I have heard of this "original" DivX. Amazing that DivX multimedia people stole both their codec and their name... FWIW, I understand that there was a perishable DVD format mooted at one point also - lasts a few days and then the playing surface just rots away and you chuck it - the big idea was that you wouldn't need to take it back to Blockbuster. Pretty dumb, eh? Even Blockbuster realised that NOT getting people to come into the store was a bad move...
"Both are uncompressed and are more than enough to store NTSC/PAL as good as they'll get. There is no need for anything greater unless you're ready to go to HD. (A side note... while Betacam SP is as good as uncompressed analog gets, DigiBeta came about as a lower cost replacement to D1, the original full-quality digital tape -- however D1 decks easily cost $400K+, an hour worth of blank tape - $400. DigiBeta is a dream come true for mid-sized video firms... NTSC as good as it'll get, uncompressed, and ready for the editing/compositing workstation."
Wrong. Neither BetaSP or Digi are uncompressed. Frankly, it's depressing how often I need to disabuse people of this one, but here we go again. BetaSP records it's Luma component at 13.5Mhz, but it's 2 Chroma components at 6.75Mhz ie, half the bandwidth. Digibeta conforms to the 4:2:2 colour subsampling standard where it does the same thing as BetaSP, just in the digital domain. Digibeta aslo uses DCT intra-field compression of the order of 1.8:1. There is only ONE uncompressed tape format available, and that's the Philips Shadow (sometimes called D6) which allows proper 4:4:4 in RGB or Y,Cr,Cb. Panasonics D-5 format allows uncompressed 4:2:2 at 10bit and is also, therefore superior to Digibeta. And, erm, D1 machines certainly do NOT cost $400K - where'd you get that from? I saw a DVR-2100 for £20K the other day.
fuck off. No-one born in Northern Ireland thinks of themselves as English, whether they're unionist, republican, catholic or protestant. Unionists think of themselves as Ulstermen or British, republicans as Northern Irish or just plain Irish. Just as no-one born in Wales or Scotland thinks of themselves as English, because they aren't. If you don't understand what Britain IS, please refrain from talking out of your arse about it.
"D-VHS probably will and should replace Beta, et.al. in the professional sector, but I don't think it would have ever seen the light of day in video stores if the media was as durable as some of the new high capacity DVD/optical technology coming out."
Clearly, you know absolutely nothing. Beta is NOT used professionally. Betacam was; Betacam SP is dying; Digital Betacam is standard; Beta SX never really took off; IMX is new and HD-CAM is gaining momentum despite being seriously flawed. Al of those formats are Beta-related, though none ARE actually Betamax. As far as VHS is concerned, where to start? JVC has already given us pros the miracle of D-9 - which was their first stab at a digital VHS format. It was ignored to death despite being actually rather good. Panasonic also gave us the ill-fated D-3 and fine D-5 formats which are obviously (though never admittedly) VHS descendants. D-VHS will have exactly zero impact on professional video. Incidentally, I live in the UK where D-VHS was introduced about 2 years ago - I've never heard of anyone actually buying one, although I'm sure that they're very fine machines in their own right. I can hardly believe that D-VHS has just hit the USA NOW - surely some mistake?
nominally, Europe includes a great fat slice of Russia as well as Scandinavia. Europe is bigger, more diverse and far more developed than the USA. I'm sure that the USA will surpass Europe one day - there's an awful lot of space left to play with - but it hasn't done so yet.
cool, so if I claim that being a human male makes you my brother, have I got the most brothers in the world? what errant bollocks - the irish do that for their own expedient reasons - doesn't make it any truer.
