Well, in the UK HDTVs have only been turning up in the last couple of years, and the "HD Ready" logo scheme require a HDMI port (or a compatible DVI with encryption port), so here just about any HDTV over here.
I'd assume the Revolution won't ship with the best cable possible as well, so you should budget for something if you want the best quality. I'd guess this is especially if you have some sort of HDTV or something and want to use progressive scan.
The digital port is for component video AFAIK. AFAIK pics of the Revolution only show this port, so it will presumably be used for everything on that, I guess the old SNES port is being chucked out.
Its also of note that sony is using a standard pc power cable this time around too.
As far as I know, most / all consoles with internal PSUs use a standard power connector though (usually the smaller type rather than the big "kettle cord" ones PCs use), and even some external ones have them as well (the slim PlayStation 2 for example).
The expensive Xbox 360 does include a dual use composite / component cable though, it would be nice if Sony inlcuded some kind of better cable than lowest common demoninator composite in the expensive PS3 as well.
Well, AFAIK the official pictures of the console (including the current "where did half the connectors go" ones) do show a standard HDMI conector(s), with the old fashioned PlayStation connector for everything else.
When did everything start becomming SKUs? Recently it seems everything is an SKU now. I knwo what it means, I just don't know why it seems to be thrown around so much, like in this quote. Why not say "... it's relatively poor in comparison to other systems that we've reviewed recently." or something.
The BBC lost / wiped their coverage of Apollo 11 as well.:-)
I don't think Doctor Who was burnt (not that often anyway), the videotapes would've been wiped with a powerful magnet then reused, and the film recordings / kinescopes made for export were unspooled and dumped in landfill. Doctor Who is far better represented than a lot of 1960s British TV though (some ITV companies were also quite wipe-happy as well).
He's wrong, the UK is just ahead of the North American releases (apart from The Key to Time set, that's only out in NA). The UK release rate has just been increased from 6 to 10 releases a year though, so it should take less than a decade to finish the set now.
The releases do have better extras than most TV series of course (even the new "vanilla" releases that make up the 4 extra releases still have full commentaries and the production text subtitles), but the release rate can be annoying.
(For those who don't know / care, the Doctor Who releases are of induvidual serials (usually 4-6 episodes), rather than entire seasons, with a few boxsets of linked stories. They're also released in a pattern designed to give a mix of Doctors, rather than sequentially. I guess it was chosen partly becuase Doctor Who releases started before box sets became really common, and also that it was a pattern that worked with the VHS releases.)
No, Codemasters has always been a British company, and I think you're thinking of them (or at least their North American distributer) winning a lawsuit in Canada before they won the US one over the NES Game Genie. I seem to remember that Codemasters stuff was distributed in America by the makers of Micro Machines, and therefore Codemasters got the licence to make the Micro Machines games, which was also their first Mega Drive game, which led to the suit described by the grandparent.
My PAL 'cube has a digital AV connector (bought just before Christmas 2004), but I don't think Nintendo ever released a cable in Europe for it. It does support RGB SCART through the old style analogue connector, which is component as well, just different components.
No it isn't, you could get RGB SCART as well[1], and there's also an RF adaptor if you have a really old or crap TV. For some reason Nintendo really liked messing around, so NTSC Gamecubes don't support RGB, and PAL ones don't support S-Video.
Anyway, who has a PAL TV that doesn't support RGB SCART but does have S-Video? I my experince RGB SCART is far more common than S-Video, and it's better quality anyhow.
[1] I bought mine for about £3 in a HMV clearance shortly before most HMVs stopped selling the 'cube.
I think it's more talking about Europe as a whole, rather than Britain, but yes. I'm not sure if it's that unusual to use "territory" to indicate a region or area, but I'm English.
Anyway, suspiciously similar colour schemes to both the current generation of iPods and the PSP (the white model was released over here a couple of weeks ago).
Probably not that much difference between mastering MediaWiki and mastering a modern word processor. MediaWiki might be easier as it has less features overall. But I think for a beginner, a word processor with a page of formatted text and friendly toolbars is a lot less intimidating than MediaWiki's sea of unformatted source code and basic toolbars.
Someone needs to bolt one of these AJAX Web 2.0 Beta platform browser-hosted swishy word processors to the editing stage.:-)
/ On the subject of Office files being transfered and changes being lost, don't any of the various server side bits of Office have anything for that sort of thing? Although it would be another cost on top of Office itself...
Burst into laughter when they read the headline? Thought not.
It's not just seeing "EA" and "innovation" in the same sentence, it's the fact they seem to be aiming for a specific percentage of "innovation" in their games. It all seems very accountanty.
Developer: I've got this great new idea for our game! It'll be revolutionary! Boss: Sorry, I'm not sure if we've got enough innovation left in our budget for revolutionary, can you scale it down to a neat twist on an existing idea?
What's the conversion between a Library of Congress and a British Library? We're a bit out of date in the UK and still use Imperial measurements for some stuff...
