Gossip mongers and sports fans alike are eagerly awaiting Tiger Woods’ press conference tomorrow morning, when he’ll confront the public and apologize for his string of affairs that tarnished both his image as a role model and his endorsement earnings. And, according to one source, you’ll be able to live stream it from the world’s [...]
Gossip mongers and sports fans alike are eagerly awaiting Tiger Woods’ press conference tomorrow morning, when he’ll confront the public and apologize for his string of affairs that tarnished both his image as a role model and his endorsement earnings. And, according to one source, you’ll be able to live stream it from the world’s most popular video portal: YouTube.
link: YouTube To Live Stream Tiger Woods Press Conference
The first thing that comes to my mind is: “really? is that the most important thing going on tomorrow?” I mean Greece, an advanced modern country, has just gone bankrupt, and the rest of the world is soon to follow, but the big event is that Tiger Woods is finally going to talk about his love affairs?
Either way, this is an interesting development in technology. Instead of using your cable company or your over-the-air receiver to watch this breaking news event, you will be able to log into a website and watch it online, live, as it happens.
Now, it will surely be average to low quality, and it might have a few hiccups while you’re watching, but imagine this: imagine if your 55″ Plasma HDTV had a youtube player in it and an ethernet cable sticking out of the back. All you would need at that point is an internet connection. No more cable company, or satellite, or whatever. You’d be able to watch the even directly from the source, completely cutting out the middle man.
This is not all that shocking, I mean the internet has been eliminating the middle man since its inception. The really cool thing about this possibility is that if all of the content providers jumped on board you could build your own TV “channel.” Instead of having to tune to a particular broadcast or cable station, and watch whatever programming they had on, you could simply browse the online list of shows that are airing on a particular day, or a list of shows that are available on demand, and build your very own calendar of viewing.
“Let’s see, at 8 I’m going to watch the latest Office, then at 8:30 I’ll watch the latest Family Guy, then at 9 it’ll be this week’s Stossel, and at 10 I’ll tune in and catch the last half of the basketball game…”
You will be able to watch what you want to watch, when you want to watch it. You’ll only be paying for what you watch, not for 250 channels that you never use. I think that will be pretty darn cool. Well, assuming civilization hasn’t collapsed by then.
A new auction site has started heavily advertising around the internets called Swoopo and I’m here to tell you that it’s not as great of a deal as it seems. The site promises auctions on electronics that end in amazingly low prices, the only twist being that you have to pay not only the final [...]
A new auction site has started heavily advertising around the internets called Swoopo and I’m here to tell you that it’s not as great of a deal as it seems. The site promises auctions on electronics that end in amazingly low prices, the only twist being that you have to pay not only the final price, but you have to pay a dollar for each time you bid.
This may seem innocent enough, but there are a few caveats that make this an extremely expensive scam at worst, and just a really bad deal at best. First of all you have to pay $1 every time you bid, no matter the outcome of the auction. You don’t get your money back for bidding if you lose, and if you win you pay the price of all the bids plus the final auction price. Plus each bid is set at a $0.15 increase on the current price, and with the prices starting at ridiculously low levels (like $1.40 for a 40″ LCD HDTV) you can imagine that there will be a huge amount of bidding before that auction ends. Also, every time anyone bids they add 20 seconds to the auction clock. So in effect, each auction is perpetual, meaning that they can continue to gouge you $1 each time you bid and never give you a set limit to when that bidding may end.
Long story short, Swoopo is a money drain. You may luck up and get a great deal and not have to pay for many bids, but the probability of that happening is very low. What’s much more likely to happen is that you’ll see something on there that should cost $500 and you’ll bid on it 200 times and not win it, so you just lost $200. If gambling is your thing then this may be for you, but I suggest you steer clear.
Casio EX-FH20 This camera can do semi-HD movies (720p) which is cool but the real exciting feature is it can do 1000 frames per second in Standard Definition! That’s awesome! I currently have a digital camera that has a 60 fps “sports” mode and I use it to take clips of my golf swing so [...]
This camera can do semi-HD movies (720p) which is cool but the real exciting feature is it can do 1000 frames per second in Standard Definition! That’s awesome!
I currently have a digital camera that has a 60 fps “sports” mode and I use it to take clips of my golf swing so that I can do some self-coaching. It’s helped out a good bit and whenever I get a flaw that creeps in and I can’t figure it out, I just take a couple of recordings and see what I’m doing.
However, this only works to a certain point. 60 fps just isn’t enough. Also, that camera has only about half the resolution of true standard def, which makes the picture blurry. 1000 fps at true SD definitely IS enough. I can’t wait to get one of these. Hell I might even start charging people to use it.
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