How can there POSSIBLY be more Irish people in NYC than in Ireland? What's the population of Ireland, 3ish million? Another 1ish miliuon if you want to include NI? So the implication is that ONE THIRD TO ONE HALF of the population of NYC is Irish, by which I can only assume you mean BORN IN IRELAND. Rubbish, of course. Once an Irish person has travelled to the USA and bred (as many were forced to - approx 2 million AFAIK - by the famine) then their children are either AMERICAN by birth or fairly likely of mixed (European probably) descent. People often say that there are more Irish in the UK than Ireland too, an easier claim to believe but still flawed for the same reasons.
of course there is. EVERYONE should be electronically tagged and watched 24/7 by teams of secret police via closed-circuit cameras. 1984 wasn't a nightmare, it was a coporate manifesto. If the fuckers step out of line, detonate their explosive collar. YOU WILL CONSUME!
sorry about the OMDF thing - it was SO long ago that I fucked up Orthoganal Frequency Division Multiplex, yes? I live in a world of OMFI files these days and, quite frankly, there are so many acronyms and initialisms in my head that sometimes they get utterly mangled. But surely OFDM was invented by BBC Research? I'm sure that they were playing with it in outside broadcast work about fifteen years ago at LEAST. Don't have NAY illusions that the telecom industry in Europe isn't fucked up too, that it's actually more of a free market than the American one is a sad indictment of the decline of the American free market.
you don't seem to realise that MPEG2 over OMDF is a EUROPEAN standard too. Europe is both physically and economically larger than the USA and we have a larger population, too. What's the USA's excuse for not implementing GSM? Europe didn't semm to have too many problems...
well, the sweet spot is the Sony 24inch widescreen computer monitor. Most non-SD material is created using SIMILAR (not the same at all, but the tubes are of similar sharpness and made in the same plant) monitors. If you want a bigger picture, get a projector. Large, consumer grade CRTs are bloody awful. Anyone who spends over £1000 on a consumer TV is just paying the R&D budget for their next set. Look at professional monitors and you'll see what I mean.
that 8VSB sucks was known LONG before it was adopted. An infinitely better standard had already been developed in the UK and pitched for use in the USA, but American NIH-syndrome put pay to that. You guys SHOULD be using OMDF like Europe is, just like you should be using GSM like the rest of the world, playing Football instead of American NFL Gladiators, racing Formula 1 instead of CART etc etc etc etc etc etc when WILL you rejoin the human race?
ermm... we don't use coax or s-video to go from our Sky and DTT boxes into our TVs in Europe, we use RGB thanks to little-credited Dutch company Philips innovating a connector standard called SCART / Peritel about a zillion fucking years ago. Am I to understand that ANOTHER TV technology innovation has passed the Americans by?
how can you take advantage of an HD monitor with DVD, genius? 720x480 is most likely what you're getting out of THAT - and overscanned to boot! In Europe we manage 720x576 at least, and that's nothing special on a big screen or even a 19inch Sony G400 computer monitor.
don't pick on the technologically bckward Americans. It's just not fair. Did anyone else notice the Winter Olympics fiasco? They had HD in France, Norway, Japan and... ermm... sort of HD in America too. It wasn't even widescreen for fuck's sake! The BBC had to put blue panels down each side of the picture. Oh, the shame of it!
partially true, those news Macs with DDR can't actually manage DDR from the CPU to the main mem, only from the "northbridge" to the main mem. Should be addressed when Apple moves to the MPC 7470 CPU (currently using MPC 7455). You're right though, IBM doesn't make G4s, although the "Sahara" G3 apparently DOES support DDR memory bus.
no, IN SPANISH the word is Spanish and pronounced the Spanish way. IN ENGLISH the word is English, and pronounced according to the OED CORRECTLY. If it's American that you're speaking, why not CALL IT AMERICAN?
Shouldn't that be JAGWYRE? or perhaps JAG-WHY-ERR? I know that Americans normally mispronounced this word, but Steve takes it to a whole new level. Strange that he should be such an OSX (OH ESS TEN??) pronounciation Nazi when he can't even manage a simple word like JAGUAR (JAG-YOU-ARE).
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I have heard of this "original" DivX. Amazing that DivX multimedia people stole both their codec and their name... FWIW, I understand that there was a perishable DVD format mooted at one point also - lasts a few days and then the playing surface just rots away and you chuck it - the big idea was that you wouldn't need to take it back to Blockbuster. Pretty dumb, eh? Even Blockbuster realised that NOT getting people to come into the store was a bad move...
