I had dabbled in 3D graphics and the "demo" scene. I started working with 8 bit microcomputers in the early 1980's, writing games and utilities, and dial-up BBS's, using assembly language and BASIC. I've worked on early versions of the POSIX threading library for Glibc, Linux device drivers, all sorts of middleware stacks in wireless, VoIP and such. I maintain my own Lisp implementation that has a decent object system, exceptions, delimited continuations, compiler and virtual machine, and a whole-document pattern matching language for easy text transformation. I've never touched Java do I have a dull and limited computing experience? On the other hand, I don't think the extra pixels really matter as much as higher color depth (10 or 12 bit) and fewer artifacts at lower resolution, unless you've got a home IMAX or something. Sure, I don't think there's any economical way to reduce storage requirements of UHD significantly without defeating the point. > So even backing up the main feature of a UHD can easily run you 50+ GiB. The latter can be had new for ~$85 the others are probably a bit harder to find but given they're older midrange cards at this point maybe they're a little cheaper. Yes, although this is becoming less true as more hardware offload support becomes available.įor example, Nvidia 750, 950-960, and 1030 are all capable of HEVC offload. > One big downside of reencoding in HEVC is that for a moderate gain in compression (0-50% depending on the film), you considerably increase your playback requirements. Right still quite a bit less efficient than H.265, though. > The vast majority of newer Blurays use H.264, which is pretty efficient (much more than the other two).
The vision is it just runs as a server and anyone on the same network can access it like a web service an pull up documents (and in the future media) of interest. Basically I am about to the AltaVista level of search capability :-). So basically everything is nearly equal rank. I don't give it enough queries to use my own traffic for ranking feedback. Simple bi-gram and tri-grams, and a growing synonym index. I have a simple frontend based on the perl Mojolicious module which Blekko had developed as part of another project but my indexing tools are still quite primitive.
I did manage a set of perl scripts that would post process the statements that I downloaded from the bank into CSV files, but I would still like to pull tabular data out of PDF book scans to make the data they provide more useful. For a while IBM was offering a free Watson service to do this (now its part of Watson Discovery) which has some warts. The tools for processing PDFs into searchable text have a lot of warts. My goal is exactly that, usability without me present :-). If one pairs one these to both of UV and MA, the maximum amount of entitlements will sync across. This is why more and more content platforms are missing the 'own' option entirely: you can stream whatever is available, but the selection may change at any time.įor now, Vudu and FandangoNOW are two services that supports both UV and Movies Anywhere. Online, the industry has been using malleable rights for both 'rent' and 'own' semantics, but for the latter case it's user-hostile. The DVD comparison is illustrative, and proves that decent UX with DRM can be achieved despite a dizzying array of rights, but the permissions are materialized into hardware and frozen in time. As for non-US users - shame on all players in this game - they're always an afterthought to where piracy offers a superior UX, but other video platforms are proving this need not be the case. Since the news about UV is fresh, it remains to be seen whether the remaining studios migrate too, and whether the negotiations between the competing rights databases, the studios, and content sellers can result in a user-fair migration.
Disney didn't join UV, and eventually pivoted their own digital locker storefront 'Movies Anywhere' into a US-only UV competitor that lured some studios and content sellers away. It's a tangle of voluntary bilateral agreements among competitors whose gaps result in a landscape that's user-hostile, but UV rationalized some of it. But in some sense that never materialized, because sometimes the place where UV synced your rights doesn't itself have rights from the studio to stream the movie.
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