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The invention relates to the decoding of compressed images and in particular to the decoding of images which are compressed according to an MPEG standard. The invention also relates to the display of the decoded images. More particularly, the invention relates to the decoding of bidirectional images.
According to various image compression standards, especially MPEG ("Motion Pictures Experts Group"), the images are decoded in blocks, or macroblocks, generally of 16�16 pixels. The macroblocks can be of various formats. The most commonly used format is the one termed 4:2:0 according to which each macroblock contains four blocks of 8�8 luminance pixels of eight bits and two blocks of 8�8 chrominance pixels of eight bits.
The images processed are essentially of three types, namely an "intra" type, a "predicted" type and a "bidirectional" type. The person skilled in the art is aware that the macroblocks of an "intra" image do not undergo any motion compensation. In a predicted image, each macroblock can undergo a motion compensation which includes combining the macroblock with another macroblock, the "predictor", fetched from a previously decoded image. Each macroblock of a bidirectional image can undergo a motion compensation which includes combining the macroblock with two other predictor macroblocks, fetched respectively from two previously decoded images. The positions of the predictor macroblocks are determined by motion vectors.
An MPEG decoding/display system, referred to more simply hereafter as an "MPEG decoder", must communicate to a dynamic memory to carry out the decoding and the displaying of the decoded images. Such a memory plays an essential role in the decoding and displaying of these images. In certain modes of operation (freeze frame for example), certain images have to be decoded several times. These multiple decodings require repeated access to the area of the image memory storing the compressed image data awaiting processing. In particular, it is especially important to be able to redecode, without the risk of errors originating from the addressing of the memory, the right compressed data actually corresponding to an image already previously decoded.
It is an object of the invention to provide a solution to this problem, which is simple to implement and to embody. The invention applies especially, but not exclusively, to the "on-the-fly" decoding of bidirectional images, which decoding is effected twice while the two frames of the image are displayed directly, and which does not require storage of the decoded bidirectional image in the image memory, thus reducing the image memory size.
The invention therefore proposes a method for decoding an inbound image, for example a bidirectional image in which a memory area of a dynamic memory is used to store a stream of compressed data comprising successive groups of compressed data. These groups relate respectively to successive inbound images, some of which require two successive decodings. Each data group associated with an image comprises a start-of-image identifier (or picture start code), followed by a header containing a specific identifier of the image (for example the temporal reference of this image), this header being followed by useful data. The stream of data is read in packets of bits located at consecutive addresses of the memory area. For each packet extracted from the memory area, the presence or the absence of a start-of-image identifier is detected, and when a detected start-of-image identifier corresponds to an image requiring two successive decodings, the address of the relevant packet is stored together with the specific identifier of the image. Then a first decoding of the useful data of the image is performed, on completion of which the packet situated at the stored address is extracted again from the memory area. The second decoding of the image is then carried out by decoding the data of the packet after detection of the specific identifier. The data of the packet preceding the specific identifier is ignored for the decoding.
In an MPEG data stream, one difficulty in carrying out two successive decodings of the same image resides in the fact that the intervals between the various start-of-image identifiers of the various images are not constant and depend on the contents of the images. Moreover, the image memory is in practice read in packets of bits situated at successive addresses of the memory.
A first characteristic of the invention therefore includes storing the address of the bit packet in which the start identifier of an image requiring two successive decodings, for example a bidirectional image, has been detected. This being so, if, the first decoding having been performed, a return is made to the memory area to repoint to the bit packet containing the start-of-image identifier, then the position of this start-of-image identifier is not accurately known in the packet. Moreover, it is not certain that the packet might not comprise other start-of-image identifiers corresponding to previous images. Stated otherwise, if a second decoding of the data arising from the packet situated at the address returned to for positioning, were then performed without precaution, a second, erroneous, decoding of the image would be obtained.
The invention solves these additional difficulties by providing, in addition to the above described features, a second characteristic including storing a specific identifier (for example, the temporal reference of the image) making it possible to tag the image in a one-to-one manner in the sequence. Thus, after having returned back and having again extracted the packet containing the start-of-image identifier of the image to be redecoded, the bits of the packet are analyzed sequentially until the presence of the specific identifier of the bidirectional image to be redecoded is detected again. And it is only from this instant onwards that the pipeline circuit conventionally used in an MPEG decoder will be able to take into account the useful data of this image in such a way as to perform the second decoding thereof.
