30 May 2012

хотел “Райски кът” - Калофер ( в местността "Паниците" )


Безкрайно разочаровани сме (група от 7 човека)от престоя ни в този така наречен 3 звезден хотел http://www.raiskikat.com/  Хотела на снимките е една илюзия. За жалост няма нищо общо с реалносста. Единственно реката която минава оттам е истинска. Хотела не отговаря на нито една звезда. Хигиената е под всякаква критика косми в банята, импровизирана кабинка за къпане, влага в стаите. По незнайни причини след 8 часов преход до " Райското пръскало" нормално човек би искал да се изкъпе, за жалост трябваше с насъпонисана глава да стоя в банята около 25 мин., защото топлата вода бе изчезнала.....явно и тя беше илюзия. Кухнята беше под всякаква критика. Единствено пържените яйца бяха вкусни... За закуската която беше вклучена в weekend пакета беше уникало ускъдна- парченце баничка, аирян и кафе. На другия ден 2 бр пържени филиики и едно кафе. Съотношение цена/качество е нереално : Цените са прекалено надути в предвид това което получаваш. В целия хотел миришеше на" пържено" .....Безобразие. Персонала е без никакъв нюх за хотелиерство, гостоприемство и т.н. Когато престигнахме и едва успяхме да седнем да изпием по едно кафе защото стаите ни бяха готови жената която сервираше и беше хотелиерката ни посрещна с думите дължите ми за втората нощувка пари. Няма здравейте или каквото и да би било поздравление...ужас.... Пишем този коментар, защото е безкрайно отчайващо и заблуждаващо, когато човек погледне оценката на хотела: и тя да е 7.8 . Човек все си мисли, че с такава оценка за хотел с 3 звезди, човек получава едно съвсем приятно място за нощуване: чисто спретнато и т.н но уви... 
Хора които мислите да посетите този хотел само едно ще ви кажем: 
Замислете се наистина преди да си дадете парите на вятъра!!!!

Всичко в този хотел е една илюзия.

21 May 2012

Dual disc one side DVD other side CDRom...

Client wants to have an interface with buttons to view PDF files on the CDRom side. On the DVD side they
want a couple of videos. Will this setup work in a dual disc environment?

Comment:

RE: 

