Well, the display outputs onto the stereo unit's display. Also, there are controls on the stearing wheel. Come on, it is a start. Maybe this will open doors for other iPod mods for cars. Yep, I'm an iPod owner;)
Yeah, but at least Apple has some dominance in the market. Why would Sony even attempt this in the first place. A 5 year old could tell you this is going to be a complete failure. If they even wanted to stand any kind of a chance they would have released a non-propriotory solution.
Woops, my apologies. The keyword here was PAL. The X1 doesn't crop PAL (it would be around a 22% loss vertically if it did), it scales it to 800x450. You'll get better quality from an NTSC source, than a PAL. Sucks for PAL users. I'm in the US, the only thing PAL for me is a handful of XBOX games, and that's about it.
That is true, but, a lot of movies are shot in 1.85:1. In most cases, the X1 does not squeeze anything, it crops. A lot of what gets cropped too is the black bars, which aren't being used anyway. Directly from technut's X1 faq:
So if I figure correctly, a native 1.85 image would be 848x459 active. Not losing much there on top and bottom. we will be seeing 800x450 of those. 1.85:1 cropped to 1.78:1
a native 2:35 image would be 848x361 active. Loose nothing there. we will see 800x361. 2.35:1 cropped to 2.22:1.
The X1 in 16:9 mode will crop a dvd from 848 x 480 pixels to 800 x 450 pixels. But, it delivers very good pq quality because it is doing 1 to 1 pixel mapping, so there are no scaling errors or artifacts.
For a 1:78 movie, it will crop 30 pixels from the vertical picture, and 48 pixels from the horizontal picture, or about 3% on all sides.
For 2:35 to 1 and 1:85 to 1, it will do the same cropping, but because these movies are "shorter" vertically, the X1 is actually only cropping the black bars above and below. It will still crop the 48 pixels (24 from each side) from the horizontal picture. All in all, it's barely noticeable.
Usually the purists can't stand any kind of cropping or scaling. I came from a 5 year old 27 inch TV set , so this is pure heaven for me;) I watch all satellite and TV broadcasts in 4:3 mode, and all DVDs (well, most of them unless they are not widescreen) in 16:9 mode. 16:9 mode on the X1 isn't native, but that doesn't seem to matter much.
That's what I did. I signed up for membership at my company's fitness center , which is onsite. At first I would leave straight from work and walk over to the gym and get in an hour workout. But then, the IT staff got moved to the same building that the gym resides in, so now I go to the gym during my lunch break. I bring a shaker with me and a packet of meal replacement powder, throw some protein mix into it and mix it with a bottle of water from the soda machine. I drink that on my way back to my cell...err cube.
I find that this not only relieves a lot of stress from my day, but it also keeps the ole sysadmin gut in check:)
I agree, buy from a reputable source. I bought mine from Circuit City and the first one had a faulty bulb. It was just a matter of driving 1 mile back to the store and exchanging it for another one. Btw, mine was the Infocus X1.
I agree. By far the Infocus X1 and all of the relabled versions are the best sub $1000 projectors out there.
What a lot of people don't realize is that it is also better than a lot of the more expensive projectors out there also. It has great contrast and the colors look superb. What this long throw projector lacks in some people's eyes is its resolution: 800x600 . But guess what, unless you're watching HD signals (720p/1080i/p) , you won't notice a thing. Sure you might not get a great picture when you hook your PC up to it, but the reader asked for a home theater projector and the last I checked there were just a few HD DVD players, and even fewer movies that supported HD quality resolutions.
Also, it will take the higher resolution signals (which only work through its vga port - grab the component break out cable from the Infocus website) and scale them the approriate resolution. The projector has a built in Faroudja deinterlacer (see http://www.dcdi-video.com/technology/articles/sage -dcdi-overview.html for more explanation) also, which happens to be one of the best DCDi chips out there.
Based on research, I was able to build my own home theater using the X1 for cheaper than the big screen rear projector TV I bought and returned because of a crummy picture and scratch on the screen. For around 2k I built the home theater which included: the X1, the sound system (onkyo) , the dvd player, the paint for the walls, and the material to build the screen. Send me a private message for pics.
Careful what you wish for. This would be a terrible idea for consumers. This means that the 20 episodes of Family Guy that I tivo throughout the month would cost me 80 bucks alone just for that! As it stands my satellite bill is right around 56 bucks per month.
