You don't need Directv service to use the OTA tuner in it, and it costs $50. If they wanted to make only a tuner without the satallite equipment it would be far cheaper. Of course, if your TV is so old it doesn't accept a composite signal you will need a $5 transcoder in addition to that box.
What I want to know is, if we ditch regular air broadcasts, can we stop funding PBS? I mean, what is the point of PBS if the only way to get it is by paying a cable company $120/mo for access? In fact, let the cable companies run PBS then rather than subsidizing their business for them.
Actually PBS already broadcasts a digital signal (and a digital HD signal) along side their analog signal. What I think a lot of people don't understand is that you can still get digital television over the air with rabbit ears... you just need a digital tuner. During football season I watched OTA HD for all the games, and they look excellent. Far better than the OTA of years past.
In addition to the broadcast going away they're mandating that some percentage of all televisions produced must accept a digital signal. So I suppose it is a little of both.
"I can't afford a new TV, and I can't afford cable. The TV will still work for gamecube, but I still need PBS. Congress should pass a subsidy to replace old analog TV if they are going to mandate digital."
They're attempting to subsidize converter boxes for this purpose.
Analog is going away, not standard definition. This is to free up the broadcast spectrum for other uses. I believe the plan is to auction off blocks of the spectrum, and I read somewhere that they estimate all of it together will rake in billions.
Hopefully it will not be too expensive. You'll need an over the air digital tuner with a built-in DAC. Currently I think these run about forty dollars, but there have been talks about the government footing the bill for a mass production to make them extremely cheap for this change over.
Who do you root for, the rich man or the rich company? If they really screwed him like he claims, he should sue them out of principal. Why does it always have to be greed? Hell, it was the other sides greed that caused them to do it in the first place.
"Before this, the auto companies had penalized dealers that sold other brands, and dealers in rural areas that moved smaller quantities of merchandise."
Manufacturers get around this by offering a volume incentive to dealers. Yeah they technically sell all the dealerships the car for the same price, but if dealer X moves 1000 units they get 2% back in volume discount, while dealer Y moved 10000 units and got 4% back. If such laws were put in place, what is to stop Intel (or AMD) from doing the same thing? Either way, this doesn't really address the bullying/extortion thing.
Why does everyone ask 'Who determines...'? It says right there in the summary: "The legislation requires the attorney general to create an official list of Web sites..."
Google tells me that is Mark Shurtleff.
Kids do better in the traditional nuclear family than in non-traditional setups.
Not only are you incorrect, you've got it mixed up.
Gay couples don't have accidental children and are typically older and better prepared to raise a child. The only study proven effect of being raised by two parents of the same gender is an increased chance of being homophobic.
Gay/Straight matters to those who are concerned about kids's welfare.
So, anybody who disagrees with you is a "bigot"?
That's what I'm hearing
Either that or you're grossly misinformed. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
"#5) Set up a policy that only allows 2 attempts to log in, and after 2 failed attempts, it locks out that IP and MAC address for 30 minutes. This will be a major pain when you try and log in and make a mistake. It won't really stop hackers, just the ones with slow/bad proxies. Maybe 1 of the 500 proxies the hacker is using is not as anonyomous as they believe. As for your own use, take a book with you when you believe you might have to log in remotley, just in case you make a mistake. You need something to blow those 20 minutes."
Makes it pretty simple if somebody wants to launch a DoS attack against you.
It was explained by George in a documentary. Something about the kessel system being full of black holes or some other unpleasant stuff and the ship was good enough to fly narrowly through all of it. Thus, completing the kessel run with a more direct and shorter route.
Most decent receivers or pre-amps will have this type of functionality. A quick search didn't reveal any standalone devices that do this, but maybe a non-passive switch of some type?
The problem, simply, is that the chips stripped off a hundred dollar video card cannot do what you're asking. They're not an mpeg decoder, in a PC your main processor does that work. They dont have the bus width to manipulate 1920x1080 (they use a frame buffer to produce a resolution of that size when you're using a PC.) They can't use a frame buffer in this instance because the motion adaptive de-interlacing needs to look at large portions of the entire image to do its calculations. Without motion adaptive de-interlacing a 1080i signal would look horrendous scaled to 720p.
This is why it takes specialized processing chips, and a decent one will cost you at least a thousand USD.
To be even more correct you listed the appropriate ATSC formats. Not sure if there are other formats used in digital broadcast television, but there could be at some point...
