Re: Article: Why Did WABC Have Such a Great Signal?
Well wudda ya know, it was born the same year I was. Might even have been born on the same day I was conceived, as I am a December child. That damn thing was so strong, our radio instructor told a story of a guy who built flashlights which could be WABC-powered. How's that possible, you may ask? A simple diode circuit to turn radio frequency energy into low-level current to power a flashlight bulb if you're close enough to the transmitter. The problem with doing that is that when you turn on the device that uses the enrgy from the transmitter to run it, it actually affects the radiation pattern and signal strength. So this guy's idea of inventing radio-powered flashlights never got off the ground. On Wed, 23 Apr 2014 21:20:09 -0400, you wrote: >Having grown up in the shadow of that venerable station I can attest to >the voracity of that article. > >Dave Marthouse >dmartho...@gmail.com > > >On 4/23/2014 8:58 PM, Dane Trethowan wrote: >> Even though this article deals with stations in the U.S. it still makes for >> interesting reading. >> http://www.musicradio77.com/transm.html >> >> >> ** >> >> Dane Trethowan >> Skype: grtdane12 >> Phone US (213) 438-9741 >> Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 >> Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 >> Mobile: +61400494862 >> faceTime +61400494862 >> Fax +61397437954 >> Twitter: @grtdane >> >> >> >> >>
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
I'll take your word for it , so long as the device scans menus or whatever I want to read in a hurry then that's all I care about. It might be that incorporating a more powerful camera would have jumped the price up dramatically? Who knows. Sent from Dane's iPhone +613400494862 > On 26 Apr 2014, at 3:46 am, "Evan Reese" wrote: > > AS someone who has scanned over 500 books for Bookshare, I can tell you that > higher resolution can degrade scan quality. It may seem counterintuitive, but > it's true nonetheless. For example, the default resolution for K1000 is 300 > dots per inch. But you can set it to 400 or 600. The scan quality is often > not as good at these higher resolutions. For larger print, the difference is > even more noticeable. Oftentimes, 200 dots per inch is the optimal resolution > for larger print, and there's a substantial degradation in quality with > higher resolutions. > In other words, you don't necessarily want or need the highest resolution > camera you can pack into a device for OCR work. > Evan > > Evan > > > -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan > Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:37 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR > > I'm not into photography but perhaps that doesn't matter for text? I know > that - when scanning with a monochrome flat-bed scanner - it usually doesn't > make any difference for OCR work. > > Let's see how good the device is before we start getting ahead of ourselves,. > > >> On 26 Apr 2014, at 2:17 am, Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD, Inc. >> wrote: >> >> It comes with a 5 megapixel camera. I wonder why they couldn't use an >> 8-megapixel camera? Wouldn't that make the scanning even better? >> >> Sincerely, >> Olusegun >> Denver, Colorado >> >> --- >> This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus >> protection is active. >> http://www.avast.com > > > ** > > Dane Trethowan > Skype: grtdane12 > Phone US (213) 438-9741 > Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 > Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 > Mobile: +61400494862 > faceTime +61400494862 > Fax +61397437954 > Twitter: @grtdane > > > >
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
AS someone who has scanned over 500 books for Bookshare, I can tell you that higher resolution can degrade scan quality. It may seem counterintuitive, but it's true nonetheless. For example, the default resolution for K1000 is 300 dots per inch. But you can set it to 400 or 600. The scan quality is often not as good at these higher resolutions. For larger print, the difference is even more noticeable. Oftentimes, 200 dots per inch is the optimal resolution for larger print, and there's a substantial degradation in quality with higher resolutions. In other words, you don't necessarily want or need the highest resolution camera you can pack into a device for OCR work. Evan Evan -Original Message- From: Dane Trethowan Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 12:37 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR I'm not into photography but perhaps that doesn't matter for text? I know that - when scanning with a monochrome flat-bed scanner - it usually doesn't make any difference for OCR work. Let's see how good the device is before we start getting ahead of ourselves,. On 26 Apr 2014, at 2:17 am, Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD, Inc. wrote: It comes with a 5 megapixel camera. I wonder why they couldn't use an 8-megapixel camera? Wouldn't that make the scanning even better? Sincerely, Olusegun Denver, Colorado --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
I'm not into photography but perhaps that doesn't matter for text? I know that - when scanning with a monochrome flat-bed scanner - it usually doesn't make any difference for OCR work. Let's see how good the device is before we start getting ahead of ourselves,. On 26 Apr 2014, at 2:17 am, Olusegun -- Victory Associates LTD, Inc. wrote: > It comes with a 5 megapixel camera. I wonder why they couldn't use an > 8-megapixel camera? Wouldn't that make the scanning even better? > > Sincerely, > Olusegun > Denver, Colorado > > --- > This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus > protection is active. > http://www.avast.com > > ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
It comes with a 5 megapixel camera. I wonder why they couldn't use an 8-megapixel camera? Wouldn't that make the scanning even better? Sincerely, Olusegun Denver, Colorado --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
