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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display#Discontinued It's funny how nobody really noticed when Plasma TVs disappeared 
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wayne curr posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display#Discontinued Developing consumer VDU technology that basically got ruined if you used it to play computer games was never a viable long-term business strategy after the 90s.
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Feb 18, 2016 12:48
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Astrobastard posted:Speaking of SCART im pretty sure noone outside of Europe had to suffer with these bastard things. It wasnt so much the connecetor (okay it was) but you were guaranteed to have some 1.5cm thick cable hanging out the back that was near on impossible to maneuver into a decent location or even around other cables. gently caress SCART The connector was complete and utter poo poo. The worst connectors were those without a full set of pins, they were possibly even wobblier On the other hand, SCART as a standard was pretty good. Well, better than RF. And it was bidirectional! took me years to find out, it wasn't even documented in the VCR's manual. The way a VCR was usually setup was:
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Feb 18, 2016 14:23
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wayne curr posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display#Discontinued
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Feb 18, 2016 15:00
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Plasmas were heavy as poo poo, ran hot, had burn in and reflection issues, it's no wonder that when LED TV production got to where it is that they would get discontinued.
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Feb 18, 2016 15:06
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Christmas Present posted:I loved my GBA-SP until the shoulder buttons got flaky. Not the best portable device I've owned, but the best up to that point, for sure- made a decent eBook reader (in 2005 terms) if you had a flash cart. The SP would've been 11/10 if it had a goddamn headphone jack Micro supremacy 
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Feb 18, 2016 15:09
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wayne curr posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display#Discontinued I always wanted a plasma and pulled the trigger on a 50inch LG two years ago specifically because manufacturers were dropping them. It's 720p, has only one HDMI port, and reflects everything in the room if you don't close all the blinds. But I love it so much. Hopefully OLED TV's are reasonable by the time this one dies.
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Feb 18, 2016 15:21
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wayne curr posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_display#Discontinued My 2012 Panasonic Plasma is still going strong! I was sad to see them stop making them cause picture quality is just amazing. It even got that whole smart TV thing going so I can watch my youtubes! With late generation plasmas a lot of the issues weren't a big deal anymore. Burn in was rare and you pretty much had to force it to happen and while they still use more power than LCDs it's not like the early models that sucked your power station dry. But LCDs were cheap, thin and bright so when you see them next to a plasma in a brightly lit store they just seemed better. Shai-Hulud has a new favorite as of 16:09 on Feb 18, 2016 |
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Feb 18, 2016 15:57
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Intoluene posted:The ds had this problem until the DSi, I know that for a fact. My Wii had WPA and I had a launch console. The fun bit about this is that the wireless stack used by the DS and DSi is actually coded into the games themselves(profile information is stored in the DS/DSi). Even a DS game running on a 3DS won't connect to anything other than WEP(and there's no patching possible for this) The 3DS's network configuration has a separate section for DS games and the APs to use, while 3DS native stuff does WPA and WPA2. The Wii did WPA from launch, I have a PAL launch console and by the time it came out I'd been on WPA for some time already(and using an old wireless NIC to create an access point for my DS for those rare moments of online play)
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Feb 18, 2016 16:09
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Krispy Kareem posted:I always wanted a plasma and pulled the trigger on a 50inch LG two years ago specifically because manufacturers were dropping them.
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Feb 18, 2016 16:36
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Smoke posted:The fun bit about this is that the wireless stack used by the DS and DSi is actually coded into the games themselves(profile information is stored in the DS/DSi). Even a DS game running on a 3DS won't connect to anything other than WEP(and there's no patching possible for this) The 3DS's network configuration has a separate section for DS games and the APs to use, while 3DS native stuff does WPA and WPA2. The system could spoof an unsecured wi-fi link in software and bridge it to a real wireless chipset that is WPA-capable. The 3DS’s hardware may not be capable of this, but there’s no reason it couldn’t have been done.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:46
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Full 1080p with awesome black levels and virtually no issues with color smearing. Plasma had is place in home theater and hopefully OLED can carry the torch. I love my 55 inch 2011 clearance rack Samsung. No burn in with daily use in five years, where it's only source has been my HTPC.
