Author Topic: read the specs and tell me what's wrong (Read 296 times)

spitfiremkv · « **on:** June 27, 2005, 07:21:59 PM »

http://www.palmone.com/us/products/mobilemanagers/lifedrive/

Hangtime · « **Reply #1 on:** June 27, 2005, 07:28:46 PM »

Vulcan · « **Reply #2 on:** June 27, 2005, 07:34:20 PM »

Err I dunno? I played with one last week they're quite nice.

spitfiremkv · « **Reply #3 on:** June 27, 2005, 07:35:53 PM »

only 2 hours of vid on a 4GB HDD? How much space is taken by the OS?

StarOfAfrica2 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 27, 2005, 08:28:36 PM »

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Originally posted by spitfiremkv
only 2 hours of vid on a 4GB HDD? How much space is taken by the OS?

You'd be surprised how much space decent quality video takes up.

Gunslinger · « **Reply #5 on:** June 27, 2005, 08:42:40 PM »

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Originally posted by StarOfAfrica2
You'd be surprised how much space decent quality video takes up.

If the screen has this kind of size and resolution:

4.76h x 2.87w x 0.74t in. 320x480 Transflective TFT color touchscreen 16 bit color / 65,000+ colors

it shouldn't be all that much.

Vulcan · « **Reply #6 on:** June 27, 2005, 09:17:40 PM »

Palm don't tend to overquote stuff, say like Sony does.

Chairboy · « **Reply #7 on:** June 27, 2005, 09:20:40 PM »

Seriously, 2GB an hour is excessive. My ReplayTV records the highest quality video at 1.5GB / hr, and that has to look good on a bigscreen TV. Significantly lower bitrate is needed for GREAT looking video on that small screen.

Reasons why the bitrate might be so high? The electronics could be underpowered so that modern compression is unavailable (eg, it plays MPG instead of MPG4).

Or the spec could be wildly wrong...

Gunslinger · « **Reply #8 on:** June 27, 2005, 09:28:19 PM »

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Originally posted by Chairboy
Seriously, 2GB an hour is excessive. My ReplayTV records the highest quality video at 1.5GB / hr, and that has to look good on a bigscreen TV. Significantly lower bitrate is needed for GREAT looking video on that small screen.

Reasons why the bitrate might be so high? The electronics could be underpowered so that modern compression is unavailable (eg, it plays MPG instead of MPG4).

Or the spec could be wildly wrong...

IIRC Tivo records at about 1G per hour. That looks just fine ona 36in TV. This thing isn't even the size of your hand.....

Raider179 · « **Reply #9 on:** June 27, 2005, 09:32:56 PM »

This is pure speculation but I think it might have an exact amount of memory set aside for certain functions such as video, audio, and pictures.

512 mb for video
512 mb for audio
512 mb for pictures
etc....

My phone operates in this manner regarding its memory. I can use up only so much picture memory, yet there is still memory for text message storage and the phonebook..

Vulcan · « **Reply #10 on:** June 27, 2005, 10:09:18 PM »

Errr no, the storage is just plain storage.

The Palm can encode video at various bitrates, especially if you use something like Kinoma.

Raider179 · « **Reply #11 on:** June 28, 2005, 01:27:27 AM »

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Originally posted by Vulcan
Errr no, the storage is just plain storage.

The Palm can encode video at various bitrates, especially if you use something like Kinoma.

Errr apparently thats what the ad means though. It means 2 hours video and 1000's of songs.

http://www.palmone.com/us/products/mobilemanagers/lifedrive/harddrive.epl

...but if the hard drive were dedicated to just one single type of information, it could hold approximately:

Audio 3,850MB 100 CDs

Video 3,850MB 8.5 hours 4 movies @ 120 min. each

Photos 3,850MB 5,000+ 10 year's worth of photos

So it looks like if you just use it for video you get 8.5 hours