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Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to MaxRennAs mentioned a few posts above, I have the same issue (unable to print a second print job without disconnecting/reconnecting the printer).
I called Samsung today...I'm not sure I spoke to someone well versed on this particular issue, but their support rep told me my issue is that I don't have the CLP-315N model. He indicated that the "N" at the end of the model suggested network and that if I did not have this (ie. the CLP-315), I could only operate it by connecting it directly to my PC.
Any thoughts?
Any further info on the firmware update mentioned above?
Mstack Mar 15, 2011 10:32 PM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to Walter ChisenskiI too am having the same problem. This looks like apple needs to fix this one.
Anticoste Mar 22, 2011 10:32 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to usutakiHello mabui.
Any (good) news from you ? Did it works !
Chose Binouche Apr 4, 2011 5:59 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to Walter ChisenskiAnybody tried with 10.6.7?
MaxRenn Apr 4, 2011 6:39 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to Chose BinoucheYes, same problem under 10.6.7.
motley1 Apr 15, 2011 2:48 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to MaxRennHere is my assessment and solution as best as I can figure it. Pardon my in-depth description - can't help it, am engineer. From my experience, the problem with the Samsung CLP-315 printer dropping print jobs with OS X 10.6.3 or later can be solved by:
1) using the shortest possible high-quality USB printer cable, and
2) connecting directly to your computer, and not through a hub.
Those other solutions that depend on an external print server, as suggested in some of the posts above, accomplish the same thing - via improving the USB system electrically and using a local (non-apple) USB transmitter/controller.
I am a systems engineer with some years of experience sorting out systems problems, from high-level software through drivers as well as flaky high-speed signals, cables and grounding. Although most of my experience a with real-time mission-critical systems, insights from that area appear to be of some particular use here.
The CLP-315 issue is a confluence of small failures, each of which might be tolerated when connecting to a Mac with OS 10.6.3 and above, but when combined add up to failure:
1. The Samsung CLP-315 USB receiver has a weak electrical design - it is marginal at best, intolerant of suboptimal voltages and noise. Any small additional communication errors contribute to it giving up and throwing out your print job.
2. Samsung firmware and drivers are notoriously weak. By the way, Korea is almost entirely a Windows country due to historical quirks in their banking system (google that), which makes the use of Windows computers nearly mandatory there. Therefore Samsung has vanishingly few Macs and they do little OS X testing. The net result from the Samsung side is that when there are excess communication errors, your job is thrown out but the "job completed" message is still obtained. (By the way, the previous generation Samsung CLP-300 printer is a completely different beast, with entirely different hardware and firmware design).
3. Apple's USB electrical/controller system is marginal - compared to other computer makers, the hardware design is weak and under-tested for suboptimal or limit conditions - the Mac USB design tends to assume the ideal. I am not putting Apple down per se - I admit to being a huge Apple fan. But USB electrical difficulty with external hubs and/or long or poor cables is well known.
4. Apple's USB firmware/driver is underengineered, in that it has not been designed with a general-enough low-level exception handling philosophy. As a result it handles the links between software and electrical errors without robustness.
5. Apple's software design - i.e. for the USB channel and print handling - is all done at an extremely high level. When changes are made in the OS, sophisticated compilers handle all the mid- and low-level stuff. However, the compilers have not been designed particularly with reliability or real-time considerations in mind - instead they generally presume idealized system conditions.
So the whole USB printing situation for OS X + Samsung CLP-315 is a house of cards that easily collapses, and the result is that you lose your print jobs. Other printers have more margin for error built in and continue to work (I have a Brother printer simultaneously attached to my Macbook Pro, under horrible conditions - via a long poor-quality cable through a 10-port underpowered hub - and it works flawlessly, while my Samsung CLP-315 was consistently dropping jobs).
When Apple went to 10.6.3, a tiny incremental amount of additional high-level print/USB handling complexity was added, and this in turn caused a small amount of additional delay and miscommunication. That, with a weak Samsung USB setup, was just enough to break the camel's back.
