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to come up with a whole new set of journalistic witricisms about what XP stands for — XPensive? XPlod of experience with the letter X. I t ing?XPletives? It seems likely chat icrosoft has announced the announced ActiveX back inMarch XML Protocol" was the underlying o fficial names o f th e 1996. Tvflcrosofl DirectX wasalready ranonale for the XP name. However, products previously code at version 5.0 back in May, 1997. Microsoft's marketing department named Office 10 and "Whisder." Apple, on the other hand, didn' t insists that XP stands for "experi The successor to Windows 2000 will announce MacOS X (which, by the ence," as m "E he Windows become Windows XP, and Office way, is correctly pronounced "ten" ) Experience." Look for an oflicial 10 will become Office XP. The XP undf May 1998, and the Mac sys Microsoft rollout of Windows XP name, saysthe company, is short for tem's much vaunted Aqua" interface and Oflice XP at the Experience "experience," symbolizing the rich didn't show up until the year 2000. Music Project(get it — areyou expe and extended user experiences Win And, then there's the Unix-based rienced?)in Seattle on Feb. 13th. dowsand Officecan offer by embrac X-Windows, which predates them Windows XP and Office XP are ing Web services that span a broad all.... Frankly, we' re glad to see MS currently in beta testing. Windows range of devices. finafiy getting off the "year names" XP is scheduled to be generally avail Legions of indignant Mac fans, kick — not to mention the "What able in the second half of 2001. meanwhile, are up in arms, moaning werethey thinking" Me moniker. But Office XP is scheduled to be avail that Microsoft has ripped them off can we be the first to call the Win abletoward the end of the f irst half yet again — this time, with a me-too dows XP GUI redesign "Windows of2001.IP +croak
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free tool called AudioGalaxy. Indeed, we arc mightily impressed with this program. It is quick to download and simple to use — at learnt in its Windows incarnation. A Linux version exists, but lacks
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Perhaps most importantly, Audio Galaxyseemed to produce a nearly 10096 success ratio in our search and download attempts. The program uses a Web page as its song-searching interface and cur rent status reporting tools. A search dialog allows you to type artist or song names. When found, an artist' s song is displayed along with user comments, links to more informanon based on the downloadbehaviours of others who have selected the sam» song. At this time, AudioGalaxy for Windows is our Editor's Choice for bestmusic download tooL Download the 359K satellite" utility From AudioGalaxy.corn to access what some call the "easiest MP3 downloader of all time." tp
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As much as it chagrins Mac users, it's reasonable to say that the Win dows Media Player on the Windows What can be done? platform is probably the best "free" The main problem seems to be that player, in terms of overall function we have too many media players. ality. It has integrated CD burning, Apple's free QuickTime player is CDDB s upport, s k ins, v i sual dearly the most feature-poor of the izations, SRS 3D audio enhance free players — a fact that has led to ment, MP3, ASF/WMV s upport, a market share far behind its rivals. MPEG-I and MPEG-2 support, (Throw US$29.95 at it and it's one of MPEG-4 support, C D r i p ping, the best, but that's a ditferenr issue....) media management and catalogu As of November of 2000, QuickTime ing.... and those little extras missing 4.0wasonly used by496 of U.S. home from Apple's free player, like full computer users. In comparison, Real screen mode support, looping, etc. Player and Windows Media Player Now that streaming media play 68c7 captured 2896 and 2296 of U.S. ers are now installed on an csti home computer users, respectively. matcd 9996 of U.S. home PCs,
Apple and Microsoft (and Macro Media Player on your Mac or PC, media, etc., erc.) should work to with that codec installedand working unify their respective media players fine in the other player. so that codecs are interoperable, or Sony's Media Bar (as found on ar least not player-bound, but resid VAIO PCs) can play CDs, DVDs, ing at the system leveL RealNet CD Extra, Video CD, MPEG-I, works is apparently alreadv moving MPEG-2, MP3, AVI, AU, AVI, in this direction. Apple's Quick AIFF files (etc.) and Apple Quick Time is already a morc robustmedia Time 4 movies, and it can even platform than thc others, with its play QuickTime 4 movies in full support for Flash, PhotoCD and so screen mode wtthout requiring the on. user to purchase QuickTime Pro. W e should not pu t u p w i t h Sony's already proven that it is possi nonsense like a QuickTime movie ble ro unify the Merba Player morass, encoded with the optional Indeo at least on the PC. If Apple and codec showing up as a blank white Microsoft don't work together on this screen in Apple's QuickTime Player, worthwhile goal, someone cise will, despitethe fact that you mayhave MS and will reapth» benefits. tsr
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seconds worth of MPEG video, and full-screen, full motion is out of the question for all but the lucky few with plenty of bandwidth to spare. A minute of full-motion MPEG-2 video requires 10 megabytes or so of data. This translates to a per-second quota that is not out of the question
for Cable or ADSL users,but remains out of reach for those with less than 300Kps connections.In short, reason ablequality, full-motion video requires about eight to ten times thc through put of today's fastest modems.
By1996, Real Networks was already talung the lead in an emerging cat egory known as "streaming video," which we' ll discuss in morc detail later in this article. But, back in 1995 and '96, Microsoft seemed to be primarily focused on its Autho
Video Interleave (AVI) format, and quickly advanced its multimedia tools and technologies to keep stride with Apple. With the inclusion of Media matics' MPEG player code in Active Movie and the huge installed based of Windows users — almost all of which
dutifully upgraded to Windoivs 95 during that period — MPEG and Microsoft's own AVI formats grew
quickly in popularity. AVI was,for most PC-based digital video enthu siasts, the preferred format primarily because it was more easily edited than MPEG movie files. (MPEG uses a so-called intraframe compres sion merhod that makes it diflicult to isolate md edit a specific frame.) QuickTime, meanwhile, continued to enjoy popularity among higher end users, many of whom found that QuickTimc movies tended to enjoy better synchronization between audio and videothan AVI files of thc cra. But if your id«a of Inteniet video is a pixdated, herky-jerkysndeo the size of a postage stamp,you haven' t se«n some of thc latesttechnologies. Although digital video enthusiasts back in the early days of the Web had to put up with blocky 160x120 pixel videosthat strained their com puter'sresources, the latest generation of technologies can truly deliver dig ital video on PCs that is every bit as good as the best standalone DVD or laserdisc player — in other words, quality that is superior to that achiev able with a VCR or the execrable NTSC North American Television Standard. The big breakthrough for Web video enthusiasts came in 1999, with the release of Microsoft's MPEG-4
compressor/decompressor ("codec"),
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a popularCanadian-made graphics card with video capture capabilities, requires something like 28MB o f
assume that all computer video looks like tfus. What they don't know is that it is
Format (ASF). A w e ll-produced stotage. possible these days, for as litic as a MPEG-4 clip can produce, on today' s This means that to create full-res few hundred dollars, to produce dig more powerfulPCs,video quality that olution, full-quality tapes, you have to ital video of what might be fairly termed near broadcast quality." Near approaches the smoothness and fidel capture the video at full resolution, ity of a digital video disc. and, if you want decent quality, you Broadcast Quahty is approximately must limit the amount of compres what S-VHS or Hi-8 delivers: a better sion used — or use avast amount of than composite-quality signal, with disk space. Most consumer-oriented strong chroma and luma definition. video capture cards require between VHS quality is, it seems, a more 4 and 8 GB of storage per hour of suspect term that is somewhat of a video,depending on how much com euphemism for "fairly poor quality." pression youare willing to use. High quality S-VHS or Hi-8 seem And what happens when video is to be the terms used to describe the compressed? Compressing the digital quality you can achicvc with 5t1 or video data degrades the image, as the better compression at dara transfer compression algorithms simplify the rates in the 2-3K/sec range. Although images by reducing colours, eliminat you cannot get true broadcast qual ing fine details andreducing the over ity" for 51500 (or even triple that), all fidelity of both thc video and audio under-$500 cards such as thc above signals. In some cases, compression mentionedATI All in Wonder 128 or may also reduce the number offrames the Matrox Marvel G400-TV should pcr second from the standard 29.97 be able to store 20 minutes of near fps speed ofthe NTSC standard. broadcast quality video in less than 500 MB of disk space. 22MB per second (!). So-called In extreme cases, such as you might Unfortunately even highly opri "Dual-stream" editing systems(which encounter when video footage has mized digiral video moviestend to be been highly compressed for low professional editors require) would therefore require 2x 22MB/sec. bandwidth distribution via the Inter large. A quarter-screen, "VHS qual Even compressed video, usmg a net, these compression artifacts can ity" 30-second movie clip designed typical video capture board that saves lead to blocky, visually unpleasant for Web download will typically be files as standard AVI or M PEG-I video clips with poor fame-ratesand several megabytes in size andcantake files, takes a lot of disk or Web Server tinny audio. These "modem &iendly" minutes to downloadeven over a fast space. For example, thc to save a 1.5 digital video clips have, we think, connecuon.Thus, even a highly opti minute MPEG-1 video at reasonable given digital video a bad name with mized one.-minute movie trailer in quality with the Aff m Wonder 128, consumers, man> of whom probably QuickTime, AVI or M PEG-1 format
It is undoubtedly to Microsoft's chagrin that the underground hacker community has recently taken its MPEG-4 Version 3 co dec and reverse-engineered it ( and adding support for MP3 audio), to be able to support formats other than ASF. This has led to an underground market in so-called "DtvXvideos" — superhigh qualitywide-screenAVI movies com pressed in theMPEG 4 V3 format, that can fit a full two-hour movie on a single recordablc CD. This is a remarkable reduction from the disk spacerequirements of uncompressed video.For comparative purposes, a single stream of professional-quality D-1 uncompressed video rcquircs
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66c7 captured 2896 and 22 da of U.S. home computer users, respectively. According to a r ecent Nielson iVetratings reporr on streaming media, Real Networks is generally consid ered the lcadcr in the market, with about 21.8 million users per month major players. Indeed, a iVIedissletrix i (the company claims morc than 115 report released in Jan. 2001 claims nullion unique registered RealPlayer thar streaming media players are now users worldwide). However, as Mark installed on 99s/p of U.S. home PCs. Twain sard, "There are lies, damn lies and statistics." Thus, the answer you Hoivcver, Apple's QuickTime now legs far behind its nvals in market get depends on the question you ask share. Insanely Great Mac notes that, — and who>ou ask. as of Novemlier of 2000, CLuickTime Thc sccmingl> innocuous ques 4.0 was only used by 49a of U.S. home tion: "What is the streaming video
"on-demand' control. In either case, providing video and/or audio without the wait is what "streaming" is all about. As mentioned earlier, Real Networks is currently thc market leader in this category, and both Apple and Microsoft are
What is MPEGv The term MPEG stands for "moving picture experts group." This group established a number of standards For audio andvideo compression, espe ciagy as the> relate ro the devel
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the company mcrcly capitalized upon
it early. (Ironically, the original MPEG-4 specification was based on the QuickTime file format.) MP3, contrary to popular belief,
does not stand for MPEG-3, nor is it opment of s o ftware or h ardware a "free" open standard. It is an audio compression algorithms optimized for compression format ofiicially called
"digital movies." In brief, SIPEG-I is MPEG Layer 3 and is based on tech approximately a quarter-screen format nology owned and patented by Ger manv's Fraunhofer Institute. (352x240 pixels).SIPEG 2 is the
fewest compaubility hassles (i.e., no plugins are required).
format used on DVD discs, and is the tbrmat uansmincd by today's most advanced satellite broadcast systems.
Meanwhile, in an April 2000 study of "cnrerprise customers," hlicrosoft comes out on top, with a 46 percent m arket share. And i f o n e ivas to
poll users of computers in translu cent plastic cases, it's a safe bct Apple would do lvelL
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In all its variations, iMPEG com pression exploits practically every trick in the book to squeeze the enormous amount of data required by full motion video down to play back at reasonable frame rates and picture sizes ori today's PCs. MPEG-2, as a
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various programming technologies to produce all-digital movies with inter active features and enhanced multi media features. The MPEG Family of codecs, of course, aren't the best choice in
compressor/decompressor technolo gies for all purposes. In fact, Apple's QuickTime and Microsoft's Video for Windows technologies include several "codecs," each optimized For a particu lar purpose. Those in tended for anim a tion, for example, trade image quality for speed, while still-image compres sors favor image fidelity over speed.
side.It is, however, capable of scrvcr less video streaming over the Internet motion compressor/decompressors.It — an advantage that Ligos President has recently been superseded on the and Chief Executive Officer Peter Mac by a codec from (and called ) Forman is dearly interested in capi Sorenson, that currently delivers the talizing upon. best quality on that platform. Indeo video's Progressive Down On the PC, iMPEG-4 currently load, Ligos says, enhances the user rules, with the Indeo S.ox codec from experience because it enables them Ligos Technology (originany devel to begin watching a video download oped by Intel Architecture Labs) a immediately, even at dial-up speeds. popular choice for playback on less While the user is watching, the down load continues in the background, powerful computers. As might be expected &om a compression tech with the image quality and &arne rate nology developed by chipmaker Intel, improving as the download and play
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Media Player technology. As Win dows 2000, with its built-in support for A SF streaming services, gains hold in the marketplace, as we fully expect it will, Real will likelyseeits position challenged at the top of the heap. There are, of course, many other issues — snd not all thc challenges arc technologicaL Apple and Real announced a deal in June, 2000 in
full-motion video playback, on slower streaming is a challenge.It is this issue the server. These ASX fites say mms/ computers. Typically, software-only that led Apple to invest in Akamai, a /servemame/filename.asf instead of which Real will incorporate Apple's video playback on an older Pentium company that specializes in "localized http: //servername/filename.asf. Both QuickTime streaming support into 100 allowed, at best, a quarter-screen delivery" of high-bandwidth content. protocols would load the ASF file, but its servers (a deal apparently based What's Next? (352-by-240 pixel) MPEG-1 video Simply put, Akamai sets up servers the MMS protocol requestor causes All of rhe leading streaming video on the enemy of my enemy is my to run at 15 to 30 &ames-per-second. all over the country and, when you the Microsoft streaming service to companiesarehard at work to extend fiend" principle). Meanwhile, Realis These machines were, without addi request a video from Apple's Quick kick in and it delivers the content also dancing with the devil by licens their products to provide digital rights tional hardware, incapable of playing Time website (quicktime.apple.corn), to the client using Microsoft's Win management(that's a euphemism for ing Microsoft's audio technology for MPEG-2 files at anything more than it comes &om the server nearest dows Media Technologies and the R ealjukebox. Micmsoft, ofcourse,por copy protection) features, interactiv a few &ames per second. Smooth soft you, in hopes of minimizing network active streaming format. Thus, systems ity,e-commerce hooks and, of course, trayed the deal as an acknowledge ware-only DVD playback requires a latency. On the Windows side, a com that promiseprogressive download berrer video quality. ment that its Windows Media format d NetApp.corn pmvidm a "streaming" using standard HTTP Pentium II 333 or better for smooth pany calle Microsoft's ActiveMovie Stream is an important standard. Real, how similar service, delivering streaming protocols are never as capable as serv performance. ever, probably sees the long-term ben ers supporting dedicated streaming ing Format (ASF), for example, now Can you imagine the computer media fromthe edges of the network allows multiple data objects (for exam efit in being able to deliver a player pmtocols. power that is required to display the to improve streaming media quality. to its customers that can replicate the Another quesnon open to debate ple, audio objects, video objects, still big-screen version of Don Bluth's A SF funcuonalit y ofMicrosoft's own is which plug-in/player (ShockWave, images, events, U RLs, HTML pages, Titan AE, touted as the first movie to How Streaming Works Thus, Real, despite complaints and programs) to be combined and be delivered to theatres via the Inter It's worth outlining how streaming QuickTime, Windows Media Player, from users that its latest RealPlayer 8 stored into a single synchronized net in an all-digital format> Report works. In short, the hypertext trans Real, etc.) holds the most promise. multimedia stream. It provides an is bulky sluggish and surrounded by edly, the digital video file for this port protocol (HTTP) that is used It can be argued that Flash, unth encapsulation that allows existing advertising tie-ins and product place movie is a whopping 64 gigabytes to deliver Web pages to your browser its bandwidth-friendly "ShockWave popular media types and formats such ment strategies (you have to watch an in size. Indeed, a whole new gener is ill-suited for streaming. This is Flash" vector format and extensive as MPEG, AVI, .WAV and Apple ad before virtually every movie trailer ation of high-capacity data delivery because, technically speaking, HTTP scripung support is the leading con QuickTimc to be synchronized and on Real's site, and the product's regrs systems and projection devices will is known as a "stateless" protocoL tender in this regard, despite the fact stored efficiently on a variety of serv tranon process relentlessly pestcrs vou be required at theatres where George The server doesn't know whether the that it is not a streaming video system, em. It supports digital rights manage with invitations to third-party offers) Lucas' plans to deliver the next epi client is ready to receive the data or per se. Ir is currently enjoying some is making deals that could keep it at thing of a heyday, as designers use it to ment, pay per view and supports the sode of Star Wars in an all-digital not. This makes it less than ideally the fore&ont of the streaming field emerging "SMlL" interactive multi big screen movie format. This was suited For delivering video wluch, produce sites viith greater multime for a while. Through these deals with dia pizzazz than can be accomplished media command set that allows web practically unthinkable a few years by its nature, depends on feeding both Apple and Microsoft, a future authors to make dickable movies. through standard HTM L c o ding. ago, but will probably be common t he video data to the client at a Real Server could theoretically deliver Microsoft's ASF and MPEG-4 known rate. There are workarounds, The factthat Macromedia announced place in the next few years. technologies, which as mentioned ear OuickTimc, ASF and Real's own Many people still have 28. 8 or 33.6 of course. If the video file requires less at theFlashforward 2000 conference lier, are becoming to video sometlung media ro the next generation of Net kilobits-per-second (kbps) modem bandwidth than that which is avail held inSan Francisco,Mar. 27-29, re akin to what MP3 is to audio, thanks savvy couch potatoes. Open Source links to the Inrernet. A 28.8 modem able,HTTP can open thc fileand that it w o uld o tfer free softwa versions of Streanung Servers func development kits (SDK) to aid devel to the underground community, prob can, if we do the math (eight bits per begin to play before it has finished tionally equivalent to QT Streaming opers with inrcgrating Flash into their ably carry thc greatest potential for byte), download a movie at about 2.5 downloading. This leads to at least Server 2.01 are also availablc for Free market share growth in the short term. kBytcs per second maximum Thus, a one notabledrawback: thefile,w hich applications, didn't hurt, either. The BSD, Linux, Solaria and Windows W e wouldn't be s ur pri s ed t o se c a phe 10 second, 500k movie can take sev has essentially been downloaded, is Flash Player source code SDK, which server platforms. In any case, we' ll be is only availablc to registered dcvcl nomenon simdar to that which hap then left sitting on the client's hard eral minutes to download. pened in the browser market where watching. Even if you are creating content drive, perhaps in the TEMP direc opcrs, adds thc ability to port the Many a n alysts f o r esee rhe Flash Pla> er to other platforms while the entrenched leader (in this case, for an intranet-only Tl or T3 con tory. emerging category o f In t e rnet the Flash file format SDK allows Real) sees its dominant market share A true streaming server will not do nection you wil! find yoursdf limited enabled TVs, such as the AOLTV for Flash 4 f iles to be exported. eroded by a competitor that not only by bandv/idth. A Tl line can transfer this, potentiagy protecting the con June 19, 2000, sct-top box announced The announcements made during has greater resources to throw at its about 100K per second so under tent from unauthorized reproduc as thc market that will finally help thc conference's 90 minute keynote products, but currently enjoys the ben tion. Streaming servers fiom blrcro thc best conditions, a 500k movie interactive video take off Or maybe can be viewed at Apple's QuickTime efit of having its product built into the may appear almost instantly — but soft and Real use a "redirector" file it will be like VHS all over again: the site: wsvw.apple.com/quicktimr/qtv/ operating system of the vast majority remember that if a site is running that is mcrcly a text file that points to of the world's computers. While the adult video market has already proven Sashforward2000/ on a 1.4Mbps T1 connection with some sueaming media content on the to be a hotbed (if you' ll pardon thc Apple, which is, by most accounts, recent U.S. Dept. of Justice ruling 10 people all viewing or download server. However, it specifies a different ternet commerce action; phrase) of in the number three player in the stream might change thc dynanuc of that protocol to access this content than ing unique video content at the same perhaps it will be the market that ing video market, has been hobbled relationship in thc months or years time, you are only going to see one the usual hypertext uansportprotocol. provide the catalyst for "clickable" by the factthat both Real and Micro ahead, it's safe to say that Microsoft tenth of that bandwidth. 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Editor's File Menu (what a concept!), as you can in Premiere 5.1, nor is there an Import command. Instead, the insert Video File... function is
on frames of video. You might use it for removing wires holding up spe cial effects stunt-workers or "fiying" props, or paint "ray gun" cifccts into a high-tech battle scene. In our tests, we
used it to retouch objects in a scene together again. At the end of it all,
squirreled awayin the fifth menu fiom by matching their colour and paint the left. And the various modules ing directly on the video frames. Our aren't even consistent. Thc Video first disappointment occurred when
Paint utility places the Open > Video 6lc... command where it belongs, in the File menu. Note to Ulead's Video Editor interface designers: File oper ationsbelong in the File menu. Duh.
at a time, due to a design limitation of theprogram. Thus, we were forced to laboriously split our video up into 30-second segments, add our special effects and then stitch it ag back
we Found that the eye dropperdidn't allow us to match colours &om the video as it clearly should. It sorts" works, but every time you change brush shapes, the colour inexplicably
changesback to black. This rescm blcsa bug morc than afeature.Then, we found that we couldn't load more program, useful for "painting" directly than 30 seconds (900frames) ofvideo
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we were a little fed up with limita tionsthat seemed destined to thwart our attempts at seamless edits. On the brighter side, the company seems to be somewhat more tuned into what people actually want from a video editing program than Adobe. Version 6.0.0.2 of the program pro videsDVD authoring, the abiTity to play a project directly from the dme line right out to a DV camcorder or other IEEE1394 device without ren
dering a 6nal movie file, and a patch program.Notably,thebundledrelease for Sony VAIO computers that allows may not includeMPEG-2 support the program to usc the Microsoft DV and lacks Video Paint, CG In6nity (an driver, rather than Sony's own DV object-oriented character generator) driver, which works with SONY soft and some of thc retail rdease'sprofes ware only. (Ulead recommends Win sional-looking transihon e&ects. dows 98 SE over the original Win98 There are, of course, many fea release, duc toits improved DV sup tures that may make this a compel port.) ling purchase for vidcographcrs. Its And, loand behold, thc program blucscrccn capabiTitics and rotoscop can createAVI 6les greaterthan 2G EE ing features make it a useful tool For Why can't ag PC-basedvideo editors budding special effects wizards and its workaround this klutzy limitation in character gcncrator urility far exceeds Microsoft's Video for Windows 6lc the laughably weak tiding tools pro format? videdin Premiere S.lc. Indeed, it's a Note, also that there areseveral dif pitythe performance of the program ferencesbetween the bundled ver isn't better during common editing sion and thc retail version of the tasks. Its feature set is nearly perfect.
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the video capable version that runs on PocketPCs) and a couple of sam ples tunes in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio (WMA) format that really show off the unit's sound qual ity. Through the Jornada's speaker, the audio fidelity sounded decent, but when a set of headphones is connected, it really rocked. Initially, wc figured the unit's audio playback quality was as good as any other por table MP3 player we'd heard. How ever, further testing revealed a few caveats.
Little luck with MP3a One of the biggest disappointments in our tests was the surprisingly weak
implementation ofMusicMatchJuke box offered by HP. For starters, the version supplied on the CD, or down loadable from HP's website, isn't the fidl ( Plus" ) version; it's the free ver sion. The freebie's encoding perfor mance is arbitrarily crippled to a slower speed than thar of the commer cial version. It doesn't have a "Sendto Device" option, such as is available for a wide array of dedicated MP3 play ers. Worse, we noticed that the Jor nada didn't seem to play a number of the MP3 fileswe loaded and played successfully with the Music Match software, bur rhen re-saved
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discover that the recently released update from HP" t o address this Media Player 7 for PocketPCs does issue, we discovered that as long as not yethave a Handheld PC equiv you disable the audio, the HPC 2.11 alent, capable of playing Microsoft version of the program for ARM Windows Media video files. Frus processors can successfully display tratlngly, even thc freeware alterna MPEG video on the Jornada 720. tive Pocket TV doesn't work properly Despite this audio bug and apparent buck-passing, it's a great liule free — yet. PocketTV is an MPEG Movie program, and the ability to drag the Player for Pocket PC and Windows controls out of the screen area (via CE devices (and, in fact, fully sup Internet Explorer-style menu bar ports almost all color H andheld dragging) makes the video area better and Pocket PCs except the Jornada fit the Jornada's 640x240 screen 720 and 820). However, despite the dimensions. PocketTV received the Windows developer's claim that "there is a serious bug in the audio driver on CE Pmgram of th e Year Award in the Third Annual ZDNet PDA the Jornada...." and suggestion that the cure is to try to get a software S oftware Awards. I t i s a l s o t h e
sion .mpg or .mpeg). Pocket TV is also capable of stream ing MPEG video files using stan dard internet protocols such as http or ftp, provided that your device has a network connection (wireless or ethernet) that supports the nec essary bandwidth i.e. the bitrate of t he IMPEG f i l t h a t v o u w ant t o stream. If you want to try streaming
video with PocketTV, go the fol lowing URL &om your Pocket PC using Pocket I EThttpg/pockemy corn/ stream/. fls
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sales of flash memory and other chips. Together, all of these products are tied up in the PICA blueprint for wireless devices announced last September. RTYGITexas Instru ments is promoting a s i milar architecture, the Open Multimedia
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Analog or Digital Assuming that an LCD display makes sense for your applications, the big gest question to consider when look
ing at Flat Panel displays is what method you will use to connect it to your computer. Although it's no sur prise that digital interfaces provide better image quality than old-style analog connections, no less than three digital flat panel "standards" com phcate the picture. Tom's Hardware Guide has an excellent overview of thc issues. (www.tomshardware.corn) An examination of the technologies involved shows that the Digital Visual Interface (DVI) standard is the one with the most potential. It supports higher resolutions and also enables the connecfion of analog devices (usu ally requiring the use of an adapter).
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have a stack of four of them on my desk right now that replaced a big old stack of hot, dusty and hcavy 21-inch monitors." Mihocka uses the displays at his booths at tradeshows, where he can usually be found showing ofF his latest emularion efForts. There is an adapter available for the 1600SW allowing it to be used with virtually any graphics card on the market. SGI's website says: "tMul tiLink will also bc available to existing Silicon Graphics 1600SW customers
users to view lower resolution images at full-screen size." This feature is called "ratiometric expansion." With it, the display aflows custom resolu tions that, in essence, permit continu ously variable resolution adjustments. Practically speaking, this f eature
aflows LCD displays to deliver clear, non-jaggytextat venous resolunons. Without, n o n -defaulr r esolutions would have unpleasant laggics and distorted fonts.
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for 5450 (ESP), and can be purchased According ro information on cold directly &om SGI at SOO-SOO-4SGI cathode fluorescent lamps at JKL or www.sgi.corn. The M u l t iLink Lamps, the life exlsectancy of CCFL Adapter (which utilizes a scaling lamps that usually drive LCD displays chip developed by Toronto-based is generally rated at 20,000 hours. Genesis Microchip) is covered by Some companies rate their products a three-year limited warranty." (See http: //www.sgi.corn/fl at panel/ a vail products.htmltfv3 f o r mor e details.) According to the page at http:/ /wsvw.creativepro.com/story/news/ 6421.hrml,"a multi-resolution scaling feature [in the MultiLink] enables
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view of folders or drives placed in the dock. These additions make the forthcoming OS behave essentially the way exisfing Mac OS versions do. There is other evidence that Apple has been listening to its 100,000 beta testers. Toolbars are now dramatically smaller — and toolbar items are all Drive" with the ability to write a DVD that can be played on a con customizable. sumer DVD player.It also reads and As well, several key features miss ing &om thebeta have been added, writes CDs. Although a drive with these capa including support for printing, Loca biTities recently cost around 55000, it tion Manager, Airport and more. Mac OS X will be available at retail is a standard featureon the 733 MHz on Sat.March 24th,forUS5129 and model, which sells for 55299 (Cdn). Of course, Jobs invited Apple will include Mac OS 9.1 for Classic Vice President of Worldwide Mar compatibility. The company abo says keting Phil Schiller onstage for the it will give beta testers who submit now-obligatory "Pentium Crushing" ted bug reports a US530 discount demo: The Mac fi nished a complex on the software, when purchased graphic rendering in 2 4 seconds online through The Apple Store. See versus 36 seconds for a 1.5 G Hz Apple.corn/macosx for details. Micro soft has committed to release a ver Intel Penuum 4. Wrapping up the "Power to Burn" sion of Ofhce 2001 for OS X this Fall. demo, Jobsshowedoff a set of US559 speakers for the new units and an
Power to Burn New PowerMacs include CD-RW allingt ian all new generation of PowerMacs with "power to burn," Apple CEO Steve Jobs, during his keynote speech at
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As seen here, you can define quality settings when encoding M We recommend at least 160kbpi high-fidelity music.
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