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That list is a bit meager. The FX7 from Sony has epic rolling shutter problems.
Although modern generations show less rolling shutter.

My 9k Sony PMW-EX3 is a CMOS camera, it's also CineAlta and pretty professional.
It has rolling shutter.
My Canon XH-A1 camera (3k), is a CCD camera, it does not have rolling shutter but is HDV.
My Canon 5D MII camera, is a CMOS camera, it is a DSLR, and has more rolling shutter then my Sony

Its just less noticeable on the EX3, in normal usage you wouldn't see it, but when you for example film a car from close by which has vertical lines painted on the side, and you would stop the car, it might only cover 3 frames, you will see that the lines are slightly skewed.
This wouldn't happen on a CCD sensor. They might be blurred, but not skewed.

In other words, CMOS will always be scanning line per line, which will always cause those problems. Its just the quality of the CMOS and the hardware processing the data which defines how visible and annoying it is.
March 31st? Euhm, I think I missed the memo that March has an extra day.
This is the 500D for European or Asian Engadget visitors.
This does look like buying "air".
It looks like these 45km cars, does it really go faster? And how well does this hold up in collision with lets say a Hummer, or if it makes any changes, I even think a Toyota Aygo would crush this thing like a piece of butter in a microwave.
On the reception story, it's flakey.
I live in The Netherlands in the centre of one of the largest cities here and I had perfect reception all over town even down in the subway system with my Samsung SGH-i600.
But my iPhone sometimes just comes up with "No Service" or just 1 or 2 bars.
The odd things is, it also fixes itself to get a better, most of the time, full service to not much later forget all about it again.

So it seems something to be blamed to the software.
Seriously @ the photo, does that guy take any drinks with his ice?
CD's are shaped like donuts. Sadly enough thumbdrives are not shaped like coffee..
Someone is getting bitey.

This is a blog, you can expect to be bashed on if you are sharing your personal diary entries with the rest of the internets.

Still, you really have to work on your film skills. Dude...there isn't a moment in the video I can see something for the full 100%.
Did your zoom button got stolen with your DS?
Seriously?
You skipped the "wh" of "why" because you were on your iphone but you did find the time to add 3 extra question marks and an extra useless "m" after umm?

Odd way of saving time...
Well, the guys does have several valid points from that day and age. And even though he is not very positive about the future of HDTV, he sure is hitting valid points on why he is not.
That his prophecy didn't turn out the way he made it is mostly due to the world not working in a logical way.
He makes the closing argument that HDTV doesn't work because we should look further and make something that isn't standardized by resolution, frame rate and etc but just is good quality content in the FITTING quality picture and sound.
Well, YouTube proved this point, and I think various other websites also prove his point in making
their own quality but still you do need a form of standardization for marketeers to sell products.

That YouTube is able to toss all these rules in the wind is because they were not selling anything when they started out.
Google will slowly start standardizing, especially when the h264 flash codecs are going to surface.
Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"I just moved into a new apartment and have been reading about all of the new power strips out there, especially the green ones. I was wondering if you had any suggestions about which "green "power strips are out there with decent joules ratings. And when I say green, I mean power strips that have the remotes or switches to turn off all electricity flowing to certain plugs and with at least 2 plugs that are always on. I was looking specifically at sub $50 because I will need two, but if that is not possible I could be convinced otherwise. Thanks!"
 

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