AMD Launches New Chip For Worldwide HDTV-on-the-PC Reception — Transforms Notebook and Desktop PCs Into Media Entertainment Centers
Friday, July 31st, 2009Business Wire, June 02, 2009
ATI TheaterTM HD 750 Makes Possible
Feature-Rich HD Broadcast Reception for Notebook and Desktop PCs on Any
Continent
TAIPEI, Taiwan — AMD
(NYSE: AMD) launched the ATI
TheaterTM
HD 750 PC TV chip offering HDTV viewing capabilities on desktop and
notebook PCs around the world using analog, and digital, and free-to-air
broadcast signals. ATI Theater HD 750 uses advanced video processing and
signal reception technologies for clear HD picture quality, crisp
images, high color performance and fidelity for an authentic HD home
theater feel on the PC.1
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With the proper connectors, notebook users can enjoy TV on their PC
virtually anywhere in the world as the ATI Theater HD 750 is
compatible with HDTV/DTV/analog broadcast signals including NTSC,
PAL/SECAM, ATSC, ClearQAM and DVB-T.2 -
Take recorded content on the go by capturing and converting recorded
TV shows into popular video formats such as H.264, AVI, MPEG, DivX,
WMV and MPEG4 for use on portable media devices.3 For fast
and seamless transcoding, consumers can use ATI Stream enabled video
conversion software when they pair an ATI Theater HD 750 with an ATI
Radeon⢠graphics card.4 -
Using Windows Vista® Media Center, Windows® XP
Media Center Edition or the forthcoming Windows® 7,
consumers can schedule recordings and watch, pause and rewind live TV
programs. Consumers can also store recorded programs on the PC hard
drive, eliminating the problem of limited storage capacity found with
most digital video recorders (DVR), and enabling the ultimate video
library.3,5
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ATI Theater HD 750 is scheduled to be available from supporting
manufacturers later this year in a variety of solutions including PCI
Express add-in cards, USB âstick,â and others.
âATI Theater HD 750 combines AMDâs longstanding reputation for video
expertise with consumer demand for a cost effective, easy to use and
high quality TV on the PC experience,â said Matt Skynner, Vice President
& General Manager, GPU Division, AMD Products Group. âATI Theater HD
750, in combination with ATI Radeon⢠graphics and AMD mobile
technology-based notebooks, provides a simplified, high-quality
home-theater solution.â
ATI Theater HD 750 advances AMDâs platform technology with the means to
receive broadcast HD video on the PC. AMD has a complete family of
processors to capture and display TV content at home or on-the-go.
Whether watching video from disk or free-to-air broadcast, AMD platforms
offer customers a vibrant HD experience unlike any other.
Resources
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AMDâs
TV on the PC -
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Stream⢠Technology -
Video:
ATI Theater HD 750
About AMD
Advanced Micro Devices (NYSE: AMD) is an innovative technology company
dedicated to collaborating with customers and technology partners to
ignite the next generation of computing and graphics solutions at work,
home and play. For more information, visit www.amd.com.
©2009, Advanced Micro Devices, Inc
Denture care
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health, 20050229 by Liz Swain
Definition
Denture care is the maintenance of removable artificial teeth. Full or complete dentures replace all teeth in the upper jaw (maxilla), lower jaw (mandible), or both jaws. Partial dentures replace some teeth.
Purpose
Dentures replace natural teeth lost because of a health condition or injury. The artificial teeth fit in the mouth, allowing a person to eat normally. Daily denture care by the patient helps prevent conditions such as plaque. Periodic dental appointments assure that dentures fit properly and that the patient’s mouth is healthy.
Precautions
Dentures are fragile and can break if dropped. The American Dental Association (ADA) advises people to hold dentures over a towel or basin of water. The patient should not try to repair dentures.
Dentures should fit, so dental adhesive should be used only in an emergency. Extended adhesive use can conceal infections.
Sores
Dentures and partial dentures can cause sores in areas such as the jaw, below the tongue, and on the roof of the mouth (palate). Sores can swell slightly and are generally red. Poor oral hygiene and wearing dentures too long can lead to denture stomatitis (denture sore mouth). Symptoms often include an inflamed palate. The dentist may prescribe antibiotics or an antiseptic rinse.
Other causes of sores include poorly fitted dentures, an uneven bite, illness, and infections. Moreover, smoking, alcoholism, or oral cancer may cause sores. Furthermore, neglected sores could stimulate the growth of excess soft tissue. Tissue should be removed and a biopsy performed to detect malignant cells.
Description
People have worn dentures for thousands of years. Early material for artificial teeth included whale ivory. Today, most restorative teeth are made of plastic material such as acrylic resin.
Types of dentures
There are two types of complete dentures. Immediate dentures are placed in a patient’s mouth after teeth are removed
Galloway’s for girls; CLASSIC CARS
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), Jan 23, 2009
Byline: IAN JOHNSON This week: Galloway
THERE are consultants, thinktanks, public relations consultants, gurus and many others who are trying to tell manufacturers what constitutes female appeal in cars.
Some think this is new, but I can assure you that building cars that appeal to women goes back to the roots of modern motoring.
The proof is there for all to see in the history of the Galloway Car Company, which produced vehicles in Scotland from 1921 to 1928.
What is so remarkable about Galloway, an offshoot of the Arrol-Johnston company, is that its original factory at Tongland, Kirkudbright, was staffed mainly by women.
Indeed, Miss Dorothee Pullanger, daughter of the car’s designer, TC Pullanger, was believed to be the only woman car factory general manager of the time.
Needless to say that the Galloway was seen as a car built by women for women.
The 10/12hp of the early 20s featured seating higher than many other competitors ‘so that hedges are less likely to obscure the view’.
One of the early motoring journalists writing for the magazine Light Car and Cycle carried this report about the Gall ow ay.
“On the way up to Scotland, I called at Kircudbright, where the Galloway car is being made in the middle of nowhere.
“I wondered what the employees did in the way of recreation and was informed the factory has two tennis courts on the roof.
“A bathing and swimming pool has also been constructed.
“Everybody is most enthusiastic about the company’s hockey team. The majority of the hands are girls.
“I think the Galloway car may be described as a car made by ladies for those of their own sex.”
It appears that Scottish car bosses of the day had a great consideration for their workforce
When working for Arrol-Johnson in 1913, Thomas Pullanger was quick to dispel doubts raised by a popular motoring magazine, which had questioned whether cars should be built anywhere other than the Midlands.
He said: “We have built our car plant here because the conditions are conducive to the health of the workers.”
Although women do constitute a large part of the workforce of modern car plants, in the 1920s the Galloway factory was a real talking point.
It was almost a closed shop for women. Will we see such a thing in the future?
Maybe the Galloway factory was many decades ahead of its time.
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ONE FOR THE LADIES – Galloway was ahead of its time with a workforce of women
Fox goes ape.
Thursday, July 30th, 2009Playthings, February, 2001
Twentieth Century Fox’s Planet of the Apes lands in theaters this summer and with it a comprehensive licensing program that promises to capitalize on the role-reversal theme of apes controlling the world. Director Tim Burton’s action-adventure film starring Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth and Helena Bonham Carter will he marketed toward teen, tween and youth audiences with over 50 domestic and international licensees signed on