The subject of the invention is also a device for decoding an inbound image, comprising a dynamic memory including a memory area storing a stream of compressed data comprising successive groups of compressed data, which groups relate respectively to successive inbound images, certain of which require two successive decodings. Each data group is associated with an image comprising a start-of-image identifier, followed by a header containing a specific identifier of the image, followed by useful data. The device also includes a first address pointer and a second address pointer, each making it possible to read the memory area in packets of bits, as well as a start-of-image identifier detector able to detect in each bit packet extracted at the address pointed at by the first address pointer, the presence or the absence of a start-of-image identifier.
Furthermore, the device includes a first storage means (for example a register) able to store in the presence of a first control signal representative of the presence of a current image requiring two successive decodings, the specific address of the packet containing the start-of-image identifier of the current image, and a second storage means (for example a second register) able to store in the presence of the first control signal, the specific identifier of the said current image. The device further includes processing means (for example a microprocessor) linked to the start-of-image identifier detector, able to deliver the first control signal, and a decoding circuit (pipeline circuit) able to decode the bits of each packet pointed at by the second address pointer. Also, the device includes pointer management means able, in response to a second control signal transmitted by the decoding circuit and representative of the end of a first decoding of an image, to move the second address pointer to the specific address stored in the first storage means, and decoding disabling means able to compare the contents of the second storage means with the information contained in the packet situated at the specific address and to disable the decoding circuit as long as the specific identifier of the image (temporal reference) is not detected again.
Other advantages and characteristics of the invention will emerge on examining the detailed description of entirely non-limiting modes of implementation and embodiments, and the appended drawings in which,
FIG. 1 is a schematic overview of a system for processing high-definition images incorporating an image decoding device according to the invention;
FIG. 2 is a more detailed schematic overview of a decoding device according to the invention;
FIG. 3 illustrates the decoding on the fly and the displaying of a bidirectional image;
FIGS. 4 and 5 illustrate in greater detail an embodiment and mode of implementation according to the invention, applied especially to the double decoding of a bidirectional image;
FIG. 6 is a more detailed schematic overview of a block/line converter according to the invention belonging to the device of FIG. 2; and
FIG. 7 illustrates the organization of a dynamic memory into pages.
The embodiment and mode of implementation which will now be described in detail relates especially to the decoding on the fly of bidirectional images and the displaying of these images, as well as the displaying of "intra" and "predicted" images decoded and stored in the image memory by way of a block/line conversion. This being so, as indicated earlier, the invention is not limited to this embodiment and relates generally to all cases in which an image requires at least two successive decodings, be they bidirectional images, or "intra" or "predicted" images, for example in a freeze frame, or fast forward or rewind mode of operation (otherwise known as "trick mode"). Furthermore, the organization of the dynamic memory into pages which is described below in combination with a block/line conversion, so as to minimize the number of page openings during the displaying of the stored images, is merely an exemplary embodiment and the present invention is not limited thereto.
In FIG. 1, the reference SY generally denotes a system for processing digital images. The system incorporating, for example, a satellite decoder and/or television. In this system SY, input means IFE receive, for example, from a satellite antenna or from a digital disk (which are not represented here for the sake of simplification), a stream of data compressed according to, for example, the MPEG standards. A device DCD for processing images according to the invention, or MPEG decoder, decodes the coded images on the basis of these compressed data for the purpose of displaying them on a display screen AFF.
Moreover, the system SY comprises a microprocessor CPU which is able, for example, to manage the decoding of the various satellite channels, as well as a generator OSD-GEN of graphical information intended to be inlaid on the screen superimposed on the video images, for example, interactive menus obtained by actuating a television remote control. Finally, another element of this system SY is a dynamic memory MMP which is shared between these various elements. It is advantageous to limit the memory passband used so as to allow the various elements of the system SY to access it as often as possible. The assembly of elements of FIG. 1 communicate to one another via a bidirectional bus BBS.
In FIG. 2, the decoder DCD comprises decoding means MDC, and display management means MAF. The decoding means MDC comprises a pipeline circuit PPL which receives the compressed data through a 64-bit bus and delivers the luminance and chrominance blocks of the processed macroblocks, to an adder by way of a "first-in first-out" (FIFO) type memory FF1. Moreover, the adder receives corresponding blocks of filtered predictor macroblocks delivered by a prediction circuit FPR on the basis of predictor macroblocks extracted from the memory MMP.
