Instead of using the increased bandwidth available on the media, the blu-ray discs I've bought and viewed are the same transfers as broadcast in HD on Showtime and HBO and exhibit exactly the same "color banding" in exactly the same scenes. Even "Superman Returns" has occasional color banding even though it's supposed to be the first 50GB blu-ray disc! And on a 55" screen, it's pretty distracting/obnoxious when you see it.
IMO, this parallels the same fucked up compression debacle during DVD's first years. Eventually the video compression companies will have better compression algorithms and we'll get the blu-ray equivalent of "superbit." However, I'm not so sure that I'll continue to buy blu-ray discs until that day arrives because I don't want to encourage or reward the laziness of the industry.
Nonsense, said major network can broadcast six SD digital sub-channels on the channel that used to show one analog channel. All they would need to do is buy the digital encoders and convert their analog transmitter to digital with a conversion kit from the transmitter manufacturer. Now they have the possibility of bringing in six times the ad revenue.
The programming guide information is contained in the PSIP, which is part of the MPEG-2 data stream. QAM and 8VSB are data stream modulation schemes. However, there are lots of cable headend equipment that will let you screw with the PSIP data.
How is this "insightful"? Even if you did the typical/. thing and only read the synopsis, and not the article, it's clear that they were getting paid for their OT work, just not at OT rates.
Firefox hanging/crashing soon after startup? Have you tried running it in "safe mode" just to ensure that the fault is Firefox's and not some poorly written extension's?
Well, let me clue you buddy... my new panasonic blu-ray player upconverts DVDs to 1080p and they look simply fantastic! Oh, and it play's Blu-Ray discs, too. But I'm not buying any more Blu-Ray discs until the studios stop putting the 1080i broadcast-compressed transfers on them!! 1080p can look much, much better than what they're giving us.
This is special relativity stuff... two photons travel at a constant, non-accelerating speed, and since that speed is the speed of light (by definition) all their momentum is in the space dimensions so that time doesn't pass for the photons. A photon emitted soon after the Big Bang still hasn't experienced any passage of time despite it being 14 billion years later.
Occam wagers that the reporters probably just got finished with lunch and didn't wash their hands afterwards. It's probably a good thing that one of the reporters didn't cup a fart in their hand for the robot.
I just bought the Panasonic DMP-BD10 from Crutchfield and got it two weeks ago. The single layer disc releases show the exact same artifacting as the 1080i broadcast versions do. It's clearly obvious that they're not re-encoding to use less compression and show off the format; rather, they're using the broadcast versions compressed to fit in a 6-MHz bandwidth, which look good if there's not too much motion (like a field of grass or leaves on a tree in the wind) and no sunsets (or other light-to-dark gradients). And although I've not done an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray side-by-side comparison, I'd guess they're using the same bit streams for both formats to save costs rather than spend money showing off how much better each format is than the other!
Microsoft says that you can reactivate Windows as many times as you want. To do this I believe that XP creates a "checksum" of your hardware and sends it to Microsoft when you activate. You can format and reinstall and reactivate Windows to your heart's content. But replace some hardware and your "checksum" won't match and you'll be forced to spend at least ten minutes on the phone with some outsourced person in some foreign country groveling for a new activation key. Bill has probably outfitted all those foreign call-centers with voice stress analyzers so that they'll know when your lying about not installing it on more than one machine.
Do you know which packages were added to WS to make ES? arptables_jf, caching-nameserver, freeradius, inews, inn, radvd, rarpd-ss981107, system-config-boot, system-config-netboot, system-config-nfs, vsftpd, and ypserv. Does that justify the almost 100% markup in price from WS to ES just for the cost of using Red Hat Network?
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IBM's Informix "stack" is slated to be merged into DB2. DB2 needs the technology acquired in the Informix purchase. And isn't Microsoft's SQL Server based on an older version of Sybase?
I just bought the new Panasonic Blu-Ray player and it came with a free "Eight Below" and an offer for another two by mail "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "The Great Raid". I received the mail movies in less than a week. I also purchased "Stargate," "Sky Captain," and the first two Terminators. My only complaint is that the compression sucks on all these discs. There is a "color banding" or "posterization" effect on scenes with sunsets and is seen at it's worst on the "Sky Captain" BD where Sky Captain's plane plows into the ocean. This "effect" only happens occasionally, but when it does it's really, really distracting and annoying.
Granted all these discs are single layer BD discs. I was really expecting to see them releasing dual layer discs with a whole lot less compression. I am viewing these discs at 1080p over an HDMI cable on a Mitsubishi WD-57831 and I have used the THX video tests on the discs to adjust the display to where I can barely see macroblocking in the sky scenes in "Eight Below".
Well, DVD started out with the same kind of incorrectly compressed releases and it took time for "Superbit" discs to arrive. Properly mastered DVDs look fantastic on this player when upconverted to 1080p.
Don't necessarily assume xenophobia when not being willing to deal with a non-Japanese speaking customer is the more likely explanation. After a night of heavy drinking in Tokyo, I never had a problem getting a cab at 3am because I can speak enough Japanese to give directions even when very drunk. And I always tipped the cabbie.
The Suica cards are a pre-paid deal... You can reload them next to the JR ticket machines. Suica is explained pretty well over in Wikipedia if you could be bothered to look before you posted.
So, what exactly is wrong with a system like Suica? It's anonymous and convenient. Not having to wait in line in Tokyo for a JR ticket in the morning was quite nice. So was running into a combini and buying a Pocari Sweat with my Suica card.
The decline in 1st class mail is because it now takes a week to get from CA to FL and the equivalent service, priority mail, costs ten times as much and isn't as dependable as, say, FedEx. The US government has priced itself right out of the market!
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Maybe Google will run fiber to my home out here in sunny Ridgecrest, CA. Verizon sure isn't going to any time soon.
Instead of using the increased bandwidth available on the media, the blu-ray discs I've bought and viewed are the same transfers as broadcast in HD on Showtime and HBO and exhibit exactly the same "color banding" in exactly the same scenes. Even "Superman Returns" has occasional color banding even though it's supposed to be the first 50GB blu-ray disc! And on a 55" screen, it's pretty distracting/obnoxious when you see it.
IMO, this parallels the same fucked up compression debacle during DVD's first years. Eventually the video compression companies will have better compression algorithms and we'll get the blu-ray equivalent of "superbit." However, I'm not so sure that I'll continue to buy blu-ray discs until that day arrives because I don't want to encourage or reward the laziness of the industry.
Nonsense, said major network can broadcast six SD digital sub-channels on the channel that used to show one analog channel. All they would need to do is buy the digital encoders and convert their analog transmitter to digital with a conversion kit from the transmitter manufacturer. Now they have the possibility of bringing in six times the ad revenue.
The programming guide information is contained in the PSIP, which is part of the MPEG-2 data stream. QAM and 8VSB are data stream modulation schemes. However, there are lots of cable headend equipment that will let you screw with the PSIP data.
How is this "insightful"? Even if you did the typical /. thing and only read the synopsis, and not the article, it's clear that they were getting paid for their OT work, just not at OT rates.
Firefox hanging/crashing soon after startup? Have you tried running it in "safe mode" just to ensure that the fault is Firefox's and not some poorly written extension's?
The article is wrong. My HD DirecTiVo, a HR10-250, has a 2 hour HDTV movie weighing in at between 7 and 10 GB. And that's the raw MPEG-2 data stream.
Well, let me clue you buddy... my new panasonic blu-ray player upconverts DVDs to 1080p and they look simply fantastic! Oh, and it play's Blu-Ray discs, too. But I'm not buying any more Blu-Ray discs until the studios stop putting the 1080i broadcast-compressed transfers on them!! 1080p can look much, much better than what they're giving us.
This is special relativity stuff... two photons travel at a constant, non-accelerating speed, and since that speed is the speed of light (by definition) all their momentum is in the space dimensions so that time doesn't pass for the photons. A photon emitted soon after the Big Bang still hasn't experienced any passage of time despite it being 14 billion years later.
