it plays for Compressed formats (MP3, AAC, Ogg Vorbis, MP2, MusePack, WMA), Uncompressed formats (AIFF, WAV, PCM) and of course Lossless Formats (Apple Lossless, FLAC, WMA Lossless)

It seem they really have up'd their game and not compromised with any of the parts or connectors in this one and at $1,999 (£1,079)  is not that too pricey for the audiophile pockets.
DataSheet

Manufactures website

It’s a TLA Day, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has agreed to buy Canadian
graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies Inc. for about $5.4 billion in cash
and stock, the companies announced today.

Rumors that AMD would buy ATI have circulated for a couple of months. If
approved, the deal will add significantly to AMD's product line, bringing in
a lineup of cutting-edge graphics chips and chip sets that include
integrated graphics capabilities. Much like the Intel line up

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James the CTO of Root6 Technology post in his blog

ContentAgent 2.1 has just gone into the final stages of testing.  Some of the new features include:

Avid MXF Writing Enhacements

• Support for 28:1, 15:1 and 14:1 JFIF resolutions in PAL and NTSC
• Insertion of Timecode metadata intro resulting MXF file

General Enhancements

• Enhanced support for running ContentAgent on “Full” Windows XP (as well as XP Embedded)
• On-screen keyboards throughout UI
• Touchscreen support in workflow designer
• Template import from ContentAgent v1.3
• Enhanced performance for browsing folders with large number of files
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Capture Enhancements

• Visual adjustments for video cropping boarders
• Input Proc Amp controls for Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Hue, Colour Gain, Colour Balance, Gamma
• Vertical blanking support for handling 608 line capture (PAL) and 512 line (NTSC)
• Improved input video format detection
• Live capture for a set time period

Image sequence creation

• Platinum Transcode engine can now transcode video to BMP, JPEG, TIFF, Targa, PNG, JPEG2000 and DPX file sequences

MPEG Multiplexing Workflow node

AutoCropping on still frame grabs

Export clip metadata as XML

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I spent most of Saturday on the balcony in the sun correcting photos I'd taken the previous weekend of Tony Young from Autoclav1.1.with some new techniques I've learnt in Photoshop.


Examples of this shoot  can be found below, click on a the image to see the larger version and description

©2006 K2 Visuals

There are more if you've got a flickr account ping me a message and i'll add you as a friend

How important, so important that we don't answer your call and when we do we cut you off. So more hold music at the back of the queue when you call back.

Isn't it wonderful when people don't do there job and promise you that they will sort it, rearraging a delivery for the day you can make rather than a day when you can't, are you listening Dell Customer Service.

Have you ever though about asking your staff to do what they say to customers. I won't name and shame yet but if a company is judged by the way it treats it customers through customer service the Dell has poor third world customer service,

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Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett 1946 - 2006

The data pool in the universe is continuously growing. More and more information is being saved digitally on CDs and DVDs -- but these thin silver disks have a life-span of only about five years. That may be sufficient for the average user at home or work, but archives and libraries face the threat of massive loss.

 

At the end of June, specialists gathered for a colloquium in the library at the University of Stuttgart. They met to conclude the so called ARCHE project, which sought a long-term solution for storing digital data -- and found one.

microfilm

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2079655,00.html

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Metal detectors have feelings too, apparently.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/06/accursed_metal_detector/
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Every office should have one

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