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• Wow, so many great comments!!! Makes me wax nostalgic for my first PC, an Apple w/ 8k of ram and yes, the tape interface. I used a $30 Panasonic, but any cheap portable tape recoder worked fine. I started selling Apple in 1979, and at that time a 48K machine, with one floppy (143Kb), and a green screen cost about $2500. The DC Hays Micro Modem was 300 baud. By the time you loaded up the slots (serial Card, parrallel Card, 8K "Pascal card", 80 column card by Videx, Z-80 card by MS and 2 drive controllers for 4 floppies) you had no choice but to hang a fan or two on the beast just to keep power supplies from blowing.
  
  My ponit is, some 20 or so PC's later, that it's still a leap frog game. More robust OS and Apps requires faster processing, more RAM, more storage. And we are no longer taking years to develop speed and storage. Turn around time from design to manufacturing is now months... Roll outs for technologies and delivery systems happen almost overnight. As AT&T just did in my old neighborhood in So. Austin (TX) with FIOS. How long will WIMax take?
  TB drives are just the tip of the iceberg. Sustained 5mb thoughput will seem slow for internet connections. I upgraded my 300K modem to a 1200K modem and was blown away. My four foppies turned into a dual 8in. Lobo drive (anyone remember those?). That got canned for the first external HD, a Tallgrass Technologies 10 Mb (about the same size as an ATX case).
  OK, get my drift? Last year I bought my 3rd HD screen in as many years. A nice 1080i 50 incher from Panasonic. It will be replaced as soon as OLED's come down in price. And after some 30 plus years of selling this stuff, and yes it just stuff, I have come to realize that the comsumer electronics industry is always about the newer the faster the shinier. Look, whether it's content on your shelf, on your 100 Tb drive, up in the "cloud" what really matters is the content itself. It's not about the gear. The gear is just a means to an end. I have a house full of it. Love to play with toys. But the true enjoyment is what it does, not what it is. So there's my little philosophical rant. Rignt now I have to run out and get another HD for my DVR knowing that in 2-3 years I'll be tossing it into the recycle bin!!!! In reply to: "Seagate CEO: Blu-ray won the battle but lost the war"

  January 12, 2008

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• Let us know what camera you end up with...
  I have the same issue with cameras that are so automatic that they switch to ISO 3200 (low light etc.) and yes... that's super grainy. I think most cameras let you operate on a manual setting, so not as much depth of field in low light but higher saturation therefore better resolution.
  
  I'm in the process of organizing three generations of photos (thousands), some vhs, lot's of super 8 and 16 mm and some HI-8. So far I have two great high end computers, networked, 2TB of storage and 2 different scanners, plus a stand alone slide copier... I just want camera that takes great pics, fits in a shirt pocket, and is rugged. Have you found one yet? I've thought about the Sony DSC-N2 and the Cannon PowerShot SD-1000. In reply to: "Super cool looking camera with dissapointing results"

  May 17, 2007

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• Exact same equipment works great for me...
  Have you tried it? Hooked up the exact same equipment 2 weeks ago and it looks fantastic. High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection should not affect the connection of the SA 8300HD via the HDMI input to the Panasonic. I pulled the cover off of slot 1, and added the HDMI card there. The card cannot be used in slot #3, as marked on the card. In reply to: "I love it, but not perfect"

  January 28, 2007

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• Does not know anything about the Panasonic
  This is the type of consumer that should only buy consumer products. The Panasonic blows the Visio out of water. I know, I own both at roughly the same price. Any purchase at Costco (I am a member) will be chraged sales tax, but they do have a generous return policy. Which is where the Visio is headed!!!!! In reply to: "OVERRATED FOR BRAND NAME"

  January 28, 2007

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