It's really not a question of ATSC in this case. Since the GigaSet is a IP based set top box, it would only be useful for TVoIP applications such as those offered by broadband providers such as the Telco's. Alternately, it could be connected to a cable modem. If this becomes popular, somebody will build an ATSC receiver that has and IP output. The issue of course is the CCI (copy protection flag). A decoder would pass this flag to the set top box, but the box would be required by US law to respect the flag and prevent it from offering clear digital signal at it's outputs. Since it is DVB, I assume that it supports SimulCrypt, so operating it in a telco environment should be no problem.
We have had an informal pool as to when Intel would release a 4.77 GHz chip. My date was June of next year. This delay will probably knock me out of the running.
I was going to load up my copy of the Mix C compiler to see it run 1000 times faster.
I agree. I don't even bother to read FAQ's anymore since they rarely don't answer anybody questions and serve only as a self promotion tool.
It seems that the FAQ has gone the route of the scripted press conference where the only questions that get answered are the ones that show the product/candidate in a good light.
I mean what happens if your on the road and forget your charger? You wake up in the morning and all you see is a little battery low indicator. Since you got your eyes last year, non of the stores carry a charger for your obsolete eyes.
So there are 2 good reviews and 237 (at this writing) 1 star reviews, but Amazon sitll gives it a two star rating. It seems like they are rounding 1.005 stars up to 2.
This seems a little deceptive to me. Maybe if you really want to get some action, you should start a campaign to boycott Amazon until they pull the title.
Wouldn't work for me, since I am already boycotting them for stealing a rebate from me last year. And yes, I have proof.
I think that this is the point. My wife loved ID. There are a lot more people like my wife than the.01% of the population who actually care to analyze the science in this movie.
If I was going to make a picture, I think that I would be willing to take whatever liberty with the science that is necessary to sell tickets to the 99.99% of the population that don't know or want to know the difference anyway.
Who knows, this picture might actually cause a few brain cells to fire off in the cattle an cause one or two of them to actually go off and do some actual research on the subject.
Just put a Barium tracer in a bottle of tequila and drink a large quantity of it. The tequila goes straight to the short term cache and immediately erases it.
Well, I did something similar to this with my old Hoyt Clagwell tractor engine and AMC Pacer last year. I couldn't exactly figure out how to mount the HC engine into the Pacer frame, so I decided to hook the tractor engine up to a generator and charge up some old aircraft batteries that I got out of a DC-3 that was parked out at the old aircraft graveyard.
Of course, I had to retrofit the Pacer with electric motors and a beefed up suspension to support all those batteries, but it was well worth the US$100K that I put into the project. Now I just have to park the car and run the tractor all night to charge the batteries. The noise is kind of annoying to the neighbors, but I figure that I saved a cool US$2K on the Pacer engine rebuild that I would have had to do.
Only real drawback is that the HC engine is pretty inefficient. I figure that I am getting an equivilent of 5 MPG, but I'm sure gas prices will be going down real soon now.
I have Dish Network, and all of the evil things that Comcast says about rain and wind and leaves in fall are true. Having said that, I have been pretty happy with the PVR they offer. Not TiVo, but sufficient.
Depending on what you watch, and how important picture quality is to you, cable may actually be a better bet. I am in a Comcast service area and am seriously considering switching. For one thing, the local channels on Dish are horrible. They compress them to the point of being unwatchable. This just became clear to me when I bought a big screen television.
The same holds true for the less popular cable channels. Most of the popular channels are pretty good quality. I don't know what bit rate Comcast uses for their channels, but I thought that I would give them a try for a couple of months and do a side by side comparison.
If you have a clean plant, the analog channels are actually much better quality than the digital ones. (I know... flame bait). In a big market, the cable companies take a lot of their feeds directly from the station. A good clean analog signal has 10 to 20 times more picture quality than a compressed signal from Dish network. OTOH, a crappy analog signal is unwatchable. Since they just rebuilt the plant around here, the analog signals look pretty good.
As for the PVR issue, Comcast has just started rolling out the Motrola DVR box. They only have the single tuner model available now, but that's all I have with Dish and it hasn't been a problem. Most programs that I watch are repeated many times so there is always a time when I can record them when I am not watching something else.
Of course, if you are a realityTV or sports junkie, even two tuners may not be enough. In that case, both Dish and DirectTV (and Time-Warner Cable) have dual tuner PVR boxes. You can actually record two channels while you are watching something that was previously recorded. Pretty cool, but a bit much for me. Motorola is coming out with one (HD as well), but it's probably a ways down the road. Comcast is almost totally Motorola.
As far as the broadband issue, I also have DSL, but if I switch to Comcast, I will probably switch to cable modem. Again, it don't cost much to try it out. They offer 3 Mb/s downstream, while DSL limits me to about 1.2 Mb/s.
