I would be very interested in seeing the power source for these little critters. Even at 80 grams, covering any sort of distance by leaping requires a large amount of kinetic energy. Getting this type of mechanical energy from an electrical source would be very taxing, and likely drain a sub-80g battery of any kind in a very short time.

Hmm....how reliable would the PS3 be with Microsoft software?...hmmm....not sure I want the BSOD on my game console...

If a company could be a person, Microsoft would be labeled a douchebag.

Some people think you really can do anything you want if you have enough money. The world just doesn't work that way all the time. Often times, it takes brains to accomplish a given task. Poor Microsoft; all that money, but mediocre to the end.

:-)

Gian

Dude, 4G and WiMax are not synonymous. There are other 4G technologies being developed besides WiMax.

This service is going to tank. I cannot foresee WiMax taking off. There are a myriad of technical hurdles inherent in the protocol and the competing 3G and 4G technologies are going to crush it.

Two-foot vs. Ten-foot....which arena did they think they were playing in? Long format content needs to be in the living room.

Gian

I was wondering what the blue blinking was all about this morning. Does the update happen automatically? Or do I need to take care of it when I get home?

John,

You have a very rigid and elementary understanding of water. Maybe you should read a little more about hydrology. Fortunately, your pride may be spared by the mere fact most individuals have a similar simplistic understanding of chemistry.

There is a complex interchange between water molecules and the molecules they interact with. Water molecules are constantly breaking apart and reassembling. pH readings actually measure excess hydrogen or hydroxyl, not an overall percentage of each. There is a constant electron exchange going on. In the absence of such an exchange, you are correct. There would not be a breakdown to individual ions, but this is not how things work in the real world. The electrolytic process exacerbates the electron exchange by introducing additional electrons.

While the basic chemistry behind all of this seems to make sense, I would be very interested to see this technology in practice. I have serious questions regarding effectiveness and safety. :-)

Maybe he's selling because he'll be hitting the road soon. Maybe the board isn't too happy about all those crap Xbox 360s out there and someone has to take the fall.

Just something to think about.

I think it may be the other way around. EyeTV Hybrid was released in October 2006. The HVR-950 was released in January 2007. I guess it's always hard to say.

The ATSC content is already encoded in MPEG-2. If this is a white-label of Elgato's product, it is only capturing the stream off air. To decode and then re-encode the content in H.264 would require a much more expensive device. A good and fast hardware H.264 encoder supporting HD costs many thousands of dollars. I happen to have a couple in the lab. It is simply not feasible, at this time, in a consumer-grade product to provide HD H.264 hardware encoding in real time.