I think there's a fair number of people who use mods for semi-legitimate uses (stuff like emulators, media players etc.)[1], or legitimate stuff like Linux. Microsoft doesn't particularly want people doing these things on the Xbox, so they refuse them entry to their super fun happy club.
Of course the people who used mods to cheat at Halo are probably great for MS PR, as Halo players can equate "mod" with "stinking cheater". It's partly Bungie's fault anyway, data on the Xbox HD was insecure for ages before Halo 2, so did they do any kinda of data verification? Of course not...
[1] I say semi, as emulators are a legal grey area, as AFAIK most Xbox homebrew uses pirate copies of the MS SDK.
This is talking about stuff like trailers, demoes and the like, not software updates. Have Microsoft been any more vindictive about mods than banning consoles from Xbox Live anyway? (I personally don't mind if Microsoft don't want modded consoles on Xbox Live, that's up to them, it's their service, they can set the rules).
Getting a load of downloads of free content like demos and trailers is nice, but I wonder how this compares to stuff like avatars and themes that they want people to pay for. Is their micropayment business plan working?
Well, in Europe we have a slight problem. The highest quality input on most TVs is RGB SCART. Guess what format the PS2 doesn't support for DVD playback? RGB. You get a green tinted black and white picture. Strangley, no other SCART equipped DVD player has this problem.
(I did hear it's becuase they forgot to put Macrovision or whatever on the RGB output, and it was discovered on early Japanese models. So rather than fix it, they just crippled the console. After all, if you want a good DVD player, Sony do have a wide selection...)
The premium Xbox 360 is £280 (~$530), the crap pack is £210 (~$400), the basic (not value / giga pack) PSP is £150 (~$280) and the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 1 both launched at £300 (~$570), although the latter dropped in price very quickly, and Microsoft ended up giving away some controllers and games to early adopters in compensation. All prices rounded up, and include 17.5% VAT.
The Pound Sterling price is slightly (about £10-20) more than the Euro one, those British plugs must cost a bomb.
You can subscribe worldwide to the current "Nintendo: The Official Magazine" at Future Publishing's subscriptions site. This NOM is fairly new though, Future only recently gained the licence from EMAP, it was their magazine that was the direct descandent of the (UK) Nintendo Magazine System.
/ Future now publishes the "offical" PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Nintendo magazines. And half of the "unofficial" competitors.
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Well, in the UK HDTVs have only been turning up in the last couple of years, and the "HD Ready" logo scheme require a HDMI port (or a compatible DVI with encryption port), so here just about any HDTV over here.
I'd assume the Revolution won't ship with the best cable possible as well, so you should budget for something if you want the best quality. I'd guess this is especially if you have some sort of HDTV or something and want to use progressive scan.
The digital port is for component video AFAIK. AFAIK pics of the Revolution only show this port, so it will presumably be used for everything on that, I guess the old SNES port is being chucked out.
What about gold plated optical / Toslink connectors though, those gold plated clips really help with the signal!
Its also of note that sony is using a standard pc power cable this time around too.
As far as I know, most / all consoles with internal PSUs use a standard power connector though (usually the smaller type rather than the big "kettle cord" ones PCs use), and even some external ones have them as well (the slim PlayStation 2 for example).
The expensive Xbox 360 does include a dual use composite / component cable though, it would be nice if Sony inlcuded some kind of better cable than lowest common demoninator composite in the expensive PS3 as well.
Well, AFAIK the official pictures of the console (including the current "where did half the connectors go" ones) do show a standard HDMI conector(s), with the old fashioned PlayStation connector for everything else.
When did everything start becomming SKUs? Recently it seems everything is an SKU now. I knwo what it means, I just don't know why it seems to be thrown around so much, like in this quote. Why not say "... it's relatively poor in comparison to other systems that we've reviewed recently." or something.
The BBC lost / wiped their coverage of Apollo 11 as well. :-)
I don't think Doctor Who was burnt (not that often anyway), the videotapes would've been wiped with a powerful magnet then reused, and the film recordings / kinescopes made for export were unspooled and dumped in landfill. Doctor Who is far better represented than a lot of 1960s British TV though (some ITV companies were also quite wipe-happy as well).
He's wrong, the UK is just ahead of the North American releases (apart from The Key to Time set, that's only out in NA). The UK release rate has just been increased from 6 to 10 releases a year though, so it should take less than a decade to finish the set now.
The releases do have better extras than most TV series of course (even the new "vanilla" releases that make up the 4 extra releases still have full commentaries and the production text subtitles), but the release rate can be annoying.
(For those who don't know / care, the Doctor Who releases are of induvidual serials (usually 4-6 episodes), rather than entire seasons, with a few boxsets of linked stories. They're also released in a pattern designed to give a mix of Doctors, rather than sequentially. I guess it was chosen partly becuase Doctor Who releases started before box sets became really common, and also that it was a pattern that worked with the VHS releases.)