If a hybrid disc is made with ONE SIDE for CD stuff, then the CD data layer is seen all the way through, and on the OTHER side of disc that is 1.2mm thick... Hence in a typical CD, one side has nothing, and the other side has the embossed stuff, and aluminum and the printed labeling..
BUT the optics of DVDs assumes that the data layer is buried half way inside of the 1.2 mm thick disc.
HENCE the DVD lens normally wants to focus down into the depth that is only 0.6mm away
from its surface...
HENCE.. this goofy disc ((which is totally backward) in its thinking, and THIS godfud would strongly
suggest that NOBODY supports this silly approach.. (why? because with every pricey DVD, the client could include a USB thumb drive to carry 64 gigabytes for free, write?)
just to put out some PDF files in what was supposed to be the CD disc...))
This goofy disc then must have NO printing of typical label information since both sides have to be transparent.
AND, the 0.6mm layer for DVD has to be built on TOP of the 1.2mm thickness to keep that ancient format of CD happy...
HENCE a TOO thick 1.8mm disc. (sure some genius could put the red laser DVD data layer at its standard
0.6mm depth, but with rather transparent data layer coatings so that the CD infra-red light can pass THROUGH the DVD layer and see the CD fully-aluminized layer way over on the other side of the
disc... HENCE a NOT-TOO thick disc that would be OK for the typical
PC drive/drawer (sorta).
IF the disc was 1.8mm thick, or something similar, then its NOT cool for those silly Apple laptops with the way-too-narrow slot that might be just open enough to get the disc INTO the drive, but not with enough extra tolerance to permit the drive to successfully eject the too thick disc everytime... In this result, the DANGER is that
some goober would jam his too-expensive Apple and then, to fix it in a ham-fisted approach using paper clips, he breaks the hidden release lever and then needs to take the too expensive toy back to the store for an expensive factory repair... NAW.. no danger here.
IF some genius figured out how to have a DVD layer (semi transparent to Infra-red color of a CD pickup lens)
done just right, then THAT layer might piss off the mechanisms to see the CD layer since that DVD layer between it and the lens could be cutting down way too much light (aka bad optical S/N)
and hence an unreliable play back. As I remember it, Panasonic invented a tricky solution to their drives that read BOTH CDs and DVDs... Typically that should have TWO lenses with their separate color corrected optical focusing capability.. BUT Panny invented putting a "holgraphic-like" pattern on the surface of their plastic
lens so that it really has two natural focal points because the Hololens surface makes the
plastic lens have the ability to pretend to be the other kind of lens... BUT, all that assumes messing with the efficiency of the light going through all this stuff, and hence the possible unwillingness to guarantee
anything... Holograms are typically NOT that efficient, the best Phase Volume holograms (typically made from photographic film emulsions of very very high resolution) is about 30%-40% efficient. A surface layer
hologram (especially if its transparent) is NOT very good at bending the light (hence permitting one lens to do the work of two).
IF all the client wants to do is to watch videos and then dig out PDFs from some published disc, there is really NO REASON to go to two different types of disc layers on ONE disc... a PDF file folder can be stored on a DVD (since a dual layer DVD surely has enough capacity to store another 700 megs of PDFs.. All that was figured out brilliantly by the Interactual dudes who got acquired into the Sonic megopolis. (and which was built into the tech specs of BDs).
Of course, such a folder of PDF files would mean nothing to a $29 Apex DVD player, but in any computer, after the video is watched a few instructional frames of DVD made in authoring history can tell the end user exactly how to access the EXTRA-COMPUTER-relevant data. when the disc is NOT in auto-play mode.
BUT... IF THIS WAS MY CLIENT,,, I would tell him that he does NOT want CDs hybridized
with DVDs.. RATHER he should pay just a tiny bit MORE, and all his needs could be played back
from a single layered BD disc that was intelligently authored and then played from some cheapo $200
player that Sony will be giving away soon enough..

Does 3D Hurts Your Eyes and Brain ?

For the most part, the only big discrepancy between a 3D movie and seeing 3D in real life is the separation of convergence and
accommodation. This creates a perception conflict that often can manifest in the form of a headache or nausea in much the same way
perception conflicts effecting the inner ear create physical discomfort. Most people's brains suppress this conflict very easily and quickly.
As to crossing your eyes, you experience more crossing your eyes looking at your iPad or iPhone than you ever would watching a movie. As to
splaying your eyes apart - that is a function of BAD 3D movie making (which happens far too often). Since this is highly uncommon in the
"real" world that too creates some level of discomfort depending upon the person's sensitivity to it.
The notion that perception conflicts "hurt" you has been proven over and over to be unlikely. If experienced for a long duration (such as
weightlessness in space) it can take several days to "recover" back to normal, but I know of no permanent problems. The brain has amazing
capability to adapt to the stimulus it receives.
Mostly, this kind of journalism is for sensation - like covering a plane crash or health disease. The OMG aspect is very overblown and for most
shouldn't illicit much more than a yawn. Viewmasters have been around for 50 years or so? Last I checked, no child suffered Eye/Brain hurt
unless they fell face first onto the thing. If you have two eyes that converge properly then from the time you wake until you go to sleep you
see the world in 3D. It really isn't that big of a deal - unless psychologically you want it to be a big deal for some reason. There are
irrational fear of heights and I suspect there are irrational fear of 3D for some people. The whole thing is a non-starter for me. If you don't
like 3D then poke one of your eyes out and shut up. If you don't like 3D movies, then don't go to them - or if forced, buy a pair of the 3D to
2D glasses that have recently become available.