The so-called "pipeline" circuit PPL generally performs a variable-length decoding (VLD), a run of zeros decoding (RLD), a zigzag scan to linear scan conversion and an inverse discrete cosine transform (DCT−1), in a conventional manner. According to the MPEG standards, the prediction circuit FPR comprises a so-called "half-pixel" filter intended, if a motion vector making it possible to fetch a predictor macroblock is not integral, for shifting this predictor macroblock by a half-pixel vertically and/or horizontally. The decoding means MDC communicates by way of the bus with the main memory MMP and the exchanges between this memory and the various elements of the decoder DCD are managed by main control means LMC.
The display management means MAF here comprise a multiplexer MUX, a first input of which is linked to the output of the adder of the decoding means MDC, and a second input of which is linked to the output of the memory MMP. The output of the multiplexer is linked to a second buffer memory FF2 of the FIFO type. The output of this buffer memory FF2 is linked to a block/line converter BRC to whose structure and function is discussed in greater detail below. The output of the block BRC is linked to a video controller VDCTL catering for the management of the display screen AFF. The output of the multiplexer MUX is linked to one or other of its two inputs depending on a control signal STY representative of the type of image displayed, i.e. in this instance, either a bidirectional image, or an intra or predicted image.
The MPEG standards advocate that the memory MMP comprise an area of compressed data ZCD of at least 2.6 Megabits in which are written the compressed data awaiting processing, as well as an area ZX serving to store information to be displayed superimposed on the image and sound data. The capacity of this area ZX extending to around 1 Megabit. Apart from these areas, the memory MMP comprises, in the example described here and corresponding to an on-the-fly decoding of the bidirectional images, two additional areas for images ZM1 and ZM2. Each of these areas ZM1 and ZM2 must be capable of storing a PAL image (the largest according to international standards) of 720�576 pixels. By using the 4:2:0 format of the macroblocks, the pixels are the twelve bits and the total size of the image is around 4.9 Megabits.
In the embodiment described here, instead of storing a bidirectional image undergoing reconstruction in a memory area of the memory MMP so as to display it later, this bidirectional image is displayed on the fly, i.e. it is displayed while it is being decoded. This makes it possible to reduce the size of the memory MMP and to provide just two memory areas ZM1 and ZM2 for storing two previously decoded images, of the "intra" or "predicted" type. In this case, the necessary size of the memory MMP is decreased by the size of a memory area and it can then be readily constructed, especially for the PAL standard (the most constraining) from four asynchronous dynamic memories (DRAM) of 256 kwords of 16 bits or from one synchronous dynamic memory (SDRAM) of 16 Megabits.
If it is desired to display a bidirectional image undergoing decoding on the fly, it is initially necessary to display a first frame including the odd lines of the image, and then a second frame including the even lines of the image although the processing preceding display is generally performed on the overall image, i.e. in the order of the lines. This implies, if the decoding means MDC decode the lines at the rate at which they are displayed, that the (2K1)th line must be displayed at the moment at which the decoding means MDC are decoding the Kth line. Stated otherwise, at the moment at which the first frame ought to be displayed, the decoder will have been able to decode only half this frame.
Thus, provision is made to decode each bidirectional image twice over the duration of display of this image. In this case, at the moment at which the 2K-1th line is to be displayed, 2K lines will have been decoded. More precisely, at the moment at which the first frame is displayed, the complete image will have been decoded as will therefore both frames of this image. Since display is performed on the fly, the second frame which was decoded but not displayed is lost. This second frame is displayed while the image is being decoded a second time.
FIG. 3 represents a time chart of the decoding and displaying of a group of images. The images to be displayed in succession are designated by P0, B1, B2, P3, B4, B5, P6, where the letter P indicates a predicted image and the letter B a bidirectional image. Such a succession of images is conventional according to the MPEG standards. The reconstruction of each predicted image P requires predictor macroblocks fetched from the predicted image (or "intra" image not represented) which precedes it. The reconstruction of each bidirectional image B requires predictor macroblocks fetched from the two predicted images which flank it. Thus, the compressed data corresponding to the images arrive at the decoder DCD in a different order from that of display. Here, these compressed data arrive in the order P0, P3, B1, B2, P6, B4, B5.
Initially, the image P0 is decoded and stored in memory, for example in the area ZM1. While the image P3 is being decoded and stored in the area ZM2, the image P0 is displayed. Next, the image P1 is decoded a first time at double speed while the first frame of the image B1 is displayed on the fly, then the image B1 is decoded a second time at double speed while the second frame of the image B1 is displayed. Each decoding of the image B1 by the decoding means MDC uses predictor macroblocks fetched from the images P0 and P3, which are stored in the areas ZM1 and ZM2. The same operations occur for the bidirectional image B2. Next, the image P6 is decoded and stored in the area ZM1 in place of the image P0 while the image P3 is displayed. The images B4 and B5 are, like the images B1 and B2, decoded twice at double speed while they are displayed. The decoding of the images B4 and B5 use predictor macroblocks to search in the images P3 and P6 which are stored in the areas ZM2 and ZM1.