No, Codemasters has always been a British company, and I think you're thinking of them (or at least their North American distributer) winning a lawsuit in Canada before they won the US one over the NES Game Genie. I seem to remember that Codemasters stuff was distributed in America by the makers of Micro Machines, and therefore Codemasters got the licence to make the Micro Machines games, which was also their first Mega Drive game, which led to the suit described by the grandparent.
My PAL 'cube has a digital AV connector (bought just before Christmas 2004), but I don't think Nintendo ever released a cable in Europe for it. It does support RGB SCART through the old style analogue connector, which is component as well, just different components.
No it isn't, you could get RGB SCART as well[1], and there's also an RF adaptor if you have a really old or crap TV. For some reason Nintendo really liked messing around, so NTSC Gamecubes don't support RGB, and PAL ones don't support S-Video.
Anyway, who has a PAL TV that doesn't support RGB SCART but does have S-Video? I my experince RGB SCART is far more common than S-Video, and it's better quality anyhow.
[1] I bought mine for about £3 in a HMV clearance shortly before most HMVs stopped selling the 'cube.
I think it's more talking about Europe as a whole, rather than Britain, but yes. I'm not sure if it's that unusual to use "territory" to indicate a region or area, but I'm English.
Anyway, suspiciously similar colour schemes to both the current generation of iPods and the PSP (the white model was released over here a couple of weeks ago).
Probably not that much difference between mastering MediaWiki and mastering a modern word processor. MediaWiki might be easier as it has less features overall. But I think for a beginner, a word processor with a page of formatted text and friendly toolbars is a lot less intimidating than MediaWiki's sea of unformatted source code and basic toolbars.
:-)
Someone needs to bolt one of these AJAX Web 2.0 Beta platform browser-hosted swishy word processors to the editing stage.
/ On the subject of Office files being transfered and changes being lost, don't any of the various server side bits of Office have anything for that sort of thing? Although it would be another cost on top of Office itself...
Burst into laughter when they read the headline? Thought not.
It's not just seeing "EA" and "innovation" in the same sentence, it's the fact they seem to be aiming for a specific percentage of "innovation" in their games. It all seems very accountanty.
Developer: I've got this great new idea for our game! It'll be revolutionary!
Boss: Sorry, I'm not sure if we've got enough innovation left in our budget for revolutionary, can you scale it down to a neat twist on an existing idea?
What's the conversion between a Library of Congress and a British Library? We're a bit out of date in the UK and still use Imperial measurements for some stuff...
I think there's a fair number of people who use mods for semi-legitimate uses (stuff like emulators, media players etc.)[1], or legitimate stuff like Linux. Microsoft doesn't particularly want people doing these things on the Xbox, so they refuse them entry to their super fun happy club.
Of course the people who used mods to cheat at Halo are probably great for MS PR, as Halo players can equate "mod" with "stinking cheater". It's partly Bungie's fault anyway, data on the Xbox HD was insecure for ages before Halo 2, so did they do any kinda of data verification? Of course not...
[1] I say semi, as emulators are a legal grey area, as AFAIK most Xbox homebrew uses pirate copies of the MS SDK.
This is talking about stuff like trailers, demoes and the like, not software updates. Have Microsoft been any more vindictive about mods than banning consoles from Xbox Live anyway? (I personally don't mind if Microsoft don't want modded consoles on Xbox Live, that's up to them, it's their service, they can set the rules).
Getting a load of downloads of free content like demos and trailers is nice, but I wonder how this compares to stuff like avatars and themes that they want people to pay for. Is their micropayment business plan working?
AAUI it was more in Japan that the PS2 was a cheap DVD player at launch, so it would be a different market, and slightly earlier in the DVD timeline.
I'd guess they're hoping to repeat some of this worldwide...
Well, in Europe we have a slight problem. The highest quality input on most TVs is RGB SCART. Guess what format the PS2 doesn't support for DVD playback? RGB. You get a green tinted black and white picture. Strangley, no other SCART equipped DVD player has this problem.
(I did hear it's becuase they forgot to put Macrovision or whatever on the RGB output, and it was discovered on early Japanese models. So rather than fix it, they just crippled the console. After all, if you want a good DVD player, Sony do have a wide selection...)
The premium Xbox 360 is £280 (~$530), the crap pack is £210 (~$400), the basic (not value / giga pack) PSP is £150 (~$280) and the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 1 both launched at £300 (~$570), although the latter dropped in price very quickly, and Microsoft ended up giving away some controllers and games to early adopters in compensation. All prices rounded up, and include 17.5% VAT.
The Pound Sterling price is slightly (about £10-20) more than the Euro one, those British plugs must cost a bomb.
That'll be with VAT, only stuff aimed at businesses quote ex-VAT prices.
You can subscribe worldwide to the current "Nintendo: The Official Magazine" at Future Publishing's subscriptions site. This NOM is fairly new though, Future only recently gained the licence from EMAP, it was their magazine that was the direct descandent of the (UK) Nintendo Magazine System.
/ Future now publishes the "offical" PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Nintendo magazines. And half of the "unofficial" competitors.