There’s a case that LaserWriter II should be number 1 on this list. It opened the door to desktop publishing, which made the Mac a thing, and without that you maybe don’t get to iMac → iPod → iPhone…
Also it had a SCSI port, which is badass for a printer.
This is a travesty. LaserWriter was 🔥
More efficient than my reply, wish I had seen first!
Trying to get to this idea that there is some level of process theater associated with analog that I think people key in on but reality is you need good process for any format. Wow, not sure why I was triggered to say so many words about this (hopefully closed?) debate today but there it is!
I sometimes wonder how much the perceived benefits of analog come from that stuff, from it seeming like “we’re doing it the ‘right way’” with a certain amount of pomp and procedure. Drums to digital with good gain staging and room and player and mics, etc demonstrably same as tape (if you want).
Certainly in audio, a smoothly run analog session benefits from having good handwriting to understanding signal flow and gain staging. There is a slower pace (how many billable hours were just waiting for the transport?) and no huddling around a screen.
True for audio as well though that ship fully sailed a while ago (you don’t even hear about “oh we tracked drums to tape” anymore). Is there some process placebo value in analog that makes it feel like better to work is being done?
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Yeah you lost me at the “you won’t feel a thing” line in there. Yow.
@mgsiegler.com great analysis on the Sony TV deal. TVs may indeed suck in all the ways you mentioned but we are at least in a golden era of picture quality and NOBODY works harder than we do (TV supply chain) to combat inflation?
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Same!
Do the light mode ones make sense? Logic is… a circle? What kind of insane through the looking glass skeuomorphism is this? We’ve distilled an analog record down to its most essential form: a circle. Now figure out which one is for digital audio?
And I guess you hope cruise is good enough that it doesn’t translate to more people getting hurt?
That is fascinating. I thought your comment was spot on and they kind of glossed over it- aren’t people just going to use their phone more? The phone has absolute primacy in our lives. GM not changing that.Any barrier or resistance between consumer and phone means they are just picking up the phone.
Wow, after seeing LG’s tandem WOLED panel at Display Week, I for sure expected closer race. Nice to see team QD holds the crown for another year!
Ah I just recently moved away so your list was great throwback for me. Love SC!
Impressed with the Santa Cruz local knowledge on this list. Deer Park is a great and pretty deep cut if you are a non-local! I might add original Santa Adarius Ales if you are thirsty and down that way :)
But of course I do not really trust the robot’s analysis so will have to “do my own research” anyways.
Certainly not life-changing utility but I thought reasonably useful way to spend 10 minutes making sure I’m seeing the right talks in person and jumpstart on analysis.
Yes, with caveats. 1) there were 17 papers I was interested in and I don’t pay Chat GPT enough for more than 10. More useful triage if I could have done more. 2) topic was EL-QD lifetime. Cool to ask the robot to help make somewhat apples-to-apples comparisons between results reported differently…
This is *sort of* my job, at least within the narrow scope of corporate marketing :) I just attended a conference where the papers dropped in day 1. I dumped 10 papers into GPT and interrogated it about key findings to give myself a jump start on attending the talks on same day. Will still read tho!
Bring it to Display Week! We’ll be showing many vials of QD and they love UV :)
Looking forward to Display Week in just a few weeks! In preparation for the show, we’ve pulled together a list of our favorite Quantum Dot talks and demos. Expect to see some cool QDEL demos this year! nanosys.com/blog-archive...
Also, it just so happens that we published a blog on how to understand Gamut Rings this week.
Great timing and good excuse to dive into Gamut Rings if you haven't taken a look at the metric yet :)
nanosys.com/blog/why-gam...
You may have seen the news that @rtings.com.web.brid.gy added Gamut Rings to their TV test v2.0 methodology earlier this week. It's a powerful way to understand display color volume and awesome to see it being broadly adopted!
www.rtings.com/tv/learn/tes...
Little late on this! Love the history of the Sony Qualia. That TV also inspired early QD TVs by showing value of RGB spectrum.
Fascinated to see how reviewers handle the dynamic color gamut (changing crosstalk) on these sets once they are out. Displays keep getting better AND harder to measure!
Also, yes, Yamato Transport has the best possible logo for a shipping company.
Just a question of what and how easy to MacGuyver a solution with what we have packed.
Celebrating Truck Day for CES at Nanosys always comes with a unique blend of relief and anxiety. Relief because all the demos are dialed in and we’re feeling great about the show. Anxiety because something has been forgotten or will break (a law of CES demo packing).
