Monthly Archives: January 2009

Plasma VS LCD

Posted by evolym on 14-01-2009 12 comments

from the last 3 years LCD’s becoming so famous since they are getting cheaper and cheaper, and people still don’t know how to compare between Plasma and LCD, Basically LCD’s come from 2-inches till 40+ inches; and Plasma comes from 32-inches till 150-inches. Okay so what’s the difference is it that only LCD comes in smaller sizes? the answer is no. there is many difference between Plasma and LCD.

Why Plasma?
If you’re serious about a BIG home theater, plasma is pretty much the way to go with a flat screen television. Plasmas offer a number of advantages, including:

  • Better Blacks- When a plasma pixel is off, there’s no light at all (LCDs have a backlight)- this produces a darker, more realistic black. This leads to…
  • Better Contrast- The pictures looks sharper and more lifelike.
  • Better Pixel Response Time- If you’re watching the big game, you don’t need to see blur or artifacts, plasmas are great at showing fast action.
  • Colors- LCDs are good, they can show millions of colors. Plasmas are better, they can show BILLIONS!!.

Why Not Plasma?
You need to match the tech to the requirement. Looking for a car or kitchen TV? That’s going to be LCD because plasma isn’t made in those smaller sizes yet. There’s also a couple of circumstances where LCD performs better:

  • Really bright rooms. The backlight allows a slightly better picture under bright lights/glare
  • Mounting constraints- LCDs are lighter, a large plasma really does require professional installation if you mount it on/in a wall.
  • High altitude performance- LCDs aren’t affected by altitude where plasma performance can show some degradation.

So what’s the difference between Plasma and LCD ?

Plasma                                                                       LCD

  • Latency: not applicable                                               -exists
  • Contrast: excellent                                                     -acceptable
  • Brightness: better than best CRT’s                              -not better than Plasma
  • Color quality: Better than CRT, but flickering present   -no flickering; blacks not deep
  • Consumption: 250W for a 42-inches                            -150W fir a 42-inches
  • Viewing angels: Better than LCD,wider                        -not wider than Plasma.
  • Display Size: from 32-inches                                      – from 2-inches
  • Price: still high compared to CRT’s                               -still high compared to CRT’s
  • Life expectancy: 20.000 hrs.                                      -expectancy: 40.000 hrs.
  • Defective pixels : rare                                               -possible

Let’s compare between Plasma and LCD performance.

LCD got a problem with the depth of black colors, which means it doesn’t show the black color so clearly.

Example:

Right screen is Plasma and left is LCD, if you pay attention to the LCD you can see like a backlight and not truly black color more likely blue, They still working on it and it gets more better and better. but it still does exist.

Plasma manufacturing :

Biggest Plasma ever 150-in

Biggest LCD so far  108-in

Total score between Plasma and LCD

Etisalat and Du

Posted by evolym on 11-01-2009 4 comments

Du is growing up now and many people were talking about their Internet Service.

Some said they wont add filter, cause we suffer allot from Etisalat, true that we thank them for blocking the Pron/Adult websites, But sadly Etisalat blocks many other websites as well.. Such as torrent sites, Some of P2P Software’s such as Lime Wire, Kazaa , Morpheus.. any some others, Skype and even they don’t allow us to use VoIP modems, Flicker, Myspace, Facebook. etc some of those websites were unlocked cause many people were complaining about the blocking.

Many people use’s the VoIP modems. which allows you to call from internet which is pretty cheap comparing with the local  providers (Etisalat and Du), so Etisalat blocked it too. but Du didn’t. And heard many saying that Du won’t be blocking sites like Etisalat does, Still not sure about this.. cause its getting annoying every few week a new website blocked or a program blocked. Asked few people and told me that Du still don’t provide even whole Dubai for Internet service yet. only few areas in Dubai. I’m hopping that Du breaks Etisalat price’s in Internet service; cause its pretty expensive comparing with the European countries.

And I kind of bored using Etisalat due the bad support, you have to wait more than 10~30 mints on the phone to get answered if you had a problem which is pretty much, okay we know that maybe they are “Busy solving other costumers problems” then hair more employers? I’m not being a nagtive person. I do like the service you are giving us and i’m thankful, just few things I don’t like about your services.

  1. Price, High price comparing with European countries.
  2. Support team, Slow respond time

I will get the prices of Du Internet service and will compare speed and cost between Du and Etisalat, Hopefully Du will be Internet service will be available around the UAE soon.

edit: The prices of the Internet package’s is the same as Etisalat also, and they provide 64Kbit’s/sec 128, 512, 1Mbps and 2Mbps.

Fianlly 2.28 baseband unlocked by Dev-Team

Posted by evolym on 04-01-2009 1 comments

Baseband unlocked by dev-team

Finally after long waiting for the base band unlock, Since many people have upgraded their iPhone’s to the new 2.2 Firmware with the 2.28 baseband including my self.

How ever who ever upgraded to the latest 2.2 firmware wont get signal at all. since the new baseband locks it.

So basically the iPhone will turn into iPod touch.

Even thought the Dev-team warned us from upgrading to the 2.2 Firmware until they get us a costume version without the 2.28 baseband.

After it the Dev-Team were working so hard to get us a solution for the baseband lock.

Now the Dev-Team announced that they have completed their software and ready to use, keep in mind its still in beta version.


Question: How to download the software? and is it 100% success chance to unlock my iPhone baseband?

Answer:  You must have an unlocked iPhone and 2.2frimware with 2.28 base band, you can download it via Cydia. by adding this source, and its not 100% that might work for you, cause they still fixing the software issues.


once again thanks Dev-Team for the amazing work you’ve done.

To get the source URL, and read more details please visit the Dev-Team blog.

~ Combat Arms ~

Posted by evolym on 04-01-2009 19 comments

we all love FirstPersonShooter/FPS  games don’t we ? Counter Strike, Battle Field, COD4, Gears of War..etc

I was searching over the internet and saw this amazing game with outstanding graphics and its online+FREE!

Presenting

Combat Arms

Combat Arms online game

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