Because the problem is essentially one of design philosophy, under-design and marginality, we have no solution from Samsung, and no solution from Apple.
From Samsung's point of view, so far as OS X goes, the CLP-315 works fine under so long as you're running Windows (slight sarcasm from me, though it's true). From Apple's point of view, when ideal Apple USB conditions and ideal printer conditions are assumed, the high-level code is flawless, and simple and full-spec electrical conditions are assumed.
High-level code in non-real-time software, e.g. 10.6.3 - 10.6.7 and 10.6.xx and 10.7.x, is profoundly unaware of hardware delays - everything is assumed to run on an ideal machine. For example, as a systems engineer, I sometimes get a good belly laugh from launching a whole bunch of processes on OS X and seeing them get all balled up because of race conditions. And remember, I'm an Apple fan and I love my Mac.
As other poster documented, there is lots of finger-pointing between Samsung and Apple, and because of their outlooks, noting is going to change there. Samsung thinks in terms of Windows, and it's amazing that we have any Apple stuff from them at all. They assume a Windows USB electrical setup, and since Windows users aren't complaining, there is no problem. Apple, for their part, lives in the cloudlike and bright-white world of the ideal, and real-time considerations and dirty stuff like that is something for some other kind of nerd. Other printers work, so it must be a Samsung problem. In the end, it's neither and both are the same time, and zero progress will be made.
So I would buckle up, and either a) connect your finicky Samsung 315 directly to your Mac with a very short high-quality cable, no hub, or b) get an external print server as suggested by one of the posters (one of them gave an e.g. link at http://www.dustin.se/productdetails.aspx?prodid=5010469570&s=b&intcmp=bus_sel ). With an external print server, the weakness of the Samsung USB setup is compensated for by a stronger USB system in the server.
Forgive me going on about it, but this is an interesting topic, and I put up with the flaky Samsung 315 for a long time too. Best wishes to everyone - let us know how it work out for you.
idimkolis Apr 26, 2011 10:13 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to motley1
I found your post very useful and of great detail, and being an undergraduate electrical engineer myself, i would say that it makes a lot of sense!
But i still think that Apple & Samsung should be responsible of their product and most of all, of their customers and if they can not provide us with a solution at least they could come up with a simple explanation, as you could do.
Anyway, in addition i would like to ask everyone's opinion and experience about the USB cable's length they use to connect the printer to the MAC. I am using a 3meter long cable and i facing the problem so i would go to the option of the 1.5m but if someone had tried that too without good results maybe i should even try the 1m long one.
Thank you all in advance for the feedback.
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larskrist Apr 29, 2011 8:39 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to idimkolis
I have the same problem with my printer.
Apple support is a joke. I have left a number of inquiries on the support, but only after being guided in circles obviously to avoid the critics.
According to Samsung support, the printer is working with the OS system, and according to Apple support they have no solution to the problem.
Dear Apple folks- get on with the work an come with a solution.
RN Apr 29, 2011 9:09 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to idimkolis
Personally, I connected my Mac mini and the printer with a shorter USB cable (1.5m) and now it seems that it works a little better...
Edgardogho May 17, 2011 1:04 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to Walter Chisenski
Motley1, that was a nice post.
I started to look at the Printer Manual and Box... and it never shows the USB-Certifed Logo.
This means that the USB Device Controller it has is not certified.
I still think this is a software issue. USB uses a balanced twisted pair (half duplex). As long as the length of the cable is less than 5 meters (according to USB Specs), I think it should work fine.
If the problem is electrical, then it should not start working after a power reset or a cable plug/unplug.
This unloads the kernel-side memory reserved for the printer and reloads it again.. and it works the first time you use that instance of the loaded driver. After that, some routine gets hang up, and it stops responding.
I think it is clear by now that neither Apple or Samsung plans to fix this issue. They are too busy competing with each other on Tablets.
larskrist May 17, 2011 12:54 PM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to Edgardogho
Edgardogho May 19, 2011 10:19 PM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to larskrist
Nice picture,
I was refering to something like this:
I could not find this logo on the Manual or the Box I Have.