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It's really not a question of ATSC in this case. Since the GigaSet is a IP based set top box, it would only be useful for TVoIP applications such as those offered by broadband providers such as the Telco's. Alternately, it could be connected to a cable modem.
If this becomes popular, somebody will build an ATSC receiver that has and IP output. The issue of course is the CCI (copy protection flag). A decoder would pass this flag to the set top box, but the box would be required by US law to respect the flag and prevent it from offering clear digital signal at it's outputs.
Since it is DVB, I assume that it supports SimulCrypt, so operating it in a telco environment should be no problem.
We have had an informal pool as to when Intel would release a 4.77 GHz chip. My date was June of next year. This delay will probably knock me out of the running.
I was going to load up my copy of the Mix C compiler to see it run 1000 times faster.
I agree. I don't even bother to read FAQ's anymore since they rarely don't answer anybody questions and serve only as a self promotion tool.
It seems that the FAQ has gone the route of the scripted press conference where the only questions that get answered are the ones that show the product/candidate in a good light.
Not exactly zero. There are a few pump storage hydro facilities in operation.
Whoa! $600 a month for a diabetes disability? Where do I sign up?
I mean what happens if your on the road and forget your charger? You wake up in the morning and all you see is a little battery low indicator. Since you got your eyes last year, non of the stores carry a charger for your obsolete eyes.
So there are 2 good reviews and 237 (at this writing) 1 star reviews, but Amazon sitll gives it a two star rating. It seems like they are rounding 1.005 stars up to 2.
This seems a little deceptive to me. Maybe if you really want to get some action, you should start a campaign to boycott Amazon until they pull the title.
Wouldn't work for me, since I am already boycotting them for stealing a rebate from me last year. And yes, I have proof.
I think that this is the point. My wife loved ID. There are a lot more people like my wife than the .01% of the population who actually care to analyze the science in this movie.
If I was going to make a picture, I think that I would be willing to take whatever liberty with the science that is necessary to sell tickets to the 99.99% of the population that don't know or want to know the difference anyway.
Who knows, this picture might actually cause a few brain cells to fire off in the cattle an cause one or two of them to actually go off and do some actual research on the subject.
Just put a Barium tracer in a bottle of tequila and drink a large quantity of it. The tequila goes straight to the short term cache and immediately erases it.
Well, I did something similar to this with my old Hoyt Clagwell tractor engine and AMC Pacer last year. I couldn't exactly figure out how to mount the HC engine into the Pacer frame, so I decided to hook the tractor engine up to a generator and charge up some old aircraft batteries that I got out of a DC-3 that was parked out at the old aircraft graveyard.
Of course, I had to retrofit the Pacer with electric motors and a beefed up suspension to support all those batteries, but it was well worth the US$100K that I put into the project. Now I just have to park the car and run the tractor all night to charge the batteries. The noise is kind of annoying to the neighbors, but I figure that I saved a cool US$2K on the Pacer engine rebuild that I would have had to do.
Only real drawback is that the HC engine is pretty inefficient. I figure that I am getting an equivilent of 5 MPG, but I'm sure gas prices will be going down real soon now.
Well, we didn't actually elect him...
I have Dish Network, and all of the evil things that Comcast says about rain and wind and leaves in fall are true. Having said that, I have been pretty happy with the PVR they offer. Not TiVo, but sufficient.
Depending on what you watch, and how important picture quality is to you, cable may actually be a better bet. I am in a Comcast service area and am seriously considering switching. For one thing, the local channels on Dish are horrible. They compress them to the point of being unwatchable. This just became clear to me when I bought a big screen television.
The same holds true for the less popular cable channels. Most of the popular channels are pretty good quality. I don't know what bit rate Comcast uses for their channels, but I thought that I would give them a try for a couple of months and do a side by side comparison.
If you have a clean plant, the analog channels are actually much better quality than the digital ones. (I know... flame bait). In a big market, the cable companies take a lot of their feeds directly from the station. A good clean analog signal has 10 to 20 times more picture quality than a compressed signal from Dish network. OTOH, a crappy analog signal is unwatchable. Since they just rebuilt the plant around here, the analog signals look pretty good.
As for the PVR issue, Comcast has just started rolling out the Motrola DVR box. They only have the single tuner model available now, but that's all I have with Dish and it hasn't been a problem. Most programs that I watch are repeated many times so there is always a time when I can record them when I am not watching something else.
Of course, if you are a realityTV or sports junkie, even two tuners may not be enough. In that case, both Dish and DirectTV (and Time-Warner Cable) have dual tuner PVR boxes. You can actually record two channels while you are watching something that was previously recorded. Pretty cool, but a bit much for me. Motorola is coming out with one (HD as well), but it's probably a ways down the road. Comcast is almost totally Motorola.
As far as the broadband issue, I also have DSL, but if I switch to Comcast, I will probably switch to cable modem. Again, it don't cost much to try it out. They offer 3 Mb/s downstream, while DSL limits me to about 1.2 Mb/s.