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Feb 18, 2016 17:47
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Smoke posted:The fun bit about this is that the wireless stack used by the DS and DSi is actually coded into the games themselves(profile information is stored in the DS/DSi). Even a DS game running on a 3DS won't connect to anything other than WEP(and there's no patching possible for this) The 3DS's network configuration has a separate section for DS games and the APs to use, while 3DS native stuff does WPA and WPA2. I had this awful thing, which barely worked once. http://www.amazon.com/Nintendo-DS-Wi-Fi-USB-Connector/dp/B000MXMNG4
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Feb 18, 2016 18:12
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Slanderer posted:I had this awful thing, which barely worked once. I had one too, I got it to work once and then it mysteriously stopped, never to work again. Then I bought a Wi-Fi router.
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Feb 18, 2016 21:15
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Humbug posted:In light of the video cable discussion, has the Wii mini been mentioned here yet? A console released in 2013 with ONLY coax video out. No hdmi, no s-video and no component. It was aimed at kids, but still.... IIRC, Canada was the test market for these. So there's probably some still floating around Canadian stores.
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Feb 18, 2016 21:32
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I recall a Danish Internet forum not unlike SA that discussed Wii minis as a way to get controllers since nunchuck + dong shaped controller would cost the same as buying a Wii mini kit.
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Feb 18, 2016 22:13
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Boiled Water posted:I recall a Danish Internet forum not unlike SA that discussed Wii minis as a way to get controllers since nunchuck + dong shaped controller would cost the same as buying a Wii mini kit. With the dwindling supplies of rare metals, waste-producing pricing like this should be criminal.
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Feb 18, 2016 22:22
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experienceBeej posted:IIRC, Canada was the test market for these. So there's probably some still floating around Canadian stores. Yup. While I doubt the EBs up here would still have any buried in the back, I wouldn't be surprised if you could find quite a few used for next to nothing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egiJqfmLfD8&t=99s
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:The SP would've been 11/10 if it had a goddamn headphone jack A-loving-greed. I had a few cheap adapters (MADCATZ!) I'd carry around in case one of em flaked Pilsner posted:I'm curious though, which phone is 8x40x60mm? I guess I'm terrible at estimating sizes in general, but I'm talking about the Sony Ericsson W350, easily the coolest looking phone I've ever owned- but yeah its closer to 1x4x10cm: http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_w350-2198.php Would still love to have a lil one of these that could Bluetooth up with the nice-but-chunkier LG G4 I carry around, it was just such a sexy little device (even though the flip part was paper thin and fell off after a couple years)
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Feb 19, 2016 02:43
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Is Disney's Playmation the latest tech failure? Launched with figures a bit more pricey than amiibo/Skylander, a starter set that was about $100, and I don't think very good explanation to kids/adults as to why they'd want it. The announcement trailer for it about 10 months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXFz5tUDY38 How to play it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19foZgERkQU
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JediTalentAgent posted:Is Disney's Playmation the latest tech failure? Launched with figures a bit more pricey than amiibo/Skylander, a starter set that was about $100, and I don't think very good explanation to kids/adults as to why they'd want it. For all those people who have finished all their Move and Kinect games.
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Feb 19, 2016 07:40
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Wasabi the J posted:Full 1080p with awesome black levels and virtually no issues with color smearing. Plasma had is place in home theater and hopefully OLED can carry the torch. I love my 55 inch 2011 clearance rack Samsung. I was working repairs at a shop that also sold browngoods/home theatre stuff until last year. My god the LG curved OLEDs are amazing. The blacks (such as sidebars from 4:3 sources) are nearly indistinguishable from when the panel is off. The 4K 65in we had I lusted over every time I walked past. Although have some frame rate jerkiness (could have been the source as the sales staff tended to plug USB sticks in and I doubt it was a USB3 stick judging how cheap the bosses were). If you buy one, make sure you have a few friends over and RTFM on unboxing it. I am deadly serious. The panels are about 3-4mm wide with a wider part in the lower middle and very flimsy. Also, don't think you can wall mount it using your current wallmount standard of two vertical rails and a cross bar. You need to buy LGs special snowflake hanger mount or I heard Bunnings have a universal that works for a 1/4 of the price. I want one, they just announced and are rolling out their flat OLEDs. Just so it doesn't sound like I am a shill for LG, I want Panasonic to get into the market. Samsung shouldn't be too far away. If all three had them on the market I would probably go the Panasonic or Samsung (their S series). The smart menus on the LG are a loving pain in the rear end, the smart features on Panasonic are easy and even though they come with a fancy smart remote (throw this remote in the bin straight away), they also come boxed with the bog standard remote you will recognise the feel and look of instantly from the past 20 years (interface looks like rear end but it works and is simple). Samsung's smart remotes are loving irritating and so is the menus, but according to what I have had to fix/send away - best build quality.