This means that the USB Controller is not certified (it could be, but I guess they would show the logo then).
Hanson Jiang May 25, 2011 10:22 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to Walter Chisenski
I finally got through to someone at Samsung support who was able to help. They provided me with a firmware updater for the CLP-315 which resolved the problem. The updater requires Windows. Contact Samsung if you have this problem and request the firmware update. I don't know why they don't just make it available on their support website, but at least an update exists.. Hope this helps!
larskrist May 25, 2011 10:40 AM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to Hanson Jiang
Finally good news. I was about to dump my shitsung. Do you have a link?
idimkolis May 25, 2011 12:26 PM
Re: Samsung CLP-315 Color Laser - Issues After 10.6.3 in response to Hanson Jiang
could you provide us with some more details about exact the procedure you followed, so as everybody (in this thread at least!) would be able to do this without the need to contact the "mother" Samsung?
If it indeed resolves the problem, it would be very helpful for many of us.
Thank you in advance.


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The Patriots chose not to franchise Wes Welker (or anyone, for that matter) on Monday, but that doesn't mean they don't have a plan at slot receiver if Welker's not a Patriot next season. According to Mike Florio of ProFootballTalk.com, the Pats have a replacement in mind in Danny Amendola. Florio, who was a guest on the Dan Patrick Show on Tuesday morning, hinted that the Pats plan to sign Amendola next week. "[The Patriots] need to work something out by next Tuesday," Florio said. "The problem is they couldn't franchise [Welker] because it would cost them $11.4 million to keep him around. "The ace in the hole for the Patriots is Danny Amendola." Amendola caught 63 passes for 666 yards and three touchdowns in 11 games in an injury-shortened 2012. "He's the slot receiver from the Rams, several years younger [than Welker] and he's had plenty of injuries, but he's one of the toughest players in the NFL," Florio explained. "It could be that the Patriots already have plans — and tampering's not supposed to be happening but every team is doing it. But they may already have an understanding that on the first day of free agency they're going to ink Danny Amendola to replace Wes Welker, which would make a lot of sense if that's what they do. "The Rams couldn't justify putting the franchise tag on Amendola because for a slot receiver to pay him $10 million you just can't justify paying him that much money, but it's an important position to take care of," he added. "It wouldn't surprise me at all if Amendola is a Patriot next Tuesday."
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The world's leading provider of information infrastructure solutions, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire California-based Greenplum, Inc. Greenplum is a privately-held, fast-growing provider of disruptive data warehousing technology, a key enabler of "big data" clouds and self-service analytics. Upon completion of the acquisition, Greenplum will form the foundation of a new data computing product division within EMC's Information Infrastructure business.
Today, new forms of data -- massive amounts of it -- are emerging more quickly than ever before thanks to always-on networks, the Web, a flood of consumer content, surveillance systems, sensors and the like. In a recent report, IDC predicted that over the next 10 years the amount of digital data created annually will grow 44 fold. Companies are increasingly turning to new architectures and new tools to help make sense of this "big data" phenomenon.
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House, 2 Bedrooms, 1 Baths, 5 Sleeps
This is a lovely cottage located in the Thousand Islands. It's the
perfect get-a-away for rest and relaxation. A screened in porch
allows you to sit outside and watch the ships go by. A dock for
swimming and relaxing is avaialable. A boat slip, if needed, can be
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Outstanding! Warm Hospitality, Beautiful Location
About the Owner
2 Reviews
2 traveler reviews
Outstanding! Warm Hospitality, Beautiful Location
Fabulous 80th birthday party and family reunion
This house is behind their own house (on a very seculded road) and the pretty dock picture does not do the dock justice - you share the dock with the owners, it is HUGE. My family had a wonderful time swinning from the dock and kayaking. We even saw a Mink (yes the litle critters they make coats from!) run across the dock one evening!
