The problem I had with the HD version was that the '3-rd person' camera effect they use to simulate the viewer 'spying' on the action is too shaky to watch on a large screen!
Seriously, I was getting dizzy watching it on my projector (about 110"). I never noticed it at all on the 27" low-def screen my TiVo is hooked up to.
Well, maybe it's more of a function of large screen than HD per se, but I haven't justified replacing the small TV with a hi-def unit yet:)
I have an AirCard 550 that I use with Sprint service, and for the most part I'd say it's comparable to a 56k modem. Definitely check out your signal strength first though, when it's running at 1-2 bars the connection drops periodically. I didn't have any problems with latentcy myself; ping times were around 150-200ms to most places. Between dialup and DirecWay, it's a tough decision. I don't think I would trade the bandwidth of the sattelite for the lower latentcy of the cell. I would probably wait for the next generation >1MBps services first. Or find a friend a couple miles away with a cable modem and convince them to aim a high-gain 802.11b antenna at your house.
Sony's machine will likely have less than 32 SIMD cores to decrease power consumption and increase yield...
Regardless, having the SIMD cores and doing something with them are two different things. Much of the hardcore geometry transformation, lighting, blending and pixel shading is likely to be done inside your GPU anyways.
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I re-watched an episode in HD on Universal HD.
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The problem I had with the HD version was that the '3-rd person' camera effect they use to simulate the viewer 'spying' on the action is too shaky to watch on a large screen!
Seriously, I was getting dizzy watching it on my projector (about 110"). I never noticed it at all on the 27" low-def screen my TiVo is hooked up to.
Well, maybe it's more of a function of large screen than HD per se, but I haven't justified replacing the small TV with a hi-def unit yet
I have an AirCard 550 that I use with Sprint service, and for the most part I'd say it's comparable to a 56k modem. Definitely check out your signal strength first though, when it's running at 1-2 bars the connection drops periodically. I didn't have any problems with latentcy myself; ping times were around 150-200ms to most places. Between dialup and DirecWay, it's a tough decision. I don't think I would trade the bandwidth of the sattelite for the lower latentcy of the cell. I would probably wait for the next generation >1MBps services first. Or find a friend a couple miles away with a cable modem and convince them to aim a high-gain 802.11b antenna at your house.
Go to the west a bit. The capitol building is blurred out!
Yeah, it was the second place I searched for (after my house). http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Rachel,Nevada&ll=37. 249146,-115.809631&spn=0.129948,0.191231&t=k&hl=en
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Sony's machine will likely have less than 32 SIMD cores to decrease power consumption and increase yield...
Regardless, having the SIMD cores and doing something with them are two different things. Much of the hardcore geometry transformation, lighting, blending and pixel shading is likely to be done inside your GPU anyways.
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One minute. It'll probably burn your hands too with the heat from a ps2 class graphics processor alone...