Eero Ahonen wrote:
>> Video games, for some reason, seem much more blocky.
> MPEG -style? On what console?

Yes. Not sure which console. Come to think of it, it might have been a 
recording of a console (with too much compression applied) as an 
advertisement in the store. I'll have to look at my actual console to see if 
I'm just misremembering.

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Darren New wrote:
> 
> Yes. Not sure which console. Come to think of it, it might have been a
> recording of a console (with too much compression applied) as an
> advertisement in the store. I'll have to look at my actual console to
> see if I'm just misremembering.
> 

Compressing and decompressing video on-the-fly would just seem an
unnecessary (and honestly stupid) resource hog IMO :). Other kind of
blockiness (huge NES pixels;) are more reasonable.

-Aero

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Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Compressing and decompressing video on-the-fly would just seem an
> unnecessary (and honestly stupid) resource hog IMO :)

Yeah. I thought maybe the textures were over-compressed in memory or 
something. It seemed weird to me, but come to think of it, I only ever 
noticed it while shopping for the TV, and they probably weren't hooked up 
directly to the games, but to a DVD playing gameplay video in a loop.

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scott wrote:
>> I like the idea that OLED has such an incredible viewing angle, 
>> superior contrast ...
> 
> Most fairly new LCD TVs will offer up to 176 degrees or something 
> ridiculous of viewing angle, there really isn't much difference anymore 
> between LCD and OLED on viewing angle.
> 
> Contrast I'll agree there is still a gap in performance, but LCD is 
> rapidly closing the gap.
> 
>> what I don't like is that like plasma, it will likely suffer burn-in.
> 
> There's plenty of clever ways around that, but of course they add cost.
> 
> The deciding question will be, can LCD close the contrast gap enough 
> before OLED can compete on price?  It's certainly going to be interesting.

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Invisible wrote:
> But now I'm watching TV on a big LCD TV, suddenly there seems to be MPEG
> artifacts all over the place! o_O

That's what digital TV is about. Exchange white noise (which the brain
easily filters) with MPEG artifacts, at double the price.

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On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:29:13 +0000, Invisible wrote:

> But now I'm watching TV on a big LCD TV, suddenly there seems to be MPEG
> artifacts all over the place! o_O

Yep, we just added the full HD lineup to our cable subscription (which 
actually *dropped* our monthly charges by $20, go figure).  The standard 
definition channels looked OK on our 45" TV, but now we're up to 106" 
with the projector, and you definitely can see the artifacts on SD 
channels.

The HD channels are stunning.

Jim

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> (OTOH, the transmitter isn't that far away...)

They never are ;-)

>> There are two free HD channels via satellite (BBC HD and ITV HD, with 
>> more surely to come), if you have Sky there are loads of HD channels for 
>> films, sports etc but of course you need a subscription.
>
> Mmm, OK. I didn't think anybody had filmed much in HD yet.

I think almost every film has been recorded in HD for many years, if not 
decades.  Judging by the number of HD discs available.

>> or just get a play station 3 and you get an uber amount of computing 
>> power too.
>
> And the ability to not run any programs that might take advantage of that 
> power. :-}

Why not?  You can install Linux on there very easily (Sony even put a menu 
option for "Install other OS" in the menu).  I think to take advantage of 
the cell processor and its 8 cores you need to use a special compiler, but 
you can certainly make your own code for it.  Just need someone to port POV 
;-)

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>> Mmm, OK. I didn't think anybody had filmed much in HD yet.
> 
> I think almost every film has been recorded in HD for many years, if not 
> decades.  Judging by the number of HD discs available.

Yeah - because nobody would take SD content and put it onto an HD disk 
and attempt to sell it as HD. No sir! ;-)

>>> or just get a play station 3 and you get an uber amount of computing 
>>> power too.
>>
>> And the ability to not run any programs that might take advantage of 
>> that power. :-}
> 
> Why not?  You can install Linux on there very easily (Sony even put a 
> menu option for "Install other OS" in the menu).  I think to take 
> advantage of the cell processor and its 8 cores you need to use a 
> special compiler, but you can certainly make your own code for it.  Just 
> need someone to port POV ;-)

Hmm, interesting...

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> http://www.bash.org/?860040

FWIW at our local airport they decided to put a plasma screen above each 
gate which shows the airline logo, departure time, status etc.  And I guess 
nobody knew about burn-in, because now you can see "Lufthansa" permanently 
burnt into the screen no matter what it is displaying.  I see now they show 
some animated clips or just turn off the displays when they are not in use.

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scott wrote:

> FWIW at our local airport they decided to put a plasma screen above each 
> gate which shows the airline logo, departure time, status etc.  And I 
> guess nobody knew about burn-in, because now you can see "Lufthansa" 
> permanently burnt into the screen no matter what it is displaying.  I 
> see now they show some animated clips or just turn off the displays when 
> they are not in use.


burned into it! ;-)

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