My 2 teen daughers had a great time kayaking to Canada - meaning they kayaked out to some islands in the river - they thought that was cool! We also Kayaked to the "singer Castle" and took the tour. The wildlife was amazing. In addition to the mink, we had a loon every morning in the little bay, an osprey nest with babies!! and we saw many great blue heron.
Also, the second bedroom, which they do not have a picture of, is large and has a double and 2 twin beds. It's also on the second floor. In the evening we sat on the screen porch - the bugs do get annoying so it was great to have the screen porch.
I cannot say enough wonderful things about how accomodating the Robinsons were to us. I HIGHLY recommend this cottage.
Activity and Interests
Well, you're in the 1000 islands so there's always something to do,
but here are some of our favorites...
The Antique Boat Show, the Poker Run, the locks up in Mesina,
antique shopping, Uncle Sam's 1000 Island Boat Tour, boating, day trips to Alex Bay by boat and/or
car, the drive-in is a favorite, swiming, fishing, and life on the water.
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Summer 2015
May 24 2015 - Oct 18 2015
7 night minimum stay
Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (USD) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.
Additional information about rental rates
2015 rates are:
$650 a week spring (May through June 26th)
$950 a week summer: June 27th - August 28th
$650 a week fall: August 29th - Columbus Day
We do ask for a $100 security deposit, which will be returned after a
successful walk through. The cottage is fully furnished with
cleaning supplies, and we ask that you leave it in the same great
shape you'll find it in. A $50 cleaning is deducted from the
security deposit if needed.
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- pets not allowed
- 1 Bathroom
- Bathroom 1
- 2 Bedrooms, Sleeps 5
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- Bedroom 2
- The cottage is fully furnished. It offers two large bedrooms. Bedroom #1 has a queen size bed, and bedroom #2 has a full size bed and two twin beds. There is a full bath, and a living room. There is cable TV, a dvd player, and internet connectivity. The kitchen has all new appliances including a microwave.


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Hey all. Couple of days ago i was having some issues with playing .IMG, and .ISO files. Someone answered my question about the problem being related to KAI and Digital out. So i upgraded to the lastest build 11-11. Now the problem is the same with DVD playback. When inserting a DVD and the XBOX reading it (it can see the lablel). When i click "play DVD" it just hangs. ANy ideas?
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I have the same problem when my dashboard resolution is set to 1080i. Set the dashboard to 720p and the DVD should play.
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There are newer builds out but I think it just takes a while to play a dvd. Like 5 mins or so for it to finally play. My problem is that I go and select an AVI or MPG and the screen is black with sound, then i get back out and restart the movie and then I have a picture. Its done this for like the last 4 builds.
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Single cosy bedroom in Lucan.Ireland, County Dublin, Lucan
About This Listing
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Central heating or a heater in the listing
Space where guests can cook their own meals
Towels, bed sheets, soap, and toilet paper
Central heating or a heater in the listing
In the building, free or for a fee
In the building, free or for a fee
Continuous access in the listing
Breakfast is provided.
The listing can accommodate a gathering of 25 or more attendees
Easy access to the building and listing for guests in wheelchairs
Private or Shared
Free, in the building or nearby
Posted emergency information and resources
Included in the nightly price.
The Space
Single bedroom with shared bathroom. Hottub in back garden. No meals catered for but amenities to cook, can arrange for cereal, bread and fruit to be available. Tea & coffee available all day. Nightly or short term let. Single €35 per night. Double room also available €45 per night.
Close to city centre (20min on the bus) with bus stop at entrance to estate. The airport bus stops 10 min walk from the house (the journey from the airport takes 30 min). Lucan area of Dublin. There's also a train station 15 minutes away that would take you to the Dublin city centre and to Kildare.
There are quite a few annual events worth knowing about before you book your holiday. First, of course, there's St Patrick's Day, still by far the biggest entry in the Dublin calendar. It's now celebrated with plentiful pints of the black stuff the world over, but Dublin is the fun's epicentre. As long as you can cope with the crowds, the weather and the queues, there's no better place to enjoy it.