To perform the decoding on the fly of the bidirectional images, the control means LMC are reprogrammed so as to perform twice the task of transferring to the pipeline circuit PPL the compressed data corresponding to each bidirectional image and stored in the area ZCD. In this regard, the control means are typically clocked at 25.5 MHZ, the pipeline circuit being itself clocked typically at 34 MHZ. Circuits operating at these speeds are entirely realizable within the usual technology.
A particularly simple embodiment and mode of implementation according to the invention making it possible for the control means LMC to deliver the compressed data twice to the pipelined circuit PPL is now described while referring more particularly to FIGS. 4 and 5. Conventionally, the stream of MPEG compressed data stored in the memory area ZCD comprises successive groups of compressed data, relating respectively to successive incoming images IM1, IM2, etc. Each data group associated with an image comprises a start-of-image identifier PSC (or "Picture Start Code") followed by a header ET. This header comprises in particular a specific identifier for the image, allowing one-to-one identification of the image in the image sequence. This specific identifier is, for example here, the Temporal Reference TR of the image. The header also comprises a cue IT identifying the type of image, for example "intra", "predicted" or "bidirectional". The header is followed by the useful data CDU of the image.
There is provision for a first address pointer PTA and for a second address pointer PTB each making it possible to read, in packets of bits, the memory area at the successive addresses @1, @2, etc. The control means LMC, architectured around processing means MP which includes a microprocessor, comprise a start-of-image identifier detector SCD embodied, for example, in hard-wired form, and able to detect the presence or absence of a start-of-image identifier PSC in each bit packet extracted at the address pointed at by the first address pointer PTA. Pointer management means which are able to control the position of the second pointer PTB are also linked to the processing means MP. These pointer management means schematically comprise, for example, a first register RG1 whose output is linked to the input of a second register RG2 by way of a multiplexer MUX2 controlled by a control signal RDC representative of the control of a second decoding of an image. The output of the register RG2 is also looped back to its input by way of an address incrementation means and of the multiplexer MUX2. The register RG2 therefore contains the current address of the address pointer PTB.
A third register RG3 is able to store the temporal reference TR of an image while a fourth register RG4 is able to store the cue IT representative of the type of image to be decoded so as to allow the various means of the pipeline circuit PPL to decode the current image appropriately. In fact, each register RG3 and RG4 is able respectively to store the cues TR and IT of the current image undergoing decoding in the circuit PPL and also those of the next image.
Finally, decoding disabling means MHD, which have been represented here for simplifying purposes inside the block PPL, but which could of course be located outside, receive the bits extracted from the memory and contained in the packet pointed at by the pointer PTB, and receive the contents of the register RG3. The function of the decoding disabling means MHD which can be embodied in hard-wired or software form, is discussed in greater detail below.
The manner of operation of the elements which have just been described with reference to FIG. 4 will now be described while referring more particularly to FIG. 5. It is assumed that the decoding of the image IM1 is in progress in the pipeline circuit PPL (step 700) and that the two address pointers PTA and PTB are pointing at the address @1. The bit packet situated at the address @1, extracted from the memory area ZCD, is read by the detector SCD (step 701).
The detector SCD then detects the presence of the start-of-image identifier PSC2 for the image IM2 (step 702). A signal representative of this detection is then sent to the microprocessor MP which reads the string of bits of the packet and in particular the specific identifier ET2 for the image as well as the image's type IT2 (step 703). The image IM2 being of the bidirectional type, therefore requiring redecoding, the microprocessor MP stores in the register RG1 (step 704), the address @1 of the packet containing the start-of-image identifier PSC2 for the image IM2. Moreover, the temporal reference TR2 of the image IM2 is stored in the register REG3 (step 705) and the type IT2 of this image is stored in the register REG4 (step 706).
The first decoding of the image IM2 then begins in the pipeline circuit PPL with the aid of the useful data CDU2 originating from the same packet since the second address pointer PTB is also at the address @1. The register RG2 is next incremented so as to contain the address @2, this consequently causing the address pointer PTB to point to this new address @2 (step 708). The address pointer PTA is also incremented and also points to the address @2. The first decoding of the bidirectional image IM2 is continued with the remainder of the data CDU2 (step 709).
