Sony is rolling out their Professional Disc line of professional video equipment. The central part of their XDCAM tapeless system is a 'Blu-ray' disc, storing approximately 24 Gigabytes of data. Professional cameras and VTRs supporting XDCAM can use multiple formats, including DVCAM [DV25] and MPEG-IMX.
Sony already had support for XDCam from AVID at the National Association of Broadcasters converntion in Las Vegas in April, one of the big names in Non-Linear (computer-based) video editing systems (NLEs).
Sony plans to make computer drives able to read and write XDCAM discs, allowing Non-Linear Editing without re-capturing.
The phase-out was announced in 2000 and won't be complete until 2009, and I suspect that after then they will still monitor the old system, but not be as responsive (the technologies that allow the current approximate location of the signal may be phased out as well). Also, if you are at sea WITH THE BOAT, you would most likely transmit an alternate distress signal [mayday style] giving your approximate location. Most of the distress signal transmitters are battery powered and hand-held.
The devices designed to operate on the 406 MHz System (and the system itself) support unique identifiers, and distress signal is more than just a tone as it is in the 121.5/243 system. This should remove 'invalid' (erroneous) broadcasts from the system.
It is in the gap between the video carrier (121.25) and aural carrier (125.75) of Standard and IRC cable systems' channel 14, broadcast channel 14 is at 471.25 (visual) and 475.75 (aural) this should not cause much interference, especially as Cable Television is run on Shielded Coaxial Cable.
Also, television systems operating within the aircraft bands must comply with FCC Rules and Regulations 76.611 -- signal leakage criteria.
The 121.5 MHz (as well as 243 MHz) Distress call response is being phased out, and the newer 406 MHz call is becoming a more accepted (and used) standard.
You could write a startup script on the machine to reset the home and search pages to a default you specify, to prevent alternate homepages from persisting (and for most, being so annoying).
VHS tapes don't come in six hour lengths. In NTSC format, they come in 180 minute lengths, and you can run them at 1/3 the speed (killing any quality left, and making it 9 hours)
In PAL, I have seen tapes up to 210 minutes in length [again, can be run at 1/3 speed, killing quality].
BetaMax also later added speeds [B, BII, BIII] with much less quality loss.
If Sony had licensed BetaMax to other manufacturers, they would have helped to figure out how to cram more tape in, et all.
If I remember right, a hotmail account lets you play the MSN web-based games, but the ones you need to download an app to play require a Zone account [you can use the same name/email, but it needs to be registered for MSN Gaming Zone (or whatever they are calling it now)].
Go ahead and make it:) you can interface via a gameport [or a gameport>usb adapter] easily, parallel a bit more complex (but parallel is not being put on newer machines, and you can't get a true parallel to usb adapter [at least not easily], you can get a gameport>usb adapter easily)
Hollywood has nothing to do with HDTV. The only things that corporations from Hollywood might be doing is PUSHING HDTV. If you get a HDTV [not HD-Ready, but an actual HDTV with a tuner], you can already get most major broadcast stations in HD via terrestrial transmissions [antenna].
Most US cable companies are taking the HDTV and/or Digital streams from the already compressed satellite feeds, decompressing them, and recompressing them all into a few digital 'channels' (or feeds, kinda like TCP ports), and whenever one station has alot of motion, all the other stations compressed onto that channel loose quality and become over-compressed, sometimes even losing signal all together.
You have probably heard of it in Europe as simply DTV or HDDTV or High Definition Digital Television. In Europe, the standard PAL/SECAM systems are considered 'High Definition TeleVision', so the abbreviation HDTV doesn't work there to describe the new technologies.
The reason BetaMax failed is that Sony would not license it to anyone. JVC licensed VHS to most everyone. The more licensees, the more units and media units can be made more quickly. Also, licensees helped in improving the technology, by making smaller and better VHS decks.
And BTW: In the professional world, a descendant of BetaMax is still used -- BetaCam. I'd say Beta won in the pro world.
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They actually used footage from some of these in some movies:
Slacker (1991)
Naja (1997)
Links:
The Pixelvision Home Page
Pixelvision (includes tecnical details)
Sony is rolling out their Professional Disc line of professional video equipment. The central part of their XDCAM tapeless system is a 'Blu-ray' disc, storing approximately 24 Gigabytes of data. Professional cameras and VTRs supporting XDCAM can use multiple formats, including DVCAM [DV25] and MPEG-IMX.
Sony already had support for XDCam from AVID at the National Association of Broadcasters converntion in Las Vegas in April, one of the big names in Non-Linear (computer-based) video editing systems (NLEs).
Sony plans to make computer drives able to read and write XDCAM discs, allowing Non-Linear Editing without re-capturing.