Calmer heads prevail in the summer at the excellent Dublin Writers Festival and the Bloomsday Festival: the latter celebrates the works of James Joyce, while the former pulls in some of the world's best writers. That sort of thing would bore the bejaysus out of most of the people packed into the stands for the Six Nations rugby tournament each spring, of course. But then, to each his own.
Guest Access
Guests have access to all amenities.
Interaction with Guests
I interact with guest, as little or as much as guests like.
Getting Around
There is a bus stop at end of estate, with buses directly into city centre.
No smoking upstairs.
Must like animals.
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No showers after 10pm
No cooking after 9pm
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Sheila really provides a home away from home,perfect location with great buses into the city,would recommend to everyone!
Sheila provided a home away from home for me. I have used Airbnb twice now, and both the service and the hosts have been excellent. Sheila went above and beyond what was required, and more than exceeded the promised welcome advertised on the website. She is a natural at hosting, and makes everyone feel welcome. The bedroom was excellent, and the rest of the house was up to the same high standard. I liked the pets especially, they were well behaved and fun to have around. I came and went from the house as I pleased, since the bus system to the city center is frequent and reliable; also, there are many shops in the locality, not least the Liffey Valley Town Center just a short bus ride away. I recommend Sheila for all kinds of stays, long or short.
Sheila was a lovely host, very friendly, welcoming and helpful. She has definitely found the right balance for being a sociable host whilst allowing you your own space. The room was great, and the location good... just a short walk to a bus stop into town. Am very pleased to have stayed and would recommend to all.
Sheila is a lovely host . Amaying breakfast keep you full for the day. Room is well looked after . Crazy dog and a lovely 3legged cat . Thank you shiela again
From the first moment you cross the threshold of this wonderful home, you find yourself in an atmosphere of genuine hospitality. An open, caring owner of this creates an atmosphere of coziness in the house. I'd love to go back again! Thank you, Sheila!
I had such a good time a Sheila's I don't know where to start, I guess the best way to describe it is like going back to stay with your favourite aunt, you feel at home as soon as you walk through the door and are immediatly part of the family, Sheila is flexible and clearly cares about the well being of her guests. Her pets (Cat and dog) are both bursting with character and extremly charming. The house is easy to reach by bus from Dublin city center and in a quiet neighbourhood. I would reccomend staying with her to anyone!
Sheila really knows how to make you feel like home. She's welcoming, warm and very nice to talk with!
Moreover, the house is near a bus stop, and you can go to city center in about half an hour from there. I know where to go for my next stay in Dublin!
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About the Host, Sheila
I am a working professional, divorced, no children.
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My local area has two malls. One is a giant monstrosity that everyone goes to, and the other is kinda run-down, has a Ice-Skating rink that is never used, and is the location of occasional gang shootings.
I was in the lesser mall today, killing time before grabbing a burger with a friend, and I noticed that the mall had an arcade. Now, I didn't get my hopes up, I expected crappy ticket machines and no real games. I stroll in, and what do I see?
Street Fighter 2, Marvel Vs Capcom 2, Soul Calibur 2, Killer instinct and Street Fighter 3rd Strike.
I thought these were dead. What is going on?!?! My buddy and I skip the burgers and spend 3 hours sinking quarters into these classics.
Then the one guy running the arcade in the mall approaches me and tells me that I can have the 3rd Strike machine for 300 dollars (Apparently no one plays it!), if I handle the transport (This thing is on the second floor of the mall.) That would be a pain, since it's a fairly large machine, but with a couple friends I think it could be painless.
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It was unbelievably simple to get it out of the mall and into the truck. With the right angle we even got it into the house with little headache! It was set up and ready to play at 11:30, I bought an unbelievably large amount of booze, food and soft drink. I invited all of my friends over and we played 3rd Strike for 5 hours straight. They've all gone home now, today alone was worth the purchase! Arcade perfect 3rd Strike and alcohol is a dream come true.