At the end of this first decoding, the circuit VLD contained in the means PPL delivers an end-of-decoding signal which has the effect, under the action of the control signal RDC issued by the microprocessor MP (step 710), of positioning the multiplexer MUX2 to its first input forcing the contents of the register RG2 to the address @1 (step 711). Accordingly, the second address pointer PTB goes back to point to the address @1 again. A difficulty resides here in the fact that in an MPEG data stream, the intervals between the various start-of-image identifiers PSC for the various images are not constant and depend on the contents of the images. Consequently, this difficulty, in combination with the packetwise reading of the memory area ZCD, does not make it possible to ascertain accurately the location at which the start of the image IM2 is situated in the packet.
The invention solves this difficulty by using, in combination with the returning of the pointer PTB back to the address of the packet containing the start-of-image identifier PSC2 for the image to be redecoded, the temporal reference TR2 of the image to be redecoded. More precisely, the decoding disabling means MHD will then sequentially test the various bits of the packet which were read at the address @1 and compare this information with the specific identifier (temporal reference) TR2 of the image IM2, stored in the register RG3. And, so long as this comparison is not positive, i.e. so long as the presence of this temporal reference TR2 has not been detected again, the data supplied by the packet are not taken into account by the pipeline circuit PPL, thereby rendering the pipeline circuit PPL inactive (step 713).
It is only when the comparison result is positive, i.e. when the presence of the temporal reference TR2 has been detected again, that the decoding disabling means MHD authorize the circuit PPL to take the compressed data into account, allowing the second decoding of the bidirectional image (step 714). In the course of this second decoding, the register RG2 is again incremented so as to move the pointer PTB to the address @2 (step 715) to continue the second decoding of the image IM2 (step 716) to its end.
Going back to the general manner of operation of the decoder DCD, the "intra" and "predicted" images are, by a conventional mechanism of queries, sent to the memory MMP at the output of the adder while each decoded bidirectional image B is transmitted, macroblock by macroblock, to the buffer memory FF2 by way of the multiplexer controlled by the signal STY issued by the control means LMC. When an "intra" or "predicted" image stored in the memory MMP is to be displayed, the multiplexer MUX is then instructed on its second input by the signal STY so as to store the macroblocks of the image, which were extracted successively from the memory MMP, in the buffer memory FF2.
The images output by the multiplexer MUX are stored sequentially in the buffer memory FF2, macroblock by macroblock. On the other hand, the video controller VDCTL requires line-by-line reception of the pixels of the image. It is for this reason that a block/line converter BRC is interposed between the buffer memory FF2 and the video controller VDCTL. As illustrated more precisely in FIG. 6, this converter BRC comprises an input interface IND receiving the various luminance and chrominance blocks of each macroblock stored in the buffer memory FF2. This input interface IND is controlled by an input controller INC by means of enquiry RQ and acknowledgment ACK signals. The data are then written in succession to an auxiliary memory MMA whose addresses Ai,j are determined in succession by an address sequencer ADS. The various values of luminance Y and chrominance U and V are extracted line by line from the memory MMA and delivered to a filtering circuit FV which, when it is activated, makes it possible to perform a vertical filtering on these lines, i.e. for example a weighted average between the various values of the pixels of these lines so as to deliver filtered values of luminance and chrominance. The converter BRC is controlled in a general manner by a general controller MCTL receiving in particular a frame synchronization signal VSYNC supplied by the video controller VDCTL. This signal VSYNC makes it possible to perform a parity selection. This is because, with each decoding, only one frame is displayed, i.e. just the even lines or just the odd lines. Thus, the converter BRC sorts among the lines of the blocks which it receives from the buffer memory FF2 those lines whose parity corresponds to that of the frame to be displayed. It is for this reason that storage in the auxiliary memory MMA is referred to as half-macroblock by half-macroblock (each half-macroblock corresponding to eight lines). Thus, the capacity of this converter BRC is eight lines although the macroblocks correspond to sixteen lines. Stated otherwise, the memory MMA is capable of storing at least one row of half-macroblocks (for example a row of 45 half-macroblocks) corresponding to a predetermined number of lines of the frame to be displayed (in this instance eight).
