also, you are much more likely to get a burn-in and ruin your screen.
having gone to many trade shows where there are often plasma monitors showing the same presentation with a logo in the same place over and over, i have noticed that many of these screens suffer from burned-in images.
This comment is not insightful. It is ill informed.
MIT had a vote because they were one of the four groups that competed for their technology to be recommended by the FCC as the American standard. Each group (MIT, General Instruments, RCA/Sarnoff/Thomson, and Zenith (which is now LG) created innovative, incomplete digital TV systems. The FCC prodded the seperate parties to create a "Grand Alliance", which is why MIT had one of the 4 votes.
There is a very rich, and interesting story of politics, technology, and interesting people in Joel Brinkley's Defining Vision. Amazon has 20 pages of excerpts. Brinkley makes a strong argument that the Broadcasting lobby in America pushed HDTV to the government as a way to keep the wirless cell phone companies from taking public spectrum. The Broadcasters (led by N.A.B.) demonstrated the Japanese-invnted HDTV system (Hi-Vision) and scared the government that without investment and encouragement this new market would be lost to Japanese companies. American companies (General Instruments was the first) advanced HDTV beyond the Japanese version by making it all Digital (the analog Hi-Vision was satellite only and 20mhz wide). What started as a race to high-defenition settled at Digital TV that allowed HD. The government GAVE every terrestrial broadcaster a second channel to broadcast DTV, and is eager to create new revenue (and balance the budget) by getting consumers to stop using analog TVs so that it can auction the analog channels.
The gift of a second channel as opposed to auctioning them and allowing new players to compete demonstrates the strength of the Broadcast lobby.
MITs involvement was very much advanced by William Schreiber and Negropante. It brought in a lot of investment to the Media Lab and allowed MIT to create international alliances with foreign companies.
I decided to create a profile, and was surprised that it requires you to print out a 2 page legal waiver {PDF ALERT} and fax it to them before you can participate in the forum.
Since the film is being released by Miramax, the release gives them permission to own in perpetuity throughout the universe anything that you contribute.
Now that I have posted...I will check out that flash...
Bruce Anderson, Invidi chief technology officer and a former Sarnoff
employee, explained that Sarnoff has critical intellectual property
for the bitstream splicing and manipulation and MPEG coding that
enables the desired switching with minimal latency.
"No one else has the ability to do this with low latency,"
said Anderson. "With our tuning algorithm there is no more
latency than one experiences with spot insertion at a cable headend. Essentially these ads are inserted via a channel change without
the viewer realizing it.
1. I know that my Motorolla digital cable box takes at least 2 seconds to decode the MPEG when a channel is changed. Perhaps Invidi has algorithms that can splice the bitstream with no latency, but the viewer will notice when an ad is inserted.
2. The article implies that viewers watch commercials. Perhaps if the goal is to target advertising, perhaps Sarnoff (er RCA, I mean Thomson) should develop IP on disabling channel surfing during commerical breaks.
3. If this is as ground breaking as their website then this is the future. Aside from this article, Invidi is not linked to by Google.
What is your strategy with dealing with the existing licensees of the electromagnetic spectrum. They will likely see GNUradio as both an economic threat to their exisiting business' and as a technological threat in terms of interference. Moreover, how do you intend to gain support of regional regulators (ie: FCC, OFTEL, etc.)?
i have been following Tara Sue for about a week now. Ed Cone, an opinion writer for the North Carolina News and Record introduced her to the online world last Friday and has been mentioning her on an almost daily basis.
Dave Winer and others bloggers who have been writing for some time now about the need to find a challenger against Howard Coble quickly linked with support. Tara Sue has become an online ray of hope for many.
This letter from the MPAA to the ISP of a broadband user who maintains a Gnutella cache host was posted here:
RE: Unauthorized Distribution of Copyrighted Motion Pictures Site/URL: gnutella://xxx.xx.xxx.xxx:6346/ [with IP address: 209.61.184.228] Reference#: xxxxxx Date of Infringement: 7/22/2002 4:24:46 AM GMT
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) represents the following motion picture production and distribution companies:
Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. Disney Enterprises, Inc. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Paramount Pictures Corporation TriStar Pictures, Inc. Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation United Artists Pictures, Inc. United Artists Corporation Universal City Studios, Inc. Warner Bros., a Division of Time Warner Entertainment Company, L.P.
We have received information that an individual has utilized the above referenced IP address at the noted date and time to offer downloads of copyrighted motion picture(s) through a "peer-to-peer" service, including such title(s) as:
American Pie 2 Ice Age Monsters, Inc. (movie) Scary Movie II Star Wars: Episode II Thirteen Ghosts
The distribution of unauthorized copies of copyrighted motion pictures constitutes copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 106(3). This conduct may also violate the laws of other countries, international law, and/or treaty obligations.
