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Any company that brings a new product to market has to take risks in order to do so, but the biggest risk of all- the one that could make all of the other risks even more likely to come up and bite that company- is the possibility that consumers will meet the product with indifference. That's the situation that some TV industry analysts are anticipating with the new Apple TV from Apple Inc. (Formerly Apple Computer Inc.) Any company that brings a new product to market has to take risks in order to do so, but the biggest risk of all- the one that could make all of the other risks even more likely to come up and bite that company- is the possibility that consumers will meet the product with indifference. That's the situation that some TV industry analysts are anticipating with the new Apple TV from Apple Inc. (Formerly Apple Computer Inc.)
The Apple TV is a set top box that can wirelessly receive music, digital photos, and video at resolutions of up to 720p from a computer and then display that media on a TV set. The Apple TV is designed to provide easy access to a variety of digital media in a way that makes it easier to watch and share with friends and family through the home entertainment center than it would be directly through a computer.
While the idea of transmitting high definition video over a wireless connection is certainly impressive, there are a number of strikes against the Apple TV. One of the major strikes against this device is that it's very limited in what it can do. Sure it can put all of these types of media on your TV, but it doesn't consolidate any of the features of other home entertainment accessories. For example, some models of the TiVo perform similar functions as the Apple TV- albeit over a wired connection- but also records programming to be watched later. The Apple TV is just another piece of equipment to clutter up the already crowded home entertainment center.
The idea of the Apple TV is also a concept that consumers have rejected, or at least been lukewarm to, many times in the past already. For example, media center computers are able to do everything that the Apple TV can do, and do it better. For example, a media center computer can feed video and digital photos to a TV set, and feed music to the stereo system, just like the Apple TV. Media center computers can also record video onto their hard drives, function as DVD players (and many can burn recorded video onto DVD's as well), and serve as video gaming systems. They can also allow the user to surf the Internet on their TV's. Yet despite having so many more functions than the Apple TV, and the fact that they can consolidate many of the set top boxes that plague modern American living rooms, media center computers aren't at all popular. For that reason, combined with the fact that the Apple TV will only receive items transmitted from the computer's iTunes folder (very limiting indeed!) there is really no reason to expect the Apple TV to be very successful.
Of course, the Apple TV does have one thing going for it: it's made by Apple Inc. The cult following that Apple has will undoubtedly provide for some sales of the Apple TV, but that will only go so far. Even some of the most devote Apple followers will question the value of a relatively limited device like the Apple TV.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
New Gadgets Offer Options For Recording Audio
Taking accurate notes has always been a challenge for students, journalists, and writers. Gadgets like tape recorders and portable computers (laptop, palm top, tablet, and otherwise) have helped somewhat, but now digital audio technology lets note takers record lectures and interviews with ease. The gadgets that do this are a lot like souped up MP3 players. In addition to being able to play back audio in several formats, modern digital audio recorders can also record audio and even edit it either on the fly or by uploading it to a computer.
Taking accurate notes has always been a challenge for students, journalists, and writers. Gadgets like tape recorders and portable computers (laptop, palm top, tablet, and otherwise) have helped somewhat, but now digital audio technology lets note takers record lectures and interviews with ease. The gadgets that do this are a lot like souped up MP3 players. In addition to being able to play back audio in several formats, modern digital audio recorders can also record audio and even edit it either on the fly or by uploading it to a computer.
One model in particular that's generally well respected is the M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96. This gadget makes good enough recordings to pick up even the most subtle vocal inflections and easily transfers recordings to a computer for editing or archiving. The M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 also benefits from having removable flash memory modules to extend the amount of recording time between computer uploads. On the downside this model is expensive, bulky, and doesn't have a removable battery. The fact that this model's storage capacity can be expanded by changing out the flash memory module, but doesn't provide the option of getting more than four hours of performance between charging is definitely a shortcoming in the design.
Another model, the Olympus DS-40 is also a good contender. At two hundred dollars, it's very affordable and provides the advantage of noise canceling technology for higher quality recordings. The Olympus DS-40 also comes with an interactive feature that uses a female voice to guide the user through various menus. This model is also especially good at playing back audio files, making it a good MP3 player. The fact that this model is fairly compact offers a drawback of sorts in the form of a small screen that makes menus difficult to read (the guide feature does help to counteract this though). The software that comes with it for editing sound files on a separate computer is less than ideal as well.
The Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9600 is another more expensive model, but it comes with a number of features that make it arguably a decent value. For one thing, this model will allow users to edit audio without uploading it to a computer. For example, it's possible to add notes to go along with a lecture or interview after the fact without recording over anything in the original recording. (This in particular is something that's just not possible with a tape recorder.) Disadvantages of this model come in the form of a ridiculously expensive docking station and the fact that the unit gets really hot during use.