If you're buying a 720p (or close to 720p as many are slightly off) set that is less than ~3,000 USD the answer is easy: All of them. If you're in the market for a high end unit then it is a two-step process. You need to find what kind of scaler is built-in, commonly you'll find third party scalers like Faroudja, and then research the scaler to determine how it functions. Unfortunately some manufacturers (Sony!) build their own scalers and they're probably not going to tell you how it works.
Televisions are not computer monitors.
The NTSC video standard has 525 lines.
The PAL and SECAM video standards have 625 lines.
So where does 480 linrd come from?
480 lines are actually shown on a typically television. The remains of the signal are overscanned and not shown. Though many displays slightly overscan an HD signal, this can be also be filed under the blasphemy that is 720p not being 720p, and there is no technical reason it needs to be done.
Actually this is an issue of giving people what they want. In this case an HDTV that isn't a thousand bucks more expensive and doesn't have a video processing delay.
The first incorrect thing in the/. post is that this is somehow standard definition. It's not, 540 lines is more than 480. Not only that but they process 1920 lines of horizontal resolution (scaled down to 1280 for a 720p display), which is quite a bit more than 640.
Anyone who is serious about getting the absolute most out of their display will have an external scaler and a device to delay the audio. Frankly as digital display technologies take more of a foothold in the market I'm hoping these interlaced resolutions will become far less common.
When I first read the headlines I thought they would perhaps talk about 1024x768 plasmas with rectangular pixels being marketed as 720p. That kind of thing is far more blasphemous in my opinion.
So in summary of TFA: 720p is not 720p when it's 1080i.
This is a good example of Microsoft making products for the lowest common denominator.
Frankly, it is a good thing in their home products. Many of my friends call me to ask how to do ridiculously simple things as make a DVD play full screen.
Where I take issue with this is in their professional products. When I buy XP home I expect handholding, but when I buy XP Professional I want the OS to assume I know what I'm doing and disable by default most (all?) of these annoying features.
You know I've been considering mailing in some keyboards from around the office for biological testing. To all you filthy engineers* out there, the IT staff occasionally may have to use that keyboard... try not to drool on it, or use it as a plate, or whatever the hell you guys do to get it so rancid.
*or anyone else, really, it just happens to be engineers around this office
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You don't need Directv service to use the OTA tuner in it, and it costs $50. If they wanted to make only a tuner without the satallite equipment it would be far cheaper. Of course, if your TV is so old it doesn't accept a composite signal you will need a $5 transcoder in addition to that box.
What I want to know is, if we ditch regular air broadcasts, can we stop funding PBS? I mean, what is the point of PBS if the only way to get it is by paying a cable company $120/mo for access? In fact, let the cable companies run PBS then rather than subsidizing their business for them.
... you just need a digital tuner. During football season I watched OTA HD for all the games, and they look excellent. Far better than the OTA of years past.
Actually PBS already broadcasts a digital signal (and a digital HD signal) along side their analog signal. What I think a lot of people don't understand is that you can still get digital television over the air with rabbit ears
In addition to the broadcast going away they're mandating that some percentage of all televisions produced must accept a digital signal. So I suppose it is a little of both.
"I can't afford a new TV, and I can't afford cable. The TV will still work for gamecube, but I still need PBS. Congress should pass a subsidy to replace old analog TV if they are going to mandate digital."
They're attempting to subsidize converter boxes for this purpose.
Analog is going away, not standard definition. This is to free up the broadcast spectrum for other uses. I believe the plan is to auction off blocks of the spectrum, and I read somewhere that they estimate all of it together will rake in billions.
Hopefully it will not be too expensive. You'll need an over the air digital tuner with a built-in DAC. Currently I think these run about forty dollars, but there have been talks about the government footing the bill for a mass production to make them extremely cheap for this change over.
Roughly 12% of television owners?
Who do you root for, the rich man or the rich company? If they really screwed him like he claims, he should sue them out of principal. Why does it always have to be greed? Hell, it was the other sides greed that caused them to do it in the first place.
"Before this, the auto companies had penalized dealers that sold other brands, and dealers in rural areas that moved smaller quantities of merchandise."
Manufacturers get around this by offering a volume incentive to dealers. Yeah they technically sell all the dealerships the car for the same price, but if dealer X moves 1000 units they get 2% back in volume discount, while dealer Y moved 10000 units and got 4% back. If such laws were put in place, what is to stop Intel (or AMD) from doing the same thing? Either way, this doesn't really address the bullying/extortion thing.
Just who is going to draw the hard line between those various types of pornography? You?
Why does everyone ask 'Who determines...'? It says right there in the summary: "The legislation requires the attorney general to create an official list of Web sites..." Google tells me that is Mark Shurtleff.
