What are you doing right now?

[Warp Daddy]

Just got back from skiing -- spring conditions -- 44 degress skied in just a Northface soft shell anf liteweight Nortface hi vent pants and i silk under layer - shades - no goggs needed today awesome time

 

[ZYDECORICH]

didn't ski today, don't until after 3 on weekends. getting a bernese puppy tomorrow. driving to ithaca in the morning. 4 hours up then 4 back. lunch in cornell before doggie pick up so the queen can see her college and town again. cool place if you have never been there. pizza at the "nines" if it's still there. excellent pie. kids are fired up. so am i. got to get them all asleep soon, they never get up without a war. help!!!!

 

[gmcunni]

waiting for i-movie to finish my movie export so i can upload and then go to bed.

 

[RootDKJ]

Getting ready to ski Blue for the 3rd day in a row. Gotta scrape some way and get some coffee.

 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Getting ready to ski Blue for the 3rd day in a row. Gotta scrape some way and get some coffee.

eating Dunkin Donuts..leaving for Blue in 50 minutes..

 

[RootDKJ]

eating Dunkin Donuts..leaving for Blue in 50 minutes..

see ya there!

 

[ski220]

65 degrees and sunny down here on the coast. getting the cooler ready to go down to the beach for some VOLLEYBALL!

 

[severine]

Just finished giving the dog a bath. She decided to play in the freshly defrosted dog crap in the yard. uke: Also did 1/2 the dog poop yard clean up. Not how I wanted to spend my kid-free time this morning.

 

[drjeff]

Just chilling back at home in CT

 

[RootDKJ]

Sitting in class. Tonight we're learning pc audio video tools. At this exact moment, we're learning how to rip dvd's:blink::idea:

 

[severine]

Listening to training stuff for my new company, Wildtree Herbs.

 

[drjeff]

Doing some research on new TV's. Found out today that the company I bought my extended warrantee from 3+ years ago for my 50" Samsung Plasma TV is going to credit me full ORIGINAL purchase price because of a defective panel that has already been replaced 2 times and needs a third new panel. The great thing for me is that the prices have come down so much in the last 3 years that I can either get a much bigger TV for that $$ or get a similar size TV and then get a much bigger TV for my place in VT Really glad I took Consumer Report's advice 3+ years ago and bought the extended warrentee!

 

[RootDKJ]

Doing some research on new TV's. Found out today that the company I bought my extended warrantee from 3+ years ago for my 50" Samsung Plasma TV is going to credit me full ORIGINAL purchase price because of a defective panel that has already been replaced 2 times and needs a third new panel. The great thing for me is that the prices have come down so much in the last 3 years that I can either get a much bigger TV for that $$ or get a similar size TV and then get a much bigger TV for my place in VT Really glad I took Consumer Report's advice 3+ years ago and bought the extended warrentee!

FYI - the broadcast industry is in no rush to embrace 1080p

 

[Geoff]

FYI - the broadcast industry is in no rush to embrace 1080p

It's really more of a cable TV infrastructure issue. I worked on the periphery of some of that at CableLabs. It's going to happen but not until we get a new FCC chairman to fix a regulatory problem that makes it too expensive to get rid of the analog channels on the cable. The FCC has a bizarre ruling that makes it impossible to build a cheap digital set-top box. It's also not going to happen until economy starts looking a little brighter. Like everybody else, the cable companies are buttoned down for the nuclear winter.

 

[RootDKJ]

It's really more of a cable TV infrastructure issue. I worked on the periphery of some of that at CableLabs. It's going to happen but not until we get a new FCC chairman to fix a regulatory problem that makes it too expensive to get rid of the analog channels on the cable. The FCC has a bizarre ruling that makes it impossible to build a cheap digital set-top box. It's also not going to happen until economy starts looking a little brighter. Like everybody else, the cable companies are buttoned down for the nuclear winter.

There's that too, but nobody is in a rush to upgrade their studios, editors, remote trucks, just to get 1080p. Most digital signal processing equipment in a modern Cable headend is capable of passing 1080p, there's just no content to deliver.

And I think the new fcc chairman was selected

 

[Geoff]

There's that too, but nobody is in a rush to upgrade their studios, editors, remote trucks, just to get 1080p. Most digital signal processing equipment in a modern Cable headend is capable of passing 1080p, there's just no content to deliver.

And I think the new fcc chairman was selected

All of the new content out of the studios and things like sports is high definition. The cable news feeds like CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News are all converted over. The major metro markets have all converted their news studios. For the most part on the hundreds of channels of shit on the cable feed, it's only the legacy syndicated shows that will still be in SD. The low budget stuff like the Killington Channel and Plattsburgh/Burlington might take a while.