well i would suggest reading reviews on the booksence or booksence xt. yes, if it does what it says and doesn't have a lot of bugs it would be worth the price. but as a booksence xt owner, i would take my time and make sure that all is what its suppose to be with this product. the booksence xt is a great product and i love it for most things, most! things. it is not a good mp3 player for music, it also has a fiew other issues that in my opinion make it worth a lot less than they charge for it. just my 2 sence worth folks... On 4/25/2014 9:17 AM, Dane Trethowan wrote: Put simply, from my point of view, if its under a grand then such a device could be worth every cent, of course we're of the assumption that the product is of good quality build etc. On 25 Apr 2014, at 11:22 pm, Londa Peterson wrote: I just talked to someone from Hims. It's not quite ready for release yet, and they haven't decided on the price. That's why no price is yet posted. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:23 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR this looks pretty good. i don't know why they don't post the price. if the booksence is $499 on sale for $449, i can't imagine what they'll ask for on this one. On 4/24/2014 10:53 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Is it availlable in europe? /A 23 apr 2014 kl. 14:49 skrev Aidan : Thanks hammit, You rite, and it always take time to find out those spex. And my experience often with these companies is that they mostly don't deliver up to that standards. PlexTalk openly said they won't higher their bit rate or sampling rate of any of the recorders currently. So why would hims be different since they really did not go far enough with the booksense. The PlexTalk range record the best of them all, and even with them its not as nice as you would get with Olympus or zoom. I will do a podcast on the hv-e5 and will post a link here once it rich the blind geek zone. I got one up there already about the dm620. Its a player made in china with a nice design and support most formats in one device like nun of the other players. You can even play .dat video files. I don't think its available in the US yet, or at least I don't no. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos wrote: What's the HV-E5? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:46 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR It sound ok, but we stil don't no if the recording quality is better, we don't no anything about the mic used, neither the mic pre amp. And if its like the booksense it will just plain sucks. I rather go for the hv-e5. It record much better, have better hardware and is much faster. Not even to mention how stable the firmware. That is one thing hims just cannot get rite, they need to use programmers who no what they doing. Sounds like many of them are stil in a learning stage or something. Its simply unexceptable that a device keep dying on you and half of the time its not the battery, or sometimes the battery goes flat, then if you charch again, it won't come on unless if you perform an hard reset. Is this going to be tru for this unit? I don't really care much about the OCR although I understand why its useful. The other thing that I'm really disappointed about for this unit, is that they used acapela speech. I mean yes I love acapela, but really, just because other people do it, they just follow along, don't try something else. I mean I just don't get it. But lets wait and see. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos wrote: This sounds cool. I see it'll play WMV and AVI files. Does it I wander have a monitor? The little spek table that followed didn't say so, but those are videos. So you would watch WMV or AVI files. I guess you could just listen if it's a song. Like I have a song called Christmass is creeppy and it's a vid. Though it's an N4V file. But it's the same point. It's a video. Very cool. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:01 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR Can't wait till this hits the market here, a I thought up till now was something you dreamed of , hope it performs as good as it sounds http://hims-inc.com/products/blaze-ez-daisy-multi-player-with-ocr/ ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audiobo
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
Put simply, from my point of view, if its under a grand then such a device could be worth every cent, of course we're of the assumption that the product is of good quality build etc. On 25 Apr 2014, at 11:22 pm, Londa Peterson wrote: > I just talked to someone from Hims. It's not quite ready for release yet, > and they haven't decided on the price. That's why no price is yet posted. > > -Original Message- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dennis > Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:23 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR > > this looks pretty good. i don't know why they don't post the price. if > the booksence is $499 on sale for $449, i can't imagine what they'll ask > for on this one. > On 4/24/2014 10:53 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: >> Hi! >> Is it availlable in europe? >> /A >> 23 apr 2014 kl. 14:49 skrev Aidan : >> >>> Thanks hammit, You rite, and it always take time to find out those >>> spex. And my experience often with these companies is that they mostly >>> don't deliver up to that standards. PlexTalk openly said they won't >>> higher their bit rate or sampling rate of any of the recorders >>> currently. So why would hims be different since they really did not go >>> far enough with the booksense. The PlexTalk range record the best of >>> them all, and even with them its not as nice as you would get with >>> Olympus or zoom. I will do a podcast on the hv-e5 and will post a link >>> here once it rich the blind geek zone. I got one up there already >>> about the dm620. Its a player made in china with a nice design and >>> support most formats in one device like nun of the other players. You >>> can even play .dat video files. I