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Forget HDTV and 3D, when is Ultra HDTV / Super Hi-vision coming home? {Engadget HD}
Nov 9th 2009 5:14AM WTF are you talking about?
The chart doesn't show scaling on a display, it shows relative number of pixels using a constant pixel size. What "most people" do with "video size" is irrelevant.
Do you have a better way to represent that information in a single graphic?
Forget HDTV and 3D, when is Ultra HDTV / Super Hi-vision coming home? {Engadget HD}
Nov 9th 2009 5:09AM Lasik won't help. Even a 4K display, in order to see all the pixels, would have to be more than eight feet *tall* at a viewing distance of 6-8 feet (nearly 20 feet diagonal). Even if you have cathedral ceilings to solve the first problem, you'd be too close to see the whole image comfortably. Anything short of a cinema is a room too short to sit far enough away to see the entire screen and still be able to track the whole thing (i.e. less than 60 degrees FOV), while benefiting from the full resolution.
This will never be a practical technology for the home, except on 40" or larger computer monitors, which push the limits of a 2 foot viewing distance. A 10-foot, 2K display could easily double for a computer monitor and a television in that case.
Nokia, Samsung, Toshiba and Sony align on Mobile High-Definition Link {Engadget HD}
Oct 3rd 2009 9:47PM This is what DisplayPort was for...
Survey says consumer won't pay that much extra for 3D {Engadget HD}
Oct 3rd 2009 9:41PM @Eating Pie,
"Because YOU can't see doesn't mean 'it can't be seen.' You are sitting at a good distance from your 50."
Nope--can't be done. 50" at 12 feet would require 20/15 vision in both eyes to see a difference based on number of pixels.
You may see a difference in the content, but it's not because of resolution--in fact you're just as likely to get worse results out of 1080i compared to 720p since the bandwidth is almost identical and most deinterlacers (particularly in projectors) aren't that great. There's quite a difference between 50" and 73" in screen size in either case, so your comment is completely unfounded.
A 50" 1080p television showing 1080p content has to be within 10 feet for the human eye to fully resolve all the pixels. A 73" screen can be 14 feet away with the same result.
Snow Leopard ships with old version of Flash - great for hackers, not so much for the rest of us {Engadget}
Sep 3rd 2009 2:43PM "As we've seen, most people's migration to Snow Leopard has been eventful "
...Except that even the link you included says quite differently. Fewer than 25% reported problems of any kind--in a self-selecting Internet poll with automatic bias toward people with problems.
Try harder to troll next time. At least be more subtle.
Apple keyboard gets hacked like a ripe papaya, perp caught on video {Engadget}
Aug 5th 2009 2:27PM Any USB keyboard can be modded in this way, and not just Apple ones. The use of the word "Apple" is just to attract attention and act as flamebait.
The problem is the implementation of the USB spec--it wasn't designed for security. Nearly any USB device that has firmware (which is just about all of them) can be flashed with malicious firmware.
This is neither news nor an "Apple" problem.
New MBP offers top display quality, but some beg to differ {The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)}
Jul 24th 2009 3:35PM The latter complaint is totally moronic. ALL SHIPPING NOTEBOOKS FROM ALL MANUFACTURERS HAVE 6-BIT DISPLAYS.
The ONLY possible exception is the new HP DreamColor laptop ($4000), which may have native 8-bit color. They won't disclose the panel details though, so that is impossible to verify at the moment.
Sci Fi / SyFy switch takes effect tomorrow, still doesn't make any sense {Engadget HD}
Jul 8th 2009 8:09PM You can't copyright a name. The issue would be with trademarks, and SciFi might have wanted to avoid dilution with the prevalence of DVRs.
Until a few years ago, anything that said "SciFi" on screen was the channel. Now you can search by genre, pull up program information, etc. SyFy might just be easier for them to control. Whether that's the actual reason they changed their name, who knows.
Evidently it's still cool to hate on Blu-ray: Harris Poll spin {Engadget HD}
Jun 23rd 2009 1:30AM "Blu-ray adoption has been FASTER than DVD adoption at the same point in the format's life. That changed in January or February, but that's because of the recession hitting full force."
This gets repeated constantly, but it's just not true. Blu-ray shipments are HOPING to top 12 million worldwide in 2009. At the same point in DVD's life, it had shipped 8.5million units in the US alone, and nearly a million more in Canada. The 2000 worldwide total shipments were easily greater than 12 million. US market share in 2000 was 11% for dedicated players, compared to BD's paltry 7%. And that's all just standalone players--computer DVD players were a huge market in a much bigger way than the PS3 is today, so you can't point to the PS3 or the niche market in PC drives to make up the difference.
The average price per unit in 2000 was also close to $200--much cheaper than the average BD price, still hovering around $300.
BD is hanging in there, but it doesn't make any sense to insist on propaganda saying it's beating DVD.
Napster relaunching, again: $5 per month streaming plus five free downloads {Engadget}
May 18th 2009 1:50PM It's PAID. With all that money you've saved by pirating, you can easily afford a basic English class in between your trolling sessions.
