21st May 2012
Ok so I’m still a generation behind and not got to 3D yet, but a conversation with a customer recently confirmed a suspicion I’d had for some time: Blu-ray discs sound much better than DVDs.
When I got my full HD LCD TV and Blu-ray player connected a while back, I noticed the Blu-ray picture quality was much better. I could see eyes glistening properly, crowd scenes with such detail they gained depth, and far less blocky graphics during large, sudden scene changes. Animations like…
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4th April 2012
Taking my colleague's advice to heart, I went to concerts in the Usher Hall in Edinburgh in January and February, after a long absence since its refurbishment in 2009. I was up in the "nose-bleed" seats, which now have the addition of padding over the wood, but only a very thin layer at this ticket price.
I was sat centrally and listening to the Scottish Chamber Orchestra playing Beethoven and Haydn. The orchestra comprised around fifty players, with the addition of a piano at times. It was good…
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5th March 2012
Another breakfast briefing by Strategy Analytics discussed the connected everything. Your car will become a mobile WiFi hotspot. Using sensors and your mobile phone you'll be constantly hooked up to a virtual hospital monitoring every heartbeat. And - of course - everything in your home will be connected to everything else and they will all be connected to a smart meter which in turn will be connected to the national grid etc etc.
This theme was…
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29th February 2012
The atmosphere of Day 2 felt much more business-like, with some of the novelty of Day 1 wearing off and the serious business of client, partner, supplier and analyst discussions being the focus for attendees.
My day started by attending a briefing by a market research company Strategy Analytics on what they see as key dynamics in the marketplace. The presentation focussed on the predicted huge growth in network traffic over the next few years, driven in the main…
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28th February 2012
Anticipation…excitement...curiosity...all of these feelings were apparent in abundance as the crowds streamed up the avenue this morning in front of the Wolfson booth under a clear blue spring sky in Barcelona. The Wolfson team were in place and ready to rock, final adjustments were made to the meeting plan, the demos were fired up and the organisers even switched on a couple of dozen fountains outside our booth to give us a nice added background frequency for…
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