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No, just something that happened when my neighbors asked was I interested in helping them make some TV for the local cable community channel. MOA on TV? Who knows

Completed the Studio Course at Community Media Center of Marin Which means I'm qualified to sit in front of fun stuff, like

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This one? HDMI Cable, Home Theater Accessories, HDMI Products, Cables, Adapters, Video/Audio Switch, Networking, USB, Firewire, Printer Toner, and more! $6.34! And just because balanced / xlr may be better for audio frequency signals, don't assume the same applies to RF digital signals. Its nice to know someone else agrees with me about AES EBU, I always thought I was the lone voice in the wilderness. Anyway I see two main reasons for the inferiority of AES/EBU. 1. XLRs are horrible RF connectors. In order to send a square wave fairly faithfully the interface must support a bandwidth many times higher than the frequency of the square wave. For the signals in question that is getting well up into the RF spectrum where the XLRs are terrible. The impedance varies radically with frequency which will cause all kinds of bizarre reflections. The choice of XLR was a very poor choice. 2. Output voltage. The S/PDIF electrical spec is 0.5V into 75ohms, but the AES/EBU is 3-5V into 110 ohms. Think about that for a second, what happens when you put 5volts across 110 ohms? You get almost 50mA of current flowing. This means the driver sitting in the source box has to be able to dump between 30-50ma into the cable. That causes huge current spikes in the power and ground pins of the driver chip which is going to cause big noise spikes in the power and ground planes of the board. If you are not extremely careful that is going to cause significant jitter in the output signal. All modern high speed interfaces use less than 0.5V signal. As far as I can tell the XLRs were chosen because studios had lots of microphone cables and wanted to use them. Because they are such lousy RF transmission lines they had to go with high voltages to make sure there was some signal left at the end. John S. Squeezebox : Community : Forums - View Single Post - Help: Best new device for audiophile with DAC?

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No pro/con position on forcing efficiencies on intermediaries whose business model was distribution of physical artifacts, which can be done more efficiently / cheaper in the digital domain. Just an observation.

I can't help feel that that the creative destruction that the iPad/iTunes store offers content distributors is similar to the situation with Wal Mart and manufacturers. You are offered the Faustian Bargain of access to a huge market, but at a cost of ceding control. Consumers initially see low, low prices; But what happens long term? A race to the bottom? http://2010.newsweek.com/essay/a-decade-of-destruction.html oh, and http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/77/walmart.html

It appears that those chaps at BrewDog Beer - Award winning brewery have upped the ante in the Beer arms race. As a response to http://www.benz-weltweit.de/derbraeuvomberch/index_eng.html 40% tipple they now have produced the 41% Sink The Bismark! Scots unleash world's strongest beer ? The Register Sink the Bismarck! You know what to do Duggeh!

Not go to work. Yay! for Washington's Birthday - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joanne and I enjoyed a walk around Sausalito, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia in the afternoon sunshine, followed by some post valentine's Fish & Chips at Fish Restaurant Eating Sustainable Seafood in Sausalito

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See my recommendations here http://www.head-case.org/forums/off-topic/3640-what-did-you-do-today-193.html#post256755 Although you might want to give the ice-cream a miss, at the moment Sorry I din't post this earlier...

HD Radio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia According to iBiquity's website the "HD" is simply a brand name and has no meaning Check out the "Criticisms" Section. They could have picked an open standard (DAB/DAB+/DRM) and had global economies of scale, but instead went with a non inter-operable proprietary solution On the content side, are you going to be able to pick up anything other than ClearChannel stations? Some old comments here Is HD Radio Worth It? (by Jeremy Zawodny) including this "gem" HD radio is nothing more than polishing a turd. Any fidelity gain is crushed by the fact that they'll still compress the shit out of already over-compressed music to make it louder than the next station on the dial.

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Indeed. As you can see from this Vase Or is it a pair of faces? Likewise for the Old Crone Or the elegant you lady looking away

Is that what it is telling you, backwards?