But the PS3 will likely come with software to play the movies. The BR-ROM and HD-DVD-ROM drives likely won't. At least if DVD-ROM is any indication, they won't come with players for Linux.
Shipping with Linux does not balanace out unlawful virus DRM root kits.
Think about it though: shipping with Linux might just create a vector for undermining the DRM on the Blu-Ray HD movies playable on this console.
Face it: consumer electronics running Linux is a big neon "hack me" sign that you don't get with other proprietary consumer electronics operating systems.
I never reboot my OS X systems, except for OS updates.
Lately, I've found I've had to. Problems with the Belkin OmniView SOHO 4-port USB KVMA switch have been causing kernel panics under the latest Mac OS X. I've had the OS go through its multilingual panic because the mouse was jostled while the Belkin was having problems. It then becomes a pain trying to get the Mac to recognize any USB devices on restart.
B&W G3 w/550 MHz G4 upgrade, built-in Firewire ports dead. I need a new machine, but I'm wanting the new desktop to run Final Cut Studio UB with multiple big hard drives.
Then give it to the users as local storage without backup and encourage them to keep personal files off the network storage space.
I had to install mozilla on my local storage because IT didn't want to back it up. The system-installed version was 1.2.1 until we upgraded from one end-of-life version of Redhat to another.
We still use a locally tweaked xemacs 19.13 which is 11 years old (but the build date was only 5 years ago). IT worries that anything newer will corrupt our RCS. The IT manager and his friends seem to prefer using vim.
I.e. since reporters are backed by people who can afford a press, recognized reporters will be allowed to keep that freedom.
Everyone else however....
And that at least until we get a friendly court to reinterpret our intent contrary to this assurance (see application of USA PATRIOT Act). After all, that assurance was only given by an advisor speaking out of turn with no authority, not by any elected representative.
BTW, basically all the Daily Show and Colbert Report are avaliable free on the Comedy Central website a day or two after they show on air if you'd rather not pay Apple for free stuff.
Well now I really feel silly for having already started my plan to burn every TiVo'd episode of both shows to DVD for the whole year (trying to use up a bulk purchase of 500 blank DVD-Rs).
Though without looking, I doubt the free downloads are 720x480i video suitable for remixing.
the user never sees what goes on between the computer and modem anymore.
Unless you read closed captions created for live programming, such as The 78th Annual Academy Awards where, at the end of the program, NO CARRIER, RING, and CONNECT 1200 appeared twice.
For the young whippersnappers that haven't been exposed to this before, in modern terms, that's a 1.2 kbps connection. It may seem slow, but it is generally twice the speed at which you can actually read text.
wouldn't those TV's with Firewire inputs (and you're right, I had not been looking) only support DV input (as from camcorders) with a maximum resolution of 720x480?
That's one of my problems: they don't say, and no one reviews them for Firewire HD capability. There should be enough bandwidth on Firewire 400 for it, and it's what the cable boxes with IEEE 1394 outputs have that people have been using to capture unencrypted HD signals from cable (albeit MPEG-2 which is tiny compared to DV).
That's also one of the reasons I'm interested in getting a new Mac Mini or MacBook instead of waiting for the new desktop machines: I'm going to have to test these new TVs for HD over Firewire support in the field myself, and forget about lugging a tower into every store. I don't even want to haul my G4 Cube in. And there's still the question if the Mac will even recognize the TV (mine sees the TiVo as Manufacturer "0x11D9" and Model "Unknown Device" with a GUID largely based off the TiVo Service Number).
I'm not aware of any devices that will capture DVI, and I wouldn't want to have to afford enough storage to capture an uncompressed stream anyway. If it stays compressed, I don't have to lose a generation by encoding it under another lossy compression to use it.
It's not so much a listing of my needs but laying out the capabilities that would be created by having a video driver that would output video as a DV stream from a Firewire port. I'm hoping someone with the skills would start a project to bring this to Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Just the remote desktop utility of it would be compelling I should think (and I don't mean VNC with TCP/IP over Firewire which also exists).
Other options would be using XBOX heads or Slingboxes as SD computer displays.
Well we apparently have different definitions for "dedicated" in this context. To me, "dedicated TV output" means an output that is for the exclusive use of connecting to a television. That some TVs have DVI ports would make any DVI port on a computer a "dedicated TV output". The same would hold true for VGA ports.
