Andy Barratt's Profile

Aren't all the Blackberry Storms haptic displays?

I bought the Honeywell 16200 for a bedroom but returned it - way too noisy for me.

I got one of the Sharp Plasmacluster ones when it went on sale at my local electronics stores. Does it work? I think so. It definitely detects odours anyway.

Not that everyone cares, as the posters and commenters here illustrate, but when will people realise that Blu-Ray is not about being 1080p, it's about the bitrate that the storage capabilities of BR discs allows for.

Consider this. I could take any crappy digital video file, something that's only 640x480 in dimension, and adjust the resolution of it so that it's now 1080 pixels tall. Make it progressive, and I have a 1080p file. Awesome.

Except it'll look like ass. The bitrate that original file would've been encoded at would be so low, that the greater resolution of 1080 is completely wasted.

Yes, this is an extreme case. But hopefully my analogy illustrates that not all 1080p is made equal.

Netflix might stream 1080p where available, but the clarity, depth and dynamic range of their content cannot hold a candle to what Blu-Ray will offer.

It's just not the same thing. At all.

But, just as crappily encoded mp3s trumped CDs, people go for the convenience over quality every time these days.