Since you own this IP address, we request that you immediately do the following:
1. Disable access to the individual who has engaged in the conduct described above, and; 2. Take appropriate action against the account holder under your Abuse Policy/Terms of Service Agreement.
On behalf of the respective owners of the exclusive rights to the copyrighted material at issue in this notice, we hereby state, pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17 United States Code Section 512, that we have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owners, their respective agents, or the law.
Also pursuant to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we hereby state, under penalty of perjury, under the laws of the State of California and under the laws of the United States, that the information in this notification is accurate and that we are authorized to act on behalf of the owners of the exclusive rights being infringed as set forth in this notification.
Please contact us at the above listed address or by replying to this email should you have any questions. Kindly include the above noted Reference # in the subject line of all email correspondence.
We thank you for your cooperation in this matter. Your prompt response is requested.
Respectfully,
Ken Jacobsen Senior Vice President and Director Worldwide Anti-Piracy
In 1959 Richard Feynman said that all the information accumulated in all the books in the world could theoretically fit in a cube 1/200th of an inch on a side.
You can read the transcipt of the speech from when he made that prediction.
Feynman worked on developing the atomic bomb, he won a nobel in physics and is known as much for his scientific research as for his story telling.
it would kill open-source video playback software (ie: GNUradio) only in the sense that it will not have the keys to initially decode content encoded with a broadcast flag.
likely, it will spur open-source video playback software as a more convenient method for consumers to use in receiving video.
in my mind, these industries are shooting themselves in the foot. here they are, charting new technological territory with DTV and they are making it so unnatractive and confusing for consumers that they aren't buying into this new industry. open-source video playback software could become more convenient then DTV.
I remember the envy and hate my fourth-grade friends directed towards me when I was the first kid with Reebok Pumps...The first day I wore them to P.E., they left the field covered with intentional scuffs and mud-prints
I am glad to be grown-up now and can be "wearable-ist in the closet." Who knows what fourth-graders will do to the modern-nerd.
according to http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:zKZIOZMN65gC: www.cs.uiuc.edu/whatsnew/newsletter/winter97/crock ett.html+carter+phone+Bell+lawsuit&hl=en
After earning his PhD, it was back to IBM where Crockett worked on silicon compilers and computer simulation techniques for designing computers. Then they wanted him to work on communications again. "It was interesting," he said of IBM's first modem development. "They didn't bother to patent it; they didn't see any future in it." Because of the Carter phone case, a famous lawsuit in the mid-1950s that prohibited anyone from physically connecting to AT&T phone lines, people had to connect using their telephone's receiver. "Bell Labs said it couldn't be done," said Crockett, "but the acoustic coupled modem worked very well. IBM produced 25,000 for internal use to communicate with timeshare computers." The modem was nicknamed Crockett Box, and it formed the basis for Livermore Data Systems and many of the other modem manufacturers to follow.
text messageing does not work amongst all USA cell phone companies. My Cingular (formarly Pacbell PCS) phone can text to Voicestream, but must send texts as email to Verizon and Sprint. ATT accepts them sometimes.
To the annoyance of my text buddies, when I must send my messages as email because the provider will not accept them from Cingular, they get a.sig file that is more characters (160) than a single text message, making my texts difficult to read and reply-to.
So, it is unreliable in your opinion. We got it...
How about telling us how you would rate it when simply:
converting a vhs to VCD
just recording shows for watching later
allowing you to grab screenshots of live tv shows
It's a $99 piece of junk, but it seems like it can be a cheap tool for certain situations under the right conditions.
If you had this on a dedicated machine, and didn't expect to to be as secure as the National Archive, do you think it could be useful? I do a lot of cool shit on my computer -- and a reboot isn't the end of the world for me. This review leaves more personal experience to be shared for this audience of readers...
i am laughing my ass off too. that so many of us are so addicted to the 'normal' is amusing. that we can't have our 'normal slashdot' hasn't stopped the earth's revolutions.
Mods-
Whats up with moderation? A 4? Insightful? How many of us had 2 gig harddrives in '93 or call ourselves adults when we speele ar werds lyk thip? Sorry for being so grumpy, maybe I should just shut up.
I have been waiting for someone to exploit this. Someone with mallicious intent could easily create a lot of traffic for cingular by emailing to all the SMS users in an entire prefix. ie: if I know someone is a cingular user with the phone number 213-453-8888, I know that all the 213-453-xxxx numbers are cingular users as well that can also recieve text messages sent to 213453xxxx@pacbellpcs.net . This would create a huge headache for users, technicians, customer support. I don't know why they don't have some sort of authentication...
then again, i have gotten spam to my sms from cingular after telling them numerous times i am not interested.
