Severud.org - Snakker du norsk? » Computers http://blog.severud.org Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein Wed, 18 Jan 2012 04:43:25 +0000 en hourly 1 GPS needs to become ubiquitous http://blog.severud.org/2006/10/17/gps-needs-to-become-ubiquitous/ http://blog.severud.org/2006/10/17/gps-needs-to-become-ubiquitous/#comments Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:00:39 +0000 Kevin http://blog.severud.org/2006/10/17/gps-needs-to-become-ubiquitous/ Continue reading →]]> Find an old photo taken with a film camera and ask yourself, “Where was that picture taken?” Now find a whole bunch of old photos and try answering that question for all of them in a split second. Thanks to digicams we now have time and date stamps along with other photo-specific data embedded with each shot but there’s something missing: GPS information should be in your photos too. Imagine taking a photo journey based on location (Zooomr is already working on this).

Likewise, GPS information should be downloadable from your car’s computer to tell you whatever you’d like to know about your driving (heck, how many people even regularly download their car’s computer data?). Or how about combining GPS with orientation sensors in your video camera to create a Disney-like viewing experience some day (it could happen).

Well, I suppose some of these are closer to reality than others but it would be nice to see the inclusion occur a bit faster.

In any case, for a nice writeup on some items that are available now see O’Reilly Radar’s post on Location Awareness in Hardware.

]]> http://blog.severud.org/2006/10/17/gps-needs-to-become-ubiquitous/feed/ 0 HDTV on an analog TV works well http://blog.severud.org/2006/01/15/hdtv-on-an-analog-tv-works-well/ http://blog.severud.org/2006/01/15/hdtv-on-an-analog-tv-works-well/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:42:25 +0000 Kevin http://blog.severud.org/2006/01/15/hdtv-on-an-analog-tv-works-well/ Continue reading →]]> If you don’t have a nice, new, expensive widescreen HDTV to view a high def broadcast can you still benefit from watching an HD channel? Most certainly! Let’s take a look at Windows Media Center as an example.

In order to receive an HD broadcast on Media Center you’ll need an analog TV tuner (which most already have), an ATSC digital tuner, and an antenna that can pick up digital broadcast. Add the new tuner to the computer and the only other thing you need to do, aside from installing the drivers for the new card, is to run the setup for the TV signal. Once that is done you’ll have a new option under TV Settings called “Digital TV Antenna Signal Strength” and new channels in the program guide. Watching the NFL playoffs in HD on an analog set blows away what I get from my cable companie’s analog feed.

Granted, HD shows look best on a large, widescreen display but short of that you can still enjoy the improved picture and 5.1 audio. So don’t throw away that analog TV just yet as it will benefit greatly from this new technology.

]]> http://blog.severud.org/2006/01/15/hdtv-on-an-analog-tv-works-well/feed/ 0 a-ha – MTV videos now in Media Center Spotlight http://blog.severud.org/2005/10/15/a-ha-mtv-videos-now-in-media-center-spotlight/ http://blog.severud.org/2005/10/15/a-ha-mtv-videos-now-in-media-center-spotlight/#comments Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:40:55 +0000 Kevin http://blog.severud.org/?p=11 Continue reading →]]> Chris Lanier has had quite a few posts this past week and one of them caught my attention: MTV’s new entry, Overdrive, in Spotlight for Windows Media Center. So today I installed Update Rollup 2 and headed over to find some music videos.

First video was “Take on Me” by a-ha. What I especially like is that the videos just keep playing. Next I’ll set off to find U2.

Update: Not much from U2 yet but some is better than none.

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