As "Tigerhai elegant design with silver stripes look" means the optics of the Toshiba F50. Well, tiger sharks have a striped back, the Qosmio also. So are the similarities but also off. Indeed, while the stripe camouflage the predator should serve them in notebooks to attract attention. It is totally superfluous. Attention reaps the F50 enough - when its owners built the gesture control is used.
Photo: video blogs ONLINE: sacWer tried, it is hard to overlook, because the concentrated fist against the screen herumschwenken order the unit to elicit a response. It is precisely this function but Toshiba extols as one of the main features of the F50.
The remote control is one gesture, thanks to control the future under the sofa can lie. A few movements with the hand-collected should be sufficient, for example, a DVD to start the volume change or a scene to skip.
Mach prefer the light on
And it goes like this: Once you look into his fist into the display panel of leading integrated Webcam, you can control. If you move the hand up, follows the cursor in this direction, it moves to the right moves, the mouse pointer in this direction on the screen. A movement with your thumb to simulate a click the left mouse button, which raised palm replaced the right mouse button.
So far the theory.
In practice, but the system still suffers under some burden. Problem number one: The contrast. Works best the gesture recognition in a bright, well-lit room. In a cozy living room illuminated recognizes the camera is not enough differences, like hand and background hardly differentiate. Immediately darkened cinema film evenings can thus be forgotten.
Muscle
Longer Surftouren by gesture control should also refrain. Because this is the second problem: What was intended as a simplification, is in truth difficult. The Herumrühren standing in front of the Webcam tired arm faster than you think. Finally, one must constantly fist concentrated within sight of the camera.
This is mainly because the gesture control is not so loose fluffy works, how you might wish. That is the fact that the blue circle at the gesture control acts as a cursor replacement, herumwabert constantly, just do not want to stand still. So that the mouse pointer on a normal Windows icon to place, is laborious.
True, it is funny when you try to click. A movement of the thumb is a click the left mouse button to create, raising his hand right click. Really works reliably but not. Settling after some time you learn how to use the computer must give hand signals so he also learned to what he wants, at least rudimentary.
Specialty chip with Playstation past
Even if it is limited to only the Media Center of Windows Vista via pointer to control the error is still much too high. These are the symbols in the Media Center has beautiful large, comparatively easy to meet. Yet one often achieved only at the third or fourth attempt the targeted goal. With the remote control, the faster.
But perhaps the gesture control is nothing other than a beautifully striking figurehead for the possibilities that the F50 built-in multimedia processor quad-core Toshiba HD offers. The is an offshoot of the Cell chip, among other things, the Playstation 3 as a drive serve. With its four computing cores, he has plenty of power, but only for a few specific applications - such as gesture recognition - can use.
Television pictures nicer
Fortunately, there are those few applications but also useful for the HD-chip. For example, upscaling. This is the technique that helps, standard TV programs on DVDs or high-resolution screens to make bearable. The image will be projected by him extra pixels added. What color the individual pixels get and how bright they shine, will be dependent on the surrounding pixels - and that's a lot of computing work.
But Toshiba does specialty processor in the F50 wonderful, ensures that about a DVD movie even looks good when it is on a large HD TV screen. The Qosmio is dedicated with an HDMI connector for flat screen televisions and projectors equipped.
HDTV: High-SHORTCUTS WIRRWARRHDTVAACSHDCP HDMIDVIHDTV stands for High Definition Television. According to the manufacturers of consumer electronics will be the old TV standards like PAL (576 visible lines) and NTSC (USA, 480 lines) and replace with higher resolution and more stable image to make the home beautiful. HDTV content can be made with 720 lines in progressive-scan display method (720p), which means that each image is at each passage completely rebuilt. The alternative is called 1080i, has more lines to offer (namely 1080), but each of them alternately pass only every second will be redrawn (interlaced procedures, hence the 'i'). The Advanced Access Content System is a copy protection system, especially at the request of the film studios in Hollywood in all drives will be assembled, the HD content can play. We AACS is without any high-resolution films can play. Copies will be only with explicit permission of the author can be made that one, for example, could pick !