I for one think Pay-Per-View is the biggest rip off as it is. Since I use Dish Network, the first strike against pay-per-view versus dvd is the quality of the feed (it is much more compressed). The second is the fact that I get to watch it once (unless I get the all day deal - woop-pee). It is also more expensive than a 0-day movie rental - and these pay-per-view movies arent even 0day!
Perhaps there is more meaning in a sunny day than a windowless datacenter if you don't have a desire to be in the datacenter in the first place. Arg..I just had a funny thought flash through my mind. The 2 different environments I'm talking about here both have suns and too much of it either one rots your brain just the same:) Hah, and on top of that, not all datacenters are totally window(s)less...
LOL.. I see your point stone. All we do on my team is bitch about the incompetencies of the support team. They usually cause us more grief than the users because we interact with them more than the users. I suppose in a sense, they are the users (at least, our team's users). And believe me, we've had our share of n00bville:
1. "Hey, this iso image isn't booting...see, the iso file is on the cd...it aint booting though"
2. "Hey, I used the same IP address on all 4 machines on my hub..now nothgn works..I thought I could share IPs on the hub"
What's even funnier is, just like your fellow dba asking _you_ for his laptop support, this is the support team asking the infrastructure team support for these user tasks.
Then it starts getting philosophical. Meaningless? Or just inconsequential in respect to the next person? I think for me, things get unbalanced - social,spiritual,work isn't evenly divided anymore. It becomes work,work,(social,spiritual)...I was having a conversation with one of the fab engineers where I work, who has been here for 30 years. He said it just seemed like it was yesterday that he started. This guy works from the break of dawn into the night. All he does is work.
I start to ask myself...what the hell will this place remember of me 6 months after I'm gone? Will they remember anything I've done? They'll forget of course... Now, my family and friends..they won't forget...
To stay on subject to your reply, I don't think life is meaningless. All I have to do is think about my 10 month old son and I realize life isn't meaningless at all. Or my wife, family, and friends.
Right, he's on call for critical databases, not WAN connections. How is his DB administration performance?
One of the things that boggled me when I first got into Systems Administration was how a lot of admins were roped into just a couple of different tasks and knew absolutely nothing outside of that realm. Sure, they have college degrees and no doubt are intelligent people, but I couldn't fathom how they didn't have the desire and tenacity to learn it all.
See, I was new and hungry. Everything around me I wanted to learn and did to the best of my ability. I got great enjoyment from my job. I got to travel, I was paid well, and things were good.
As time passed on and the years seemed to blend together, something changed. I started noticing little things about my career... One thing was job growth..career growth.. Where was I going ? Did I want to be a manager? Was there really anything beyond Systems Administration? I looked at some of the veterans in the company, guys that have been here for 20+ years. They are still SA's.. some of them lead projects..some are stuck in their old ways, refusing to learn new technology..refusing to implement anything new. Scared to touch certain things because they are scared it will come crumbling down. Some letting their pride get in the way of good worksmanship. Some of the less technical ones have gone the way of management.
Do I want to be an SA in 20 years from now? I dunno... I used to read man pages for fun..I don't really find that fun anymore. Can't really pinpoint why. RFC's before bed... Tech manuals like novels. Perhaps I'm burned out... but from what? I'm doing what I've always wanted to do.. Perhaps it is my current company. Maybe I'm not suited for stagnant environments. Maybe it's 8 years of sitting in a 8x8 cubicle , which is in fact smaller than a jail cell.. I've even considered a career change, hell, I'm still young enough.
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So if I figure correctly, a native 1.85 image would be 848x459 active. Not losing much there on top and bottom. we will be seeing 800x450 of those. 1.85:1 cropped to 1.78:1 a native 2:35 image would be 848x361 active. Loose nothing there. we will see 800x361. 2.35:1 cropped to 2.22:1.
The X1 in 16:9 mode will crop a dvd from 848 x 480 pixels to 800 x 450 pixels. But, it delivers very good pq quality because it is doing 1 to 1 pixel mapping, so there are no scaling errors or artifacts.
For a 1:78 movie, it will crop 30 pixels from the vertical picture, and 48 pixels from the horizontal picture, or about 3% on all sides.
For 2:35 to 1 and 1:85 to 1, it will do the same cropping, but because these movies are "shorter" vertically, the X1 is actually only cropping the black bars above and below. It will still crop the 48 pixels (24 from each side) from the horizontal picture. All in all, it's barely noticeable.
