Getting around the HDTV mumbo-jumbo
Now do you go for LCD or plasma? For 720p or 1080p? For 60Hz
or 600Hz? And how do you know when more is not necessarily better? Oh,
and I’ve got an even more serious one for you – what’s the best
technology your money can buy right now – OLED, LED or LED-backlit TVs?
HDTV’s have been around for quite some time now – so much that they’ve successfully replaced the older CRT variety on floor stands quite successfully. Unfortunately, few of their ground-breaking features actually make sense to the general public. I myself have been involved in advising numerous HDTV buys so I know that personally. That’s the reason why a good primer on HDTV technologies and features such as the one below didn’t escape my attention.
I really suggest you check it out if you’re in for some HDTV shopping this holiday season.
Gizmodo’s Giz Explains: The Ultimate HDTV Cheat Sheet and Buying Guides
P.S. Oh, and the personal make-or-break feature from me – viewing angles. Check those viewing angles – especially from the top (if you’re putting the HDTV in your living room) and from the bottom (if it’s headed to your bedroom).
HDTV’s have been around for quite some time now – so much that they’ve successfully replaced the older CRT variety on floor stands quite successfully. Unfortunately, few of their ground-breaking features actually make sense to the general public. I myself have been involved in advising numerous HDTV buys so I know that personally. That’s the reason why a good primer on HDTV technologies and features such as the one below didn’t escape my attention.
I really suggest you check it out if you’re in for some HDTV shopping this holiday season.
Gizmodo’s Giz Explains: The Ultimate HDTV Cheat Sheet and Buying Guides
P.S. Oh, and the personal make-or-break feature from me – viewing angles. Check those viewing angles – especially from the top (if you’re putting the HDTV in your living room) and from the bottom (if it’s headed to your bedroom).
Google offers personalized search for everyone, creeps us a little
Just because you are paranoid, it doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get
you. Since yesterday not having a Google account is not going to stop
your browsing history and web search behavior from getting recorded. But
there’s hardly anything to worry about here, Google is only going to
use that data to provide more relevant search results (and advertising,
of course).
The last 180 days of your search are linked to an anonymous cookie and are taken into account when you make your next search. You can check out how much that improves the search engine accuracy by clicking the “View customizations” link on the top right of the search results page.
In case you are all too creeped about all that history recording, you can follow the instructions here to turn the personalized search off.
And check out the video demoing the positive sides of getting your search personalized:
The last 180 days of your search are linked to an anonymous cookie and are taken into account when you make your next search. You can check out how much that improves the search engine accuracy by clicking the “View customizations” link on the top right of the search results page.
In case you are all too creeped about all that history recording, you can follow the instructions here to turn the personalized search off.
And check out the video demoing the positive sides of getting your search personalized:
Canon patents touchscreen DSLR with sweep gestures, puzzles us
We have a feeling the photo community won’t be exactly thrilled about
this but here it goes. Canon has just filled a patent for a touchscreen
DSLR that would allow changing the aperture and the shutter speed by
finger sweeps across the screen.
There are many other features described in the patent that would also be touch controlled such as metering, exposure compensation etc. but there is no saying of the exact nature of the gestures that would be used.
Now we are pretty certain that the Sony touch-driven T-series ultra compact cameras go perfectly well with a touchscreen, but a DSLR? Hm, we somehow cannot see it as the future of DSLR photography. Then again it might be just us getting old.
How about you? Any takes of a touchscreen-enabled Canon EOS 1Ds Mark IV?
There are many other features described in the patent that would also be touch controlled such as metering, exposure compensation etc. but there is no saying of the exact nature of the gestures that would be used.
Now we are pretty certain that the Sony touch-driven T-series ultra compact cameras go perfectly well with a touchscreen, but a DSLR? Hm, we somehow cannot see it as the future of DSLR photography. Then again it might be just us getting old.
How about you? Any takes of a touchscreen-enabled Canon EOS 1Ds Mark IV?