up online. Only in this way could also be a film about a Media Center or on mobile devices to stream. The originator but copies may also prohibit or require a fee. To AACS, there were long wrangling - because there are not many devices that the system is absolutely support it. An interim solution is the copy protection so toothless now begin to make - even on analog outputs will be even HD movies, although the studios prefer the issue to digital outputs would be limited, with a further protection called HDCP are. High Bandwidth Digital Content Protection is a kind of copy protection hardware. He also aims to prevent high-resolution material can be easily recorded. HDCP must be in the sending device, so the player or the graphics card, just as inserted in the receiver, so the monitor or TV. While TV, the "HD Ready" logo, HDCP capable, to have many monitors and graphics cards but not yet. An HDMI interface can also HDCP, a DVI interface does not notwendigerweise.Das High Defi!
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general interface of the future, for music, movies and even the connection between the computer and monitor. It is equipped with HDCP by default - an output device with HDMI interface and a TV with the "HD Ready" logo should work together so in any case, high-resolution movies represent können.Digital video interface - the first digital interface for video content, but It is already, of HDMI to be replaced. Some DVI outputs are also equipped with HDCP, others do not. Especially for many graphics cards missing copy of the hardware yet - leading to problems when playing copy-protected high definition movies might lead. ->
Another application possibility, Toshiba is to movies from the processor into a sequence of individual images to decompose, which is then in a kind of quick visual hangeln can pass through. A lovely idea, but little practical use.
Annoying is that the Quad-HD-chip seems to be plenty hot when it is properly called. When the F50 expressed by the fan anspringt regularly to the excess heat from the housing to blow. That is not bad, but annoying.
HD without Blu-ray
PER-TEXTS RSS FEEDAngefasst - Technology Test Click on the icon. The browser allows you to the RSS feed to add. Otherwise, to help ... but the Qosmio F50 is fine to use, in terms of its equipment is no room for complaints. Two 250-gigabyte disks store data, movies and photos. If this is not enough, you can easily record a major retrofit. Only a screw must be resolved in order to attend the installation of the storage place to go. DVDs land in a multi-format DVD burner. A Blu-ray drive for high-resolution movies there is not. Since the HD DVD format war has lost adheres Toshiba high-resolution film formats away.
Even so, it is sufficient that the 15.4-inch widescreen display 1440 times 900 pixel display and so far removed from Full HD remains. The 720p HD format but fits perfectly pointed. So that the pictures do not come into Ruckeln, is a fairly fixed graphics card with 512 megabytes of video memory installed, including many current games still respectable performance brings.
Back to the remote?
Drive serves as a processor from Intel's Core 2 Duo series, the four-gigabyte memory side. Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Bluetooth and a 1.3 megapixel Webcam complete the package. As Windows Vista operating system is installed. A hybrid TV tuner ensures that the device with both analog and digital television can receive programs - and that makes it good.
On television, but you should then again maybe the remote under the sofa vorholen. The reliable and works mainly casual than the gesture control. Until the really fun, the developers must still some time in the refinement of the system stuck. In its current version but is it just a silver lining on the horizon, which shows how in future we will deal with multimedia. Maybe.
Toshiba Qosmio F50
Processor 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo P8400
Graphics card nVidia GeForce 9600M GT (512 MB)
4 gigabytes of RAM
HDD 2 x 250 GB SATA
Optical drive Super Multi DVD burner
Wireless interfaces W-LAN (802.11a/b/g/n), Bluetooth
4 x USB ports, 1 x eSATA, HDMI, Firewire, LAN, VGA, headphone, microphone, antenna, modem
OS Windows Vista Home Premium
Dimensions 368.5 x 278 x 38 (front) / 47 (rear) mm
Weight from 2.9 kilograms
Screen size 15.4 inch
Screen resolution 1440 x 900 pixels
5-in particularities-1-card reader, ExpressCard slot
Price from Euro 1349
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