I'd rather accept that the video port of an Apple ][ was a dedicated TV output. At least its video circuitry was cleverly designed specifically to produce color on a TV. And it too needed an external box to shift its composite signal onto a radio frequency the TVs of its time could decode.
I think we'll register that as a valid complaint around the time you find a TV at Best Buy that takes firewire in.
Hah. That just shows you haven't been looking. I have been. The Mitsubishi WD-62627 62" HDTV listed at BestBuy.com has IEEE 1394. So does the Sony KD34XBR960 34" HDTV which is the one I'm leaning towards (I prefer CRTs for their black level). There are more, But I don't even know if they support unencrypted HD content on that input; I wish the people who review HDTVs would include that information as it is a must-have feature for me.
Your request is kind of totally insane anyway when you consider that what you want to do is pretty much what DVI (and HDMI) is.
There's more than just TVs to consider. It could also be used to mirror full-motion video from one computer to another without congesting the network cable and capturing that same video for editing into PC game reviews without having to undergo generational conversions (digital to analog and back).
I have a TiVo that will capture from Firewire. It won't capture from DVI or HDMI, HDCP or not. Digital camcorders with Firewire will also act as video bridges allowing display to analog TVs and record it to tape for playback to the computer for capture. It would be great for HD-quality machinima too.
DVI and HDMI seem designed to prevent the very uses I want to exercise with Firewire. It seems no one is interested in allowing anyone to send any content over HDMI without using HDCP, so forget about PC-to-PC video transfers over HDMI. Yet the Firewire system is open enough for someone to implement this and give us another access to visual content originating on the computer. HDCP over Firewire has been forgotten. If we are to maintain access to content and, especially, be allowed to generate our own, Firewire is the only open HD path.
I use Final Cut Studio and I want to experiment with HD content. I want be able to preview what my HD projects look like on a real HDTV without having to install more hardware in the Mac (no such options for the MacBooks, iMacs, and Mac Minis). I have yet to find a Firewire DV bridge that will display HD content over component video.
I run my 4:3 21" VGA Apple Studio Display at 1856x1392. 1920x1200 and 2048x1280 are available, but the system has difficulty remembering my adjustments to the aspect ratio when I use multiple machines with the display over a KVM swtich. Also, I'd be sacrifice vertical resolution. I want to see what the end product will look like on an actual HDTV and not sacrifice my primary display's real-estate.
It appears to be only a lack of driver software that prevents me from using the Firewire port for up to four more displays. I wouldn't know where to start in coding up a virtual video driver for this, but the opportunities it opens up surely would make it worthwhile for someone to develop.
OK, so there's a $19 breakout-box. It's still not standard and repurposes a useful port for another purpose. Saying it has a "dedicated TV output" is misleads people into thinking it has it built-in or that it can only be used with a TV, neither of which is true.
And it apparently can only be used with certain Macs with certain video hardware, and you have to find another way to get audio to the TV.
I want to hook my computer to my TV with the Firewire port. Where are the virtual monitor drivers to digitize the desktop into a DV stream to do that?
(2) shall not make obsolete any devices already manufactured and distributed in the marketplace before the implementation of such regulations
So after the implementation of such regulations they can be made obsolete?
You gotta love ambiguity in the language used to craft law.
Seriously, you are legally mandated to love the ambiguity. You don't want to know the penalties for not loving the ambiguity.
Seriously, the penalties are a matter of national security and you do not want to know them. The penalties for knowing them are worse than the aforementioned penalties themselves, so you really don't want to know any of them.
"The new platform features a variety of entertainment-specific goodies, including... a dedicated TV output"
Where? I see a Firewire and a DVI port, no composite, S-Video, 75ohm coax, or component video you'd expect for the term "dedicated TV output". Indeed, from the specifications:
S-video and composite video output to connect directly to a TV or projector (using Apple DVI to Video Adapter, sold separately)
So Apple makes a scan converter, which could probably be used with any of their machines. It still doesn't make the DVI port a "dedicated TV output".
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But the PS3 will likely come with software to play the movies. The BR-ROM and HD-DVD-ROM drives likely won't. At least if DVD-ROM is any indication, they won't come with players for Linux.
Shipping with Linux does not balanace out unlawful virus DRM root kits.
Think about it though: shipping with Linux might just create a vector for undermining the DRM on the Blu-Ray HD movies playable on this console.
Face it: consumer electronics running Linux is a big neon "hack me" sign that you don't get with other proprietary consumer electronics operating systems.
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Issue 235: The Lights
I never reboot my OS X systems, except for OS updates.
