Just so you know, 1080p is not an HDTV standard. The HDTV standards are 1080i and 720p. There is also a DTV provision for 480p. 1080p is something the camera's can record in, but no one is equiped to broadcast it and as far as I know there isn't any consumer equipment built to handle it. 1080i and especially 720p are going to be the formats for a long time to come. They are more than good enough for most people, hell 480p is good enough for most people according to FOX.
apparently you haven't taken any signals classes or DSP.:) There is a nice little rule, called the nyquist theroy that says if you sample at a frequency twice the highest frequency you need to capture, you will not loose any data. Since humans hear at about 20Hz to 20kHz, you would need to sample at 40kHz to capture everything. When coming up with the CD standard they put in a little extra headroom and used 44.1kHz which would capture all audio up to 22.05kHz.
There have been quite a few studies that show that while humans can't hear anything above 20kHz or so, they can percieve it. Lots of instruments have harmonics in very high frequencies. Most people (in double blind listening tests) prefer the sound of the instrument recorded in the sample rate that perserves all of these harmonics. So, while they can't hear the high frequencies somehow they do precieve that they are there.
I was under the impression that most videophiles say 720p is acutally better looking than 1080i. I'm pretty sure it actually contains more information. But very few displays actually show everything in their native resolutions, there are always compromises. For instance the toshiba TV's use a native resolution of 1080i. They convert 720p - > 1080i. They also convert 480i (NTSC) and 480p (DVD) into 540p.
Agreed. KEXP is probably the best radio station i've ever heard. The only 3 programs I don't really care for are: shake the shack, WoPop, and saturday morning regaee. All this and no commercials to boot.
Actually you wouldn't have to break the laws of physics to travel faster than light. You just need to find ways around them. Generating a 'hole' in spacetime might allow you to move quickly from one area to the next. My personal favorite though is 'bending' space by creating huge gravity well do that the two points you want to travel between are no longer far away. In both instances you travel a distance faster than light could, but you never moved faster than the speed of light.
You're not only wrong, you're wrong twice. First comcast pay per view is not video on demand. I do not get pay perview when I demand it, I get it as soon as it starts. I'm just paying for access to a channel that still has a time schedule, therefore it is not on demand. Second, the patent doesn't patent the basic concept. If you actually bothered to read it you would see it only patents a method of navigating avaliable content through scrolling.
A bit of a glossing, ain't it? You get to pay Apple -- less. You get to download the music immediately, and in a nice quality format that downloads in about 3 minutes (for me, on cable).
I don't that I really pay less. The average cd I buy costs about $13 (less if you factor in the number of used cd's i buy). That's about $3 more than the apple store. But for this I get the media, the jewel case, and the artwork. Plus I sometimes get bonus materials (video's, enhanced cd's, etc). I don't find that it takes me a whole lot longer to go to the store and purchase a cd, versus browsing online, waiting for a download (the whole album), and then burning a cd, and then printing a label and jewel case liner notes. So I figure the price is about equal.
That is wrong. The reason for piracy (among normally honest people) is the EASE of getting the music in the format they want -- digital, the ability to just get the songs they want, not the CD filler, and the lower prices. =D
I don't know if this is true. I think most credible studies show that those who download music also buy more music. They're probably like me who just want a preview of an album before they buy. I download probably 40 songs a month and probably buy 2-3 cd's. I rarely keep anything I don't buy, because if i didn't like it enough to buy it, i don't like it enough to keep it around. The 30 second previews apple gives me just aren't enough. I like to listen to something a few times before I buy it.
Bandwith, storage, and hosting are definately not trivial. think if they keep up 1 million downloads a week. that equates to 4 terrabytes of data a week. that 16 terrabytes of data a month. Look up the costs on that.
that's not true at all. The flaming lips are on warner brothers, radiohead is on capitol,...and you will know us by the trail of dead is on interscope, the white stripes are on V2, wilco is on nonesuch (a division of warner). So while I agree that you're more likely to find good music on an indie label, the big labels are not completly voide of quality stuff.
I think you don't understand what was done. Nvidia cheated on the benchmark because they new exactly what needed to be rendered. This kind of "optimization" won't help any other application, but it doesn't mean the benchmark is bogus. The same thing could be done by putting optimizations in for time_demo (or something similar) in quake. It will help that specific demo, but it won't help quake.
