Re: a mono speaker on the phone
But the pocket transistor radio had an actual speaker of reasonable quality.
Phone speakers are just shit
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Audio fans, prepare yourself for the Second Coming ... of Blu-ray
Monday 14th April 2014 11:34 GMT
Re: Not interested.. But I am.
The differences are similar. Just that you are happy with SD.
Vhs was a terrible format, a well mastered DVD, anamorphic, encoded for quality, good source is near the top in SD video, I just watched a Superbit DVD last night still looks good, one of the best SD pictures I have seen. But a well mastered Blu Ray does look a lot better.
I have seen a film on 3 formats, a Super Beta copy of the DVD (bad pressing so missed 20 seconds, so copied before posted back to be swapped), the DVD and the Bluray.
The tape copy was quite acceptable on a wide screen tube TV of British SD resolution (TV was not properly a PAL TV as the main tuner was DVB-T), main issue was composite edge enhancement. But this Vcr pissed all over any Vhs deck,
DVD looks good, best on THAT TV, via RGB of course.
Newer HDTV with decent upscaling
DVD looks good but a little soft.
BluRay looks stunning and is at the correct speed without being in jerkyvision (3:2 pull down).
So far I have replaced 6 films from DVD to BluRay.
1) Remastered, 5.1 and directors final cut better than, grainy master, PooLogic and directors quick cut.
I enjoyed the better presentation and the lack of messy grain, I also got a decent price for the DVD at a CBS.
2-5) Box set at £15 too good to pass up, pity last one is best used as a drinks mat.
I paid more for the DVDs but keeping them for the extras.
6) One of my favourite films.
Looks and sounds better.
So to me with a large screen panel TV of good quality and a Cell powered Blu Ray player I get more enjoyment from a film with the better quality as it is more like my own personal cinema, better than huddled around a 14" portable with a rental tape in my old Beta portable.
Mind you I have seen size and loudness substituted for quality, a work collegue from a previous job showed off his new TV and video, guess it was 29" about, but the size took away people from noticing the fuzzy picture and hissy sound. I noticed everyone else looking impressed and me thinking yes you have a TV and a crap VCR. I just sat 4 foot from my 25" between a pair of stereo speakers from Skipton, with a nice amp and the stereo out from one of my Beta HiFi VCRs, mainly watching films and TV from ITV (when they were good) because they had NICAM and BBC didn't.
Some of us like quality.
Discovery time for 200m WONDER MATERIALS shaved from 4 MILLENNIA... to 4 years
Broadband Secretary of SHEEP sensationally quits Cabinet
Thursday 10th April 2014 10:55 GMT
Re: Shame
Bwahahahhahahahahahahahahaa! There speaks somebody who doesn't remember what am unresponsive empire of waste, incompetence and customer indifference that the GPO was! Remember "party lines"? Six month waits to install a line? Crummy little local exchanges with a few hundred lines and a full time engineer sitting around reading Razzle, and an operator polishing her nails?
I remember party lines, GPO were a little bit crap at some things.
And national rail? Remember the failed 1955 Modernisation Plan, which was supposed to support British industry and improve the railways, cost £1.6bn at the time (around £20 billion in current prices) How much more money would you want the state to throw away when it clearly doesn't either know how to build railways, nor how to run them? Or remember the dismal customer-loathing service of BR through the 1970s and 80s? The antiquated and unreliable rolling stock despite the Modernisation Plan? And BR were responsible for all manner of rubbish ideas of their own accord regardless of government support, like the progressive near closure of Marylebone, the failed outsourcing of locomotive manufacturing to Romania in the 1970s.
Started sensibly with trial batches, then they went stupid buying lots of crap just to oust newish build steam locos.
Mistakes, buying NBL stuff, Using 12LDA28C in the 47s rather than 16CSVTs, not buying lots of DP2s, the Claytons rather than more 20s.
Our railway industry is now a joke with only Brush left, and some remains of Paxman. If you want a British built and designed locomotive now, it would be Loughborough built, not sure on power units since Ruston Paxman were gutted.
