Given an infinite processing power, infinite memory and enough bandwidth, ANY codec will be "pulling ahead of h.264 in terms of objective quality as bitrate increases." Or at least, between this version and the uncompressed one, it will be impossible to tell them apart. Some would say that given an infinite memory, processing power and enough bandwidth, you don't to compress at all (but that's just rhetorical.)
An MPEG2 video encoded at 50Mb/s may possibly look better than the same video encoded in H264 at 5 Mb/s, but that's not the whole point of compressing it in the first place. Heck, there are even some blu rays encoded in MPEG2 without any visual issues.
The real deal is actually keeping some quality as the bitrate decreases, not as it increases.
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that's also something I'm really interested in. My background : Here in France we have some Azerty keyboards where letters are shuffled a bit. Not a big deal IMHO. But where I have a hard time is with the special meaning keys like:?>,.'{}[]!@#$ etc. I do quite a lot of programming stuff and one day I discovered that a american layout made much more sense and was waayyy more handy in my everyday typing life. Command line stuff and emacs keybindings (vi too to some extend) are MADE to be used with an american keyboard. Up to the point where I'm typing this message on a qwerty keyboard and use many strange key combo to type all the acccents needed to type proper French. I prefer that way.
I have the same concern about you about real life (sysadmin and programming stuff) typing with a dvorak keyboard. I do type some french and english texts but I also type some weird characters all day long. I'm not sure a dvorak keyboard will help me with that.
Market internationally, as many countries don't have new shows promptly available.
Even if I totally agree, this maybe be the exact reason why we won't see happenning soon.
Here in France, american shows come three to four years after the first TV release in the US. For films it's usually one year to 14 months. We already have region locked DVD, region locked iTunes Music Store, the next Bittorrent Movie Store will be region locked I'm afraid. And the big entertainment companies will take their time to find a worthy agreement (for them of course).
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Given an infinite processing power, infinite memory and enough bandwidth, ANY codec will be "pulling ahead of h.264 in terms of objective quality as bitrate increases." Or at least, between this version and the uncompressed one, it will be impossible to tell them apart. Some would say that given an infinite memory, processing power and enough bandwidth, you don't to compress at all (but that's just rhetorical.)
An MPEG2 video encoded at 50Mb/s may possibly look better than the same video encoded in H264 at 5 Mb/s, but that's not the whole point of compressing it in the first place. Heck, there are even some blu rays encoded in MPEG2 without any visual issues.
The real deal is actually keeping some quality as the bitrate decreases, not as it increases.
that's also something I'm really interested in. :?>,.'{}[]!@#$ etc.
My background : Here in France we have some Azerty keyboards where letters are shuffled a bit. Not a big deal IMHO. But where I have a hard time is with the special meaning keys like
I do quite a lot of programming stuff and one day I discovered that a american layout made much more sense and was waayyy more handy in my everyday typing life. Command line stuff and emacs keybindings (vi too to some extend) are MADE to be used with an american keyboard. Up to the point where I'm typing this message on a qwerty keyboard and use many strange key combo to type all the acccents needed to type proper French. I prefer that way.
I have the same concern about you about real life (sysadmin and programming stuff) typing with a dvorak keyboard. I do type some french and english texts but I also type some weird characters all day long. I'm not sure a dvorak keyboard will help me with that.
"worlds biggest computer hacker" ?
And did he crack the Gibson ?
Don't think so...
7) Multiple cores in multiple CPUs in a grid ..what next?
8)
A Beowulf cluster of those, of course !
Market internationally, as many countries don't have new shows promptly available.
Even if I totally agree, this maybe be the exact reason why we won't see happenning soon.
Here in France, american shows come three to four years after the first TV release in the US. For films it's usually one year to 14 months. We already have region locked DVD, region locked iTunes Music Store, the next Bittorrent Movie Store will be region locked I'm afraid. And the big entertainment companies will take their time to find a worthy agreement (for them of course).