All that means is that the video coming out of your video card was stored as seperate chromanance and luminance information. That means that using the composite output put in an extra conversions step (from chromanance/luminace - > composite - > chromanance/luminace in the TV's comb filter).
However, some formats such as laserdisk do not store the information seperatly. Therefore if you use an s-video output on your LD player, it will only look better if your comb filter in your player is better than the one in your tv, and in a modern HDTV with a digital 3d comb filter, I doubt that's the case.
Where do you get these fucked-up numbers? There are more iPods than there are all other digital music players combined.
Last I read, 1 in every 4 music players sold was an ipod. And given the fact that there where many more mp3 players sold before the ipod existed, I would find fault with your statement.
I don't have quite that many mp3's. Probably 5 or 6 gig. I don't have all my cd's and gf's cd's ripped either yet. However, I don't feel the need to have them all available on my mp3 player. I'm perfectly happy with 192mb on my nomad. It's small, light, and doesn't skip; and it can easily hold 3 or 4 albums. That's plenty to get me to work and back. I've just never seen the need to have my whole collection at my fingertips all the time.
I couldn't agree more. I very rarely listen to CD's in my car anymore. About the only time I do not listen to KEXP is when they do "shake the shack" or the saturday morning reggae.
of course the airline industry, the medical companies, and private funded research bodies are propped up by tax breaks, bailouts, and grants.
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I have a Nomad IIc with 192mb of memory. It easily holds 3 or 4 full albums. That's more than enough for my commute, I just have then swap out songs when I get home for the next day. with the extra memory card I got it for less than $100. I'd call that a steal.
I guarantee I could tell the difference on my home stereo system. Now how much of that would be from the noise of the sound card, and bad cables I don't know. The true test would be to encode it as a 192kbps MP3 and play it on a DVD player with MP3 support. Then to play the original CD on the same DVD player. Assuming both support the toslink or coax output, that would minimize the transport effects (i'm not a huge believer in jitter) and would only be dependent on the DAC's and amps in my reciever (Outlaw 1050) and my speakers (klipsch reference). I do know that I can easily distinguish CD's that were created from MP3's and the original CD. Of course this could be from the MP3 -> CD audio conversion and not the MP3 compression itself.
depending on which version you have, that might not be the new radiohead album. The one that was leaked a few months ago wasn't completly finished. I've compared it to what's coming out next month and there are actually quite a few differences.
but the best artists get better with time. Think about Pablo Honey Vs. The Bends by radiohead. Most quality artists put out quality albums. If an artists only puts out one good album, quite possibly they only had one good album in them.
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Just so you know, 1080p is not an HDTV standard. The HDTV standards are 1080i and 720p. There is also a DTV provision for 480p. 1080p is something the camera's can record in, but no one is equiped to broadcast it and as far as I know there isn't any consumer equipment built to handle it. 1080i and especially 720p are going to be the formats for a long time to come. They are more than good enough for most people, hell 480p is good enough for most people according to FOX.
apparently you haven't taken any signals classes or DSP. :) There is a nice little rule, called the nyquist theroy that says if you sample at a frequency twice the highest frequency you need to capture, you will not loose any data. Since humans hear at about 20Hz to 20kHz, you would need to sample at 40kHz to capture everything. When coming up with the CD standard they put in a little extra headroom and used 44.1kHz which would capture all audio up to 22.05kHz.
There have been quite a few studies that show that while humans can't hear anything above 20kHz or so, they can percieve it. Lots of instruments have harmonics in very high frequencies. Most people (in double blind listening tests) prefer the sound of the instrument recorded in the sample rate that perserves all of these harmonics. So, while they can't hear the high frequencies somehow they do precieve that they are there.
read some of the above posts. a data cd and an audio cd are read differently. This means that you can have errors in DAE.
Not in a civil case. That only happens in criminal cases.
the average bulb is between $300-$600 USD, and under casual conditions will need to be replaced yearly or so. kind of a bummer.
I was under the impression that most videophiles say 720p is acutally better looking than 1080i. I'm pretty sure it actually contains more information. But very few displays actually show everything in their native resolutions, there are always compromises. For instance the toshiba TV's use a native resolution of 1080i. They convert 720p - > 1080i. They also convert 480i (NTSC) and 480p (DVD) into 540p.
they already went through the litigation and they lost. So, it was a double lose. They lost money in litigation, and had to give up the names anyway.
