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  1. Illuminerdi

    Pictures for the weekend

    Thanks for the explanation - I too was wondering about the differences between Type B and C.  Personally though, I still prefer Type C.  Yes - audio quality may be impacted due to the aforementioned crosstalk/distortion potential because of the limited available wire pairs, but ultimately I...
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    The long road to a final unit

    Actually no, they aren't perfectly transparent either, however I find them much more transparent than resistive screens.  Resistive layers often give a muddy/matte quality to images as the plastic in them tends to alter the image in a way I find much more visible than a capacitive layer. As for...
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    The long road to a final unit

    Actually, Android supports just about every input method you could imagine.  It even supports a mouse perfectly and just assumes a left click is the same as a finger tap on a screen spot, so I don't think it's fair to criticize Android in that regard.  It also supports full keyboard and HID...
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    The long road to a final unit

    I can come up with a arguments for myself, but at the end of the day this is something that boils down to preference.  As you said, the two different screens serve different needs.  I would prefer to run Android (or even Ubuntu Touch) on my Pyra - and both of those OSes are easily operated by...
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    The long road to a final unit

    Don't get me wrong - I understand WHY the decision was made for a resistive digitizer on the Pyra - and yes you are correct, a capacitive digi (even with a stylus) has far lower precision than a resisitive one, and I know I'm in the minority here.   The thing is - I'm one of the people who...
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    The long road to a final unit

    Just FYI - pretty much all LCD display panels are TFT whether they're IPS, VA, or TN. According to Panelook this panel is actually ADS, though ED said that BOE told him it's an FFS panel (I trust ED, it probably is FFS or some variant) - either way, those are all above "TN-grade" panels and...
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    The long road to a final unit

    Ghosting is actually the least of my concerns - I remember back in the 90s trying to play Quake on a laptop LCD with ~60-100ms response times! Now THAT was some ghosting... I've never (to my knowledge) used an FFS/HFFS panel, but I did some reading on it and it definitely sounds better than TN...
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    The long road to a final unit

    Does anyone know what the viewing angles are on the BOE screen that they're demoing?  That's all I really care about the screen, but BOE's website clearly does not list the panel that ED is testing, since he's looking at a 720p panel and the ones listed on their site are all 800x400ish
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    No time for a break after GamesCom

    I think it's hilarious how much hate the PS controller line gets, including the PS1 controller.  I've never had a problem with the entire PS line.  Yes i have experienced discomfort with them at times, but at the same levels as discomfort I've experienced with other console controllers of the...
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    No time for a break after GamesCom

    I partially agree - I think it was horrible in execution, but the idea and theory were sound.  One thing a lot of people don't realize is that the N64 controller was meant to be held by any combination of 2 of the 3 total "prongs" while still giving the player a minimum of 2 additional buttons...
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    No time for a break after GamesCom

    I don't understand - how could you wrap the bottom and not wrap the corner?  I really don't understand what your issue is with the corner wrapping.  And while you might not like the DS, it was a very popular system, so there are a lot of people who clearly did like it - given that Nintendo has...
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    No time for a break after GamesCom

    ED has said in the original post that the CPU board being swappable is likely to enable CPU upgrades, so it seems very likely that we'll see new CPU board(s) for the Pyra within a year or two of its release. Again though, I highly, highly doubt we'll ever see an x86 CPU board.  ED probably...
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    No time for a break after GamesCom

    Why else?  Reductions in price and/or power.
  14. Illuminerdi

    No time for a break after GamesCom

    I'm not trying to start a long debate on this, so I'll try to keep this brief. True, the number of PCB layers isn't fixed and adding layers is fairly trivial and as long as you have more pins on the connectors than you have total number of traces to/from the main PCB, there should never be a...
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    No time for a break after GamesCom

    I actually have a question for ED regarding the Pyra's LCD - could you post a more detailed breakdown of the specs on it?  I've searched the forums and I've been unable to get this answered. My main concern is this: is the LCD a TN (Twisted Nematic) or IPS (In Plane Switching)?  IPS panels...
  16. Illuminerdi

    No time for a break after GamesCom

    That depends - yes the CPU does reside on the daughterboard, so yes in theory it would only require redesign of that PCB, but that's still an 8-layer PCB to redesign, no small feat.  Plus you have to factor in the position of the two connectors on the ends of the daughterboard and whether or not...
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    No time for a break after GamesCom

    An Nvidia chip is unlikely to ever be put into the Pyra for many reasons.  The biggest reason is the pin layout - the CPU's pin arrangement is one of the most crucial aspects of the PCB design, since there are so so so many traces that go to the CPU. Changing to an Nvidia CPU might necessitate a...
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    No time for a break after GamesCom

    If done right I don't think this will be a problem.  The DS Lite and 3DS XL both use this style of shoulder buttons and I really prefer the feel of these.  Yes they can lead to fragility if done improperly, but with a strong enough post and thick enough collar around the post I see no reason...
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    GamesCom, Shoulderbuttons and Heating

    While I totally support actually having 2 shoulder buttons, has anyone mentioned the fact that if people find the shoulder buttons uncomfortable they can always map 2 of the 4 of them to the spare face buttons - after all the Pyra is likely to have 6 face buttons, so it seems like a passable...
  20. Illuminerdi

    Psfreedom / Psgroove Wiz?

    Someone get this man a PS3!
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