Posts by Russell Brown
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__curmudgeon__
Bah, as Dogbert would say. I put that in the same category as 'gadfly' - a nonsense word that at once trivialises and licences the bitter narcissism of ageing male baby boomers.
Burn!
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I think his point was amateur posing as expert on everything.
its fine to have an opinion on everything but it gets dangerous when you put yourself up as an authority on stuff you are merely an amatuer enthusiast at. maybe believing your own hype.Rob, get over it.
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Yes, Jeremy, Doctor Cullen should try debating the fucking question instead of launching a personal attack -- and a rather dishonest one at that -- on Keith Locke (who I don't have a lot of time for, BTW) because the silly man has the gall to ask an inconvenient question.
That was bullshit, and completely unnecessary. I'll blog it tomorrow.
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If one can't be bothered with a separate set-top box, there's always the option of an internal DVB tuner card for your PC. It's a bit cumbersome for the non-computer techie, but it is a bit cheaper than getting a set-top box. In particular, Hauppauge make some decent Freeview-ready tuner cards for a reasonable price.
But from what I can see, no MPEG 4 kit yet, DTT or otherwise. It'll take a while. If you have a dish, those MPEG cards will be fine.
The good news is that Freeview told me yesterday that they'll happily endorse PC cards that do meet the spec.
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<conspiracy> a little birdy tells me she may or may not have seen a certain left wing appologist blogger and a certain prego loving ex magazine type (wink wink) lunching and lurching behind several bottles of penfolds finest muttering about stirring up some publicity before the debut of said lefties latest trans media vanity project. nothing better for a little msm press than a public bout of verbal fisticuffs eh.........my [redacted] lips are sealed.... </conspiracy>
Partly true. I was at Prego today. But the other bloke wasn't.
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Ouch. I actually thought the HDMI standard had HDCP within it, so I certainly would have been caught out with that...
It does now. But for six months in (I think) 2006, it didn't on some sets. I'm not sure if that would mean a mandatory downconvert or no bloody picture at all, but it ain't great for those punters.
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sadly I put out bigger buck 3 years ago for a TV and explicitly asked about HDMI - no one had any idea what I was talking about so we had to go without - now we're stuck with a bunch of scart stuff
Think about the people who bought "HD ready" sets here during the six-month window when they had HDMI but not HDCP support, which will be essential for viewing the HD TV programming. I'd be bloody furious about that ...
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Indeed. We bought a Bravia six months ago with just one HDMI slot.
Bugger.The HDMI switchers are apparently okay, so that's an option.
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Did that $6,500 Loewe have that?
Now you mention it, yes (although most other Loewe models don't).
They're advertising that feature, but Freeview NZ haven't approved, or even seen it. I'd like to know how well it works.
The beauty of them was that the signal stayed digital until the very last point of conversion for the screen - presumedly HDMI connections now achieve the same thing, but if you have to go composite, s-vid or component you are analogue converting in the box, just to digitally convert in the TV again.
I'm an HDMI fanboy now, even if it will let The Man stop us copying TV any time he likes. End-to-end digital video and audio in one slim cable. Our new set has three inputs too, which is actually just enough.
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Update: Apparently, composite input is fine, so forget what I said about that.
Also (and as I've mentioned before) bear in mid that digital integrated TVs (ie: a TV with a Freeview HD decoder built-in) are coming some time in the next six months.
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