I have always been a fan of Nintendo, even before I got my first Nintendo (Super Nintendo) in 1993. I have always liked the Mario games (Super Mario World is one of my favorites along with Super Mario Kart). I may pick one up at Best Buy as I got a Best Buy gift card for Christmas and some money from Grandma as well. I want to buy the game Super Mario Bros U.
IMHO Get the Wii U Deluxe it's 50 Bucks more, you get the Mario game and you get 32GB of memory versus the vanilla Wii U of no game and 8 GB of memory. I think the game by itself is 50 or 60 bucks.
Amazon's Prime Instant Video streaming service is continuing to fill out its selection with today's announcement that subscribers will be able to watch episodes from prior seasons of many A&E, History, Lifetime, and Bio shows.
The content licensing deal comes only a few months after Netflix's negotiations with A&E fell through, meaning the Amazon Prime Instant Video, for now, is the only place you can get many of these shows as part of a streaming subscription.
Amazon's $79-per-year Netflix competitor now claims to have 33,000 TV shows and movies available for Prime subscribers to watch for free.
Between Amazon Prime and Netflix I get a ton of streaming shows online.
Re: Amazon Prime gets new video sources Netflix couldn't
I am still waiting for the popular content producers to figure out they don't need Netflix or Amazon Prime... they can do it themselves. Sure it is easier to sign up with one service that offers a selection but we can already see the online 'carriage disputes' and it is only going to get worse. Sell streaming to the public directly and cut the BS.
Re: Amazon Prime gets new video sources Netflix couldn't
Oh I don't know...infrastructure investment, direct billing (and collection of these funds); dedicated tech support for a now massive footprint of customers, just might be some of the reasons why.
Re: Amazon Prime gets new video sources Netflix couldn't
A mere pittance to companies of this size... this isn't some guy in his basement with Video Vegas. Any (or all) of those services could be contracted out, just think Netflix selling ala carte channels with prices set by the providers. I think the bigger obstacle is they are all afraid to stand on their own; they prefer the safety in numbers to the possibility no one would buy them.
A mere pittance to companies of this size... this isn't some guy in his basement with Video Vegas. Any (or all) of those services could be contracted out, just think Netflix selling ala carte channels with prices set by the providers. I think the bigger obstacle is they are all afraid to stand on their own; they prefer the safety in numbers to the possibility no one would buy them.
The "size" of a company doesn't mean they can engage in foolish, large-scale money-losing business practices, and make it up on the volume.
When you form a company of that size, maybe you can show us how its done. Or in the short run, get them to hire you. We're all eagerly waiting for a premium ala-carte offering at a Netflix price!
Indeed, they are "afraid" to stand on their own - they have no need or want to trade known/predictable/objective/assured wholesale rents to last-mile networks for the uncertainty and peril of direct-to-consumer sale.
You seriously underestimate the overhead, headaches, and loss of goodwill associated with such a move, while you clearly don't consider the real-world revenue impacts.
Re: Amazon Prime gets new video sources Netflix couldn't
Wow, by that logic, Netflix must be throwing money away hand-over-fist with all those foolish money-losing practices! Thank god that they are charitable and provide us with video selections regardless of their loss. Most 'business oriented' people would simply claim such losses are passed on to the consumer anyway so the companies would lose nothing.
I would never start a company like that... I would be more inclined to write the next generation of file sharing software. Of course, that doesn't prohibit me from presenting an opinion.
Re: Amazon Prime gets new video sources Netflix couldn't
Netflix is not offering a product equivalent to standard pay-tv. They have a mail-order service, and a 3rd-rate library of digital titles; the service works poorly.
I am honestly always surprised the content owners do not play nicer with Netflix.
Netflix is free money for a content owner. Literally there is 0% overhead to have your content on Netflix or Amazon. You supply the content, they pay the royalties and deal with the server and bandwidth costs.
I am honestly always surprised the content owners do not play nicer with Netflix.
Netflix is free money for a content owner. Literally there is 0% overhead to have your content on Netflix or Amazon. You supply the content, they pay the royalties and deal with the server and bandwidth costs.
Priced at $299 and set for release in the spring, the Android-powered Mobile TV Tablet features an 8-inch display with a 1024 x 768 resolution, a Cortex A5 1GHz processor, and 1GB of RAM, as well as an over-the-air tuner and a Dyle TV-compatible mobile TV tuner. Dyle TV allows users to view live television content from major stations over-the-air.
Viewers will also have access to on-screen program information and closed captioning, but unfortunately the device doesn't have DVR capabilities, despite its 8GB of on-board storage. RCA claims that the tablet's battery can last up to 10 hours when web browsing, but only four hours in mobile TV mode.
the biggest advantage with the Mobile TV Tablet is that, since all broadcasts are transmitted over-the-air, data coverage and usage are of no concern.
Additionally, while the standard tuner and its telesopic antenna may have access to more stations, it can only be utilized when the device is stationary, so viewers travelling in a vehicle are stuck with Dyle TV's offerings. Still, if live television broadcasts are important to you, there aren't many other options besides RCA's upcoming tablet.
Want to watch a football game at the park on Sunday on a Network TV station, then this is your baby.
Meh! I'd rather watch the games I want, not the game my stupid local affiliates want me to watch. The DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket app is a better than this. Although the TV tuner could come in handy for Fox Saturday Baseball.
Meh! I'd rather watch the games I want, not the game my stupid local affiliates want me to watch. The DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket app is a better than this.
if one has DirecTv and Sunday Ticket. Most don't. Also most people are happy with watching the home team.
