Let the hive mind of Engadget get that for you.
"We need a digital camera that can be switched on and fire off that first shot fast. It's not a commonly tracked statistic on any review site, and nobody seems to have this information for every camera. We were hoping other readers could inform us as to what small digital cameras can fire off their first pics in under a second (ideally under half a second). It needs to be small, but mostly, just really quick in operation. Thanks!"
"I dont see Sony ever allowing upscaling of DVDs on the PS3 simply because it would cut into their BlueRay market.
If you want HighDef movies they will argue that you will need to purchase a BlueRay disc."
Ok, I really have to wrap my head around this comment. Do you REALLY think that "upscaling" a DVD will make it a HD movie? Do you REALLY think that some details will magically appear in the upscaled picture that were not there in the "original" picture? If upscaling would cut into the BluRay market, then why do they need BluRay discs in the first place?
But on the other hand, the fact that this Engadget article even exists, shows, that apparently a lot of people think that "upscaling" gives them some kind of benefit. It reminds me of all these silly movies where you have some grainy pictures, then someone says "Enhance details!" and suddenly you can see stuff that wasn't visible before. Is Engadget really on the scientific level of Jurassic Park ("It's a Unix system!") or other pseudo-science Hollywood flicks?
Upscaling is NOT going to improve image quality. Not at all. In fact, viewing a movie that was mastered in a certain resolution in a different resolution is always going to _cost_ you a certain amount of quality. An NTSC movie looks best on an NTSC TV and a PAL movie looks best on a PAL TV. If you want HD quality, you'll have to buy HD-DVDs or BluRay DVDs. Upscaling is a placebo that - I am sure - many people will happily fall for.
You are obviously wrong here. When you view a dvd on a HD TV the tv has to upscale the image to it's native resolution. What an upscaling dvd player does is apply an algorhythm to the upscaling to smooth and interpolate pixels. While you don't create new detail, it does a better job of upscaling than the TV. I have both an upscaling dvd player and a normal dvd player connected to my 72" toshiba and you can tell a world of difference between the 2.
Ken