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1366x768 has replaced 1024x768 as the dominant screen resolution, finally
Screen resolutions are a wonderful thing, but did you know that the most popular resolution until now was just 1024x768? Yes. How would one use a screen with that resolution, I've had up and above 1024x768 for nearly a decade and a half now. But, according to independent web analytics company, StatCounter, and their research arm, StatCounter Global Stats, that for the first time ever, 1366x768 has become the most popular screen resolution worldwide, overtaking 1024x768.
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The data reflects a continuing trend of users moving to larger screen resolution sizes. The screen resolution size people are using is a critical factor for developers when it comes to web design, particularly in the case of fixed width web pages.
StatCounter began tracking screen resolutions in March of 2009, and recorded that 1024x768 had been the dominant screen size across the world, keep in mind this excludes mobile use. In March 2009, 1024x768 made up 41.8-percent of total use, and has since fallen to 18.6-percent in March of this year. Over the same time period, 1366x768 has grown from just 0.68-percent to 19.28-percent.
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LG are reportedly ready to unleash their next-generation of Google TVs in the US market this weekend, with the company yet to officially confirm release details like pricing, models, and so forth, but analysts with the Korean financial firm Shinhan Investment claiming that the first devices could arrive any day now.
LG's latest sets were previewed at CES just a few months ago, and they are some of the first Google TV-based sets to support 3D content. The new Google TVs will follow LG's previous models, which feature passive 3D glasses rather than the more expensive active-shutter frames.
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Samsung dubs their flexible AMOLED display 'YOUM'
'YOUM'. This is the name of Samsung's flexible AMOLED technology, in which both the name and logo have been sent for trademark registration in the United States. This means that YOUM-sporting devices could soon be seen in the wild, and flexed, in the wild.
YOUM is Samsung's next-generation ultra-thin screen technology, with the unique characteristic of being able to be bent, Samsung says its even unbreakable. YOUM was showcased before it had a name at CES last year, where they were teasing a 4.5-inch screen with a thickness of 0.3mm and a resolution of 800x480 (WVGA). Samsung have demonstrated the concept of using it for an e-book reader, camera, video chat and even augmented reality and 3D visuals on tablet PCs.
We should see things like watches, smartphones and tablets built from this technology. A flexible watch connected to the Internet, Facebook, e-mail, etc would be quite cool and would definitely sell to the hipsters, and technology fans alike.
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Apple TV could just be a TV-sized iPad, but is that good enough?
We all know Apple TV is coming, but what would it end up like? Barclay's analyst, Anthony DiClemente thinks it could be a cool piece of hardware, that he images would look like a "large-scale iPad", that would work with the Internet through Apple's existing quite of iOS apps and services.
DiClemente doesn't think Apple CEO, Tim Cook will be able to break the traditional cable TV bundle, which means when you watch traditional TV, it's not going to look any different to what you're looking at now. But, when you're talking about a TV with access to Apple's iTunes Store, things start getting interesting, and it would really open up people's imaginations to what the future of your living room will be like in 5, 10 or 20 years time.
DiClemente is a media analyst, and not a hardware guy, so his report focuses on the reasons it will be hard for not just Apple, but other companies, to really mix up the programming/distribution business. Personally, I don't think it would take much, because all it takes is a player like Apple to hit the market with a product everyone wants, and then the big businesses will start listening and changing things up, well, hopefully.
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Sony, Panasonic set to use LG's 3D technology in their TVs
LG has been enjoying successful numbers on their 3D TV sales in both China and North America, but now we're seeing Japanese companies Sony and Panasonic, who are both struggling in the market, opting to incorporate LG's 3D technology into their future line of TVs. A very interesting move.
Head of LG Electronics' LCD TV division, Nho Seok-ho, has said that Sony and Panasonic plan to extend their lineup of 3DTV's this year, and that their upcoming models will sport LG's 3D technology. LG's Film Pattern Retarder (FPR) and Samsung's Active Shutter technology, is the current fight, but it seems that LG has the advantage at the moment as its more affordable thanks to their battery-powered glasses.
