So do yourself a favor and learn about a software package before you badmouth it. I just pointed out something that no commercial PVR will likely EVER have, yet is so damn useful it could be it's own product.
While it's a great feature, it's not what they wanted. If you're looking for built-in HD Cable support without re-encoding, having all your DVD's in one box doesn't do much for you.
There are commecial central DVD servers out there, Kaleidescape is probably the best known, possibly for it's $27,000 price tag and a lawsuit or two.
In the U.S., at least, Cablecard is the only way for someone with cable to receive the digital channels (i.e. channels 60-1000) without using the cable company's own cable box. It's a card that fits into a slot on your DVR that allows it to decrypt the digital channels.
While that is true if the signal is encrypted, unencrypted digital content can be captured via firewire through a compatible cable box. Of course, unencrypted shows are hard to come by- What's encrypted and unencrypted depends on the cable provider from what I understand.
What are you talking about? Noone can tell the difference between true HD and downconverted SD?
I think what the parent is getting at, is that it's possible to capture analog HD from the cablebox and re-encode it. True, it's a lot of wasted processing power and some detail will be lost in the dual conversion, but it's not the stand-out difference some might expect.
Totally agree. This isn't a MythTV problem; MythTV can handle the HD stream just fine.
While it's true that it's not a MythTV problem per se, it doesn't change the fact that it's still not an option.
That being said, I'd be in line for a Linux supported CableCard device too, it'd save the trouble of re-encoding HD encrypted shows, as Myth is my only form of a TV.
You might have been interested in arachne, even though it would have been incredibly slow at 16Mhz. (Still, perhaps better than running on top of Windows?)
If Sony had lowered their sights a little when designing the PS3, there's no reason why they shouldn't have been able to create a profitable console that could sell for $400 or less. But no, they decided they NEEDED a Cell processor, and they NEEDED a Blu-Ray drive, and thus they ended up with a console that they can't even sellout at a loss.
Another thing to consider too- Sony seems to expect a much longer life from their consoles. The PS2 is over six years old, and there's still games being developed for it.
2 stroke engines are far more polluting than either 4 stroke gas or diesel engines. They must mix their oil with their fuel, creating an exhaust that cannot be cleaned up (well) with catalytic converters or urea injection. This is why they have been all but banned in advanced industrialized nations.
Four stroke does not necessarily mean running un-mixed fuel. Take for example, the Stihl 4-Mix. Although it's not a traditional four cycle, it's still a mix-fuel engine. I'm no specialist, but it appears that it's not the burning of mixed fuel that causes the large difference in pollutants, but the lack of an exhaust valve to prevent unburnt fuel from escaping.
A bomb would contain some form of explosive. These make shift readerboard signs didn't have anything on them that looked like they had anything to do with bombs as they had NO INCENDIARIES.
Ok- I'm no demolitions expert, but I was always under the impression that the x-ray glasses advertized in the back of the comics were fake. Maybe you'd care to clue us in to which bomb-squad you work in that will qualify a device as non-explosive based entirely on a visual inspection?
Bombs are designed to go boom, but their shape affects how they go boom. For example, a firecracker is chaped in such a way that it makes a loud noise. A bottle rocket is shaped so that it gets propelled. Other rockets contain a payload of balls of power. If you take the contents of a firecracker and ignite it, you get a flash not a boom sound.
Every example you have here is shaped like a tube. Luckily, four D-Cells covered in electrical tape looks nothing like a tube. What says a bomb has to be a good bomb?
These things looked like reader boards. Near as I can see, they had no timmer circuits on them, no connection to a primer or payload. I couldn't even spy a photoelectric cell, would would have been handy to keep them lit at night only. I.E. not bomb like in the slightest.
If something looks suspicious, it should be treated like a bomb until it can be proven otherwise (not assumed). The all the blame bad press should be placed where it rightfully belongs: With the people who handled the situation after it was properly determined it was not a bomb.