Lately, I've found I've had to. Problems with the Belkin OmniView SOHO 4-port USB KVMA switch have been causing kernel panics under the latest Mac OS X. I've had the OS go through its multilingual panic because the mouse was jostled while the Belkin was having problems. It then becomes a pain trying to get the Mac to recognize any USB devices on restart.
B&W G3 w/550 MHz G4 upgrade, built-in Firewire ports dead. I need a new machine, but I'm wanting the new desktop to run Final Cut Studio UB with multiple big hard drives.
Perhaps Funny due to a lack of a Giddy mod?
Then give it to the users as local storage without backup and encourage them to keep personal files off the network storage space.
I had to install mozilla on my local storage because IT didn't want to back it up. The system-installed version was 1.2.1 until we upgraded from one end-of-life version of Redhat to another.
We still use a locally tweaked xemacs 19.13 which is 11 years old (but the build date was only 5 years ago). IT worries that anything newer will corrupt our RCS. The IT manager and his friends seem to prefer using vim.
I.e. since reporters are backed by people who can afford a press, recognized reporters will be allowed to keep that freedom.
Everyone else however....
And that at least until we get a friendly court to reinterpret our intent contrary to this assurance (see application of USA PATRIOT Act). After all, that assurance was only given by an advisor speaking out of turn with no authority, not by any elected representative.
Yes, but what will they do if the study shows that gaming is good for you?
Two words: global warming. Three more: "needs more study".
Damn, overcompensated (first typed MK).
I want to be able to download a full episode on within 24 hours of it being on the air.
You know, they do show it four times a day on cable. It may also be available on Comedy Central onDemand (I haven't checked; I have TiVo).
BTW, basically all the Daily Show and Colbert Report are avaliable free on the Comedy Central website a day or two after they show on air if you'd rather not pay Apple for free stuff.
Well now I really feel silly for having already started my plan to burn every TiVo'd episode of both shows to DVD for the whole year (trying to use up a bulk purchase of 500 blank DVD-Rs).
Though without looking, I doubt the free downloads are 720x480i video suitable for remixing.
(2 billion kelvins). That's hotter than the interior of our sun
2 TK, huh? So, what's that in MJ/L (megajoules per liter)?
the user never sees what goes on between the computer and modem anymore.
Unless you read closed captions created for live programming, such as The 78th Annual Academy Awards where, at the end of the program, NO CARRIER, RING, and CONNECT 1200 appeared twice.
For the young whippersnappers that haven't been exposed to this before, in modern terms, that's a 1.2 kbps connection. It may seem slow, but it is generally twice the speed at which you can actually read text.
What is your opinion: Cheating or Shortcut?
It can be two things!
Then where did she get a right-hand-drive car?
She saved money by buying a "slightly irregular" car from Crazy Vlaclav's Place of Automobiles?
wouldn't those TV's with Firewire inputs (and you're right, I had not been looking) only support DV input (as from camcorders) with a maximum resolution of 720x480?
That's one of my problems: they don't say, and no one reviews them for Firewire HD capability. There should be enough bandwidth on Firewire 400 for it, and it's what the cable boxes with IEEE 1394 outputs have that people have been using to capture unencrypted HD signals from cable (albeit MPEG-2 which is tiny compared to DV).
That's also one of the reasons I'm interested in getting a new Mac Mini or MacBook instead of waiting for the new desktop machines: I'm going to have to test these new TVs for HD over Firewire support in the field myself, and forget about lugging a tower into every store. I don't even want to haul my G4 Cube in. And there's still the question if the Mac will even recognize the TV (mine sees the TiVo as Manufacturer "0x11D9" and Model "Unknown Device" with a GUID largely based off the TiVo Service Number).
I'm not aware of any devices that will capture DVI, and I wouldn't want to have to afford enough storage to capture an uncompressed stream anyway. If it stays compressed, I don't have to lose a generation by encoding it under another lossy compression to use it.
It's not so much a listing of my needs but laying out the capabilities that would be created by having a video driver that would output video as a DV stream from a Firewire port. I'm hoping someone with the skills would start a project to bring this to Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. Just the remote desktop utility of it would be compelling I should think (and I don't mean VNC with TCP/IP over Firewire which also exists).
Other options would be using XBOX heads or Slingboxes as SD computer displays.
