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Quote: Originally Posted by -hh Quote: Originally Posted by I am a Zither Zather Zuzz Tell me what iOS development tasks cannot be done on an iMac. Probably all of it, but that misses the point. The point is that the responsiveness of the h…
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Quote: Originally Posted by island hermit There's value in 100 million + users. Apple is a smart company and could figure out a plan... I'm sure that if Twitter was the right price then it would be well worth it. Why? Maybe I'm just oblivi…
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Strange to see so much negativity about HTC here, of all the Android manufacturers they were one of very few that actually tried to make more of their phones than just the generic crap that most of the others sell, or the iPhone clone business that …
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That's just... Bizarre... Sometimes I just don't get the US and how they think about taxes. If you are filthy rich you can get a pass and pay little or no taxes, but if you are poor, you have to cough up double or triple the percentage Then …
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta You're missing the entire point. I don't think anyone suggested that an integrated GPU would ever be faster than a dedicated GPU. That's just not going to happen. People who need the ultimate in performance…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Tallest Skil Wait, are you suggesting differences in product line numbers between different manufacturers is evidence that one is inferior to the other? nVidia's on their 600 series. Does that mean it's much worse than…
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Quote: Originally Posted by MacBook Pro Would you feel the same if the performance of the Intel HD 4000 integrated GPU was found to be comparable to mid-level discrete graphics processors? It won't, no need to hypothesize about it. HD4000 will…
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'New Apple product launch playbook' 1) New product is announced, complies with all the sane/realistic rumors going around about it for the past 6 months, does not comply with any of the crazy/unrealstic ones 2) Tech forums full of people complai…
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Quote: Originally Posted by dfiler What you're missing is that not everyone shares your perception. To a large percentage of people, streamed 1080p is "almost as good" and blu-ray is not "clearly better". Note that this isn't asserting that th…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta Once again, your argument is flawed because you want to make an arbitrary definition of 'come close'. For many, many, many people, even DVD is close enough to Blu-Ray that they can be compared. In fact, it's o…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell It gets more complicated than that. I've had some access to see how Hollywood studios encode movies for DVD. At least when it comes to big Hollywood movies where they care about the quality of the end product,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell You know there are multiple profiles that Blu-ray can support, they don't have to use H.264 Main Profile. Again this is technically true, but I'm pretty sure Main Profile is the minimum/least advanced profi…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell Blu-ray and streaming/downloading do not use the same encoder and are not really using the same exact codec. They both use a variant of H.264, but are using different profiles of it. I'm aware of that, but …
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX You can make a technical comparison to Monster cables over other cables to find Monster are technically superior but that doesn't mean you'll get a perceptible difference in quality over generic cables... wh…
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Quote: Originally Posted by TenoBell They are showing the exact same still. So the comparison is fair. The comparison is fair for that particular clip of video, but you still cannot extrapolate that in any meaningful way. Even MPEG II will get…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX Speaking of H.264 recently TV torrent uploaders have switched from AVI to H.264 for the simple reason it's common while offering better quality in a smaller package. Yet many of these torrenters are up in ar…
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Quote: Originally Posted by JavaCowboy None of you probably care, but this probably mean that Linux users either get left out entirely or have to install legally grey H.264 plugins themselves. There is nothing 'legally grey' about the H264 cod…
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Quote: Originally Posted by SolipsismX I think it's a useful comparison. Regardless of the technical specifications people only care about how good it looks and sometimes a comparison is the only way to do that. Is the Blu-ray required to watch m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Apple ][ Most people at home don't watch their movies on a huge theatre screen. And I'm not so sure about your discs still spinning in the 22nd century. I have some DVD's that haven't even lasted 10 years before they c…
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This is a pretty useless comparison. Both Blu-Ray and iTunes content is H264. It's the same codec, and any quality improvement has to be in the encoder. A lower bitrate (=smaller file size) encoding with the same encoder and codec (and codec setting…