Occam wagers that the reporters probably just got finished with lunch and didn't wash their hands afterwards. It's probably a good thing that one of the reporters didn't cup a fart in their hand for the robot.
They're much more willing to give you a fancy job title rather than a decent salary.
I just bought the Panasonic DMP-BD10 from Crutchfield and got it two weeks ago. The single layer disc releases show the exact same artifacting as the 1080i broadcast versions do. It's clearly obvious that they're not re-encoding to use less compression and show off the format; rather, they're using the broadcast versions compressed to fit in a 6-MHz bandwidth, which look good if there's not too much motion (like a field of grass or leaves on a tree in the wind) and no sunsets (or other light-to-dark gradients). And although I've not done an HD-DVD/Blu-Ray side-by-side comparison, I'd guess they're using the same bit streams for both formats to save costs rather than spend money showing off how much better each format is than the other!
I'd be surprised if Microsoft didn't call anything unix-flavored that it releases "Xenix".
Microsoft says that you can reactivate Windows as many times as you want. To do this I believe that XP creates a "checksum" of your hardware and sends it to Microsoft when you activate. You can format and reinstall and reactivate Windows to your heart's content. But replace some hardware and your "checksum" won't match and you'll be forced to spend at least ten minutes on the phone with some outsourced person in some foreign country groveling for a new activation key. Bill has probably outfitted all those foreign call-centers with voice stress analyzers so that they'll know when your lying about not installing it on more than one machine.
Do you know which packages were added to WS to make ES? arptables_jf, caching-nameserver, freeradius, inews, inn, radvd, rarpd-ss981107, system-config-boot, system-config-netboot, system-config-nfs, vsftpd, and ypserv. Does that justify the almost 100% markup in price from WS to ES just for the cost of using Red Hat Network?
IBM's Informix "stack" is slated to be merged into DB2. DB2 needs the technology acquired in the Informix purchase. And isn't Microsoft's SQL Server based on an older version of Sybase?
No, they claim he CONSPIRED with someone else to do all that. Didn't you know that conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor is a felony? ;)
I just bought the new Panasonic Blu-Ray player and it came with a free "Eight Below" and an offer for another two by mail "Gone in 60 Seconds" and "The Great Raid". I received the mail movies in less than a week. I also purchased "Stargate," "Sky Captain," and the first two Terminators. My only complaint is that the compression sucks on all these discs. There is a "color banding" or "posterization" effect on scenes with sunsets and is seen at it's worst on the "Sky Captain" BD where Sky Captain's plane plows into the ocean. This "effect" only happens occasionally, but when it does it's really, really distracting and annoying.
Granted all these discs are single layer BD discs. I was really expecting to see them releasing dual layer discs with a whole lot less compression. I am viewing these discs at 1080p over an HDMI cable on a Mitsubishi WD-57831 and I have used the THX video tests on the discs to adjust the display to where I can barely see macroblocking in the sky scenes in "Eight Below".
Well, DVD started out with the same kind of incorrectly compressed releases and it took time for "Superbit" discs to arrive. Properly mastered DVDs look fantastic on this player when upconverted to 1080p.
In the music business, they have a saying: shipped gold, returned platinum.
Don't necessarily assume xenophobia when not being willing to deal with a non-Japanese speaking customer is the more likely explanation. After a night of heavy drinking in Tokyo, I never had a problem getting a cab at 3am because I can speak enough Japanese to give directions even when very drunk. And I always tipped the cabbie.
Oh, good. That gives me reason to vote for every fucked up proposition this election just before I move to Wyoming.
The Suica cards are a pre-paid deal... You can reload them next to the JR ticket machines. Suica is explained pretty well over in Wikipedia if you could be bothered to look before you posted.
So, what exactly is wrong with a system like Suica? It's anonymous and convenient. Not having to wait in line in Tokyo for a JR ticket in the morning was quite nice. So was running into a combini and buying a Pocari Sweat with my Suica card.
The decline in 1st class mail is because it now takes a week to get from CA to FL and the equivalent service, priority mail, costs ten times as much and isn't as dependable as, say, FedEx. The US government has priced itself right out of the market!
Is this the reason why SharpMusique disappeared from his website last month?