Agreed, as an early UK adopter of HD-DVD (because the xbox add-on is about a third of the price of blu-ray) I do find the current selection appalling and what little selection there is is usually out of stock:-( If Casino Royale had been released on HD-DVD I would have been the first in-line.
I just hope "someone" wins the highdef war so we don't end up in the DVD-A/SACD situation where both formats appear to have lost.
In theory he could put both versions on the same disk ala T2 and The Abyss. Question is, do you think he would lower himself to release his "unfinished films" on the general public? I hope so, but I doubt it..
Yes it should, but previous Radeon releases have been only marginally better than the current Nvidia chip, with quite often a driver tweak by Nvidia putting them back in front. This release appears to be offering huge increases in performance even with pre production drivers and boards! Check out the FSAA benchmarks on the Anand site ~250% better than the 4600 now that is impressive.
>bought toys.....read the book and comic book Geez, how old are you?:-) On a more serious note, I ignored the hype with ep1 have only seen it on VHS a couple of times, thought the movie OK but no more than that. If I had bought into all the hype and queued up overnight to see the movie I would have been extremely disappointed. The moral to this story? missing all the hype will lower your level of expectations but will not make it a better movie.
Dell Inspiron 8100(with Radeon M7500 GFX). I get ~3700 in 3dMark2001 which isnt too bad for a desktop but I think pretty impressive on a laptop!! It is my main machine these days using an 802.11b card to connect to the net and my desktop PC. No complaints to date.
>1 disc and 1 side? My Das Boot (R1) is double sided-single layered. Yep, single-sided dual layer, one of the few times when a Region 2 disc is better than the Region 1 version!!
Agreed, the first thing I thought when I saw this was why four discs? I have a copy of Das Boot (region 2) that is over three hours of film 2 X 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtracks(English & German) a moderate amount of extra features(making of, audio commentary etc) and all on 1 disc!!
>No, at that time Europe was not YET the center of the world. I guess the Romans and Greeks could not be considered European then. James Cook was not even the first European on what is now Australian soil, Dirk Hartog landed there in 1616 on the north west coast of Oz.
>The multi-threaded discs of The Abyss and T2 both show how you can jump in and out of different cuts seamlessly.
Agreed, I have both of those disks and I think it's great that I can watch either version (Theatrical or directors cut) depending on how the mood takes me. All special edition DVDs should be like this!!
Case fans are not as important as the heatsink/fan combo on the CPU itself! Reducing the case temp by a few degrees isn't going to make much difference if the CPU heatsink isn't doing its job.
For a 1.33Ghz you should really have a good heatsink/fan combo, check hardware sites for the best ones available right now. Also get some thermal paste to apply between the heatsink and CPU, this can make a huge difference also.
Region Code Enhanced. It basically tells the player that it is region 0 disk(so the player switches to region 0), then during the menu sequence checks that the player is region 1. The Idea being that only region 1 locked players will be able to play. I have heard that a lot of mods get around this, mine for example wont change to Region 0, so in theory it should work. All of the RCE disks so far have been crap so I havent tested this so far.
>Yeah, designing a chip so that you can just keep adding more and more and more to increase performance is pretty crappy
I didnt say I was against the principle of having multiple chips on a board (I cant wait to see if ATI do a MAXX version of their RADEON cards). If these chips were even close to Nvidia and ATI in performance then they would really have something special with these 2 and 4 chip versions, the problem is that these chips have been delayed for so long that they are in danger of being obsolete before they even get to market.
Perhaps I should have said the performance of the VSA 100 chip is poor rather than "crappy".
Just checked the pics at Sharky Extreme and a couple of things hit me:
1 The pcb appears to got into one of the drive bays.
2 The board has a header below the last Chip/fan combo, If you have anything protruding from the mainboard directly in line with the AGP slot this board aint gonna fit.
If it takes four of these chips to beat a GF2 ultra then it must be a pretty crappy chip when you think about. ATIs Radeon was faster than a GF2 until the release of the detonator 3 driver, so 3dfx is very much in thrird place as it stands really.