Links:
XDCam FAQs (pdf)
MPEG-IMX White Paper [v2] (pdf)
The phase-out was announced in 2000 and won't be complete until 2009, and I suspect that after then they will still monitor the old system, but not be as responsive (the technologies that allow the current approximate location of the signal may be phased out as well). Also, if you are at sea WITH THE BOAT, you would most likely transmit an alternate distress signal [mayday style] giving your approximate location. Most of the distress signal transmitters are battery powered and hand-held.
The devices designed to operate on the 406 MHz System (and the system itself) support unique identifiers, and distress signal is more than just a tone as it is in the 121.5/243 system. This should remove 'invalid' (erroneous) broadcasts from the system.
It is in the gap between the video carrier (121.25) and aural carrier (125.75) of Standard and IRC cable systems' channel 14, broadcast channel 14 is at 471.25 (visual) and 475.75 (aural) this should not cause much interference, especially as Cable Television is run on Shielded Coaxial Cable.
Also, television systems operating within the aircraft bands must comply with FCC Rules and Regulations 76.611 -- signal leakage criteria.
The 121.5 MHz (as well as 243 MHz) Distress call response is being phased out, and the newer 406 MHz call is becoming a more accepted (and used) standard.
See the official NOAA Press Release (PDF) for deteals.
You could write a startup script on the machine to reset the home and search pages to a default you specify, to prevent alternate homepages from persisting (and for most, being so annoying).
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Amiga will live forever!
Yes, this is correct, this case does not determine if or if not the 1-click patent is a just and valid patent.
Yes, but they are never rendered as such in this situation, and will stay as close to natural curves as possible.
See, thats my point.
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Amiga may very well outlive us all
Not really, this program may support curves [be they subpatches, or auto-created based upon user input], and the need for high poly count is removed
So I get ads from my friends, and only my friends, so If I'm looking for a new place to do something, tough luck? Seems kinda odd....
Oooh! I want to be first in line for a 386, a 387, and a 586!!! -------- Amiga will live forever.
Why would I leave my Amiga 3000 [m68030] with Workbench to go to a PPC with windows?
Seriously!
The Amiga will never die.
VHS tapes don't come in six hour lengths. In NTSC format, they come in 180 minute lengths, and you can run them at 1/3 the speed (killing any quality left, and making it 9 hours) In PAL, I have seen tapes up to 210 minutes in length [again, can be run at 1/3 speed, killing quality]. BetaMax also later added speeds [B, BII, BIII] with much less quality loss. If Sony had licensed BetaMax to other manufacturers, they would have helped to figure out how to cram more tape in, et all.
Microsoft did not license theire OS to other manufacturers.
If I remember right, a hotmail account lets you play the MSN web-based games, but the ones you need to download an app to play require a Zone account [you can use the same name/email, but it needs to be registered for MSN Gaming Zone (or whatever they are calling it now)].
Go ahead and make it :) you can interface via a gameport [or a gameport>usb adapter] easily, parallel a bit more complex (but parallel is not being put on newer machines, and you can't get a true parallel to usb adapter [at least not easily], you can get a gameport>usb adapter easily)
Also, there is http://solito.free.fr/catane/ - flash based
Not necessarily, but it is a nice reason to move away from Microsoft Windows.
Linux Anyone?
SuSE (Novell)
Red Hat
Mandrake
GenToo
Slackware
And get others from Distrowatch
IBM never licensed its BIOS. Compaq reverse-engineered it to make the first 'compatible'.
Hollywood has nothing to do with HDTV. The only things that corporations from Hollywood might be doing is PUSHING HDTV. If you get a HDTV [not HD-Ready, but an actual HDTV with a tuner], you can already get most major broadcast stations in HD via terrestrial transmissions [antenna].
Most US cable companies are taking the HDTV and/or Digital streams from the already compressed satellite feeds, decompressing them, and recompressing them all into a few digital 'channels' (or feeds, kinda like TCP ports), and whenever one station has alot of motion, all the other stations compressed onto that channel loose quality and become over-compressed, sometimes even losing signal all together.
You have probably heard of it in Europe as simply DTV or HDDTV or High Definition Digital Television. In Europe, the standard PAL/SECAM systems are considered 'High Definition TeleVision', so the abbreviation HDTV doesn't work there to describe the new technologies.
The reason BetaMax failed is that Sony would not license it to anyone. JVC licensed VHS to most everyone. The more licensees, the more units and media units can be made more quickly. Also, licensees helped in improving the technology, by making smaller and better VHS decks.
And BTW: In the professional world, a descendant of BetaMax is still used -- BetaCam. I'd say Beta won in the pro world.