"Both are uncompressed and are more than enough to store NTSC/PAL as good as they'll get. There is no need for anything greater unless you're ready to go to HD. (A side note... while Betacam SP is as good as uncompressed analog gets, DigiBeta came about as a lower cost replacement to D1, the original full-quality digital tape -- however D1 decks easily cost $400K+, an hour worth of blank tape - $400. DigiBeta is a dream come true for mid-sized video firms... NTSC as good as it'll get, uncompressed, and ready for the editing/compositing workstation."
Wrong. Neither BetaSP or Digi are uncompressed. Frankly, it's depressing how often I need to disabuse people of this one, but here we go again. BetaSP records it's Luma component at 13.5Mhz, but it's 2 Chroma components at 6.75Mhz ie, half the bandwidth. Digibeta conforms to the 4:2:2 colour subsampling standard where it does the same thing as BetaSP, just in the digital domain. Digibeta aslo uses DCT intra-field compression of the order of 1.8:1. There is only ONE uncompressed tape format available, and that's the Philips Shadow (sometimes called D6) which allows proper 4:4:4 in RGB or Y,Cr,Cb. Panasonics D-5 format allows uncompressed 4:2:2 at 10bit and is also, therefore superior to Digibeta. And, erm, D1 machines certainly do NOT cost $400K - where'd you get that from? I saw a DVR-2100 for £20K the other day.
fuck off. No-one born in Northern Ireland thinks of themselves as English, whether they're unionist, republican, catholic or protestant. Unionists think of themselves as Ulstermen or British, republicans as Northern Irish or just plain Irish. Just as no-one born in Wales or Scotland thinks of themselves as English, because they aren't. If you don't understand what Britain IS, please refrain from talking out of your arse about it.
"D-VHS probably will and should replace Beta, et.al. in the professional sector, but I don't think it would have ever seen the light of day in video stores if the media was as durable as some of the new high capacity DVD/optical technology coming out."
Clearly, you know absolutely nothing. Beta is NOT used professionally. Betacam was; Betacam SP is dying; Digital Betacam is standard; Beta SX never really took off; IMX is new and HD-CAM is gaining momentum despite being seriously flawed. Al of those formats are Beta-related, though none ARE actually Betamax. As far as VHS is concerned, where to start? JVC has already given us pros the miracle of D-9 - which was their first stab at a digital VHS format. It was ignored to death despite being actually rather good. Panasonic also gave us the ill-fated D-3 and fine D-5 formats which are obviously (though never admittedly) VHS descendants. D-VHS will have exactly zero impact on professional video. Incidentally, I live in the UK where D-VHS was introduced about 2 years ago - I've never heard of anyone actually buying one, although I'm sure that they're very fine machines in their own right. I can hardly believe that D-VHS has just hit the USA NOW - surely some mistake?
DivX is completely awful. Real 8, QuickTime 5 and Windows Media 7 all offer substantially better quality. What is the point of DivX?
nominally, Europe includes a great fat slice of Russia as well as Scandinavia. Europe is bigger, more diverse and far more developed than the USA. I'm sure that the USA will surpass Europe one day - there's an awful lot of space left to play with - but it hasn't done so yet.
Football? It's a funny old game.
"WE WON, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS! We will dispose of every pansy-assed Euro team that gets in our way"
fear that you'll soon be eating those ill-chosen words.
cool, so if I claim that being a human male makes you my brother, have I got the most brothers in the world? what errant bollocks - the irish do that for their own expedient reasons - doesn't make it any truer.
