On 10/18/2011 9:42, Warp wrote:
>    It's almost becoming full circle. Back in the 50's or so it would take
> a TV half a minute to warm up before the picture came on.

Half a minute? Try at least 3 or 4 before the picture was actually stable. :-)

I *am* amused that one of the selling points on the box is that it turns on 
some 30% faster than the previous model.

Granted, it's a sophisticated beast, with a decent web browser, a wireless 
DLNA renderer, a camera to notice you aren't actually watching TV any more 
and turn itself off, control via HDMI of other various devices (like, you 
can turn off the PS3 and/or sound system by turning off the TV if you set it 
up that way), etc. For a thing like that, it's actually pretty quick to 
start up and be ready.  Faster even than the previous TV that did much less, 
and 10x as fast as my phone (which also has poor responsiveness for several 
minutes after being started up - when will people learn that desktop OSes do 
real-time very poorly?)

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
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