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/rant

Apart from that, the idea and implementation is quite impressive, from a technical point-of-view. Flashy lights are always cool :)]]>Oct 23rd 2009 6:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/
Cool none the same.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 6:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 6:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 7:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/
They tricked by doing this when everyone was sleeping (01AM-06AM) so the have the whole network for themselves and by having a Vodaphone engineer "guru" onboard to send the messages.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.flong.com/projects/telesymphony/]]>Oct 23rd 2009 6:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 7:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/
And this didn't :P

]]>Oct 23rd 2009 7:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/
Watch the first making of video, and you'll see.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Lucky I have MySky. Skipping all the ads is wonderful.

In the US can you use TiVo without affecting your broadband?
Back in NZ we only got it with Telecom and there speeds are pretty poor. I switched to Orcon and only got a measly 25GB.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 6:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 7:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 7:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/
I'm not impressed. That didn't sound like 1000 cellphones playing the 1812 overture via ringtones, that sounded like 1000 cellphones occasionally playing samples from the 1812 overture randomly.

It sounds much better in the making of videos.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 8:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 8:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Right, that there are plenty of people with too much time at hand out there?
Or that in the marketing business you can do lots of money by doing pointless stuff and then claim that you're being 'creative'?
Sure, the idea of this sounds funny.
But somebody actually doing it just seems ridiculous to me ...]]>Oct 23rd 2009 9:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/
Lots of similar things have been done in the past, like the microwave "ding" Christmas thing from a year or two back. It's special effects. And then they put together these "making of" videos to make it look like they did something really amazing and impressive.

I work with ad agencies all the time, this is one of the oldest tricks in the book to generate attention.
]]>Oct 23rd 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 24th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/2. I do not believe they were successful at doing this. They faked the end recording. Though the recording has some poorly synchronized phones, there are not that many. Surely there would be many more out of sync. It would take 6.7 seconds to activate all 1000 phones (at 150 texts/sec.). Then there's the differences in timing on different phones. Lots of the phones looked like they were junked.]]>Oct 23rd 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 11:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 12:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/Oct 23rd 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/http://www.engadget.com/2009/10/23/tchaikovskys-1812-overture-reconstructed-from-1000-cellphone-ri/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYnrmg2Cf_Q&feature=PlayList&p=8D693611BDE8F6B6&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=81#
7:48+]]>Oct 23rd 2009 3:59PM