You mean they didn't engage in overclocking
Increasing the core voltage (again), a much larger heatsink than even the 1ghz PIII and terrible instability under CPU intensive tasks, this sounds very much like overclocking to me.
Intel were trying to out do AMD with their 1.1Ghz Thunderbird and paid the price.
Surely 7" would be OK if you had enough RAM, 15-16" wouldnt if you had insufficient RAM, after all you dont want any juddering during Full Motion do you?
>Forgive my ignorance, but is widescreen the same as HDTV?
No, most people seem to be of the assumption that widescreen AND/OR digital displays are also what is termed HDTV.
I remember seeing a prototype HDTV set at Sony`s UK headquarters ten years ago, the picture was amazing!! You could clearly make out details on the screen from thirty feet away. It was a 4:3 analogue display but instead of 625 lines @ 50 hz it was over a 1000 lines @ around 100hz.
If you look at Widescreen sets in the UK, by the time you zoom in to the letter box you must be getting less than 450 lines.
I was looking at one of these 32 inch Philips sets at the weekend and the picture quality was terrible ( Though I think it was the SkyDigital transmission that was at fault, The shop next door had the 28inch set that was much better ).
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Agreed, as an early UK adopter of HD-DVD (because the xbox add-on is about a third of the price of blu-ray) I do find the current selection appalling and what little selection there is is usually out of stock :-(
If Casino Royale had been released on HD-DVD I would have been the first in-line.
I just hope "someone" wins the highdef war so we don't end up in the DVD-A/SACD situation where both formats appear to have lost.
Clearly they were expecting the thing to crash and didn't put too much effort into sorting out the brakes.
I guess I had better not mention playing my 360 as a hobby when I go for my interview at Lucent :-)
I bet this will be as unbiased as the IE6 v Firefox comparison a few weeks back:-) ;-)
And the results are posted in nice open formats like wma and doc
In theory he could put both versions on the same disk ala T2 and The Abyss. Question is, do you think he would lower himself to release his "unfinished films" on the general public? I hope so, but I doubt it..
I saw Jaws 3 in 3D when many moons ago, thought it was pretty poor. I saw a bit of it on TV the other day in 2D it was even worse than I remebered!!
> It's only downfall (he he) is that it lacks any ability to glide in the event of an engine outage
I'm sure they could add some kind of parachute system, like what is being developed for the ISS lifeboat!
Yes it should, but previous Radeon releases have been only marginally better than the current Nvidia chip, with quite often a driver tweak by Nvidia putting them back in front. This release appears to be offering huge increases in performance even with pre production drivers and boards! Check out the FSAA benchmarks on the Anand site ~250% better than the 4600 now that is impressive.
>bought toys .....read the book and comic book :-)
Geez, how old are you?
On a more serious note, I ignored the hype with ep1 have only seen it on VHS a couple of times, thought the movie OK but no more than that. If I had bought into all the hype and queued up overnight to see the movie I would have been extremely disappointed.
The moral to this story? missing all the hype will lower your level of expectations but will not make it a better movie.
Dell Inspiron 8100(with Radeon M7500 GFX). I get ~3700 in 3dMark2001 which isnt too bad for a desktop but I think pretty impressive on a laptop!! It is my main machine these days using an 802.11b card to connect to the net and my desktop PC. No complaints to date.
>1 disc and 1 side? My Das Boot (R1) is double sided-single layered.
Yep, single-sided dual layer, one of the few times when a Region 2 disc is better than the Region 1 version!!
Agreed, the first thing I thought when I saw this was why four discs?
I have a copy of Das Boot (region 2) that is over three hours of film 2 X 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtracks(English & German) a moderate amount of extra features(making of, audio commentary etc) and all on 1 disc!!
>No, at that time Europe was not YET the center of the world.
I guess the Romans and Greeks could not be considered European then.
James Cook was not even the first European on what is now Australian soil, Dirk Hartog landed there in 1616 on the north west coast of Oz.
