I thought I was alone with that. People seem to confuse good acting performances with good facial deformations or what?
MS E3 2012 conference
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I thought I was alone with that. People seem to confuse good acting performances with good facial deformations or what?
Open indie tracks with everyone and their dog uploading music makes 30 million tracks of which 0.001% you'd actually care for. So the 30 million number (or any other) doesn't mean much to me. How many tracks are there that I'd care for? That'd be answered by describing what catalogues are included. Everything ever published on this label or that? Everything published by every label in the past 20 years and nothing earlier? Are their movie soundtracks or not? It's the details that really matter; not the total number of songs.
Maybe they will actually have songs in other languages than english? And movie/game/other soundtracks would be pretty cool as well!
tuna said:
Spotify has a fair number of songs in other languages already, and even music unlimited has some stuff. You don't get to 15 million that easily. Some artists don't want to take part though, and some publishers that were in previously pulled out again later. Pretty annoying - this stuff is at its best when it has everything.
I currently have both Spotify and Music Unlimited and I have a tough time choosing one.
Ah didn't even think of that. There's also remixes of songs, especially with dance tracks. For example I tried Zune music pass for a bit and found it had far more of the particular remixes of songs that I wanted, compared to Spotify which was very lacking in comparison for that particular genre. Given that some dance songs will have 20+ remixes each, it's prolly not as hard to hit 30 million tracks as one would think. There really is tons of music out there, so I'm not surprised that Spotify's 18 million or so just isn't nearly enough. i bet I still won't find all the tunes I want even on Xbox Music's 30 million playlist.
A calibration tool would be nice too...
I rather calibrate my TV to a standard and not have the input devices mess with it. The problem with a built in calibration tool is that if doesn't adhere to standards, you're going to get those variants across all content on that input. If you have a receiver in the A/V chain, that's likely your only input for all devices.
If they follow the standards AND provide a good built in calibration tool, then yeah, that's a win win.
You make it seem like handing Activision chump change is a bad deal for the biggest game of the holiday season? Activison should hand MS some money. I've been watching FMA with my nephew on Netflix and I'm all about equivalent exchange now. :smile:
This thread is awesomely stupid.
I second (or third) a commitment to have the next-gen consoles obey a clear standard for display output, that is consistent across games, apps and disc-based video playback, so that the display can be calibrated with a standard calibration tool, or calibrated with an app based tool available to the console. I believe the PS3 is in good shape, in that regard - 360, not so much.
I second (or third) a commitment to have the next-gen consoles obey a clear standard for display output, that is consistent across games, apps and disc-based video playback, so that the display can be calibrated with a standard calibration tool, or calibrated with an app based tool available to the console. I believe the PS3 is in good shape, in that regard - 360, not so much.
How many of those people are actually programmers & artists? For all we know half of them are janitors. LOL Sorry couldn't resist. BTW, when did quantity equate with quality? It could be said Microsoft & Nintendo need less people to do the same quality as Sony.
Zing Sorry for that one too. LOLIn the future can you keep your anti-Microsoft/pro-Sony vitriol out of Beyond3D & Xbox threads? It might be welcomed at GAF but not here. Thanks in advance.
Back to the _MICROSOFT_ thread...
Here's some hands-on video of Smart Glass in action. It's intriguing to say the least...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6OC9a-_OWQ
It makes me want a tablet more now. If they pull through as promised on multi-platform support I should be able have nice selection to pick from.
Tommy McClain
We did not intentionally break the black levels.
Since my direct manager is Stacey Spears (of http://www.spearsandmunsil.com/), we do understand the importance of good calibration.
It doesn't help that the 360 uses a piecewise linear approximation for the gamma curve, that's for sure.
Here's a couple questions for you, and maybe you can't answer one of them:
Why are the black levels weird with the new apps? The Netflix app has very grey blacks, and it wasn't like that with the older client on the old dashboard.
What do you guys do to calibrate your displays at the office? I know you're working on sound processing stuff with Kinect, so maybe you don't bother, but I'm curious to know if people do a standard light-metered calibration for best results.
That's pretty cool, actually.
The gameplay vid for Ascend is just a map function, which isn't that interesting to me, but then I was thinking ... inventory management. Oh my god, could they ever do some cool stuff to really do good inventory management for RPGs. I'm sure there will be some very good ideas. I'll keep my eye on it. Thinking of getting a tablet for app development anyway.
Oh cool! Glad to see Stacey is still with MS. He's always had good straight forward input on avsforum.
I don't know the details of that issue, sorry.
As for calibration, on the audio team we don't bother with video calibration, the graphics guys do, but I'm not sure what they use, I know Stacey calibrates his properly, but he would since he does a lot of video production.
Yes, I met him on avsforum when I was in the hddvd team and he was on the codec team. It's amusing to us that 5 years later we're now on the same team in a different org. I hadn't actually met him in person until a month after he became my manager
Did I just get accused of Sony trolling while hiding behind my employment status? Huh. Considering I think Sony is actually an excellent game company and has multiple games i would have loved to play if i owned a PS3, that seems a bit odd. I also try not to disparage other companies online in general, mainly because I _am_ a known Microsoft employee, and it would not be considered professional.
Well, to each his own, I suppose.
