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* Posts by cliff 2

10 posts • joined Wednesday 17th June 2009 12:06 GMT

cliff 2

Desk phones   

In Plantronics Voyager Pro UC

We did review a Sennheiser headset that does this a while back.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/01/14/review_bluetooth_headset_sennheiser_vmx_office/

cliff 2

Plus Ca Change  

In Outlooked Office for Mac 2011 unveiled

As I recall, two of the main changes in Office 2008 were the introduction of Entourage and the omission of Visual Basic.

And now the headline news for Office 2011 is that it's getting rid of Entourage and bringing back Visual Basic...

Now that's progress!

cliff 2

Nothing Could Be Simpler..?  

In Conceptronic Grab'n'Go FullHD media player

Dead Vulture

<<Nothing could possibly be simpler than setting up SMB (Samba) on a Windows pc.>>

Actually, *not* having to set up Samba would be much simpler - especially for the millions of ordinary people who have never heard of Samba or UPnP.

Cliff

cliff 2

Not quite...  

In LaCie LaCinema Black MAX

To be fair, you can get a Freeview tuner for £30, but not a DVR with 500Gb hard disk....

cliff 2

Seagate Take Two...  

In Seagate jazzes up HDD-to-TV box

Hope it's better than the last one - which really wasn't thought through properly at all.....

cliff 2

Yes, but...  

In Netbooks popular among college kids

What happens when those kids realise that their netbook isn't powerful enough to edit their YouTube video clips or play WoW.....?

cliff 2

Taking The Tablets  

In Apple won't take tablet to September iPod event, says mole

Apple's september event traditionally focuses on music - ie launching new iPods for Chrimble.

If they launched a tablet now all the headlines would focus on the tablet and the iPod would be forgotten.

It makes far more sense for Apple to hold back on a tablet until January.

cliff 2

MacBook Air battery can be changed...  

In Apple MacBook Air June 2009

No, Ted, the MBA battery can't be easily changed. It can only be done if you whip out a screwdriver and dismantle the entire base of the unit, removing no less than 10 tiny - and easily lost - screws in the process.

Try doing that when you're on a plane and just want to swap in a new battery so you can finish watching a film on the machine.

cliff 2

Interpolation  

In Panasonic Viera TX-P42G10 Freesat HD TV

With all due respect, we didn't simply copy the waffle off Panasonic's marketing brochures for this review. We spoke to the product manager for the G10 range at Panasonic and our first question was - "what's the point of 600Hz refresh if the original signal only refreshes at 50Hz".....

Panasonic specifically told us that the set does indeed perform some interpolation. Its internal processor generates multiple frames for each frame in the original signal, and then attempts to select the frames that best display the trajectory of fast-moving objects, such as a tennis ball.

So while the image that you see on screen is still only 25 frames per second, some of those frames are Panasonic-interpolated frames. It's possible that they were lying through their teeth, but at the end of the day we did think that it performed well with sports programmes (and less well with bog-standard talking-head SD content due to the relatively poor scaling - a bit of interpolation and upscaling might help there too...).

cliff 2

Sennheiser 450  

In Ten of the best... noise-cancelling headphones

It's always the case that prices for any product will vary a lot online. In the case of these headphones we either went with the price charged by the manufacturer on their own web site, or - where the manufacturer doesn't sell direct - the price charged by the manufacturer's preferred retail outlet.