"Ironic"

[walesrob]

Just installed Firefox 3b5 (due to come out of beta next month) and the only webmail service that doesn't like it and throws a wobbly? Windows Live/Hotmail....:icon_lol:

So software developers are expected to bend over backwards :action-smiley-081: to Microsoft to make their software compatible with Windows Vista, but when its the Microsoft getting their stuff to work in other browsers.... :NoNo:

[keithAngel]

I avoid microsoft like the plauge where ever poss

http://whdb.com/2008/the-top-50-proprietary-programs-that-drive-you-crazy-and-their-open-source-alternatives/

[joebloggs]

without MS you would be still using cp/m :icon_lol:

[KeithD]

without MS you would be still using cp/m :icon_lol:
I liked CP/M, it was more powerful.

[joebloggs]

than what :Erm:

your latest 'pc' an apricot xen :D circ 1985 :xxgrinning--00xx3:

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/Apricot_XenXi_Sysstem_1.jpg

Codenamed Candyfloss, not just the puters but scouser keiths name when he goes to those bars :D

[KeithD]

CP/M was much better for developer's than DOS.....same as BETAMAX was better technology than VHS.....but money sort out the winners.

[walesrob]

CP/M was much better for developer's than DOS.....same as BETAMAX was better technology than VHS.....but money sort out the winners.

Actually, V2000 was the best video format of all, with twin-sided tapes and dolby sound.

[joebloggs]

Actually, V2000 was the best video format of all, with twin-sided tapes and dolby sound.

you know rob you beat me to it, i had one of those, what a beast, you could turn the casette upside down and use the other side :xxgrinning--00xx3:

betamax :action-smiley-081:

[KeithD]

The battle was between BetaMax & VHS though!! :Erm: I didn't mention the other one as it was noy part of the classic one-on-one.....same as the episode we've just had with Blu-Ray coming out the winner.

:butthead:

[Gavanddal]

The battle was between BetaMax & VHS though!! :Erm: I didn't mention the other one as it was noy part of the classic one-on-one.....same as the episode we've just had with Blu-Ray coming out the winner.



The Blu-ray V HD DVD was an interesting contest for us in the audio-visual industry. With different movie studios backing different formats it was very messy. i.e if you sided with HD DVD you would never be able to buy a James Bond movie as they are made by Sony who support Blu-Ray.

The battle was over merely by Toshiba announcing that they were stopping production of their HD DVD players. It was most likely Sonys clever placement of Blu-ray players in PS3 and making them relatively cheap that clinched it. HD DVD finalised their format before launch unlike Blu-ray which was rushed to market before the final standard was agreed.
Both formats are very similar but Blu-ray does have more capacity.

However, the industry feeling is "who cares". Consumer purchasing of disk media is short lived as downloading, streaming and media servers will become the norm. No-one is likely to replace their DVD collection with Blu-ray disks and at around £25 each, the public will buy Blu-ray disks less often than DVD.

More scary is the BBC and ITV plugging the "digital switchover" constantly and urging people to get digital TVs or set top boxes. Within a year, HD content will be broadcast on Freeview and immediately render ALL CURRENT DIGITAL RECEIVERS OBSOLETE. Obviously they want to take your money now and take it again next year.
:CompBuster:

[andypaul]

The Blu-ray V HD DVD was an interesting contest for us in the audio-visual industry. With different movie studios backing different formats it was very messy. i.e if you sided with HD DVD you would never be able to buy a James Bond movie as they are made by Sony who support Blu-Ray.

The battle was over merely by Toshiba announcing that they were stopping production of their HD DVD players. It was most likely Sonys clever placement of Blu-ray players in PS3 and making them relatively cheap that clinched it. HD DVD finalised their format before launch unlike Blu-ray which was rushed to market before the final standard was agreed.
Both formats are very similar but Blu-ray does have more capacity.

However, the industry feeling is "who cares". Consumer purchasing of disk media is short lived as downloading, streaming and media servers will become the norm. No-one is likely to replace their DVD collection with Blu-ray disks and at around £25 each, the public will buy Blu-ray disks less often than DVD.

More scary is the BBC and ITV plugging the "digital switchover" constantly and urging people to get digital TVs or set top boxes. Within a year, HD content will be broadcast on Freeview and immediately render ALL CURRENT DIGITAL RECEIVERS OBSOLETE. Obviously they want to take your money now and take it again next year.
:CompBuster:

Have the got the technolgy sorted now?

I remeber hearing about freeview offering a HD service but the poor broadcastquality of most Channels and how space is at a premium was meaning they had to wait for new technolgy to become avaiable at a decent rate and im sure i also heard that again it was a choice between broadcast methods one being better but heavy on bandwith and the other needing more expensive boxes to recieve or something like that.

I think i would leave off buying a new box untill some other mugs do the r n d for me.

[KeithD]

The more HD they squeeze in, the more you see 'blocks' on pictures that move fast.....anyone remember the 2006 World Cup on ITV.....looked like the players were Lego bricks :NoNo: