For the longest time I didn't even have a TV at home - simply because there was nothing worth watching that I couldn't watch on my PC. Then the new generation of consoles came out, and I indulged myself to a Nintendo Wii, and bought a nice HDTV to use it. The nintendo wii was nice, except it couldn't do anything except for playing games - even though it has a DVD drive, it cannot play video DVDs. Even though it has a wifi connection, it cannot see my other computers on the network and play video or audio from them. At the time, I thought it was ok, after all it's a gaming console and nothing else.
The TV I got also had a nice new shiny HDMI port, and I was very happy to find out that HDMI is signal-compatible with DVI (which was a very smart decision in the middle of a sea of tech craziness), so I could easily plug a computer to the TV to play movies, which would allow big-screen movie watching. I got a DVI to HDMI adapter for $10, and to my big surprised, it just worked - or well, kind of. Video worked just fine, but there was no way to inject audio even though reports say the audio signal is SPDIF-compatible, the only converter I could find that allowed me to also inject the audio costed well over $1000, so the whole solution was a no-go. I'd just have to keep watching movies on my computer for the time being.
(to be continued...)
Friday, March 6, 2009
Introduction
First, let me introduce myself and the motivation for creating this blog. I'm a engineer for big high-tech company (and the disclaimer is that everything I post here is my own personal opinion and not theirs) who is largely frustrated with the shortcomings of the technological products available ot us, and specially annoyed with seeing hundreds of articles praising that same technology.
Being a software and hardware developer myself and having designed things from database applications to 3D acceleration chips, I am absolutely sure that the problems with these are not fundamental impossibilities of improvement, but rather pure laziness (many times to cut costs).
My first real post will come next, exposing the well-intentioned but poorly-implementd UPnP technology.
Being a software and hardware developer myself and having designed things from database applications to 3D acceleration chips, I am absolutely sure that the problems with these are not fundamental impossibilities of improvement, but rather pure laziness (many times to cut costs).
My first real post will come next, exposing the well-intentioned but poorly-implementd UPnP technology.
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