Usually the purists can't stand any kind of cropping or scaling. I came from a 5 year old 27 inch TV set , so this is pure heaven for me ;) I watch all satellite and TV broadcasts in 4:3 mode, and all DVDs (well, most of them unless they are not widescreen) in 16:9 mode. 16:9 mode on the X1 isn't native, but that doesn't seem to matter much.
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I find that this not only relieves a lot of stress from my day, but it also keeps the ole sysadmin gut in check :)
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What a lot of people don't realize is that it is also better than a lot of the more expensive projectors out there also. It has great contrast and the colors look superb. What this long throw projector lacks in some people's eyes is its resolution: 800x600 . But guess what, unless you're watching HD signals (720p/1080i/p) , you won't notice a thing. Sure you might not get a great picture when you hook your PC up to it, but the reader asked for a home theater projector and the last I checked there were just a few HD DVD players, and even fewer movies that supported HD quality resolutions.
Also, it will take the higher resolution signals (which only work through its vga port - grab the component break out cable from the Infocus website) and scale them the approriate resolution. The projector has a built in Faroudja deinterlacer (see http://www.dcdi-video.com/technology/articles/sage -dcdi-overview.html for more explanation) also, which happens to be one of the best DCDi chips out there.
The best place to get started with an X1 is to check out the very, very informative X1 FAQ by technet at http://members.shaw.ca/technut/x1faq/
Based on research, I was able to build my own home theater using the X1 for cheaper than the big screen rear projector TV I bought and returned because of a crummy picture and scratch on the screen. For around 2k I built the home theater which included: the X1, the sound system (onkyo) , the dvd player, the paint for the walls, and the material to build the screen. Send me a private message for pics.
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I for one think Pay-Per-View is the biggest rip off as it is. Since I use Dish Network, the first strike against pay-per-view versus dvd is the quality of the feed (it is much more compressed). The second is the fact that I get to watch it once (unless I get the all day deal - woop-pee). It is also more expensive than a 0-day movie rental - and these pay-per-view movies arent even 0day!
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1. "Hey, this iso image isn't booting...see, the iso file is on the cd...it aint booting though"
2. "Hey, I used the same IP address on all 4 machines on my hub..now nothgn works..I thought I could share IPs on the hub"
What's even funnier is, just like your fellow dba asking _you_ for his laptop support, this is the support team asking the infrastructure team support for these user tasks.
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I start to ask myself...what the hell will this place remember of me 6 months after I'm gone? Will they remember anything I've done? They'll forget of course... Now, my family and friends..they won't forget...
To stay on subject to your reply, I don't think life is meaningless. All I have to do is think about my 10 month old son and I realize life isn't meaningless at all. Or my wife, family, and friends.
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One of the things that boggled me when I first got into Systems Administration was how a lot of admins were roped into just a couple of different tasks and knew absolutely nothing outside of that realm. Sure, they have college degrees and no doubt are intelligent people, but I couldn't fathom how they didn't have the desire and tenacity to learn it all.
See, I was new and hungry. Everything around me I wanted to learn and did to the best of my ability. I got great enjoyment from my job. I got to travel, I was paid well, and things were good.
As time passed on and the years seemed to blend together, something changed. I started noticing little things about my career... One thing was job growth..career growth.. Where was I going ? Did I want to be a manager? Was there really anything beyond Systems Administration? I looked at some of the veterans in the company, guys that have been here for 20+ years. They are still SA's.. some of them lead projects..some are stuck in their old ways, refusing to learn new technology..refusing to implement anything new. Scared to touch certain things because they are scared it will come crumbling down. Some letting their pride get in the way of good worksmanship. Some of the less technical ones have gone the way of management.
Do I want to be an SA in 20 years from now? I dunno... I used to read man pages for fun..I don't really find that fun anymore. Can't really pinpoint why. RFC's before bed... Tech manuals like novels. Perhaps I'm burned out... but from what? I'm doing what I've always wanted to do.. Perhaps it is my current company. Maybe I'm not suited for stagnant environments. Maybe it's 8 years of sitting in a 8x8 cubicle , which is in fact smaller than a jail cell.. I've even considered a career change, hell, I'm still young enough.
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I guess that makes it.....
29% Better!
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What is this...object oriented movie making?
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