Well we apparently have different definitions for "dedicated" in this context. To me, "dedicated TV output" means an output that is for the exclusive use of connecting to a television. That some TVs have DVI ports would make any DVI port on a computer a "dedicated TV output". The same would hold true for VGA ports.
I'd rather accept that the video port of an Apple ][ was a dedicated TV output. At least its video circuitry was cleverly designed specifically to produce color on a TV. And it too needed an external box to shift its composite signal onto a radio frequency the TVs of its time could decode.
I'm looking to buy one. They do exist (mostly Mitsubishis and Sonys).
Besides, there has to be something to justify mandating that cable boxes be offered with Firewire outputs.
I think we'll register that as a valid complaint around the time you find a TV at Best Buy that takes firewire in.
Hah. That just shows you haven't been looking. I have been. The Mitsubishi WD-62627 62" HDTV listed at BestBuy.com has IEEE 1394. So does the Sony KD34XBR960 34" HDTV which is the one I'm leaning towards (I prefer CRTs for their black level). There are more, But I don't even know if they support unencrypted HD content on that input; I wish the people who review HDTVs would include that information as it is a must-have feature for me.
Your request is kind of totally insane anyway when you consider that what you want to do is pretty much what DVI (and HDMI) is.
There's more than just TVs to consider. It could also be used to mirror full-motion video from one computer to another without congesting the network cable and capturing that same video for editing into PC game reviews without having to undergo generational conversions (digital to analog and back).
I have a TiVo that will capture from Firewire. It won't capture from DVI or HDMI, HDCP or not. Digital camcorders with Firewire will also act as video bridges allowing display to analog TVs and record it to tape for playback to the computer for capture. It would be great for HD-quality machinima too.
DVI and HDMI seem designed to prevent the very uses I want to exercise with Firewire. It seems no one is interested in allowing anyone to send any content over HDMI without using HDCP, so forget about PC-to-PC video transfers over HDMI. Yet the Firewire system is open enough for someone to implement this and give us another access to visual content originating on the computer. HDCP over Firewire has been forgotten. If we are to maintain access to content and, especially, be allowed to generate our own, Firewire is the only open HD path.
I use Final Cut Studio and I want to experiment with HD content. I want be able to preview what my HD projects look like on a real HDTV without having to install more hardware in the Mac (no such options for the MacBooks, iMacs, and Mac Minis). I have yet to find a Firewire DV bridge that will display HD content over component video.
I run my 4:3 21" VGA Apple Studio Display at 1856x1392. 1920x1200 and 2048x1280 are available, but the system has difficulty remembering my adjustments to the aspect ratio when I use multiple machines with the display over a KVM swtich. Also, I'd be sacrifice vertical resolution. I want to see what the end product will look like on an actual HDTV and not sacrifice my primary display's real-estate.
It appears to be only a lack of driver software that prevents me from using the Firewire port for up to four more displays. I wouldn't know where to start in coding up a virtual video driver for this, but the opportunities it opens up surely would make it worthwhile for someone to develop.
OK, so there's a $19 breakout-box. It's still not standard and repurposes a useful port for another purpose. Saying it has a "dedicated TV output" is misleads people into thinking it has it built-in or that it can only be used with a TV, neither of which is true.
And it apparently can only be used with certain Macs with certain video hardware, and you have to find another way to get audio to the TV.
I want to hook my computer to my TV with the Firewire port. Where are the virtual monitor drivers to digitize the desktop into a DV stream to do that?
(2) shall not make obsolete any devices already manufactured and distributed in the marketplace before the implementation of such regulations
So after the implementation of such regulations they can be made obsolete?
You gotta love ambiguity in the language used to craft law.
Seriously, you are legally mandated to love the ambiguity. You don't want to know the penalties for not loving the ambiguity.
Seriously, the penalties are a matter of national security and you do not want to know them. The penalties for knowing them are worse than the aforementioned penalties themselves, so you really don't want to know any of them.
Where? I see a Firewire and a DVI port, no composite, S-Video, 75ohm coax, or component video you'd expect for the term "dedicated TV output". Indeed, from the specifications:
So Apple makes a scan converter, which could probably be used with any of their machines. It still doesn't make the DVI port a "dedicated TV output".
Hey, if the money goes into the same pockets....
What are you people talking about, they are PUBLISHING the game, not making it.
Sony also PUBLISHED music, not make it. That doesn't mean I have to be happy about getting a free rootkit surprise on every disk.
Anyways, looking at the picture... how are you supposed to play Halo?
With head-shot touchscreen-of-death goodness.