustaining the bandwidth needed. Some DVD_RAMS we evaluated just couldn't keep up, so you would end up with dropped frames or worse. The D-VHS format... well should I say no contest... or it just... SUCKS. We are also considering where the IEEE1394 (Firewire) would end up in set top boxes and it looks very promising. And since we are all ready established in this market with bridge boards etc. we know right where it should fit in the home. (Think of who just came out with a 1394 HD external box in the market just recently. We helped make it happen!!) Just think, you could plug in your storage/recorder device into your PC/MAC and then into your decoder box an record whatever your heart desires!! Well, there you have it.
Well, the way I see it, I don't have a problem with porting Office to Linux. I moved to Linux to get a way from the M$ crap, and I realy havn't looked back. I wouldn't touch "Office for Linux" even if my life depended on it! I'm pretty happy with Applixware and it satisfies my needs. That's my few cents worth.
Ex-queez me if I'm wrong, but isn't that what Firewire is for?? And wasn't 1394 first developed for the PC market originally??
Well, we always new politicians had there heads up their asses, and this just proves it!!
We have been testing W2K for a little while now here at my office and 62,000 bugs sounds just about write. I am amazed it actually runs as good as it does with that many problems though. I still wouldn't give up my Linux box for anything, no matter how good "they" say Windows is.