The new PSX (Playstation3?) will support terrestrial digital here in Japan - as well as being a DVD and PVR - a really very sweet device.
What I want to see are Digital TV decoder cards for PCs. I can then just capture the TV on my PC and playback Hi-Def onto my TV without having to buy any other hardware. However there seems to be no sign of them. I guess teh MPAA (and local equivalents) are very scared that users will work around their "not-recordable" bits in the video stream.
Yep my bog has an IR remote - but then I live in Japan. And even so I don't use it because the pressure sensor on the seat flushes shortly after I stand up. And you don't need "wipe time" because of the water jet / blow drier combo. Sadly I only have the basic model - the delux one shuts the lid automatically too.
This is one screwed up country!
Gavin
Am I only person who thought that a semiconductor requires a minimal amount of heat to create the free electrons to conduct. Once running, the chips produce heat, but if it's too cold can the chips fail to start up properly?
Poor old Toshi (Tashima).. he's the inventor - the company is Omron - famous for making Japanese station ticket mchines, medical systems (as mentioned in the article), and other such business machines. I wonder why the sudden leap in to conumer toys?
You may also be interested to to know that Tama is probably the most common name for cats in Japan.
I think that trying to compare MP3/DVD distribution to the duplication of books, cars, etc, is the wrong analogy. To me, this all looks much more like the (computer) age old problem of software piracy - something that doesn't seem to be such a raging issue any more.
As far as I can see, the software industry has really given up. They tell you not to do it (pages of legal jargon in every pack) - they try to catch the big offenders (warez sites etc), but rely encouraging purchase with the value-adds like support and distribution for income (smells like open-source to me).
Do we think this model can apply to music? Hey, buy the CD, get a nice little booklet, and some useful support (fan club mail, discount tickets?) in the post.
Litigating the butt of everybody is going nowhere - after all did the companies that made software to duplicate those magical key floppies ever get shut down?
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Nice looking card - wonder what format Japanese digital is. Could it be a standard format this time (unlike the analogue NTSC-J)?
The new PSX (Playstation3?) will support terrestrial digital here in Japan - as well as being a DVD and PVR - a really very sweet device.
What I want to see are Digital TV decoder cards for PCs. I can then just capture the TV on my PC and playback Hi-Def onto my TV without having to buy any other hardware. However there seems to be no sign of them. I guess teh MPAA (and local equivalents) are very scared that users will work around their "not-recordable" bits in the video stream.
Gavin
Yep my bog has an IR remote - but then I live in Japan. And even so I don't use it because the pressure sensor on the seat flushes shortly after I stand up. And you don't need "wipe time" because of the water jet / blow drier combo. Sadly I only have the basic model - the delux one shuts the lid automatically too. This is one screwed up country! Gavin
.. it's so portable, it will even run under perl - Inline::Python ;-)
Am I only person who thought that a semiconductor requires a minimal amount of heat to create the free electrons to conduct. Once running, the chips produce heat, but if it's too cold can the chips fail to start up properly?
Isn't that what the Ruby project was??? ;-)
Yes, Tama in Japan is like Fido is for dogs in the English speaking world. (The Japanese dog equivalent is Pochi)
You may also be interested to to know that Tama is probably the most common name for cats in Japan.
I think that trying to compare MP3/DVD distribution to the duplication of books, cars, etc, is the wrong analogy. To me, this all looks much more like the (computer) age old problem of software piracy - something that doesn't seem to be such a raging issue any more.
As far as I can see, the software industry has really given up. They tell you not to do it (pages of legal jargon in every pack) - they try to catch the big offenders (warez sites etc), but rely encouraging purchase with the value-adds like support and distribution for income (smells like open-source to me).
Do we think this model can apply to music? Hey, buy the CD, get a nice little booklet, and some useful support (fan club mail, discount tickets?) in the post.
Litigating the butt of everybody is going nowhere - after all did the companies that made software to duplicate those magical key floppies ever get shut down?