16 May 2012

5% Incompatible after CD DVD Replication


Hello,
It's been around 4 months since a short run of 1000 discs was completed for
a client.
The disc image was provided to a replicator on 2 CD / DVD-R's for redundancy.
Since then, the client has reported 5% incompatibility complaints from the
few hundred that have sold so far. Incompatible discs that have been
returned play with no problem on the client's DVD player.
The replicator has not provided any insight into this, so my 3 part question
is this:
Is 5% incompatibility for a replicated project that passed QA reasonable?
If not, could the issue be the result of a CD-R / DVD-R master rather than a DLT
tape?
Is it reasonable for the replicator (chosen by the client) to be
unresponsive to questions about this problem?
Any info would be appreciated.
thx,

8 May 2012

Microsoft announces Windows 8 will not come with DVD support

Microsoft announces Windows 8 will not come with DVD support


By Terence Keegan
Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows 8 operating system will not feature built-in support for DVD playback, the company has revealed, in a decision that signals the increasing dominance of streaming and downloadable media formats in the home entertainment marketplace.
Windows 8 users who wish to play DVDs (or Blu-ray discs) on their PCs will have to purchase separate software from Microsoft or a third party. But the company contends that relatively few users will require such features.
The market shift from discs to digital formats has rendered the licensing costs of DVD decoding technology unjustifiable, Microsoft said in a corporate blog post Thursday. “Globally, DVD sales have declined significantly year over year and Blu-ray on PCs is losing momentum as well,” the company stated. Yet royalties for including optical media decoding technology in the Windows operating system have remained “significant.”
“Our partners have shared clear concerns over the costs associated with codec licensing for traditional media playback,” Microsoft said, “especially as Windows 8 enables an unprecedented variety of form factors.”....
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2 May 2012

WWW.INSIGHTVISION.BIZ: Proper care of DVDs + Bacteria

WWW.INSIGHTVISION.BIZ: Proper care of DVDs + Bacteria

Proper care of DVDs + Bacteria


Hey all

I saw a story on the TV last year how some Biology Student at uni
decided to use Blank CD's as petrie dishes for growing bacteria.
Apparently he also worked as a DJ in the evenings in a local nightclub.

Anyway, one day he mistakenly took one one of the CD's that had E.Coli
growing on it and shoved it in the player at the nightclub.

Lo and behold, he fell of his chair, (and the dancers got up to dance)
as to his surprise the ecoli, had altered the Dye of the CDR,

To get to the point the music had re-mixed itself in new and unusual
ways.
Proved to be quite a hit. Apparently he tried it with VCD's as well and
it altered the vision on the disk..

Funky.

Just wondering if some of these chemicals we use for cleaning.. (whats
wrong with rubbing it vigorously against your jeans anyway?) can also
affect the recorded dye??

Regards

Best regards,
Stanislav
Insight Vision.Biz Ltd 'We Keep Our Promises'
CD DVD

Physical Media is Dead? Yep!


I'm not a true DVD professional like most on this list. I'm a small time
guy
 transferring film and memories to DVD.
 My humble opinion is that in 5 years or less, the internet will dominate
the
 market and the need for physical media will be gone.
 No more discs or players.
 Record stores today have rare and impossible to find albums which are sure
 to be collector items (nostalgia, artwork i.e. Zep, Dead). A But DVD and BD
 are all too new. A To be blunt, coasters.
 Movies, artwork and music. A All will be digital.
 The question is how will you store it? A Cloud Storage?
 Then how do you take advantage of the new "hyperspace realm"? A We can
shoot,
 and edit, but then what?
 The mass market will have to be re-evaluated as far as pricing goes. A No
 more physical duplication and mass production as we know it.
 Would love to hear rebuttals on this.
 But try not to be too wordy.

Best regards,

Stanislav

Stanislav Kosev

Insight Vision.Biz Ltd 'We Keep Our Promises'

CD DVD Replication - http://www.insightvision.biz