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[Matt]

Good stuff 🙂 I’ve not used the AVS disc yet, so I think I might mess around with it and the guide later today.

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[quote=”Mikinho”]
Interesting, it is listed as being DLNA certified, which doesn’t actually mean much, but only from unofficial sources (i.e. [url=http://www.dexid.org/wiki/Panasonic_TCP58VT25]http://www.dexid.org/wiki/Panasonic_TCP58VT25[/url]).
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The same misinformation was floating around when Panny refreshed their 2010 Blu-ray player line as well. It turned out that some European models got DLNA, but Panny never seemd to think the US should be blessed with it. Panasonic doesn’t seem to think much of DLNA support it seems 🙁

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[quote=”Skirge01″]
An “IP based interface”?  My guess is that they’ll tweak it just enough so that it’s proprietary and completely negate any actual usefulness.
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My guess is that it will be the same as firewire was.  It will be ruined by 5C encryption that nobody can get a license to decode.
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No, because the cable co’s see a value in it already. Most providers already have pilot projects for whole home DVR service which uses MoCA to stream shows to non-DVR set-top boxes from a main DVR. Uverse does it this way, Comcast has it slowly rolling out in areas, etc. So I would imgine it is as Skirge said, and it will just be locked down by the industry for the industry only.

[Matt]

Yeah the key phrase there is ” the proposed rule would simply codify the CableCARD certification process as it exists today”.

All they did was put CableLabs existing private certification process into public record as a mandate. It doesn’t change anything 🙁

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Yep, my displays thus far have been budget displays, but sometime in the next couple of years it will go up to much a nicer tier and then it is certainly worth the colorimeter investment 🙂 Thanks for the great info!

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[quote=”Chasseur”]
Maybe I should try to find drivers on intel website.[/quote]

Yes. Go get the latest Intel drivers direct from Intel. Depending on the adapter, the Intel drivers generally install a couple of extra tabs for advanced diagnostics and configuration in the Device Manager.

[Matt]

I have to say that’s way more affordable than I thought it would be… I know the pro stuff is $1000+

I’ve been interested in getting something for real calibration (not just by eye) and not the junk marketed to home users like the DataColor Spyder3TV.

I’m curious how/why is that colorimeters drift? and what can be done about it?

[Matt]

Yeah I mean all plasmas buzz a little bit, I’ve never noticed my 2008 Panny buzz really. But it seems Sammy has a long history of noticable from the couch level of buzz.

[Matt]

Looking at AVS it seems the Samsung plasmas continue to have a pretty widespread buzzing problem, which is really off putting 🙁 Because the C7000 and C8000 series seem like pretty compelling options otherwise.

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[quote=”Mikinho”]
This is where my speculation comes in…that perhaps DTV was cooperative but Dish wasn’t due to Project Draco not being released and ongoing work with Project Snowbird
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Ah yeah I getcha. It’s such a bummer Dish never finished their WMC project.

Snowbird is such a mysterious project at the moment… hopefully Dish will just let MS to offer up Dish listings in the mean time.

[Matt]

[quote=”Mikinho”]
I think what you are missing is that Media Center does not have Dish Network EPG for Digital Cable tuners.  Media Center’s EPG coverage is lacking when it comes to satellite, DVB-S, etc.., providers.
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Oh right because it is considerd a “digital cable tuner” so I guess WMC wouldn’t offer up Dish, DirecTV, etc. as a channel line-up option since they aren’t cable companies?

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Yeah maybe I’m missing it, but WMC has always just had a list of providers and it downloaded EPG data (provided by Tribune). It works independantly of any STB you might have. So what’s the deal with caring about Dish’s own satelite receiver GUI/EPG?

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What’s the link between Hauppauge and Niveus’s project snowbird?

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Yeah I read it back when it showed up on newstands in late-July/early-August and as usual I was disapointed with it. Most mainstream “PC power user” type magazines really don’t know much about the HTPC niche.

[Matt]

[quote=”Skirge01″]
I could swear I read something about Hollywood avoiding creating movies using this format* because of this very effect.  In other words, I thought they were saying that they needed to intentionally make movies look fake because making them look real (soap opera effect) had the opposite effect on people.

* I’m saying “format” because that’s the term that makes sense to me and the way I understood it, but Matt has me thinking it’s more of an “after effect” or feature on TVs, as opposed to how the material is being filmed.  If anyone knows for sure, I’d like to be enlightened.
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Nothing is shot at more than 60fps. Standard 35mm theatrical released films are always 24 fps, now sometimes they’ve used digital cameras in the filming processes but they’re still shot at 24fps and eventually transfered to 35mm for general theatrical release.

Some sports is shot at 720p/60. A lot of cheap soap operas are shot on video cameras (these days digital video cameras) and so they’re 30 fps. Which is where the term “soap opera effect” came from, because when you enable frame interpolation you get this ultra smooth “more video than video” effect that looks like a soap opera’s 30fps shooting style taken to an extreme.

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