A fourth option is available in the form of the Panasonic RR-US470. This gadget has the two unique benefits of being able to pick out and record sounds in the specific direction in which it's aimed, and being able to translate audio from English into five other languages and back again. These features and the affordable price are offset to some extent by the small screen and confusing menus.
Generally gadgets like these provide a good deal of options for people who need to record audio notes.
Taking accurate notes has always been a challenge for students, journalists, and writers. Gadgets like tape recorders and portable computers (laptop, palm top, tablet, and otherwise) have helped somewhat, but now digital audio technology lets note takers record lectures and interviews with ease. The gadgets that do this are a lot like souped up MP3 players. In addition to being able to play back audio in several formats, modern digital audio recorders can also record audio and even edit it either on the fly or by uploading it to a computer.
One model in particular that's generally well respected is the M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96. This gadget makes good enough recordings to pick up even the most subtle vocal inflections and easily transfers recordings to a computer for editing or archiving. The M-Audio MicroTrack 24/96 also benefits from having removable flash memory modules to extend the amount of recording time between computer uploads. On the downside this model is expensive, bulky, and doesn't have a removable battery. The fact that this model's storage capacity can be expanded by changing out the flash memory module, but doesn't provide the option of getting more than four hours of performance between charging is definitely a shortcoming in the design.
Another model, the Olympus DS-40 is also a good contender. At two hundred dollars, it's very affordable and provides the advantage of noise canceling technology for higher quality recordings. The Olympus DS-40 also comes with an interactive feature that uses a female voice to guide the user through various menus. This model is also especially good at playing back audio files, making it a good MP3 player. The fact that this model is fairly compact offers a drawback of sorts in the form of a small screen that makes menus difficult to read (the guide feature does help to counteract this though). The software that comes with it for editing sound files on a separate computer is less than ideal as well.
The Philips Digital Pocket Memo 9600 is another more expensive model, but it comes with a number of features that make it arguably a decent value. For one thing, this model will allow users to edit audio without uploading it to a computer. For example, it's possible to add notes to go along with a lecture or interview after the fact without recording over anything in the original recording. (This in particular is something that's just not possible with a tape recorder.) Disadvantages of this model come in the form of a ridiculously expensive docking station and the fact that the unit gets really hot during use.
A fourth option is available in the form of the Panasonic RR-US470. This gadget has the two unique benefits of being able to pick out and record sounds in the specific direction in which it's aimed, and being able to translate audio from English into five other languages and back again. These features and the affordable price are offset to some extent by the small screen and confusing menus.
Generally gadgets like these provide a good deal of options for people who need to record audio notes.
Great Entertainment and Excellent Communications Services Are Available Through Comcast
If it has been a long time since you've checked out the services that Comcast Cable Service offers, you may have missed out on the perfect solution to all of your communications and entertainment needs. Comcast has long been known for its excellent Cable television service, but the company now also offers both telephone and high speed Internet services.
If it has been a long time since you've checked out the services that Comcast Cable Service offers, you may have missed out on the perfect solution to all of your communications and entertainment needs. Comcast has long been known for its excellent Cable television service, but the company now also offers both telephone and high speed Internet services.
You are guaranteed to be completely impressed by the high speed Internet access that this company offers. With more options for everything from entertainment to education becoming available online, having a high speed connection is now a necessity. Dial up is just too slow to allow you to use the Internet in the ways that you wish. And even DSL is too slow to truly keep up with the assortment of websites available. However, Comcast's high speed Internet connection runs almost a 100 times faster than a dial up connection and thus gives you the power to access sites that you couldn't access before. This connection speed is actually about 8 Megabytes per second, which is fast enough to allow you to download even full length movies or book length PDF files in just a few minutes. This not only makes it possible for you to extend your entertainment possibilities, but it also allows you to access business forms, informational materials, and lots more.
Because getting online requires patience against threats like viruses and spyware, Comcast offers options that allow you to keep your computer safer. Each subscription comes with a free lifelong subscription to McAfee VirusScan and you can also opt to receive a firewall to further insure your computer against malicious threats. You can even keep your children safer when they are online with special access to kid-safe sites featuring music, games, and other safe content.
If you want to get the most out of your communications services, selecting Comcast for your telephone service is a really smart idea. Comcast offers special deals for customers who get this service along with one or more of the company's other services and the plans are specially designed to be extremely cost efficient. For instance, every calling plan includes unlimited domestic long distance in a flat fee and even international calls are billed at extremely low rates.