don't think its available in the US >>> yet, or at least I don't no. >>> >>> On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos wrote: What's the HV-E5? -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:46 AM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR It sound ok, but we stil don't no if the recording quality is better, we don't no anything about the mic used, neither the mic pre amp. And if > its like the booksense it will just plain sucks. I rather go for the hv-e5. > It record much better, have better hardware and is much faster. Not even to mention how stable the firmware. That is one thing hims just cannot get rite, they need to use programmers who no what they doing. Sounds like > many of them are stil in a learning stage or something. Its simply > unexceptable that a device keep dying on you and half of the time its not the > battery, or sometimes the battery goes flat, then if you charch again, it won't come > on unless if you perform an hard reset. Is this going to be tru for this > unit? I don't really care much about the OCR although I understand why its useful. The other thing that I'm really disappointed about for this unit, is > that they used acapela speech. I mean yes I love acapela, but really, just because other people do it, they just follow along, don't try something else. I mean I just don't get it. But lets wait and see. On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos wrote: > This sounds cool. I see it'll play WMV and AVI files. Does it I wander > have a monitor? The little spek table that followed didn't say so, but > those are videos. So you would watch WMV or AVI files. I guess you > could just listen if it's a song. Like I have a song called Christmass > is creeppy and it's a vid. Though it's an N4V file. But it's the same > point. It's a video. Very cool. > > -Original Message- > From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of > Dane Trethowan > Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:01 PM > To: PC Audio Discussion List > Subject: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR > > Can't wait till this hits the market here, a I thought up till now was > something you dreamed of , hope it performs as good as it > sounds > http://hims-inc.com/products/blaze-ez-daisy-multi-player-with-ocr/ > > > ** > > Dane Trethowan > Skype: grtdane12 > Phone US (213) 438-9741 > Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 > Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 > Mobile: +61400494862 > faceTime +61400494862 > Fax +61397437954 > Twitter: @grtdane > > > > > > > -- Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 Skype: andries4451 Twitter: smarttalk7 Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight >>> >>> -- >>> Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 >>> Skype: andries4451 >>> Twitter: smarttalk7 >>> Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight >>> >> >> > > > > **
RE: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
I just talked to someone from Hims. It's not quite ready for release yet, and they haven't decided on the price. That's why no price is yet posted. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dennis Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:23 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR this looks pretty good. i don't know why they don't post the price. if the booksence is $499 on sale for $449, i can't imagine what they'll ask for on this one. On 4/24/2014 10:53 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: > Hi! > Is it availlable in europe? > /A > 23 apr 2014 kl. 14:49 skrev Aidan : > >> Thanks hammit, You rite, and it always take time to find out those >> spex. And my experience often with these companies is that they mostly >> don't deliver up to that standards. PlexTalk openly said they won't >> higher their bit rate or sampling rate of any of the recorders >> currently. So why would hims be different since they really did not go >> far enough with the booksense. The PlexTalk range record the best of >> them all, and even with them its not as nice as you would get with >> Olympus or zoom. I will do a podcast on the hv-e5 and will post a link >> here once it rich the blind geek zone. I got one up there already >> about the dm620. Its a player made in china with a nice design and >> support most formats in one device like nun of the other players. You >> can even play .dat video files. I don't think its available in the US >> yet, or at least I don't no. >> >> On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos wrote: >>> What's the HV-E5? >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Aidan >>> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:46 AM >>> To: PC Audio Discussion List >>> Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR >>> >>> It sound ok, but we stil don't no if the recording quality is better, we >>> don't no anything about the mic used, neither the mic pre amp. And if its >>> like the booksense it will just plain sucks. I rather go for the hv-e5. It >>> record much better, have better hardware and is much faster. Not even to >>> mention how stable the firmware. That is one thing hims just cannot get >>> rite, they need to use programmers who no what they doing. Sounds like many >>> of them are stil in a learning stage or something. Its simply unexceptable >>> that a device keep dying on you and half of the time its not the battery, >>> or >>> sometimes the battery goes flat, then if you charch again, it won't come on >>> unless if you perform an hard reset. Is this going to be tru for this unit? >>> I don't really care much about the OCR although I understand why its >>> useful. >>> The other thing that I'm really disappointed about for this unit, is that >>> they used acapela speech. I mean yes I love acapela, but really, just >>> because other people do it, they just follow along, don't try something >>> else. I mean I just don't get it. But lets wait and see. >>> >>> On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos wrote: This sounds cool. I