Since this is somewhat related, when broadcast made the conversion from analog to digital, I recall hearing how DTV would be coming to smartphones (Japan has had it for over 10 years!). Yet in the past few years since the conversion, I've heard nothing of DTV antennas being added to smartphones. Why did this get buried by the phone/media industry?
I for one, consume all media online (I have neither cable/sat/OTA DTV, only degrading analog cable TV hooked up to an old SDTV, which I never use). If my phone received DTV signals, I'd use the feature all the time.
I'm looking for a decent prepaid data option to just go wifi + prepaid + google voice and drop regular voice/data plans for good. Eying t-mobile's $1.49 unlimited data 24-hour day pass. I'm so rarely in a non-wifi environment (subway commute) it hardly makes sense to pay for a standard voice/data plan.
I was just about to suggest using VLCRAAR for RAR playback (which I've been using for years), but I just noticed that VLCRAAR is broken in 1.0 (works fine in 0.9.9).
HOWEVER, I then tried loading a RAR archive straight up and it played the video fine! It even allows for fast-forwarding across multi-RAR archives! I'm not sure why they didn't advertise this in the 1.0 launch, but this is great!
(note - doesn't appear to work with HD content, only divx/xvid worked. For HD content RAR archives, I recommend BS Player Pro + Haali media splitter + ffdshow)
The great thing about TWC/Earthlink in NYC is that they are often running competing $30/month for the first 6-month promotions. Since Earthlink piggybacks on TMC's lines, and there are no contract commitments, you can switch instantaneously back and forth at the end of each 6-month promotion (literally takes 5 minutes on the phone, no return of equipment or anything). I've been paying $30/month for 10-15Mbps for years now.
Oh boo. Has anyone been sued for downloading a TV show? That's all they really want, my first post was incorrect as they already have netflix for movies.
My 65 year-old parents recently asked me how they could also watch all the shows & movies that I've been downloading all these years. So being the good son that I am, I set them up with uTorrent, the appropriate bookmarks, VLC, and a tutorial on how to handle everything. They were quite happy.:)
Hmmm "2.8GHz on a 90nm chip, SSE3 enabled" for... $1031!!
My Venice 3000+ runs at 2.8GHz on a 90nm chip, SSE3 enabled for....$147.
You do the math. Thanks AMD!:)
On stock retail cooling too, absolutely beautiful..
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Since this is somewhat related, when broadcast made the conversion from analog to digital, I recall hearing how DTV would be coming to smartphones (Japan has had it for over 10 years!). Yet in the past few years since the conversion, I've heard nothing of DTV antennas being added to smartphones. Why did this get buried by the phone/media industry? I for one, consume all media online (I have neither cable/sat/OTA DTV, only degrading analog cable TV hooked up to an old SDTV, which I never use). If my phone received DTV signals, I'd use the feature all the time.
I'm looking for a decent prepaid data option to just go wifi + prepaid + google voice and drop regular voice/data plans for good. Eying t-mobile's $1.49 unlimited data 24-hour day pass. I'm so rarely in a non-wifi environment (subway commute) it hardly makes sense to pay for a standard voice/data plan.
I was just about to suggest using VLCRAAR for RAR playback (which I've been using for years), but I just noticed that VLCRAAR is broken in 1.0 (works fine in 0.9.9). HOWEVER, I then tried loading a RAR archive straight up and it played the video fine! It even allows for fast-forwarding across multi-RAR archives! I'm not sure why they didn't advertise this in the 1.0 launch, but this is great! (note - doesn't appear to work with HD content, only divx/xvid worked. For HD content RAR archives, I recommend BS Player Pro + Haali media splitter + ffdshow)
The great thing about TWC/Earthlink in NYC is that they are often running competing $30/month for the first 6-month promotions. Since Earthlink piggybacks on TMC's lines, and there are no contract commitments, you can switch instantaneously back and forth at the end of each 6-month promotion (literally takes 5 minutes on the phone, no return of equipment or anything). I've been paying $30/month for 10-15Mbps for years now.
Oh boo. Has anyone been sued for downloading a TV show? That's all they really want, my first post was incorrect as they already have netflix for movies.
My 65 year-old parents recently asked me how they could also watch all the shows & movies that I've been downloading all these years. So being the good son that I am, I set them up with uTorrent, the appropriate bookmarks, VLC, and a tutorial on how to handle everything. They were quite happy. :)
Hmmm "2.8GHz on a 90nm chip, SSE3 enabled" for... $1031!!
:) On stock retail cooling too, absolutely beautiful..
My Venice 3000+ runs at 2.8GHz on a 90nm chip, SSE3 enabled for....$147.
You do the math. Thanks AMD!
Hmmm "2.8GHz on a 90nm chip, SSE3 enabled" for... $1031!! My Venice 3000+ runs at 2.8GHz on a 90nm chip, SSE3 enabled for....$147. You do the math. Thanks AMD! :)
On stock retail cooling too, absolutely beautiful..