I haven't seen the comment made anywhere that perhaps the real motivation for the bit OpenSocial announcement could be that Google lost the bidding war for a stake in Facebook. This could explain MS's lack of interest in creating a cross-SN API, though I can't picture them doing that anyway, except maybe as an option in their dev tools.
Yes. It's in the article:
"And CinemaNow claims more than 4,000 feature-length films, television programs, and music concerts from licensors such as 20th Century Fox, Disney, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Sony, Sundance Channel, and Warner Bros."
If you want to do it legally, you need connections with the studios.
CinemaNow does require downloading and installing an ActiveX control for its player window, which in turn uses Windows Media Player. Also, there's another download if you want to burn DVDs.
At the end of the day, the worth of the Radeon X1950 XTX comes down to this: Does the improved memory bandwidth you get from GDDR4 really make a difference if you don't change anything else about the card? Unfortunately, the answer is no. In most games, at high resolutions like 1600x1200 with 4x antialiasing and 8x anisotropic filtering applied, the speed goes up by a modest 5% to 8% over the Radeon X1900 XTX. If that's all you get from an almost 30% increase in memory bandwidth, color us unimpressed.
The one-page link doesn't work for me. Anyway, how bout supporting web content by giving us the page views? Is it that hard? And if you use Opera, you can just click on the fast forward button.
In terms of expert versus consumer opinions, the buyer's opinion is the only one that matters. But experts often pick up things that consumers miss in their initial (brief) evaluation, and then discover much later with regret. To get a handle on this point just replace "HDTV" with "automobile" for example. A consumer needs to be happy with their own "test drive" but they couldn't possibly examine emergency handling, engine and transmission performance issues that only an expert can do. In the context of the article, the JVC Consumer unit has some flaws (artifacts) that a typical consumer won't be able to identify, but that affect picture quality performance.
Raymond Soneira
DisplayMate Technologies Corp
Another issue is that the mind is tricky about fooling you into hearing what you think it should sound like after a while. Kind of like how you tune out some obnoxious background noise after a little while of exposure.
Re:"Brighter == Better", not in this test.
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He actually comments on this point in the previous article in the series http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1923419 ,00.asp--so you're both right!:
"Why are these TVs so bright? Why are the manufacturers putting in bigger lamps and special higher gain screens to make these already way-too-bright TVs even brighter? I know they've all read the earlier articles, so why are they doing this? Sadly, the reason is that in a retail setting, brightness is frequently a deciding sales factor. So, like it or not, the manufacturers have to build their sets to be as bright as possible in order to be commercially successful.
I spoke at length about this with Steven Lopez, manager of the Nashua New Hampshire store of Cambridge SoundWorks (a specialty AV chain based in New England). Steven expanded upon what the manufacturers had already told me, "The unfortunate truth to selling TVs on the sales floor is that bright sets attract the mass consumer. The most accurate sets may not be the most appealing. The brightest units simply make the other nearby sets look anemic and old, kind of like the tired CRT they are replacing. Often that's enough to tip the scales in a sale, regardless of the price range involved."
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I haven't seen the comment made anywhere that perhaps the real motivation for the bit OpenSocial announcement could be that Google lost the bidding war for a stake in Facebook. This could explain MS's lack of interest in creating a cross-SN API, though I can't picture them doing that anyway, except maybe as an option in their dev tools.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2158619 ,00.asp
I just ripped a CD to WMP that I'd burned from iTunes. Actually didn't try playing it cuz had to run to work, but is that not possible?
This has been fixed in the article.
Yes. It's in the article: "And CinemaNow claims more than 4,000 feature-length films, television programs, and music concerts from licensors such as 20th Century Fox, Disney, Lionsgate, MGM, Miramax, NBC Universal, Paramount Pictures, Sony, Sundance Channel, and Warner Bros." If you want to do it legally, you need connections with the studios.
CinemaNow does require downloading and installing an ActiveX control for its player window, which in turn uses Windows Media Player. Also, there's another download if you want to burn DVDs.
Well that linking format didnt' work: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2021888 ,00.asp
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At the end of the day, the worth of the Radeon X1950 XTX comes down to this: Does the improved memory bandwidth you get from GDDR4 really make a difference if you don't change anything else about the card? Unfortunately, the answer is no. In most games, at high resolutions like 1600x1200 with 4x antialiasing and 8x anisotropic filtering applied, the speed goes up by a modest 5% to 8% over the Radeon X1900 XTX. If that's all you get from an almost 30% increase in memory bandwidth, color us unimpressed.
X1950 XTX review
Sorry, that was supposed to be MB; the correction has been made in the article.
The one-page link doesn't work for me. Anyway, how bout supporting web content by giving us the page views? Is it that hard? And if you use Opera, you can just click on the fast forward button.
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1989036 ,00.asp
Sorry, my bad: The error's in the summary.
d'OH. Pardon the typo.
How would you prefer to pay for the content?
The X3D people would have some bones to pick with that.
Also http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1966062 ,00.asp which tests the FX-62, too, and uses even testbeds.
True, but Abiword is a 5MB download that some internet cafe you go to in a pinch might not let you install.
In truth, though, there are better lightweight solutions, like Zoho writer: http://www.zohowriter.com/ and ThinkFree Office: http://www.thinkfree.com/
In terms of expert versus consumer opinions, the buyer's opinion is the only one that matters. But experts often pick up things that consumers miss in their initial (brief) evaluation, and then discover much later with regret. To get a handle on this point just replace "HDTV" with "automobile" for example. A consumer needs to be happy with their own "test drive" but they couldn't possibly examine emergency handling, engine and transmission performance issues that only an expert can do. In the context of the article, the JVC Consumer unit has some flaws (artifacts) that a typical consumer won't be able to identify, but that affect picture quality performance. Raymond Soneira DisplayMate Technologies Corp
Another issue is that the mind is tricky about fooling you into hearing what you think it should sound like after a while. Kind of like how you tune out some obnoxious background noise after a little while of exposure.
He actually comments on this point in the previous article in the series http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1923419 ,00.asp--so you're both right!:
"Why are these TVs so bright? Why are the manufacturers putting in bigger lamps and special higher gain screens to make these already way-too-bright TVs even brighter? I know they've all read the earlier articles, so why are they doing this? Sadly, the reason is that in a retail setting, brightness is frequently a deciding sales factor. So, like it or not, the manufacturers have to build their sets to be as bright as possible in order to be commercially successful.
I spoke at length about this with Steven Lopez, manager of the Nashua New Hampshire store of Cambridge SoundWorks (a specialty AV chain based in New England). Steven expanded upon what the manufacturers had already told me, "The unfortunate truth to selling TVs on the sales floor is that bright sets attract the mass consumer. The most accurate sets may not be the most appealing. The brightest units simply make the other nearby sets look anemic and old, kind of like the tired CRT they are replacing. Often that's enough to tip the scales in a sale, regardless of the price range involved."
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1914692 ,00.asp
It's that simple.