Of course, phone service would not be high quality unless you also received all of the convenient features that you are used to. That is why Comcast offers over 12 great features with every plan at no extra charge. From call waiting to caller ID you will be able to get the most out of your phone service. In fact, you even get free enhanced voice mail to make your life simpler.
Comcast still has a superior cable television selection, which is now even better than ever. Recently the entire service was upgraded to digital, which allows for improved pictures and sound and more interactive options. Plus, with a selection that now exceeds 280 channels, you are guaranteed to find more of the programming that you love. Special channels even provide the great quality of high definition television, HDTV, or On Demand programming.
You are sure to be pleased with the service that Comcast Cable Service offers and even more pleased with the savings that the company can give you. In fact, if you bundle your services under Comcast, you can receive an incredible level of savings and reduce the hassle of managing services by paying just one monthly bill.
If it has been a long time since you've checked out the services that Comcast Cable Service offers, you may have missed out on the perfect solution to all of your communications and entertainment needs. Comcast has long been known for its excellent Cable television service, but the company now also offers both telephone and high speed Internet services.
You are guaranteed to be completely impressed by the high speed Internet access that this company offers. With more options for everything from entertainment to education becoming available online, having a high speed connection is now a necessity. Dial up is just too slow to allow you to use the Internet in the ways that you wish. And even DSL is too slow to truly keep up with the assortment of websites available. However, Comcast's high speed Internet connection runs almost a 100 times faster than a dial up connection and thus gives you the power to access sites that you couldn't access before. This connection speed is actually about 8 Megabytes per second, which is fast enough to allow you to download even full length movies or book length PDF files in just a few minutes. This not only makes it possible for you to extend your entertainment possibilities, but it also allows you to access business forms, informational materials, and lots more.
Because getting online requires patience against threats like viruses and spyware, Comcast offers options that allow you to keep your computer safer. Each subscription comes with a free lifelong subscription to McAfee VirusScan and you can also opt to receive a firewall to further insure your computer against malicious threats. You can even keep your children safer when they are online with special access to kid-safe sites featuring music, games, and other safe content.
If you want to get the most out of your communications services, selecting Comcast for your telephone service is a really smart idea. Comcast offers special deals for customers who get this service along with one or more of the company's other services and the plans are specially designed to be extremely cost efficient. For instance, every calling plan includes unlimited domestic long distance in a flat fee and even international calls are billed at extremely low rates.
Of course, phone service would not be high quality unless you also received all of the convenient features that you are used to. That is why Comcast offers over 12 great features with every plan at no extra charge. From call waiting to caller ID you will be able to get the most out of your phone service. In fact, you even get free enhanced voice mail to make your life simpler.
Comcast still has a superior cable television selection, which is now even better than ever. Recently the entire service was upgraded to digital, which allows for improved pictures and sound and more interactive options. Plus, with a selection that now exceeds 280 channels, you are guaranteed to find more of the programming that you love. Special channels even provide the great quality of high definition television, HDTV, or On Demand programming.
You are sure to be pleased with the service that Comcast Cable Service offers and even more pleased with the savings that the company can give you. In fact, if you bundle your services under Comcast, you can receive an incredible level of savings and reduce the hassle of managing services by paying just one monthly bill.
Predictions About Future Success of Blu-Ray Technology
With the apparent victory of Blu-ray in the high definition DVD format war imminent, Blu-ray supporters have gone so far as to predict the future success of the format. Some Blu-ray backers have claimed that Blu-ray discs could become the standard- replacing standard definition DVD's- in as little as three years. With the apparent victory of Blu-ray in the high definition DVD format war imminent, Blu-ray supporters have gone so far as to predict the future success of the format. Some Blu-ray backers have claimed that Blu-ray discs could become the standard- replacing standard definition DVD's- in as little as three years.
The Blu-ray High Definition DVD format which was created by Sony is able to store enough information on an optical disc the same size as a normal CD or DVD to display an entire full length movie in HDTV format. The Blu-ray format relies on blue laser technology to more finely encode and decode data than the red laser technology that's used on standard definition DVD's and compact discs. As a result of this difference in technology, a single Blu-ray disc can store up to twenty five gigabytes of data on each side, or fifty gigabytes total.
This ability to store large amounts of information on a relatively small disc provides some huge possibilities for computing as well as entertainment. That's because, Blu-ray discs represent the possibility of being able to archive huge amounts of data in the form of digital photos, videos, music, and software. In fact, the ability to put up to fifty gigabytes of software on a single disc can make for some huge software packages.
