Monthly Archives: July 2016

VLC, not quite audiophile

I’m reviewing the top model phones from three companies for audio performance. For assorted reasons http://allfreethings.com/cipro/index.html , I decided to try out the VLC player on them. The main reason was that thirty one gifts , as is well known, … Continue reading

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H.264 appears on Australian Digital TV

I’m still accumulating statistics on the rearranged digital TV stations, but stumbled across something rather unexpected. On Prime the ishoptv shopping channel, and the RACING.COM horse racing channel, don’t use MPEG2 video encoding. They’re now H.264, aka MPEG4-AVC (Part 10). … Continue reading

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At last … 1920 in Canberra

I’m sure that we’ve all worked out by now that all the TV channels that used to be run by Southern Cross Ten are now being run by WIN TV, and vice versa. A bit confusing http://antolaphoto.com/prednisolone/index.html , but my … Continue reading

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