It's a TV show about a talking wad of meat, an asshatish milkshake, and a extra-large order of french fries that can throw lightning. I would say season 3 was just getting comfortable with the appropriate level of surrealism.
My roommate purchased an HDTV a few years ago before the HDCP standard emerged and he recently bought a Playstation 3. He was seriously pissed when he found out he couldn't watch Blue Ray Discs at the highest resolution because his TV wasn't compatible.
Please remember that the quality degradation usually talked about is not a case of compatibility, but that quality is being deliberately broken to punish the end user. Although I'm not sure this is the problem in your friends case, since there's other PS3/HDCP issues out there...
Something that seems to be common for all of the HD based camcorders is a much lower apparent bitrate for their digital encoding, which is why I choose DV myself. (Along with the fact that it's less expensive, more common, and I can simply replace tapes if I'm slow to archive to the computer system.)
It's my guess that a lower bitrate allows for more power conservation and a lower price for encoding hardware, but that's entirely supposition on my part.
I'm talking about parents not trying to teach their children in the home before they even start kindergarten. Too many parents here are just letting the public schools teach their children everything they need to know. That should not be the case. The parents should be the first educational source for our children and the public school system a secondary educational tool.
I agree- on a related note, there are schools in our area that actually request parents not try to teach their children how to read before they are school-age. It's a completely strange concept to me.
I don't know that I agree with you that parents should be the primary source of education. Perhaps we could agree that the parents should be the root of a child's education? The school should complement education where development is lacking and where the student accels.
Only we're back to the parents again- It's not exagerating to say there's a large number of parents out there that are perfectly content to let the system decide what, when, where and how their children learn. What happens to the kids that aren't represented by their parents? How about the parents that are only interested in their own selfish motives? Who decides which is which, and how?
How do you impart the concept of personal responsibility for education to a kid when their parents don't even care?
Also, DPMS has lost a lot of virtue with the advent of desktop lcds. It's still worthwile but you aren't going to be seeing any 50% reductions in power utilization anymore.
Just think of all the power we could save if we just got rid of these stupid monitors and lcds, taught everyone Morse Code, and just communicated to the user through the Scroll Lock LED!
Yeah- unless you really like modern architechture, the percentage of concrete in a residential home when compared to a downtown commercial building might as well be zero.
Not only that, but expect 95% of that to be buried below ground level or otherwise covered. I have an unusually large amount of concrete in my house (about 115 yards) and I'd say that the total environmental exposure of it is still less surface area than my sidewalk.
I realize your point is that labor costs are a very large portion of building construction costs, but that does not make building material costs irrelevant. The Empire State building contains 62,000 yards of cement. Even if only a tenth of that were used up at a 30% rate hike, it would increase the cost by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So does the universe explode if you spray duct tape with WD-40? Little known fact: Duct tape sprayed with WD-40 is the secret to anti-matter propulsion. The real reason Geordi La Forge wears that visor? WD-40 overspray protection.
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While it's a great feature, it's not what they wanted. If you're looking for built-in HD Cable support without re-encoding, having all your DVD's in one box doesn't do much for you.
There are commecial central DVD servers out there, Kaleidescape is probably the best known, possibly for it's $27,000 price tag and a lawsuit or two.
While that is true if the signal is encrypted, unencrypted digital content can be captured via firewire through a compatible cable box. Of course, unencrypted shows are hard to come by- What's encrypted and unencrypted depends on the cable provider from what I understand.
I think what the parent is getting at, is that it's possible to capture analog HD from the cablebox and re-encode it. True, it's a lot of wasted processing power and some detail will be lost in the dual conversion, but it's not the stand-out difference some might expect.
While it's true that it's not a MythTV problem per se, it doesn't change the fact that it's still not an option.
That being said, I'd be in line for a Linux supported CableCard device too, it'd save the trouble of re-encoding HD encrypted shows, as Myth is my only form of a TV.
Do you truly believe that Google is so intent on keeping YouTube, that it would clutch to it, kicking and screaming into bankruptcy?
