Toshiba sells a Widescreen (16:9) High Definition Ready, Digital Projection Television for around $2800. I can get it for around $2100 ($2400 after tax and extended warranty) (Model #TW40X81). It operates in a progressive (as opposed to interlaced) scanning mode, which basically produces an image on the screen about twice as fast as interlaced methods. For broadcasts not in High Definition, it uses line doubling techniques in order to obtain its higher resolution.
Due to the (eventual) digital nature of the broadcast medium, more information will be crammed within the space alloted for each broadcast, therefore allowing high definition widesreen broadcasts to occur. This unit is NOT ready to receive such broadcasts, and will require a set-top box to be purchased (estimated at around $500) when the time comes.
A friend of mine purchased this same unit last weekend. It weighs in at a hefty 150lbs. The picture is incredible, color reproduction almost perfect, and Toshiba's GUI is easy and fast.
Informix very well should be on the list of RDBMS' to look at. Informix SE will not solve your problem, as it uses flat files in the file system to hold table data. However, Informix Open Dynamic server uses Raw Disk Space, therefore getting rid of the whole 2GB file size limit.
Informix treats BLOBs rather oddly and will take some getting used to. Servers in replication (HDR) also tend to exhibit problems that Informix has no clue how to correct (most client libraries don't operate properly, ALTER TABLE will cause assert failures I would certainly not consider it one of the FASTEST RDBMS'. Altho I have never crammed a PostgreSQL DB full of data, my inital impression would be that PostgreSQL is as fast if not faster than Informix.
MySQL is probably not a good choice. Lack of transaction support (and MySQL's statement that transaction support will NEVER exist in MySQL) make it a poor choice for anything but quick and dirty (and small) web databases (at which it excells beyond comparison).
Take a look at Informix. Especially if having corporate support options is something that is important to you.
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Toshiba sells a Widescreen (16:9) High Definition Ready, Digital Projection Television for around $2800. I can get it for around $2100 ($2400 after tax and extended warranty) (Model #TW40X81). It operates in a progressive (as opposed to interlaced) scanning mode, which basically produces an image on the screen about twice as fast as interlaced methods. For broadcasts not in High Definition, it uses line doubling techniques in order to obtain its higher resolution.
Due to the (eventual) digital nature of the broadcast medium, more information will be crammed within the space alloted for each broadcast, therefore allowing high definition widesreen broadcasts to occur. This unit is NOT ready to receive such broadcasts, and will require a set-top box to be purchased (estimated at around $500) when the time comes.
A friend of mine purchased this same unit last weekend. It weighs in at a hefty 150lbs. The picture is incredible, color reproduction almost perfect, and Toshiba's GUI is easy and fast.
Widescreen is here!!
Informix very well should be on the list of RDBMS' to look at. Informix SE will not solve your problem, as it uses flat files in the file system to hold table data. However, Informix Open Dynamic server uses Raw Disk Space, therefore getting rid of the whole 2GB file size limit.
Informix treats BLOBs rather oddly and will take some getting used to. Servers in replication (HDR) also tend to exhibit problems that Informix has no clue how to correct (most client libraries don't operate properly, ALTER TABLE will cause assert failures I would certainly not consider it one of the FASTEST RDBMS'. Altho I have never crammed a PostgreSQL DB full of data, my inital impression would be that PostgreSQL is as fast if not faster than Informix.
MySQL is probably not a good choice. Lack of transaction support (and MySQL's statement that transaction support will NEVER exist in MySQL) make it a poor choice for anything but quick and dirty (and small) web databases (at which it excells beyond comparison).
Take a look at Informix. Especially if having corporate support options is something that is important to you.