It's hard to find tech specs on the Perspective Pixel displays, but at least one source† says they are 1920x1080. The idea of doing lots of text-oriented work sitting inches away from a 55" 1080p monitor sounds horrible, but I guess it makes for good TV.
I find a lot of relevant news on Fox, relevant commentary, knowledgeable opinions. Unless you can cite an example of what you mean then it's just a personal attack against Fox with no basis.
>> I find a lot of relevant news on Fox, relevant commentary, knowledgeable opinions. Unless you can cite an example of
what you mean then it's just a personal attack against Fox with no basis.
Here's your example.
"Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news. Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast....any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom."
Did you seriously link to a Huffington Post article to criticize the bias of Fox News?
I can't defend Fox's practices, but the fact that you aren't railing against MSNBC as well makes me think you're far from an impartial observer. Fox News and MSNBC are two sides of the same ridiculous coin, but media bias only seems to bother you when it's coming from the right.
I assume it was directly solely at Fox News as this is the line of argument I took. The op posted a link to Fox then I slandered the Fox network's good name. In addition, I don't live in the US and never see American news with the exception of rehashed Fox garbage, hence my angle.
I'm not sure if this is a joke or a troll. I'll bite and link to everyone's favourite source. In addition, could you seriously read a Murdoch publication regularly and be ok with it? He is one of the most degenerate business owners in living memory.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News_Channel_controversie...
I've done graphics for television (literally fullscreens and boxes for newscasts and that sort of thing) - if something appears onscreen (especially on a screen on screen) you'd be surprised how terrible the resolution has to be before it even matters visually to the home viewer.
If this is the display tech I saw over a year ago at OSCON, they were visually fine. When I pushed the MS rep on the booth for info about pricing and it was in the 5 digit range I politely moved on without getting more info. They looked good very close at finger touch range, but don't know the pixel density.
We would have bought some at $dayjob but their Linux support required coding against a proprietary API. We'd like a nice big interactive display (e.g. take a wacom, make it big) that works on Linux. No custom APIs, please; if your hardware needs special bits please improve the Linux ecosystem and contribute them there.
Apologies if this has changed since we demoed them, but those were my notes at the time.
Those bezels look larger on one side... which must make their work lean heavily to the right. /snark
In all seriousness, though, I can't imagine how they are going to be any more productive at those resolutions than they would be with traditional input methods, not to mention the sore arms that these will cause.
'Aside from it being simply neat of Fox News to use the displays,'
Nah.
'it’s a nice moment for Microsoft:'
Nah.
'the company has found an early commercial use for the technology.'
Nahhhhhh.
To me it's more likely Microsoft is driving hard these visible partnerships, for example like Delta Air using Surface tables, at a loss for exposure. But I wouldn't know, I'm not a TechCrunch journalist.
I don't believe it's a good commercial use because I don't believe Newsrooms need that kind of technological change - they are clearly intended to be showy, not useful, as a 17" screen would certainly do for research.
I don't think Close-up, a 55" 1080p resolution can hardly lead to productive work. I sometimes use a 55" 1080p screen from five feet away and even there the text is not clear enough and too large to fit entirely in my field of vision.
It's not a good moment because it's a completely irrelevant moment. I am sure Microsoft has other exciting products in thr works.
as with other people, there is a tendency to confuse their journalists and their talk show hosts. Separating the two in your head allows you to watch the appropriate shows on each channel without screaming at the set, or dismissing what is being said from misconception.
They have a bunch of people in the background using them apparently, not just the hosts. Do those people actually do work, or are they just 'extras'? Are they actually even there, or is looped footage of them bluescreened in?
Seems like an awful job if they are actually real, having to sit at a desk with a tv camera pointed at your back the entire time...
I bet moonlighting at that job is actually a welcome change from the smell of the stables. Granted, being a jockey is probably lots of fun during those all-too-brief sprints around the track, but the rest of the time, I'd want to be as far away from horses as possible.
At the tv station where I was last employed, they decided to change the format of their newscasts by filming in the newsroom... so if you happened to be cutting packages together for the next newscast or whatever you ended up in the background.
It's great that they're trying to leverage the technology like this. Ideally, we'll get a little news room arms race, which will hopefully lead to a few innovations. The next newsroom needs 8k screens. :-)
Think of each booth as a different station trying anything to catch your attention and you'll understand. It's just a hook. Doesn't matter if it's clever, or stupid, or if they think it's clever and it looks stupid - if it gets you to watch the commercials than it works.
Either the Fox staff does not know how to use these or they were captured using it not exactly the way it was intended. From what I know these are not supposed to be used as tablets like the guys in the article are doing. These are huddle around whiteboards. Something you can use in a meeting room. Their use in media is interesting and the use of these in a broadcast is just a minor use case for these amazing devices.
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>> I find a lot of relevant news on Fox, relevant commentary, knowledgeable opinions. Unless you can cite an example of what you mean then it's just a personal attack against Fox with no basis.
Here's your example.
"Fox News will not be moving into Canada after all! The reason: Canada regulators announced last week they would reject efforts by Canada's right wing Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, to repeal a law that forbids lying on broadcast news. Canada's Radio Act requires that "a licenser may not broadcast....any false or misleading news." The provision has kept Fox News and right wing talk radio out of Canada and helped make Canada a model for liberal democracy and freedom."
1. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/fox-news-w...
I eagerly await any attempts to defend FOXNews in a comment-thread on HackerNews. Seriously, go for it. http://i.imgur.com/xblF4.gif
I can't defend Fox's practices, but the fact that you aren't railing against MSNBC as well makes me think you're far from an impartial observer. Fox News and MSNBC are two sides of the same ridiculous coin, but media bias only seems to bother you when it's coming from the right.
x ~= 2.996
1920/(16x) ~= 40.05 dpi
Apologies if this has changed since we demoed them, but those were my notes at the time.
In all seriousness, though, I can't imagine how they are going to be any more productive at those resolutions than they would be with traditional input methods, not to mention the sore arms that these will cause.
Nah.
'it’s a nice moment for Microsoft:'
Nah.
'the company has found an early commercial use for the technology.'
Nahhhhhh.
To me it's more likely Microsoft is driving hard these visible partnerships, for example like Delta Air using Surface tables, at a loss for exposure. But I wouldn't know, I'm not a TechCrunch journalist.
I don't think Close-up, a 55" 1080p resolution can hardly lead to productive work. I sometimes use a 55" 1080p screen from five feet away and even there the text is not clear enough and too large to fit entirely in my field of vision.
It's not a good moment because it's a completely irrelevant moment. I am sure Microsoft has other exciting products in thr works.
Seems like an awful job if they are actually real, having to sit at a desk with a tv camera pointed at your back the entire time...
It did kind of suck.
Bring on the haters.
Or Surfaces...
I don't quite understand the newsroom gimmicks...
Think of each booth as a different station trying anything to catch your attention and you'll understand. It's just a hook. Doesn't matter if it's clever, or stupid, or if they think it's clever and it looks stupid - if it gets you to watch the commercials than it works.
They aren't really newsrooms, at least not like they used to be. Now it's all about improving ratings at the expense of long term credibility.
(But then if all are doing it, we're talking about relative credibility.)