Quick! Someone get W. a copy of sed & awk...
You might have been interested in arachne, even though it would have been incredibly slow at 16Mhz. (Still, perhaps better than running on top of Windows?)
Kimberly's writings were safe, and the thieves didn't appear to have broken into her e-mail or other personal folders.
He's been keeping a very close watch of alt.binaries.girlfriend.
Another thing to consider too- Sony seems to expect a much longer life from their consoles. The PS2 is over six years old, and there's still games being developed for it.
You know it's getting bad when the donkey porn collectors are hosting Creative Common-ized icon collections on Wikipedia.
What's that? Oh... Ah... Yeah, of course- Democrats! I was... uhm. Thinking of something else.
Last year, King County's median average home cost $405,000.00.
My wife works for a title company as an escrow agent in the area, and homes selling for over one million dollars is surprisingly common.
Four stroke does not necessarily mean running un-mixed fuel. Take for example, the Stihl 4-Mix. Although it's not a traditional four cycle, it's still a mix-fuel engine. I'm no specialist, but it appears that it's not the burning of mixed fuel that causes the large difference in pollutants, but the lack of an exhaust valve to prevent unburnt fuel from escaping.
If something looks suspicious, it should be treated like a bomb until it can be proven otherwise (not assumed). The all the blame bad press should be placed where it rightfully belongs: With the people who handled the situation after it was properly determined it was not a bomb.
Please remember that the quality degradation usually talked about is not a case of compatibility, but that quality is being deliberately broken to punish the end user. Although I'm not sure this is the problem in your friends case, since there's other PS3/HDCP issues out there...
Well, 'solar-powered fresh-air system' certainly flows better than 'used calculator panels and a fan'.
I think the better question would be: How quickly can it evacuate an MRE burp?
Heh, In the days of real computers we had to beg, just to use Kermit!
There's a group of coffe-stands in my area that offer a 64oz drink and to top it all off, it's in a plastic cup.
Something that seems to be common for all of the HD based camcorders is a much lower apparent bitrate for their digital encoding, which is why I choose DV myself. (Along with the fact that it's less expensive, more common, and I can simply replace tapes if I'm slow to archive to the computer system.)
It's my guess that a lower bitrate allows for more power conservation and a lower price for encoding hardware, but that's entirely supposition on my part.
Have you tried just looking down?
I agree- on a related note, there are schools in our area that actually request parents not try to teach their children how to read before they are school-age. It's a completely strange concept to me.
I don't know that I agree with you that parents should be the primary source of education. Perhaps we could agree that the parents should be the root of a child's education? The school should complement education where development is lacking and where the student accels.
Only we're back to the parents again- It's not exagerating to say there's a large number of parents out there that are perfectly content to let the system decide what, when, where and how their children learn. What happens to the kids that aren't represented by their parents? How about the parents that are only interested in their own selfish motives? Who decides which is which, and how?
How do you impart the concept of personal responsibility for education to a kid when their parents don't even care?
Just think of all the power we could save if we just got rid of these stupid monitors and lcds, taught everyone Morse Code, and just communicated to the user through the Scroll Lock LED!
Yeah- unless you really like modern architechture, the percentage of concrete in a residential home when compared to a downtown commercial building might as well be zero.
Not only that, but expect 95% of that to be buried below ground level or otherwise covered. I have an unusually large amount of concrete in my house (about 115 yards) and I'd say that the total environmental exposure of it is still less surface area than my sidewalk.
I realize your point is that labor costs are a very large portion of building construction costs, but that does not make building material costs irrelevant. The Empire State building contains 62,000 yards of cement. Even if only a tenth of that were used up at a 30% rate hike, it would increase the cost by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
So does the universe explode if you spray duct tape with WD-40?
Little known fact: Duct tape sprayed with WD-40 is the secret to anti-matter propulsion. The real reason Geordi La Forge wears that visor? WD-40 overspray protection.