Shockingly the remains of the most well know British power unit are now German and called the MAN 28/33D, this engine started in the 1930s as the English Electric 6T and grew valves cylinders turbos and intercoolers up to the CSVT range, then the Ruston merge change the name again, bored out twice to 280mm MAN bought them in early 2000s and now made around the world but NOT in the UK.
Nationalisation saw our domestic car industry go from world leading to woeful,
BL was a complete and utter joke, some cars were good, most were woefull. There were a few excellent cars like the Dolomite Sprint and the P6, but so much shit like the Allegros and Marinas.
left our aerospace industry as a single firm that no longer makes an entire aircraft in its own right,
Same sort of disaster as the railway industry except we still have Rolls Royce.
BTW my current car is British designed and made, but the owners were not, no idea who it was at the time. Also had the last in house designed engine.
Thursday 10th April 2014 10:09 GMT
Re: Shame
What was wrong with his opponent when Cameron was elected leader?
Shows some backbone, and personal beliefs and like every other rebel gets told never a minister again.
Can someone please tell me why all the politicians I would like to run the country are blocked by Cameron from being ministers?
Murdoch says Microsoft needs 'big clean out'
Windows 8.1 Update: Throws desktop drones a bone but still as TOUCHY as ever
Wednesday 9th April 2014 15:32 GMT
Windows 9
Just add in support for legacy applications as well.
Even if a VM, remember that we use OS to run OUR applications.
My tests would be a VGA mode DOS graphics application, using 16 bit DOS mode NETBIOS to communicate to a 32bit windows program.
Just want to be able to run without messing with compatabiltiy modes.
Now the above software worked with IPX on 6.22, Real/32, WFW, W95, 98, NT4, 2000, XP. With NETBIOS and IP on 2000 and XP, and got as far as loading but locked up when it tried to change video mode in Vista.
But with MS the question is always from Vista and on, what will they remove this time?
Gov cheerleader Sajid Javid gets nod from PM to park in Miller's spot
Thursday 10th April 2014 09:45 GMT
Re: Sajid...
"London"
Well our MP (nearby to Sajid) he is not a local as such but has big local connections, his father was a previous MP, his father also died in a local hospice, oh and our MP lives in the town.
But then he was picked on quite nastily by a Labour PPC pillock (this person not the party) for not going to a discussion on food banks, therefore meaning they didn't like them etc etc. Instead he was at a meeting on childrens hospices. Oh that back fired on them people asking them why they hated dieing children.
But he entered parliament at the same election but has been told to expect to not be a minister as he once voted against the government.
This proves the usual that the party system is bad for democracy, vote as your constituents want and always be overlooked.
The... Windows... XPocalypse... is... NIGH
Video games make you NASTY AND VIOLENT
Tuesday 8th April 2014 10:25 GMT
Frustration
Well I know what this is like.
Playing catchup at the moment so trying to whizz through Assassins Creed 3, but the control and forcedness are terrible, I wanted to snap the disc, steaming dog turd of a game.
Missions fail from respawn in 2 seconds, you slow for a moment, failed.
I cannot play it for more than an hour, just trying to get to the end so I can play AC4.
BTW I bought AC, AC2, AC2B, PS and DS version, a son bought AC2R AC3 AC4 ACL.
The original game was frustrating but in a good way, more freedom than later games as well.
All because I don't want to pay more than £40 for a game because I would rather be playing the latest Infamous.
How Microsoft can keep Win XP alive – and WHY: A real-world example
Wednesday 2nd April 2014 10:26 GMT
Re: XP Needs to Die
We have a Pentium 4 at home, the children use it, it works, it is on XP and has been since built.
Why would I want to spend my money on a new PC when I could spend on something I actually want?
We also have a few XP machines still at work to run the software which newer than XP refuses to run.
Vista was the start of the rot, the first time features were removed rather than added. This is another reason why XP will not die. It runs more software than any other MS OS before or since.
Crashed NORKS drones discovered by South Korea
Dark SITH LORD 'Darth Vader' joins battle to rule, er, Ukraine
Wednesday 2nd April 2014 09:46 GMT
Just call it Crimea
It was taken off Russia and given to Ukraine by a drunk Ukrainian USSR leader, Putin took it back. Some agree, some disagree. So just use the regional name rather than which ever country has it at the time.
