"The Samsung 931 won't work correctly in 1080i mode with Sony or Toshiba HDTV's currently, though I believe it does work in 720p mode with the Samsung DLP sets."
Call Samsung they have a firmware upgrade (CDR) that will upgrade the unit to work with Toshiba and Sony DVI sets.
If you check out www.beoplayer.com you will see that B&O is creating an MP3 player that will work with it's new PC Link product (in the 3rd quarter of this year) to allow you to play MP3s and Net Radio thru a beolink system. You will have to get an upgrade to your beo4 remote (you can upgrade the pc board) so you can control the N.MUSIC and N.RADIO options. This means that you can play your MP3s and any streaming audio content on a beolink connected system.
Band & Olufsen isn't for the budget minded but you get what you pay for.
Unfortunately this is a Win32 only solution. The Beoplayer is free and is a neat MP3 player. It takes full advantage of the internal tags in MP3 files to allow you to organize your music.
Well let me know when that eBook that can magically changes size appears.
Actually we should ditch PDF. It is great if you want to deliver a printed document to a user without actually bothering to print it but as a standard way of storing a document, it sucks. It is basically saying that the most logical format is in pages. Gee that was great when the only way to view a document was on paper. Now we are starting to get devices, every thing from a palm to a PC that might want to view, search, reference a document and PDF is just not up to the job.
PDF is a Preprinted Document File. Their really isn't much that is portable about it. The page is an artifact of printing not of a document. And if you are going to make the 'well how do we reference material' argument then remember that court documents and the bible are not referenced by page number. That is because pages are an artifact of printing and formatting and are not consistent from one formatting to another.
www.openebook.org is basically a XHTML markup with the inclusion of the Dublin Core content markup for cataloging. It also includes different 'tours' of the book as well as the standard 'spine'. This is a much better solution than simple HTML but at least HTML is better than PDF. I am a bit biased here I I own a Rocket eBook wich handles text and HTML rather easily but you have to strip a document out of PDF before you can read it.
PDF is great if you don't think a book/document should be much more then a electronic duplication of a paper book. Sure you can search it and annotate it but hand held devices would have to have too big of a screen to really use a PDF well. Even then what if you want a bit bigger (or smaller) font? That can't be done with a PDF without panning the resulting image. And making it smaller would just waist screen space and not actually give you more content on a page.
Basically I think we need to rescue documents and Books from PDF. It is basically like a long term print buffer you can keep going back to until you give up in frustration and print the damn thing out. I have a very nice 19 inch monitor with a high refresh rate yet I would rather read something on my little 3.5 ich by 4 inch 106 dpi B&W wide viewing angle, back lit LCD of my Rocket eBook. It is just that much more comfortable. It is hard to hold a 19 inch monitor in one hand and move it around, towards, and away from you etc...
I have been surprised how little coverage it has gotten. It seems to be a VNC type box. It virtualizes the screen, sound, microphone and 4 USB ports (only supports keyboards and mice at the moment) back to a centralized server. It looks very slick with the smart card based access (you can just use a user id/password if you want.) It really makes all these other 'thin' clients look really chunky.
The server side software is priced between 250 and 2,500. It is of course a Solaris only thing at the moment. You can get to your Win applications thru a Citrix client running on the Solaris server.
If they can expand the USB support beyond the keyboard mice you would have a very slick system. I would assume that they are planning on this as the device has 4 USB ports.
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"The Samsung 931 won't work correctly in 1080i mode with Sony or Toshiba HDTV's currently, though I believe it does work in 720p mode with the Samsung DLP sets."
Call Samsung they have a firmware upgrade (CDR) that will upgrade the unit to work with Toshiba and Sony DVI sets.
If you check out www.beoplayer.com you will see that B&O is creating an MP3 player that will work with it's new PC Link product (in the 3rd quarter of this year) to allow you to play MP3s and Net Radio thru a beolink system. You will have to get an upgrade to your beo4 remote (you can upgrade the pc board) so you can control the N.MUSIC and N.RADIO options. This means that you can play your MP3s and any streaming audio content on a beolink connected system.
Band & Olufsen isn't for the budget minded but you get what you pay for.
Unfortunately this is a Win32 only solution. The Beoplayer is free and is a neat MP3 player. It takes full advantage of the internal tags in MP3 files to allow you to organize your music.
Well let me know when that eBook that can magically changes size appears.
Actually we should ditch PDF. It is great if you want to deliver a printed document to a user without actually bothering to print it but as a standard way of storing a document, it sucks. It is basically saying that the most logical format is in pages. Gee that was great when the only way to view a document was on paper. Now we are starting to get devices, every thing from a palm to a PC that might want to view, search, reference a document and PDF is just not up to the job.
PDF is a Preprinted Document File. Their really isn't much that is portable about it. The page is an artifact of printing not of a document. And if you are going to make the 'well how do we reference material' argument then remember that court documents and the bible are not referenced by page number. That is because pages are an artifact of printing and formatting and are not consistent from one formatting to another.
Go have a look at: www.openebook.org
www.openebook.org is basically a XHTML markup with the inclusion of the Dublin Core content markup for cataloging. It also includes different 'tours' of the book as well as the standard 'spine'. This is a much better solution than simple HTML but at least HTML is better than PDF. I am a bit biased here I I own a Rocket eBook wich handles text and HTML rather easily but you have to strip a document out of PDF before you can read it.
PDF is great if you don't think a book/document should be much more then a electronic duplication of a paper book. Sure you can search it and annotate it but hand held devices would have to have too big of a screen to really use a PDF well. Even then what if you want a bit bigger (or smaller) font? That can't be done with a PDF without panning the resulting image. And making it smaller would just waist screen space and not actually give you more content on a page.
Basically I think we need to rescue documents and Books from PDF. It is basically like a long term print buffer you can keep going back to until you give up in frustration and print the damn thing out. I have a very nice 19 inch monitor with a high refresh rate yet I would rather read something on my little 3.5 ich by 4 inch 106 dpi B&W wide viewing angle, back lit LCD of my Rocket eBook. It is just that much more comfortable. It is hard to hold a 19 inch monitor in one hand and move it around, towards, and away from you etc...
I have been surprised how little coverage it has gotten. It seems to be a VNC type box. It virtualizes the screen, sound, microphone and 4 USB ports (only supports keyboards and mice at the moment) back to a centralized server. It looks very slick with the smart card based access (you can just use a user id/password if you want.) It really makes all these other 'thin' clients look really chunky.
The server side software is priced between 250 and 2,500. It is of course a Solaris only thing at the moment. You can get to your Win applications thru a Citrix client running on the Solaris server.
If they can expand the USB support beyond the keyboard mice you would have a very slick system. I would assume that they are planning on this as the device has 4 USB ports.