Meh! I'd rather watch the games I want, not the game my stupid local affiliates want me to watch. The DirecTV NFL Sunday Ticket app is a better than this.
if one has DirecTv and Sunday Ticket. Most don't. Also most people are happy with watching the home team.
Living in an area that doesnt have a professional football team (Buffalo, NY), Ill take anything. On a typical Sunday our NFL options in Western NY include our hometown Div III NCAA team that masquerades as an NFL team, and the New York Giants who I despise.
As a fan of football in general, not of any specific team (I can no longer support the Bills until they make some serious big time changes), NFL Sunday Ticket is the best thing since sliced bread.
I would have said sooner than that, but a 7 year lease on the stadium was just signed. Even if the team were to move to Toronto, they'd still probably be our 'home' NFL franchise and we'd get them on TV. Now if they move to LA, that would be another story. This football team is absolutely disgusting, I actually would be in total favor of the Bills leaving if there was a guarantee that in 5 years down the line wed be awarded an expansion franchise and have the team come back as a totally new organization with no ties to the previous one like Cleveland. The LA Bills can get credited with those four straight Super Bowl chokes led by an overrated quarterback who never even wanted to be here to begin with. And who knows SoCal may be good for them. Look at the LA Clippers, it only took them 33 years after they left Buffalo to become relevant in the NBA
I would have said sooner than that, but a 7 year lease on the stadium was just signed.
Actually it was a 10 year lease with a buy out after 7 years for $10 mil. which is why I said 2020. If the Bills were really interested in staying in the city they wouldn't have made it so easy to leave in 7 years. By the LA will have their team. Besides Toronto is one of the largest cities in North America.
Don't worry by 2020 the Bills will be in Toronto so they won't be your problem anymore.
by 2020 the FCC will have pawned off every last bit of TV spectrum so it can sit unused in the hands of Verizon and AT&T and OTA tuners will no longer have a use.
Don't worry by 2020 the Bills will be in Toronto so they won't be your problem anymore.
by 2020 the FCC will have pawned off every last bit of TV spectrum so it can sit unused in the hands of Verizon and AT&T and OTA tuners will no longer have a use.
God we can only hope! I cannot wait for the day when useless OTA TV is gone. Other than sports, I see very little value in over the air TV. Content would be so much better if the creators didnt have to abide by FCC rules pertaining to 'obscenity'. You really cant compare critically acclaimed series like Boardwalk Empire, Homeland and American Horror Story with the latest shit that ABC, NBC and CBS are peddling. As series that I watch on the networks, CBS primarily, end or get canceled, Im watching less and less network TV as its all formulaic junk with little to no creativity for the most part. Big Bang Theory, Criminal Minds, 2 Broke Girls and Blue Bloods along with the Animation Domination block on Fox are the only shows Id miss OTA TV broadcasting ceased tomorrow. Id rather have the spectrum sit there and do nothing then keep the dying medium of OTA TV alive.
Don't worry by 2020 the Bills will be in Toronto so they won't be your problem anymore.
by 2020 the FCC will have pawned off every last bit of TV spectrum so it can sit unused in the hands of Verizon and AT&T and OTA tuners will no longer have a use.
A) Please. The FCC is not auctioning off all the OTA TV. In fact not even most of it. The FCC at best will get 80 MHz and probably closer to 60 Mhz. Just looking at UHF, OTA currently has 222 MHz.
B) The mobile companies will not sit on that spectrum. That is FUD. Verizon is using ALL of it 700 MHz spectrum for LTE that it got in the auction in 2008. That's why later this year they will deploying the AWS spectrum they just got from the cable complies a few months ago because they are squatting on it.
Can you at least provide FACTUAL information when you post something.
Wow, 222 mhz and they can only do really shitty cable tv like hd? With that we could have ultra fast mobile internet AND really shitty netflix hd
The HD on the Comcast system where I live is pretty decent. It all depends on how much bandwidth the system has available. Our system shut off all the analogs in 2010 and the deployed a lot of HD at the same time.
I'm not sure how an RCA tablet would look with my M4 roof mounted antenna attached to it though...
I'm just saying in may area you'd get in ZERO channels with that antenna on that thing. I'm certainly not paying $300 for a tablet like that whose best feature doesn't even work. I might as well spend that $300 on 8.9 inch Kindle Fire HD.
RCA electronics are absolutely junk. We got our first color TV in 1992 and it lasted a year. It had to go for repairs so they could not fix it so they authorized a warranty replacement. The second one lasted another 2 years and it needed repairs along the way. So 2 RCA TVs lasted at total of three years before the last one ended up on the curb on trash day. We bought a Samsung 20" color TV and that lasted from 1995 to 2001. The Sony color TV that I bought in 2001 to replace the Samsung still works today. It is in my basement and used for watching the weather channel during tornado warnings. I also use it for Music Choice when doing work in the basement.
Gbit, 16Gbit SATA Express systems coming this year
The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) Thursday announced that the ratification process has started for SATA Express, which standardizes PCI Express (PCIe) as an interface for client storage. The specification is now under review by SATA-IO members. It's expected to be available for review by the general public later this year. The SATA Express specification will enable development of new devices that can utilize the PCIe interface and maintain compatibility with existing SATA applications. The technology, SATA-IO claims, will provide a cost-effective means to increase device interface speeds to 8Gb/s and 16Gb/s.
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quote:I did a video project as part of my web development course and I'd like to share this with you. I'm an open source advocate although I did use some proprietary software in class. About the MusE sequencer, I did not have that much time to show off as I can only do 3 minutes of my video. My instructor and students at Lively Technical Center enjoyed it.
I realize that my audio in the video may be a bit too soft but that's because I did not do any mastering in it before I show it to my classroom, but do enjoy my video.