Nor should you, they admit to leaving out information. Right down at the bottom, "Note: Not all categories in the study are shown."
Kids do better in the traditional nuclear family than in non-traditional setups.
Not only are you incorrect, you've got it mixed up.
Gay couples don't have accidental children and are typically older and better prepared to raise a child. The only study proven effect of being raised by two parents of the same gender is an increased chance of being homophobic.
Gay/Straight matters to those who are concerned about kids's welfare. So, anybody who disagrees with you is a "bigot"? That's what I'm hearing
Either that or you're grossly misinformed. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt.
You have no idea.
A full backup of my systems is roughly 1.5 TB, it take 6 250GB tapes that currently cost about fifty bucks a piece.
I would replace that setup with two DVDs in a heartbeat.
And no, I have no mp3s or any other multimedia files on there.
"#5) Set up a policy that only allows 2 attempts to log in, and after 2 failed attempts, it locks out that IP and MAC address for 30 minutes. This will be a major pain when you try and log in and make a mistake. It won't really stop hackers, just the ones with slow/bad proxies. Maybe 1 of the 500 proxies the hacker is using is not as anonyomous as they believe. As for your own use, take a book with you when you believe you might have to log in remotley, just in case you make a mistake. You need something to blow those 20 minutes."
Makes it pretty simple if somebody wants to launch a DoS attack against you.
It was explained by George in a documentary. Something about the kessel system being full of black holes or some other unpleasant stuff and the ship was good enough to fly narrowly through all of it. Thus, completing the kessel run with a more direct and shorter route.
Most decent receivers or pre-amps will have this type of functionality. A quick search didn't reveal any standalone devices that do this, but maybe a non-passive switch of some type?
The problem, simply, is that the chips stripped off a hundred dollar video card cannot do what you're asking. They're not an mpeg decoder, in a PC your main processor does that work. They dont have the bus width to manipulate 1920x1080 (they use a frame buffer to produce a resolution of that size when you're using a PC.) They can't use a frame buffer in this instance because the motion adaptive de-interlacing needs to look at large portions of the entire image to do its calculations. Without motion adaptive de-interlacing a 1080i signal would look horrendous scaled to 720p.
This is why it takes specialized processing chips, and a decent one will cost you at least a thousand USD.
To be even more correct you listed the appropriate ATSC formats. Not sure if there are other formats used in digital broadcast television, but there could be at some point...
If you're buying a 720p (or close to 720p as many are slightly off) set that is less than ~3,000 USD the answer is easy: All of them. If you're in the market for a high end unit then it is a two-step process. You need to find what kind of scaler is built-in, commonly you'll find third party scalers like Faroudja, and then research the scaler to determine how it functions. Unfortunately some manufacturers (Sony!) build their own scalers and they're probably not going to tell you how it works.
Televisions are not computer monitors.
The NTSC video standard has 525 lines.
The PAL and SECAM video standards have 625 lines.
So where does 480 linrd come from?
480 lines are actually shown on a typically television. The remains of the signal are overscanned and not shown. Though many displays slightly overscan an HD signal, this can be also be filed under the blasphemy that is 720p not being 720p, and there is no technical reason it needs to be done.
Actually this is an issue of giving people what they want. In this case an HDTV that isn't a thousand bucks more expensive and doesn't have a video processing delay.
/. post is that this is somehow standard definition. It's not, 540 lines is more than 480. Not only that but they process 1920 lines of horizontal resolution (scaled down to 1280 for a 720p display), which is quite a bit more than 640.
The first incorrect thing in the
Anyone who is serious about getting the absolute most out of their display will have an external scaler and a device to delay the audio. Frankly as digital display technologies take more of a foothold in the market I'm hoping these interlaced resolutions will become far less common.
When I first read the headlines I thought they would perhaps talk about 1024x768 plasmas with rectangular pixels being marketed as 720p. That kind of thing is far more blasphemous in my opinion.
So in summary of TFA: 720p is not 720p when it's 1080i.
This is a good example of Microsoft making products for the lowest common denominator.
Frankly, it is a good thing in their home products. Many of my friends call me to ask how to do ridiculously simple things as make a DVD play full screen.
Where I take issue with this is in their professional products. When I buy XP home I expect handholding, but when I buy XP Professional I want the OS to assume I know what I'm doing and disable by default most (all?) of these annoying features.
You know I've been considering mailing in some keyboards from around the office for biological testing. To all you filthy engineers* out there, the IT staff occasionally may have to use that keyboard... try not to drool on it, or use it as a plate, or whatever the hell you guys do to get it so rancid.
*or anyone else, really, it just happens to be engineers around this office