TheMburu, sorry to say this but you gonna have to buy new gear and this time take special note of the codecs that it supports. When it comes to quality/clarity of digital content it doesn't really matter whether the coded and/or gear is proprietary or NOT. What matters is how much you are willing to trade off quality for size ad whether you have a player for the said format. Thats what it all boils down to. All codecs can be adjusted from being mathematically Lossless to varying degrees of lossyness (at rip/render time). That's why you can have a MP3 audio track at a sampling rate/bit rate of 128 KPB/s (typically 3MB for 3 mins) which sounds OK for most folks whilst another at 320 KPB/s (8-10MB) and above that sound way better than the previous and yet another at 64KPB/stha sounds whack. (most folks wouldn't tell apart audio at 128KPB/s vs 320KpB/s and higher but some of us do) Me thinks proprietary formats like MP3/mp4/avi and WMA/WMV are no better that their open counterparts like ogg vorbis, flac and MKV aka Matroska (same applies to still images). It depends on how much trade off has been made in order to fit the content into the available media (700MB CDs, 4.5GB/8GB DVDs and bluray) but then again there are claims and counter claims as to which coded provides the best size to quality ratios. (I have seen mkv flix of 13GB and 21GB and trust me they are all the HD you could dream of) The only reason proprietary formats are widespread is because hardware manufactures tend to support most of them. Its almost universal for players to play MP3/mp4/avi as oposed to ogg/flac/mkv. but I think the trend is changing and more and more manufactures are bundling all types of codecs in their hardware lest they loose out in the market. (I've seen a samsung TV that plays flv, mkv, mp3/mp4/avi/jpg but not wmv/wma from USB) me 2 cents. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 7:21 PM, James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com> wrote:
@Haggai Apparently the latter one was designed for education purposes
But the screens are always the problem. The best and cost effective educational computer is amazon's kindle (the black and white screen kindles)
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2011/12/6 Haggai Nyang <haggai.nyang@gmail.com>
They should dish these out at schools too...kids can wear them around their necks with some protective casing ...lol. Monitors are aplenty - HDMI
VGA converters shouldn't be much of a hassle :)
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