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Konami defends inflated MGS4 bundle cost {Engadget}
May 30th 2008 8:33PM I ordered this as a collector (not ebay, or to play on) but will likely cancel now that Konami has revealed 'Limited' = 10,000 units. What. the. f-bomb.
NASA, m2mi team up to build space-bound networking system {Engadget}
Apr 25th 2008 8:06PM Sounds like SkyNet, in a more literal sense. Although maybe like the movie too, with the "machine-to-machine intelligence layer".
MacBook Air reviews in from Apple's starting lineup {Engadget}
Jan 24th 2008 12:59AM Sony did it 3-4 years ago and I didn't buy one then for the same reason I won't buy a M.B.A. now. In order to make it fit in the form factor you just have to leave some stuff out, like... anything useful.
Sony looked better anyways. Sleek, black, glowing green 'core' that looked like some sci-fi thing. MBA looks like some oversize makeup compact.
33 megapixel Super Hi-Vision (Ultra HDTV) could be on the air in 2015 {Engadget}
Jan 14th 2008 5:04PM Using the 106in (presumably 1080p) projection of a poster above gets you in the neighborhood of 21dpi on the screen. According to wikipedia, the average accuity of a human eye is 'better' than ~1/60 of a degree (1arcmin right in the center of the eye. Just for giggles at 10ft that's about .035in per side of a theoretical smallest perceivable pixel. That then is about 28.5dpi, give or take.
Using that 106in screen again, which is ~92.5x50in (using 1.85aspect ratio, should have used 1.77 apparently but too lazy to go back through everything) would get a resultion of ~2636x1425. Even assuming we underestimated the accuity of the eye and modified the dpi by a factor of 1.5 that get a 'usable' resolution of 3980x2150. Or just a bit more than double 1080p, give or take.
Personally I'd rather they work on brightness, contrast, and color reproduction. Really even upping the framerate on some formats would be nice, especially when viewing on huge screens. One problem I find with films shot in digital is that fast movements can be pretty choppy because the screen is large enough that I'm seeing things 'out of the corner of my eye' which is much more motion sensitive. Let's face it, 24fps was standardized at a time when movies were projected on a 10-15ft screen in a hall, not imax where you get a much broader field of view.
SanDisk launches HD Video flash card line {Engadget}
Jan 7th 2008 9:59PM 8GB for 120min of HD Video? Do they have some kind of definition of HD? DVD's for about 120min is 5GB or so and it's definitely not HD unless some marketing guy is -really- reaching and saying just being progressive scan is HD (480p). Recompressed 1080p movie in a torrent format is 10GB+ and that's recompressed. Raw video from a SD camcorder is 3-4GB per hour for my camcorder... no idea what it'd be for a 1080p camcorder but in any case 120min out of 8GB for HD video takes 'optimistic' to a new level.
Live from Hitachi's CES press conference {Engadget}
Jan 7th 2008 5:54PM The thickness (or lack thereof) is the new major selling point? *hurls marketing idiots off cliff* My 1.5 year old LCD tv is like 4in thick and you know what I'm -not- thinking all the time while I watch a movie? About how insultingly thick my tv is. Give me better color, brightness, and contrast, not compete on thickness. I know what part of my tv it is that I look at and it's not the freaking side.
Is Verizon's FiOS out of bandwidth? {Engadget HD}
Nov 1st 2007 6:55PM To paraphrase:
EngadgetHD: What's wrong with your network?
Verizon: We have the best network!
EngadgetHD: Um.. okay. I guess I'll say they're 'not talking' because they didn't address my question but instead fed me some PR boilerplate about how epic their 'just a matter of adding new equipment' (not to be mistaken for being outdated) network is.
Verizon: This is an outrage! *cue feigned anguish*
Yeah Fios sounds pretty sweet but I wouldn't exactly consider the current response to EngadgetHD's curiosity a 'brand win'. Rather quite the opposite.
PayPal to offer security key fobs for additional account protection {Engadget}
Jan 15th 2007 8:57PM It may sound dumb but they should add these as an option for like a onetime 10-15 buck fee for World of Warcraft account. I just lost 3 wow accounts with how much playtime and real material wealth because a mod I got from a (supposedly) legit site had a key logger and my Norton, A) didn't find it, B) firewall didn't block it from reporting back to the mothership...
Intel unveils mobile clinical assistant platform {Engadget}
Sep 29th 2006 8:39PM Not sure about the ICU thing but I do know that certain building inspectors made us replace some AP antena casings (mounted on walls high up near the tile ceilings)because they were covered in cloth and thus 'could trap microbes' and contaminate the hospital. That seems to vary by the inspector though.
Intel unveils mobile clinical assistant platform {Engadget}
Sep 29th 2006 6:11PM Thin *wired client that is.
Also, the FDA reapproval on the patching was implicitly too broad. Every desktop wouldn't need to be reapproved every time a new Service Pack came out, but rather certain applications or devices that work in concert with the mobile workstations.