How can there POSSIBLY be more Irish people in NYC than in Ireland? What's the population of Ireland, 3ish million? Another 1ish miliuon if you want to include NI? So the implication is that ONE THIRD TO ONE HALF of the population of NYC is Irish, by which I can only assume you mean BORN IN IRELAND. Rubbish, of course. Once an Irish person has travelled to the USA and bred (as many were forced to - approx 2 million AFAIK - by the famine) then their children are either AMERICAN by birth or fairly likely of mixed (European probably) descent. People often say that there are more Irish in the UK than Ireland too, an easier claim to believe but still flawed for the same reasons.
of course there is. EVERYONE should be electronically tagged and watched 24/7 by teams of secret police via closed-circuit cameras. 1984 wasn't a nightmare, it was a coporate manifesto. If the fuckers step out of line, detonate their explosive collar. YOU WILL CONSUME!
sorry about the OMDF thing - it was SO long ago that I fucked up Orthoganal Frequency Division Multiplex, yes? I live in a world of OMFI files these days and, quite frankly, there are so many acronyms and initialisms in my head that sometimes they get utterly mangled. But surely OFDM was invented by BBC Research? I'm sure that they were playing with it in outside broadcast work about fifteen years ago at LEAST. Don't have NAY illusions that the telecom industry in Europe isn't fucked up too, that it's actually more of a free market than the American one is a sad indictment of the decline of the American free market.
fuck, you must have BIG feet
you don't seem to realise that MPEG2 over OMDF is a EUROPEAN standard too. Europe is both physically and economically larger than the USA and we have a larger population, too. What's the USA's excuse for not implementing GSM? Europe didn't semm to have too many problems...
well, the sweet spot is the Sony 24inch widescreen computer monitor. Most non-SD material is created using SIMILAR (not the same at all, but the tubes are of similar sharpness and made in the same plant) monitors. If you want a bigger picture, get a projector. Large, consumer grade CRTs are bloody awful. Anyone who spends over £1000 on a consumer TV is just paying the R&D budget for their next set. Look at professional monitors and you'll see what I mean.
that 8VSB sucks was known LONG before it was adopted. An infinitely better standard had already been developed in the UK and pitched for use in the USA, but American NIH-syndrome put pay to that. You guys SHOULD be using OMDF like Europe is, just like you should be using GSM like the rest of the world, playing Football instead of American NFL Gladiators, racing Formula 1 instead of CART etc etc etc etc etc etc when WILL you rejoin the human race?
ermm... we don't use coax or s-video to go from our Sky and DTT boxes into our TVs in Europe, we use RGB thanks to little-credited Dutch company Philips innovating a connector standard called SCART / Peritel about a zillion fucking years ago. Am I to understand that ANOTHER TV technology innovation has passed the Americans by?
how can you take advantage of an HD monitor with DVD, genius? 720x480 is most likely what you're getting out of THAT - and overscanned to boot! In Europe we manage 720x576 at least, and that's nothing special on a big screen or even a 19inch Sony G400 computer monitor.
don't pick on the technologically bckward Americans. It's just not fair. Did anyone else notice the Winter Olympics fiasco? They had HD in France, Norway, Japan and... ermm... sort of HD in America too. It wasn't even widescreen for fuck's sake! The BBC had to put blue panels down each side of the picture. Oh, the shame of it!
partially true, those news Macs with DDR can't actually manage DDR from the CPU to the main mem, only from the "northbridge" to the main mem. Should be addressed when Apple moves to the MPC 7470 CPU (currently using MPC 7455). You're right though, IBM doesn't make G4s, although the "Sahara" G3 apparently DOES support DDR memory bus.
what's golf? is it that electric karting world championship that I saw on Eurosport the other day?
no, IN SPANISH the word is Spanish and pronounced the Spanish way. IN ENGLISH the word is English, and pronounced according to the OED CORRECTLY. If it's American that you're speaking, why not CALL IT AMERICAN?
Shouldn't that be JAGWYRE? or perhaps JAG-WHY-ERR? I know that Americans normally mispronounced this word, but Steve takes it to a whole new level. Strange that he should be such an OSX (OH ESS TEN??) pronounciation Nazi when he can't even manage a simple word like JAGUAR (JAG-YOU-ARE).
I think I'm developing a severe hatred towards the US myself, what with all the fuckwits like you that seem to live there.
they let monkeys through ast Palm Beach? No wonder there are so many cases of air-rage these days.