Agreed. KEXP is probably the best radio station i've ever heard. The only 3 programs I don't really care for are: shake the shack, WoPop, and saturday morning regaee. All this and no commercials to boot.
Actually you wouldn't have to break the laws of physics to travel faster than light. You just need to find ways around them. Generating a 'hole' in spacetime might allow you to move quickly from one area to the next. My personal favorite though is 'bending' space by creating huge gravity well do that the two points you want to travel between are no longer far away. In both instances you travel a distance faster than light could, but you never moved faster than the speed of light.
I'm not trying to be nitpicky, I'm just making the point that maybe you should be informed before opening your mouth.
You're not only wrong, you're wrong twice. First comcast pay per view is not video on demand. I do not get pay perview when I demand it, I get it as soon as it starts. I'm just paying for access to a channel that still has a time schedule, therefore it is not on demand. Second, the patent doesn't patent the basic concept. If you actually bothered to read it you would see it only patents a method of navigating avaliable content through scrolling.
Bandwith, storage, and hosting are definately not trivial. think if they keep up 1 million downloads a week. that equates to 4 terrabytes of data a week. that 16 terrabytes of data a month. Look up the costs on that.
that's not true at all. The flaming lips are on warner brothers, radiohead is on capitol, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead is on interscope, the white stripes are on V2, wilco is on nonesuch (a division of warner). So while I agree that you're more likely to find good music on an indie label, the big labels are not completly voide of quality stuff.
I think you don't understand what was done. Nvidia cheated on the benchmark because they new exactly what needed to be rendered. This kind of "optimization" won't help any other application, but it doesn't mean the benchmark is bogus. The same thing could be done by putting optimizations in for time_demo (or something similar) in quake. It will help that specific demo, but it won't help quake.
All that means is that the video coming out of your video card was stored as seperate chromanance and luminance information. That means that using the composite output put in an extra conversions step (from chromanance/luminace - > composite - > chromanance/luminace in the TV's comb filter).
However, some formats such as laserdisk do not store the information seperatly. Therefore if you use an s-video output on your LD player, it will only look better if your comb filter in your player is better than the one in your tv, and in a modern HDTV with a digital 3d comb filter, I doubt that's the case.
I don't have quite that many mp3's. Probably 5 or 6 gig. I don't have all my cd's and gf's cd's ripped either yet. However, I don't feel the need to have them all available on my mp3 player. I'm perfectly happy with 192mb on my nomad. It's small, light, and doesn't skip; and it can easily hold 3 or 4 albums. That's plenty to get me to work and back. I've just never seen the need to have my whole collection at my fingertips all the time.
I couldn't agree more. I very rarely listen to CD's in my car anymore. About the only time I do not listen to KEXP is when they do "shake the shack" or the saturday morning reggae.
of course the airline industry, the medical companies, and private funded research bodies are propped up by tax breaks, bailouts, and grants.
I have a Nomad IIc with 192mb of memory. It easily holds 3 or 4 full albums. That's more than enough for my commute, I just have then swap out songs when I get home for the next day. with the extra memory card I got it for less than $100. I'd call that a steal.
I guarantee I could tell the difference on my home stereo system. Now how much of that would be from the noise of the sound card, and bad cables I don't know. The true test would be to encode it as a 192kbps MP3 and play it on a DVD player with MP3 support. Then to play the original CD on the same DVD player. Assuming both support the toslink or coax output, that would minimize the transport effects (i'm not a huge believer in jitter) and would only be dependent on the DAC's and amps in my reciever (Outlaw 1050) and my speakers (klipsch reference). I do know that I can easily distinguish CD's that were created from MP3's and the original CD. Of course this could be from the MP3 -> CD audio conversion and not the MP3 compression itself.
depending on which version you have, that might not be the new radiohead album. The one that was leaked a few months ago wasn't completly finished. I've compared it to what's coming out next month and there are actually quite a few differences.
but the best artists get better with time. Think about Pablo Honey Vs. The Bends by radiohead. Most quality artists put out quality albums. If an artists only puts out one good album, quite possibly they only had one good album in them.