I wrote an undergaduate paper (.rtf) on MedTV, one of the Kurdish language stations broadcasting to Turkey from Europe. You can read it if you like. It recognizes the power that satellite has to invade the strangles of a soverign nation (Turkey), spreading ideas that are illegal to broadcast terrestially or even speak (certain Kurdish dialects) within the national borders. The paper charts the rise and fall of MedTV, from a dream among a few refugees in Europe, to an actual network with studios in UK and Belgium, to the target of the Turkish government through violence and diplomacy.
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also, you are much more likely to get a burn-in and ruin your screen.
having gone to many trade shows where there are often plasma monitors showing the same presentation with a logo in the same place over and over, i have noticed that many of these screens suffer from burned-in images.
My crt is good enough for me.
This comment is not insightful. It is ill informed.
MIT had a vote because they were one of the four groups that competed for their technology to be recommended by the FCC as the American standard. Each group (MIT, General Instruments, RCA/Sarnoff/Thomson, and Zenith (which is now LG) created innovative, incomplete digital TV systems. The FCC prodded the seperate parties to create a "Grand Alliance", which is why MIT had one of the 4 votes.
There is a very rich, and interesting story of politics, technology, and interesting people in Joel Brinkley's Defining Vision. Amazon has 20 pages of excerpts. Brinkley makes a strong argument that the Broadcasting lobby in America pushed HDTV to the government as a way to keep the wirless cell phone companies from taking public spectrum. The Broadcasters (led by N.A.B.) demonstrated the Japanese-invnted HDTV system (Hi-Vision) and scared the government that without investment and encouragement this new market would be lost to Japanese companies. American companies (General Instruments was the first) advanced HDTV beyond the Japanese version by making it all Digital (the analog Hi-Vision was satellite only and 20mhz wide). What started as a race to high-defenition settled at Digital TV that allowed HD. The government GAVE every terrestrial broadcaster a second channel to broadcast DTV, and is eager to create new revenue (and balance the budget) by getting consumers to stop using analog TVs so that it can auction the analog channels.
The gift of a second channel as opposed to auctioning them and allowing new players to compete demonstrates the strength of the Broadcast lobby.
MITs involvement was very much advanced by William Schreiber and Negropante. It brought in a lot of investment to the Media Lab and allowed MIT to create international alliances with foreign companies.
too bad it doesn't support divx 3.x or Xvid
This article does not mention piracy or file-sharing.
Reuters should be commended for not confusing the issues.
I linked to the forum to check out the flash.
I decided to create a profile, and was surprised that it requires you to print out a 2 page legal waiver {PDF ALERT} and fax it to them before you can participate in the forum.
Since the film is being released by Miramax, the release gives them permission to own in perpetuity throughout the universe anything that you contribute.
Now that I have posted...I will check out that flash...
Bruce Anderson, Invidi chief technology officer and a former Sarnoff employee, explained that Sarnoff has critical intellectual property for the bitstream splicing and manipulation and MPEG coding that enables the desired switching with minimal latency.
"No one else has the ability to do this with low latency," said Anderson. "With our tuning algorithm there is no more latency than one experiences with spot insertion at a cable headend. Essentially these ads are inserted via a channel change without the viewer realizing it.
1. I know that my Motorolla digital cable box takes at least 2 seconds to decode the MPEG when a channel is changed. Perhaps Invidi has algorithms that can splice the bitstream with no latency, but the viewer will notice when an ad is inserted.
2. The article implies that viewers watch commercials. Perhaps if the goal is to target advertising, perhaps Sarnoff (er RCA, I mean Thomson) should develop IP on disabling channel surfing during commerical breaks.
3. If this is as ground breaking as their website then this is the future. Aside from this article, Invidi is not linked to by Google.
What is your strategy with dealing with the existing licensees of the electromagnetic spectrum. They will likely see GNUradio as both an economic threat to their exisiting business' and as a technological threat in terms of interference. Moreover, how do you intend to gain support of regional regulators (ie: FCC, OFTEL, etc.)?
It makes me so happy when a "UHF" response is modded high enough up that many Slashdot readers will see it.
It is very nice when the greatest movie of all time IMHO gets the Slashdot respect it deserves.
It may shoot at a rate of 12,000 frames per second, but the film is only 120 frames long.
i have been following Tara Sue for about a week now. Ed Cone, an opinion writer for the North Carolina News and Record introduced her to the online world last Friday and has been mentioning her on an almost daily basis.
Dave Winer and others bloggers who have been writing for some time now about the need to find a challenger against Howard Coble quickly linked with support. Tara Sue has become an online ray of hope for many.