see it'll play WMV and AVI files. Does it I wander have a monitor? The little spek table that followed didn't say so, but those are videos. So you would watch WMV or AVI files. I guess you could just listen if it's a song. Like I have a song called Christmass is creeppy and it's a vid. Though it's an N4V file. But it's the same point. It's a video. Very cool. -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Dane Trethowan Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 7:01 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR Can't wait till this hits the market here, a I thought up till now was something you dreamed of , hope it performs as good as it sounds http://hims-inc.com/products/blaze-ez-daisy-multi-player-with-ocr/ ** Dane Trethowan Skype: grtdane12 Phone US (213) 438-9741 Phone U.K. 01245 79 0598 Phone Australia (03) 9005 8589 Mobile: +61400494862 faceTime +61400494862 Fax +61397437954 Twitter: @grtdane >>> >>> -- >>> Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 >>> Skype: andries4451 >>> Twitter: smarttalk7 >>> Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Facebook: m.facebook.com/aidan.maher92 >> Skype: andries4451 >> Twitter: smarttalk7 >> Audioboo: www.audioboo.com/DjSpotlight >> > >
Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR
Hi, wel, its quite pricey so someone must have a good motivation to go for it. Anders, I don't no if the hv-e5 will be available in europe, I would think so because they have more things going on then many other countries around them. Have to find out on that one. Sent from my iPhone On 25 Apr 2014, at 12:07 AM, "Peter Scanlon" wrote: That would be good, but it would be better if it was a Wish they would put a phone in it. Oh for a phone with real buttons. -Original Message- From: Hamit Campos Sent: Friday, April 25, 2014 7:58 AM To: 'PC Audio Discussion List' Subject: RE: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR It's supposed to have Skype on it you say ha? Epic! -Original Message- From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of Gary King Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 4:15 PM To: PC Audio Discussion List Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR They are probably saving the $900 price tag for the next model of the Blaze which is supposed to have Skype and more keys. It would be a little difficult to dial a phone number with the key layout on the Blaze EZ. Gary King w4...@bellsouth.net - Original Message - From: "Dennis" To: "PC Audio Discussion List" Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:02 PM Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR > yeh i figured it would probably be about that. i wouldn't be at all > surprised if it starts at $900 though. >> On 4/24/2014 11:53 AM, tim cumings wrote: >> i think it's going to cost about $700.00 >> >> - Original Message - From: "Dennis" >> To: "PC Audio Discussion List" >> Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 12:23 PM >> Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR >> >> >>> this looks pretty good. i don't know why they don't post the price. if >>> the booksence is $499 on sale for $449, i can't imagine what they'll ask >>> for on this one. On 4/24/2014 10:53 AM, Anders Holmberg wrote: Hi! Is it availlable in europe? /A > 23 apr 2014 kl. 14:49 skrev Aidan : > > Thanks hammit, You rite, and it always take time to find out those > spex. And my experience often with these companies is that they mostly > don't deliver up to that standards. PlexTalk openly said they won't > higher their bit rate or sampling rate of any of the recorders > currently. So why would hims be different since they really did not go > far enough with the booksense. The PlexTalk range record the best of > them all, and even with them its not as nice as you would get with > Olympus or zoom. I will do a podcast on the hv-e5 and will post a link > here once it rich the blind geek zone. I got one up there already > about the dm620. Its a player made in china with a nice design and > support most formats in one device like nun of the other players. You > can even play .dat video files. I don't think its available in the US > yet, or at least I don't no. > >> On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos wrote: >> What's the HV-E5? >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Pc-audio [mailto:pc-audio-boun...@pc-audio.org] On Behalf Of >> Aidan >> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 4:46 AM >> To: PC Audio Discussion List >> Subject: Re: Blaze EZ Daisy multi-player with OCR >> >> It sound ok, but we stil don't no if the recording quality is better, >> we >> don't no anything about the mic used, neither the mic pre amp. And if >> its >> like the booksense it will just plain sucks. I rather go for the >> hv-e5. It >> record much better, have better hardware and is much faster. Not even >> to >> mention how stable the firmware. That is one thing hims just cannot >> get >> rite, they need to use programmers who no what they doing. Sounds >> like many >> of them are stil in a learning stage or something. Its simply >> unexceptable >> that a device keep dying on you and half of the time its not the >> battery, >> or >> sometimes the battery goes flat, then if you charch again, it won't >> come on >> unless if you perform an hard reset. Is this going to be tru for this >> unit? >> I don't really care much about the OCR although I understand why its >> useful. >> The other thing that I'm really disappointed about for this unit, is >> that >> they used acapela speech. I mean yes I love acapela, but really, just >> because other people do it, they just follow along, don't try >> something >> else. I mean I just don't get it. But lets wait and see. >> >>> On 23/04/2014, Hamit Campos wrote: >>> This sounds cool. I see it'll play WMV and AVI files. Does it I >>> wander >>> have a monitor? The little spek table that followed didn't say so, >>> but >>> those are videos. So you would watch WMV or AVI files. I guess you >>> could just listen if it's a song. Like I have a song called >>>
