On 4/11/06, Jim Gettys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We'll be somewhat higher resolution than the (typical) conventional > television set, which is pretty dismal. > > Our resolution is roughly the theoretical maximum for conventional TV; > but most content for the boob tube is build presuming about half that > resolution, since so many TV sets are so bad. > - Jim >
If I remember correctly from my embedded TV browser days (all 30 of them :)).. the convential US TV is 320x200 at approx 24 bit color... with a lot of fudging from dual scan and how much snow you want. NTSC max is something like 525x260 at 60Hz but you lose that due to poor TV design that you have to expect to. PAL I think is 600x300 but at 50Hz... but dealing with interlacing is different... The EastBloc and French use something completely different. The reason I bring it up is that in some cases there may be needs for 'projecting' the laptop onto a TV. It is also interesting that a lot of tricks that we went over in our "make our desktop browser company into an embedded company before we go broke" are things to make a bloated apps fit into less memory. I wish I had better notes on that... most of it was when to deal with out of memory conditions and when to punt > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 06:10 -0700, Alan Kay wrote: > > There is a 7 minute video demo that Andy did in ca. 1990. Andy is > > currently at Google and you can write him for permission to stream the > > video. It's fun (and is done on a standard TV screen -- which > > approximates the color pixels currently contemplated for the HDLT). > > > > I'm not advocating this specific approach for HDLT, but just offer it > > as an example of a fun UI for children done by a very creative guy. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Alan > > > > At 08:57 AM 4/6/2006, Duncan Mak wrote: > > > On 3/31/06, Alan Kay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Check out my (quite) earlier chapter in The Art of > > > Human-Computer Interface > > > Design (Ed. B. Laurel) from 1990, on just that topic, and > > > you will see that > > > I agree also. So why do I like what Andy did? Especially for > > > Frog? > > > > > > > > > I tried to find more information on this work that Andy did for > > > Frog. The only thing I learned from Googling is that it was called > > > "Frox" and was a precursor to something similar to the modern day > > > TiVo. It was done in collaboration with Hartmut Esslinger, the > > > principal behind Frog Design, and that's about all that I can find. > > > > > > Do you have more information on this design, and in particular, how > > > it differs from the Magic Cap? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Duncan. > > -- > > olpc-software mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software > -- > Jim Gettys > One Laptop Per Child > > > -- > olpc-software mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software > -- Stephen J Smoogen. CSIRT/Linux System Administrator -- olpc-software mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/olpc-software
