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4 Technologies Worse Than Their Predecessors
Innovation isn't always a good thing. Here are four technologies that are worse than what they replaced.
The world lives, eats and breathes for new technology. It’s what CE pros do every day.
The pursuit of technology is relentless. Everyone wants the latest in electronics, from flat panels to iPhones.
It's great news for integrators because it means upgrades, upgrades, upgrades. But are some of those upgrades even worse than the previous technology?
A recent study revealed that in an effort to save fuel, trans-Atlantic freighters have cut their average speed to 10 knots. But cargo sailing ships from 100 years ago averaged 13 knots. A single modern container ship emits the same amount of pollution as 50 million cars. Is that better?
Here are four technologies that aren't better than their predecessors. Can you think of any other dodo bird technologies out there?
Click here for 4 Technologies Worse Than Their Predecessors.
The pursuit of technology is relentless. Everyone wants the latest in electronics, from flat panels to iPhones.
It's great news for integrators because it means upgrades, upgrades, upgrades. But are some of those upgrades even worse than the previous technology?
A recent study revealed that in an effort to save fuel, trans-Atlantic freighters have cut their average speed to 10 knots. But cargo sailing ships from 100 years ago averaged 13 knots. A single modern container ship emits the same amount of pollution as 50 million cars. Is that better?
Here are four technologies that aren't better than their predecessors. Can you think of any other dodo bird technologies out there?
Click here for 4 Technologies Worse Than Their Predecessors.
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Jason Knott, Editor, CE Pro
Jason has covered low-voltage electronics as an editor since 1990. He joined EH Publishing in 2000, and before that served as publisher and editor of Security Sales, a leading magazine for the security industry. He served as chairman of the Security Industry Association’s Education Committee from 2000-2004 and sat on the board of that association from 1998-2002. He is also a former board member of the Alarm Industry Research and Educational Foundation. Jason graduated from the University of Southern California.
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What about good old RGB??
Oh yeah, they can’t put copyright there.
* Charles Wrangle
* Susan Pelosi
* Hillary Clinton
* Al Sharpton
* The L Cassette
I think as a comunity we are responsible for not
leading the public to understanding that there are true Hi-Fidelity Digital Files out available which sound better than CD. We have failed, we have tekae tne lesser path and said “MP3 is fine”.
Try this test track from Linn records- it’s a 24 bit Studio Master FLAC file, and they aren’t the only ones with incredible sounding content.
Also, Server companies are adding CODECsto play a whole variety of formats- the server race isn’t just towards convenience, now they have the tools to sound better than CD
Try Track 3- Moonlight’s Back In Style
http://www.linnrecords.com/recording-moonlight-s-back-in-style-songs-by-nicky-campbell.aspx
If you don’t havea CODEC to play above, go to
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
and download VLC for your computer- it’s also very flexible for most A / V files
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I’m surprised HDMI did not make this list, I consider it to be one of the worst things to ever happen to the industry, or more accurately…to manufacturers who have to support it. HDMI was a step backwards from component or even DVI even if it does offer benefits, they are currently outweighed by the hassles. Darn shame we never got HD-SDI beyond the pro-broadcast world. Hopefully HDMI will improve in the future.