And yeah, a new FCC chairman is awaiting confirmation hearings. The cable industry is saying "anything has to be better than the last guy". Given the other issues facing the country at the moment, that's pretty low priority.

 

[RootDKJ]

All of the new content out of the studios and things like sports is high definition. The cable news feeds like CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, FOX News are all converted over. The major metro markets have all converted their news studios. For the most part on the hundreds of channels of shit on the cable feed, it's only the legacy syndicated shows that will still be in SD. The low budget stuff like the Killington Channel and Plattsburgh/Burlington might take a while.

And yeah, a new FCC chairman is awaiting confirmation hearings. The cable industry is saying "anything has to be better than the last guy". Given the other issues facing the country at the moment, that's pretty low priority.

Metro network broadcasters (NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox) are not going 1080P. First of all, most of the OTA tuners that are part of the $40 coupon program don't do 1080P, but will do 1080i. DMA #1 (NYC) is not going 1080P. There's no payback in it. I'm pretty sure that satellite delivered networks, (CNN's and Discovery's and such) aren't going 1080p. It's been a while since I've looked at what's actually downlinkable though, so I could be wrong. On the flip side, I'm not aware of any cable headend downconverting any satellite signals from 1080P to 1080i or 720P (or 1080i to 720P).

My basic point it posting some info for drjeff, is beware of sales reps at big box consumer electronics stores, who very often will tell you that cable and verizon are offering 1080p or 1080p signals are available on their service. I think one of the dbs providers is upconverting some of thier content, but I can't remember which.

 

[WJenness]

Getting ready to ghost a bunch of laptops for a rollout I'm working on.

Also dealing with post workout soreness in my arms and chest as I started lifting again last night. Haven't done that since the summer... It feels good. I should have never stopped.

-w

 

[drjeff]

Metro network broadcasters (NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox) are not going 1080P. First of all, most of the OTA tuners that are part of the $40 coupon program don't do 1080P, but will do 1080i. DMA #1 (NYC) is not going 1080P. There's no payback in it. I'm pretty sure that satellite delivered networks, (CNN's and Discovery's and such) aren't going 1080p. It's been a while since I've looked at what's actually downlinkable though, so I could be wrong. On the flip side, I'm not aware of any cable headend downconverting any satellite signals from 1080P to 1080i or 720P (or 1080i to 720P).

My basic point it posting some info for drjeff, is beware of sales reps at big box consumer electronics stores, who very often will tell you that cable and verizon are offering 1080p or 1080p signals are available on their service. I think one of the dbs providers is upconverting some of thier content, but I can't remember which.

Thanks for the spirited debate/info guys! I'm aware atleast of the basically lack of current differences between a 720P and a 1080P picture for *most* cable broadcasts as my now being replaced set at home in CT is/was a 720P and my hopefully soon to be upgraded set in VT is a 1080P. And frankly while viewing under most cirsumstances, even running a blu-ray disc on both of them, I really don't notice that much of a difference in the picture quality/clarity between the 2.

Biggest things that I'll be looking for is/are the # of and ease of access to HDMI/USB inputs and the picture clarity with/during fast movement sporting events. At home in CT atleast, most anything will look better than the picture issues I was having where for about the first 20 to 30 minutes of operation, there would be a fine "red snow" in some of the pixels on the lower basically 1/2 of the screen And this problem, which wasn't happening for the 1st roughly 2 years I had the TV, has now been present even after 2 new panels were installed

 

[RootDKJ]

Thanks for the spirited debate/info guys! I'm aware atleast of the basically lack of current differences between a 720P and a 1080P picture for *most* cable broadcasts as my now being replaced set at home in CT is/was a 720P and my hopefully soon to be upgraded set in VT is a 1080P. And frankly while viewing under most cirsumstances, even running a blu-ray disc on both of them, I really don't notice that much of a difference in the picture quality/clarity between the 2.

Biggest things that I'll be looking for is/are the # of and ease of access to HDMI/USB inputs and the picture clarity with/during fast movement sporting events. At home in CT atleast, most anything will look better than the picture issues I was having where for about the first 20 to 30 minutes of operation, there would be a fine "red snow" in some of the pixels on the lower basically 1/2 of the screen And this problem, which wasn't happening for the 1st roughly 2 years I had the TV, has now been present even after 2 new panels were installed

If you're running Blu-ray or an gaming system that supports 1080p, than I'd go for that route.