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Feb 19, 2016 08:51
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Apparently this was a thing in the early 1900s.  The convulsions you got from consuming non-lethal amounts of strychnine was considered healthy. 
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Collateral Damage posted:Apparently this was a thing in the early 1900s. I'm mostly amazed there's any sort of "CAUTION: DO NOT EXCEED RECOMMENDED DOSE" warning at all.
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experienceBeej posted:IIRC, Canada was the test market for these. So there's probably some still floating around Canadian stores. I saw them in stock at a Shopper Drug Mart in Toronto just this week.
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ryonguy posted:I'm mostly amazed there's any sort of "CAUTION: DO NOT EXCEED RECOMMENDED DOSE" warning at all. There is, though?
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KozmoNaut posted:There is, though? That's what he's saying, he's amazed that such a reckless product has the warning.
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Feb 20, 2016 06:48
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Doh, I mentally inserted an "isn't" in there.
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Collateral Damage posted:Apparently this was a thing in the early 1900s. They used to use it to dope long distance runners. Modern athletes don't know how good they've got it.
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To be fair, you can have deadly botulinum injected into your face on your lunch break. You can overdose on Tylenol with little effort as well. We are always playing in the space between certain death and notable benefit. SLOSifl has a new favorite as of 18:04 on Feb 21, 2016 |
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I saw something in a clearance rack recently: A MiniSD card that was nearly a dozen years old. I had so totally forgotten about them existing that I was confused by it for a second. I can't even recall the last time I saw one as it seems like a lot of stuff opted for regular SD or microSD.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I saw something in a clearance rack recently: A MiniSD card that was nearly a dozen years old. I had so totally forgotten about them existing that I was confused by it for a second. I can't even recall the last time I saw one as it seems like a lot of stuff opted for regular SD or microSD. I think one of my first N-series Nokias had MiniSD. I want to say it was an N80.  http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_n80-1347.php Fake edit: Yes it was, I do miss that phone.
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Humphreys posted:I think one of my first N-series Nokias had MiniSD. I want to say it was an N80. I don't. The drat thing didn't have a GPS receiver, so I had to buy a separate Bluetooth brick to use a painfully slow navigation app. The phone got stolen from me, but I still have the GPS brick in a drawer somewhere in this room.
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Feb 26, 2016 01:00
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Jasper Tin Neck posted:I don't. The drat thing didn't have a GPS receiver, so I had to buy a separate Bluetooth brick to use a painfully slow navigation app. On the Telstra network, I could do basic navigation without GPS - it was really nifty. It would get as close as which block I was on. Not sure on the specifics of how it worked, but it did get me out of a few jams when I was rushing around a capital city CBD I have never been to.
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Feb 26, 2016 08:43
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Pretty sure that's achieved by connecting to multiple cell towers and triangulating.
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That's how assisted GPS works too. It gets a coarse position from the cell network, then it's much faster to get a GPS fix.
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Feb 26, 2016 10:05
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Collateral Damage posted:That's how assisted GPS works too. It gets a coarse position from the cell network, then it's much faster to get a GPS fix. It’s not just coarse position that’s needed, but also information regarding the the orbits of the satellites in the GPS constellation. That data is constantly broadcast over GPS channels, but a receiver has to listen for 12½ minutes to get it all. Standalone GPS receivers take at least thirty seconds to get a fix after they’re powered on, and the full 12½ minutes if they’ve been in storage a while or had a dead battery wipe their volatile memory. If the receiver has an internet connection, it can use that to get the information it needs almost instantly. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 10:18 on Feb 26, 2016 |
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Feb 26, 2016 10:15
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Well I've learned something new today.
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On the other end of the spectrum I have been slowly gathering bits and pieces for a GPS system for sub 10CM accuracy GPS using RTK (Real Time Kinematics). To do this I need a radio link from a known accurate location to a GPS receiver in the field. Mainly to do detailed boundary logging and eventually to make a device for my grandpa to log all the Lantana and other invasive weeds dangerous to his cattle on the farm. These projects really really annoy my wife-to-be.
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Platystemon posted:It’s not just coarse position that’s needed, but also information regarding the the orbits of the satellites in the GPS constellation. Is this the same as the GPS ephemeris data I can download and save to my old school TomTom sat nav which doesn't have any Internet connection of its own?
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