Sony has been pushing 32- and 42-inch 3D TV's with film-patterned 3D technology in China this year, where Panasonic have been relying on LG for 3D screens for most of its TV models. LG are also planning to add a 60-inch model to its 3D TV lineup to go with their 65- and 72-inch sets in June.
LG will ship their first ultra-thin OLED TV in May, will start from $7,928
It looks as though May will be the month that LG launch their ultra-thin 55-inch OLED TV, if everything goes to plan. The awesomely thin OLED TV will have an asking price of $7,928.91. Not bad, I guess. We should expect the TV to be the same that LG showed off at CES recently, which means it will be less than 0.5cm thick, and under 17 pounds in weight, as well as sporting 3D tech.
LG have also teased of "futuristic features", where I bet you've just rolled your eyes, but they might actually work quite well, hopefully: 3D motion and voice gesture controls. Yep, thats it. Hopefully they're not laggy and buggy, but personally, I think first-generation OLED TVs are going to have great picture quality, but the separate "exclusive" features that the companies throw on them won't work too well, but, time will tell and there's only 8 or so weeks left to find out.
OLED should be quite the breakthrough in not only picture quality, but response times. Typically, LCDs have a response time slower than 20ms, where OLED smashes this with response times of less than 0.01ms. You know what? I'm excited. I really am. I'm after a new TV this year, and I really want to get an OLED. Price doesn't bother me, as there's a corner that I can sell my body at.
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Microsoft show off advances in touch screens, want to reduce input lag from 100ms to 1ms
Microsoft's Applied Sciences Group have released a video showing off their work on reducing input lag for touch screens. Microsoft have said that most touch-sensitive devices have a response lag somewhere between 50 and 100ms. But, their new screen technology reduces this to not just 25, or 10, or 5, but 1ms.
For larger touch-based surfaces like Microsoft's Surface, input lag can be a huge problem. The input delay becomes especially perceptible when drawing or quickly moving objects on the screen with your fingers. This issue has prompted Microsoft engineers to look into other ways of improving touch screen input lag deficiency. Microsoft haven't revealed how the technology actually works, but the video below demonstrates how their research may greatly improve the touch-based user experience.
Assistant director at Microsoft Applied Sciences, Paul Dietz, compares most flavors of input lag from 100ms, 50ms, 10ms and 1ms devices, by dragging an object around with a single finger. Between 100ms and 10ms the difference is quite substantial, where from 10ms to 1ms, is big, but not as big as the jump from 100ms to 10ms. You can definitely "feel" how the 1ms looks/feels right when being compared to the higher input lags of 50, 100ms.
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Cardinals defense is rough on opposing QBs
If you're wondering why Ray Horton is considered a hot coaching commodity while he's working for a team that is a disappointing 5-9 through 14 games, the answer is simple.
His defense is hell on opposing quarterbacks.
ESPN.com's Mike Sando and ESPN Stats & Information crunched the numbers and the results are startling.
Of the 12 starting quarterbacks the Cardinals have faced this season, nine of the them have performed substantially lower than their season standard based on ESPN's Total QBR statistic. Only Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers, San Francisco's Alex Smith and Miami's Ryan Tannehill have performed better against Arizona than their respective season marks.
The 12 primary quarterbacks Arizona has faced to this point in the season have combined to complete 54.5 percent of their passes with 16 touchdowns, 21 interceptions and a 33.3 Total QBR score against the Cardinals.
Those same quarterbacks have completed 62.8 percent of their passes with 212 touchdowns, 112 picks and a 61.2 QBR score against everyone else.
It'll be interesting to keep an eye on what Chicago quarterback Jay Cutler can do against a recharged Cardinals defense Sunday.
In case you're wondering, Cutler's Total QBR for the year is 49.5 with 17 touchdowns and 14 interceptions.
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