You have to admit that the BBC photographs speak a thousand words. BAN has color photos from China here.
Sheesh...
The FCC made a smilar mandate in the 1960s when they required television set makers to include a knob to allow viewers to watch UHF channels.
Without that mandate, its likely that UHF never would have caught on and the greatest movie of all time may never have been conceived...
In 1959 Richard Feynman said that all the information accumulated in all the books in the world could theoretically fit in a cube 1/200th of an inch on a side.
You can read the transcipt of the speech from when he made that prediction.
Feynman worked on developing the atomic bomb, he won a nobel in physics and is known as much for his scientific research as for his story telling.
it would kill open-source video playback software (ie: GNUradio) only in the sense that it will not have the keys to initially decode content encoded with a broadcast flag.
likely, it will spur open-source video playback software as a more convenient method for consumers to use in receiving video.
in my mind, these industries are shooting themselves in the foot. here they are, charting new technological territory with DTV and they are making it so unnatractive and confusing for consumers that they aren't buying into this new industry. open-source video playback software could become more convenient then DTV.
Its all abuot Yatta!: Irrational Exuberance.
I stopped caring about Karma before it was cool to, so for the few of you who read this and click the link, enjoy.
I remember the envy and hate my fourth-grade friends directed towards me when I was the first kid with Reebok Pumps...The first day I wore them to P.E., they left the field covered with intentional scuffs and mud-prints
I am glad to be grown-up now and can be "wearable-ist in the closet." Who knows what fourth-graders will do to the modern-nerd.
according to http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:zKZIOZMN65gC: www.cs.uiuc.edu/whatsnew/newsletter/winter97/crock ett.html+carter+phone+Bell+lawsuit&hl=en
After earning his PhD, it was back to IBM where Crockett worked on silicon compilers
and computer simulation techniques for designing computers. Then they wanted him to work
on communications again. "It was interesting," he said of IBM's first modem
development. "They didn't bother to patent it; they didn't see any future in
it." Because of the Carter phone case, a famous lawsuit in the mid-1950s that
prohibited anyone from physically connecting to AT&T phone lines, people had to
connect using their telephone's receiver. "Bell Labs said it couldn't be done,"
said Crockett, "but the acoustic coupled modem worked very well. IBM produced 25,000
for internal use to communicate with timeshare computers." The modem was nicknamed
Crockett Box, and it formed the basis for Livermore Data Systems and many of the other
modem manufacturers to follow.
text messageing does not work amongst all USA cell phone companies. My Cingular (formarly Pacbell PCS) phone can text to Voicestream, but must send texts as email to Verizon and Sprint. ATT accepts them sometimes.
.sig file that is more characters (160) than a single text message, making my texts difficult to read and reply-to.
To the annoyance of my text buddies, when I must send my messages as email because the provider will not accept them from Cingular, they get a
So, it is unreliable in your opinion. We got it...
How about telling us how you would rate it when simply:
It's a $99 piece of junk, but it seems like it can be a cheap tool for certain situations under the right conditions.
If you had this on a dedicated machine, and didn't expect to to be as secure as the National Archive, do you think it could be useful? I do a lot of cool shit on my computer -- and a reboot isn't the end of the world for me. This review leaves more personal experience to be shared for this audience of readers...
If you just pay the 500 bucks, then you could make Yatta.
i am laughing my ass off too. that so many of us are so addicted to the 'normal' is amusing. that we can't have our 'normal slashdot' hasn't stopped the earth's revolutions.
life will go on. take a deep breath.
Mods-
Whats up with moderation? A 4? Insightful? How many of us had 2 gig harddrives in '93 or call ourselves adults when we speele ar werds lyk thip? Sorry for being so grumpy, maybe I should just shut up.
I have been waiting for someone to exploit this. Someone with mallicious intent could easily create a lot of traffic for cingular by emailing to all the SMS users in an entire prefix. ie: if I know someone is a cingular user with the phone number 213-453-8888, I know that all the 213-453-xxxx numbers are cingular users as well that can also recieve text messages sent to 213453xxxx@pacbellpcs.net . This would create a huge headache for users, technicians, customer support. I don't know why they don't have some sort of authentication...
then again, i have gotten spam to my sms from cingular after telling them numerous times i am not interested.
I wrote an undergaduate paper (.rtf) on MedTV, one of the Kurdish language stations broadcasting to Turkey from Europe. You can read it if you like. It recognizes the power that satellite has to invade the strangles of a soverign nation (Turkey), spreading ideas that are illegal to broadcast terrestially or even speak (certain Kurdish dialects) within the national borders. The paper charts the rise and fall of MedTV, from a dream among a few refugees in Europe, to an actual network with studios in UK and Belgium, to the target of the Turkish government through violence and diplomacy.