>The multi-threaded discs of The Abyss and T2 both show how you can jump in and out of different cuts seamlessly.
Agreed, I have both of those disks and I think it's great that I can watch either version (Theatrical or directors cut) depending on how the mood takes me. All special edition DVDs should be like this!!
Not in the UK, my widescreen may have a 16:9 ratio picture but it is still only 625 lines just like my old 4:3 set.
Case fans are not as important as the heatsink/fan combo on the CPU itself! Reducing the case temp by a few degrees isn't going to make much difference if the CPU heatsink isn't doing its job.
For a 1.33Ghz you should really have a good heatsink/fan combo, check hardware sites for the best ones available right now. Also get some thermal paste to apply between the heatsink and CPU, this can make a huge difference also.
Region Code Enhanced. It basically tells the player that it is region 0 disk(so the player switches to region 0), then during the menu sequence checks that the player is region 1. The Idea being that only region 1 locked players will be able to play. I have heard that a lot of mods get around this, mine for example wont change to Region 0, so in theory it should work. All of the RCE disks so far have been crap so I havent tested this so far.
>Yeah, designing a chip so that you can just keep adding more and more and more to increase performance is pretty crappy
I didnt say I was against the principle of having multiple chips on a board (I cant wait to see if ATI do a MAXX version of their RADEON cards). If these chips were even close to Nvidia and ATI in performance then they would really have something special with these 2 and 4 chip versions, the problem is that these chips have been delayed for so long that they are in danger of being obsolete before they even get to market.
Perhaps I should have said the performance of the VSA 100 chip is poor rather than "crappy".
Just checked the pics at Sharky Extreme and a couple of things hit me:
1 The pcb appears to got into one of the drive bays.
2 The board has a header below the last Chip/fan combo, If you have anything protruding from the mainboard directly in line with the AGP slot this board aint gonna fit.
If it takes four of these chips to beat a GF2 ultra then it must be a pretty crappy chip when you think about. ATIs Radeon was faster than a GF2 until the release of the detonator 3 driver, so 3dfx is very much in thrird place as it stands really.
You mean they didn't engage in overclocking
Increasing the core voltage (again), a much larger heatsink than even the 1ghz PIII and terrible instability under CPU intensive tasks, this sounds very much like overclocking to me.
Intel were trying to out do AMD with their 1.1Ghz Thunderbird and paid the price.
Surely 7" would be OK if you had enough RAM, 15-16" wouldnt if you had insufficient RAM, after all you dont want any juddering during Full Motion do you?
Check out ATI vs GeForce 256
Very similair results to these benchmarks, although the Geforce is far superior on the slower :-)Intel CPU
According to this interview
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http://www.targetpc.com/dimex/misc/interviews/K
"Kryotech : We are scheduled to release a dual Athlon KryoCooled system in late Q1 or early Q2 2000. Each processor will run at least 1GHz."
I guess Intel will have to go back to the drawing board.
>Is it just my eyes or what ?
It must be your eyes!!
I can notice the differenc between 50hz and 72hz on my PC display.
>I haven't seen much difference between 50 Hz and 100 Hz.
It depends what you are looking for. The resolution is the same, there is just a lot less flicker!!
>Forgive my ignorance, but is widescreen the same as HDTV?
No, most people seem to be of the assumption that widescreen AND/OR digital displays are also what is termed HDTV.
I remember seeing a prototype HDTV set at Sony`s UK headquarters ten years ago, the picture was amazing!! You could clearly make out details on the screen from thirty feet away. It was a 4:3 analogue display but instead of 625 lines @ 50 hz it was over a 1000 lines @ around 100hz.
If you look at Widescreen sets in the UK, by the time you zoom in to the letter box you must be getting less than 450 lines.
I was looking at one of these 32 inch Philips sets at the weekend and the picture quality was terrible ( Though I think it was the SkyDigital transmission that was at fault, The shop next door had the 28inch set that was much better ).