Data storage capacity is one of the ways in which Blu-ray has its rival format- HD-DVD which was created by Toshiba- beat. HD-DVD's can only store about thirty gigabytes per disc, utilizing both sides of a disc.
Despite Blu-ray's greater capacity to store data than HD-DVD's, there are some serious barriers to Blu-ray supplanting standard definition DVD's in the next three years. For one thing, there are only a little more than five million Blu-ray discs that have been sold, but there are uncounted billions of standard definition DVD's all over the world. While this in itself isn't a huge barrier- after all, all of those billions of standard definition DVD's have been sold over the course of less than ten years- but the bigger problem is the equipment that can read and display the content of Blu-ray discs.
One of the reasons why the original DVD format was such a success was because, though like the Blu-ray format it requires a special player, standard definition DVD's and the players for them were and are compatible with standard definition television sets. Implicit in the assumption that Blu-ray discs will supplant standard definition DVD's in the next few years is the assumption that the world will be willing to replace all of its standard definition TV sets and existing DVD players with HDTV sets and Blu-ray players. Given the expense of both HDTV sets and Blu-ray players, this simply isn't a realistic expectation.
Besides the problem of replacing all of that equipment, there is the question of apathy among consumers. For example, only a small fraction of homes in the United States have HDTV sets, and the United States is one of the countries with people best able to afford them. Of Americans who are interested in HDTV sets, only a relatively small number of them understand the difference between HDTV and standard definition TV. There are also people out there who still think that standard definition DVD's display movies in HDTV format. All of these obstacles represent a lot of problems that need to be overcome for Blu-ray to ever supplant the standard DVD format, let alone in the next few years.
The Blu-ray High Definition DVD format which was created by Sony is able to store enough information on an optical disc the same size as a normal CD or DVD to display an entire full length movie in HDTV format. The Blu-ray format relies on blue laser technology to more finely encode and decode data than the red laser technology that's used on standard definition DVD's and compact discs. As a result of this difference in technology, a single Blu-ray disc can store up to twenty five gigabytes of data on each side, or fifty gigabytes total.
This ability to store large amounts of information on a relatively small disc provides some huge possibilities for computing as well as entertainment. That's because, Blu-ray discs represent the possibility of being able to archive huge amounts of data in the form of digital photos, videos, music, and software. In fact, the ability to put up to fifty gigabytes of software on a single disc can make for some huge software packages.
Data storage capacity is one of the ways in which Blu-ray has its rival format- HD-DVD which was created by Toshiba- beat. HD-DVD's can only store about thirty gigabytes per disc, utilizing both sides of a disc.
Despite Blu-ray's greater capacity to store data than HD-DVD's, there are some serious barriers to Blu-ray supplanting standard definition DVD's in the next three years. For one thing, there are only a little more than five million Blu-ray discs that have been sold, but there are uncounted billions of standard definition DVD's all over the world. While this in itself isn't a huge barrier- after all, all of those billions of standard definition DVD's have been sold over the course of less than ten years- but the bigger problem is the equipment that can read and display the content of Blu-ray discs.
One of the reasons why the original DVD format was such a success was because, though like the Blu-ray format it requires a special player, standard definition DVD's and the players for them were and are compatible with standard definition television sets. Implicit in the assumption that Blu-ray discs will supplant standard definition DVD's in the next few years is the assumption that the world will be willing to replace all of its standard definition TV sets and existing DVD players with HDTV sets and Blu-ray players. Given the expense of both HDTV sets and Blu-ray players, this simply isn't a realistic expectation.
Besides the problem of replacing all of that equipment, there is the question of apathy among consumers. For example, only a small fraction of homes in the United States have HDTV sets, and the United States is one of the countries with people best able to afford them. Of Americans who are interested in HDTV sets, only a relatively small number of them understand the difference between HDTV and standard definition TV. There are also people out there who still think that standard definition DVD's display movies in HDTV format. All of these obstacles represent a lot of problems that need to be overcome for Blu-ray to ever supplant the standard DVD format, let alone in the next few years.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Ripple released newly TN120R DIY Tablet PC
Tablet PC is a newly Laptop, In Korea many gadgets are made to fulfill the demand of the gadget users. In the recent days a fresh Laptop that is really a special Laptop because in the particular Laptop, Features are exclusive and dashing.
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Features that are assembled in the particular laptop is marvalleous , a 12.1 inch LCD with a 1280×800 resolution, 120GB of HDD,a DVD Multi burner,1GB of RAM., a Core 2 T8100 (2.1GHz) and something else about the particular laptop , the particular is available in various configuration .
Thus seize the particular laptop and the Tablet PC is Known as by the DIY {Do It yourself} tablet PC TN120R. About the price there is enough information not available.
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