I personally think it is not the business of the West to interfere in squabbles between ex USSR countries, which are not part of EU or NATO.
Tokyo to TXT warning of incoming Norks nukes
That's it, we're all really OLD: Google's Gmail is 10 ALREADY
Titanfall, shoot-'em-up gamers, cloudy contracts and cattle
Tuesday 1st April 2014 10:15 GMT
Re: Limited sales
We have a PS4 and a small number of games.
Well I am patiently waiting for Tomb Raider, Infamous Second Son, to drop in price, until then I have DLC for The Last Of Us and Bioshock Infinite to keep me entertained.
Like a lot of fans I found Killzone ShadowFall multiplayer to be not as much fun as the older KZ2 and KZ3 multiplayers. Infact I still play 3s multiplayer despite having SF
Tuesday 1st April 2014 09:32 GMT
Re: Thoughts
The only multiplayers I have got into were populated by people I could chat to decent players playing for a long time. Very little abuse, trolls tended to get picked on, see below.
One TPS had various character skins, often the females were chosen due to nicer bums to look at, but some sexist players blocked you in corners and taunted (so you grenade suicided), those idiots got hounded off, just to say grenade team kills are usefull.
I also remember uploading game play glitches to the dev team, and for fun I patrolled one glitch and killed the glitcher EVERYTIME they went for it.
A FPS I played a lot also had glitchers but they were shootable, put yourself somewhere safe and pick them off as they tried to climb off the map.
Microsoft CEO Nadella names his Xbox and Cloud OVERLORDS
3CX Phone System takes on the corporate mobiles
Selfies are over: Welcome to the age of 'Sleeveface'
Brit game devs WILL get tax relief for, er, EastEnders Game and Legend of Slough
Friday 28th March 2014 10:14 GMT
Some ideas
Well I have played a few with British cast, and also UC3 had a section in London which was fun.
The Motorstorm series although set around the world had a LOT of Britishness in it, one of my favourite vehicles was based on a Bowler Wildcat, and the titles for Pacific Rift feature one of the Invincible class carriers.
I also theatened a boy who got stupid by mocking up the cover of an Eastenders game complete with Playstation logos, and telling him it would be his next and only game.
1) X-Factor First Person Shooter, where you shoot crap singers and Cowell.
2) SAS stealth shooter, you play as an SAS member.
3) An open world car game with European cars and you drive on the LEFT (Imagine Burnout Paradise with British and European exotica and you do not head on crash every thirty seconds), suggest idealised country A Roads, surrounding a modern city dual carriageways.
4) A tank game where you drive a Challenger 2 in the desert and wipe out all oncomers.
5) Eastenders FPS, in fact an FPS of any soap
6) 1980s cop game where you play a cop based on Gene Hunt.
I will think of more
ECCENTRIC, PINK DWARF dubbed 'Biden' by saucy astronomers
Ancient telly, check. Sonos sound system, check. OMG WOAH
Wednesday 26th March 2014 13:28 GMT
Hmmm
Well the TV is not ancient but it is an S series which are to be honest crap, I saw one lose a 4 way comparison against 3 other Sony TVs (W & X won - draw).
I have a 5.0 setup (floor standers as stereo pair) and a resonable receiver. This sound bar sounds like it is filling the gap between TV sound and HC sound. But it is at lower end HC prices.
Requiring a phone to set it up - hmmm not good.
Never understood small speakers, they usually sound grating
NASA: Vote now to put flashy lights on future spacesuits
Wednesday 26th March 2014 10:48 GMT
Some thoughts
Saw Buzz Lightyear.
Actually that was the most sensible.
Light colour, distinctive colours / patterns for each Astronaut.
Pattern needs to point to head and be different to the back, the Y shapes do provide that.
I would say a strip starting near belly button splitting into a V onto the shoulders could be one,
So technology is nearest.
Planetary way up is not important, Space it is.
It's EE vs Vodafone: 'How good is my signal' study descends into network bunfight
TV sales PLUMMET. But no one's prepared to say what we all know
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
