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AMD's Cinema 2.0 demo: "you won't just play movies, you'll play in them" {Engadget}
Jun 17th 2008 8:28AM Am I the only one that dosnt think it looks that great?
You got a fairly easy to do graphical scene, with a bit of camera shake, focus and blur to make it look better :-/
If they held the camera steady....like you'd want if actually playing a game....it wouldn't look nearly so realistic.
Could well be an impressive chipset, but the demo they have is just the age-old technique of adding effects to obscure the view of the actual scene.
Much like how those fake "alien autopsy" videos are all black and white and fuzzy.
Will laser TVs be the next big thing? {Engadget}
Jan 9th 2008 8:07PM I bet 99.99% of people wont be able to tell the difference.
These technologys are getting silly.
Contrast, Colour, and Lattacy are important. Resolution is important upto a point (of which, in motion I think we reached).
Give us 3D or smellyvision.
"Imagine a tiny projector that has the capacity to produce a very high resolution image (the laser can scan to produce an image and I'm guesing that resolution is limited by spot size). This projector can then be wirelessly connected to a central in-home server that contains all of your media that can be downloaded through an internet connection. You could use an IPOD like device to browse through your media and select a movie to send to the projector. The projector could be very cheap because most of its functionality (except for the hardware needed to generate the laser and cause it to scan) could be on a single chip.
The next thing I suppose would be walls that can reconfigure themselves into screens. (nanotech)"
Thats the big, stupid, very human way to deal with tech.
The more sensible technology is augmented reality systems that can *simulate* any screen size we want, whereever we want, at a fraction of cost and power consumption.
Its also very much within our technological reach, just refinements of existing tech.
Having a tiny cube projecting high quality large images isnt.
If nothing else, it would be impossible to get decent contrast.
Sony announces VAIO Premium HTPCs {Engadget}
Jan 6th 2008 9:28PM Id rather use a Divx streaming box and stream from another room.
(unlimited storage space, vastely cheaper price)
I have a sever pc on 24/7 anyway.
YelloMosquito delivers Qingbar Gp300: the wireless HMD {Engadget}
Nov 27th 2007 7:27AM Not actualy that bad, but Id have to use the product in use to judge. (comfort/practicality issues are something hard to assess)
The resolution isnt great, but considering its effectively a mini-divx playing computer AS WELL as the display, thats a fair price.
Of course, hopefully resolution gets better in futura.
I would also hope screen-tech gets better.
Lets have some TOLED+LCD screen's instead shall we, so we dont need a backlight, and can be transparent when required.
(not to mention AR possibilitys)
Play Famicom games on your DS with the Cyber Familator cart {Engadget}
Nov 25th 2007 8:43AM "I don't have a problem with your desire to do so. I just loathe the fact that the "homebrew" community thinks they can insult our intelligence that way, and be so damned intellectually dishonest."
The REAL Homebrew community gets pissed of when people equate them to piracy you know.
I use Moonshell (bloody good media played/booter), DSOrganise (notepad,web browser, IRC, file management and music streamer), ComicBookDS (and yes, theres plenty of legal free comics, eg Heroes), theres also plenty of good free homebrew games too.
PuzzleManik, DS, for instance.
Yes, I do play a few NES games on NesDS too, of course.
Its more convient then using a real Nes.
But that isnt the "homebrew community".
Id rather buy my games however, even old ones.
Second hand dosnt give Nintendo any money, so thats not really better then downloading.
I'll happly buy games I want on the Wii's VC system though, comfortable in the knowledge my money is going to more games I love.
Sony, Microsoft will benefit from Wii shortage {BloggingStocks}
Nov 20th 2007 4:53PM I dont think "winning" is the correct term for what Sony and Microsoft do when Nintendo cant supply their demand.
"losing less badly" is a better term :p
Seeing as Mario Galaxy has just been declared the best game of all time on GameRankings, I dont think demands going to stop either.
NoLA promises 3.6Gbps download rates {Engadget}
Oct 13th 2007 4:24PM I gave up on any regulation stuff a long time ago, its the consumers that have to influence companys by voteing with their feet.
The problem, of course, is the average joe dosnt know just what these companies try (and do) get away with. I mean, come on, its one thing to have exclusive rights over part of the electromagnatic spectrum, its quite another to demand everyone uses only your hardware and software.
It would be like the Fox network demanding you only use X brand of TV.
The amount of lobbing Verizon does is disgusting, claiming its their right to be the soul provider of all devices that make use of a specific frequence of a natural force.
Then you have ISP's claiming abstractly that paying for bandwidth use isnt enough, you have to also pay for...well...if your making lots of money you just have to pay them. (while ignoreing the real issue which is they have simply oversold their capacity)
Heck, give it a few years, and the US govement will be allowing electricity providers to demand that shops pay more per kw/h, or their powers only used for things they approve of.
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Downloadable files coming to next Harry Potter DVD {Engadget}
Oct 11th 2007 4:25AM Why should I buy the film twice anyway :?
The medium is worthless, the film is what I'm paying for.
Seagate launches first laptop HHD -- blames Vista drivers for poor performance {Engadget}
Oct 8th 2007 11:30AM "Your OS doesn't need to be compatible with hundreds of different hardware and software and therefor already know what it has"
Yes, but in an idealy coded system that wouldnt effect normal boot time.
It would merely make the initial OS install longer as it would work out precisely what it does/dosnt need.
After what, it should be as fast as any mac because while its compatible with all the different system configs, it isnt configered with all the different ones at the same time...
Of course, the downside would be it would take longer every time you upgrade your ram or change your mobo ect. But for average users fast boot times are worth more, imo.
Heck, we should have OS's that let us check our email during booting :p
(given that mobile phones with email abilitys [or opera] can boot up in seconds, you most certainly can get every driver for that done quickly).
FCC fast-tracking 700MHz open-access rule changes under intense Verizon lobbying? {Engadget}
Sep 27th 2007 4:57AM Just you wait, next up would be TV networks demanding we use certain brands of DVD players.
We should pay for what we use, but we should not be restricted in how we use it.
Dosnt mater if its electricity, the internet, or the electromagnetic spectrum.
Has everyone complaining in this thread emailed Verizon yet?
The least we can do is complain as loud as we can. (and the "they wont listen so I wont try" line is bad thinkiing too. It all adds up).
