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Recording Compressed to 1,000 Times MP3 Rate Could Be the Future of Music Playback

The University of Rochester has just devised a way of reproducing music in a file that's compressed 1,000 times smaller than an MP3 file. The way they do it—physically modeling an instrument in a computer and then feeding it input variables (breath, tongue, fingers) in order to generate the output tone—seems super obvious. People were making music with MOD files by recording one tone and generating different notes with it back in the '90s. But actually reproducing the instrument wholesale? That's amazing. More »

3:20 PM on Thu Apr 3 2008
By Jason Chen
10,052 views, 55 comments

Latest by NotPop: @ideaman2020: but you don't need Robert Johnson, just his guitar. and, um, 6 million bucks. [www.independent.co.uk] more »

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PlayStation 3 DivX Playback Tested

The PlayStation 3 2.10 update is here, bringing with it not only Blu-ray Profile 1.1 support (which adds picture in picture among other things), but DivX and WMV playback as well. Unfortunately, DivX support means DivX support, and doesn't include XviD as some of us hoped according to readers includes XviD support, but the files we have tested don't work at all. We threw our normal battery of files at our PS3, and came to the conclusion that it's not quite as good as the Xbox 360 implementation. Here are our notes.

Update: We've found that XviD playback does work, but only on burned DVDs and external hard drives. See here for an update and a workaround.

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3:01 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Jason Chen
75,629 views, 83 comments

Latest by n/a: Hi :) I'm new in this PS3 WiFi streaming, I wonder if it is possible to get the DivX/XviD movie with subtitles on PS3? Subtitles would be in MicroDVD, Substation Alpha or other popular TXT-subtitle format... Does somebody know how to get more »

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Xbox 360 DVD Player Still Sucks After Update, HD DVD Not Great Either [Updated]

We've known that the Xbox 360 DVD player was asstastic for a while, but surely this latest fall update would have improved things at least a little. No such luck, as the player still only got a 40 out of 130 on the HQV DVD test—which is a non-improvement from before the update. Are things better on the HD side? More »

2:30 PM on Thu Dec 6 2007
By Jason Chen
19,032 views, 52 comments

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How to Install Linux on Your PS3

For those of you who managed to get your hands on a PS3 and not get shot in the process, you're probably itching to use that big ass machine to do some fancy media playback—like Sony's been hyping. The good news is that you can use your PS3 as a media hub, but the bad news is that you'll have to install Linux. More »

2:22 PM on Mon Dec 11 2006
By Jason Chen
59,704 views, 10 comments