The memory MMA is a dynamic memory which may be regarded as a large-size FIFO, with the exception of the fact that accesses are not consecutive since this memory is read linewise and written blockwise (in half-macroblocks). In fact, the control means MCTL and the address sequencer are programmed in such a way as to allow the sequential writing of the data of a half-macroblock as soon as sufficient room has been freed in the memory by the display procedure. More precisely, the address sequencer calculates the current address Ai,j of the auxiliary memory at which current data intended for display is read before being replaced by current data of a half-macroblock by the following:
In this, x1=1, M denotes the number of lines of the auxiliary memory, N denotes the number of data per line, and n denotes the total number of lines of each frame. Moreover, 0<i<MN-1 and 1<j<n.
By using this auxiliary memory of the converter BRC it is possible to limit the number of page openings for displaying "intra" or "predicted"images stored in the main memory MMP. This is because, if the memory MMP is regarded as being organized into memory pages (FIG. 7), each macroblock MB of the image stored in the area ZM1 for example, is stored wholly in a page PA of the memory area ZM1. For simplification purposes, only a single macroblock per page has been represented in FIG. 7, it being understood that in practice each memory page contains two macroblocks. In FIG. 7, the first row RMB1 of macroblock MB1-MBk corresponding to the first sixteen lines of the image stored in the area ZM1 therefore extends over memory pages PA1-PAk. Storage in the auxiliary memory MMA of the row of half-macroblocks corresponding to the eight lines of like parities therefore requires k page openings. The subsequent display, line by line, of the eight lines stored in the memory MMA does not therefore require any more page openings. The total number of page change cycles necessary for the complete display of each frame of an image stored in the memory MMP is therefore especially reduced with respect to a particular case in which the pixels of each frame are extracted line by line directly from the memory MMP. This is because, in such a particular case, it would be necessary to perform k page openings per frame line.
The person skilled in the art will therefore have noted that an appreciable reduction is then obtained in the memory passband used. Furthermore, the same conversion block BRC is used and, consequently, the same auxiliary memory MMA to display the "intra" and "predicted" images stored in the memory MMP, and to display directly the bidirectional images decoded on the fly.
Finally, since the auxiliary memory MMA contains a predetermined number of lines, in this instance eight, it is possible to connect the filtering means FV directly at the output of the memory MMA and thus to perform on command a vertical filtering of at least two lines contained in the memory MMA without using delay lines to do so (as would have been the case if the data of the frame had been extracted directly from the memory MMP line by line).
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Voom HD Networks' Gameplay HD has added four new, original, high-definition video gaming series, including In Play, Raw Play, Game High and Gameplay Documentary Series. In addition, the network will devote about 50 hours of programming to covering professional video game tournaments this year. "We think we're plowing some new turf here and allowing the inherent entertainment value of the games to merge with the storytelling possibilities of linear television, all in glorious high definition," Voom HD Networks general manager Greg Moyer said. In Play is a half-hour series that takes HD gameplay from such PC and Xbox 360 games as Prince of Persia, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, Amped 3 and Marc Ecko's Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure and turns that into a story-driven entertainment experience. »
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MTV Films and Paramount Pictures have tapped scribes Sean O'Keefe and Will Staples to adapt the Marc Ecko video game Getting Up: Contents Under Pressure. The story centers on a young graffiti artist who goes on the run after discovering a dirty secret about government officials in his city. There is no director yet attached. The popular video game, which was developed by the Collective, was published by Atari in February. »
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Born as Ernestine Allen, this jazz-tinged blues singer began recording in 1945 and went on to record such songs as "Miss Allen's Blues" and "Love For Sale" as Annisteen Allen. After touring with Lucky Millinder, Big John Greer and Wynonie Harris. In 1951, Federal Records signed the entire Lucky Millinder Orchestra to back Allen on vocals. After moving to Federal's parent, King, in 1953, Allen recorded "Baby I'm Doing It," for which King was sued by Apollo Records for copyright infringement. Dropped by King, Allen signed with Capitol in 1954 and toured with The Orioles and Joe Morris and His Blues Cavalcade. In 1955, Allen had a hit with "Fujiyama Mama," a song that was quickly covered by Eileen Barton and later by Wanda Jackson. Allen died at 71 in 1992.
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Can I check if you intended to support IE8 as I think I've found a fairly basic bug. I've got a default vanilla install of Enfold and have changed the background colour but otherwise pretty much made no other changes. However, in IE, the background colour bleeds through to the header on IE8. Manually changing the the 'background color' for the header doesn't work either. It's set at white, you can see it here:
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Your pins are worth a lot to investors. Yesterday, Pinterest confirmed its latest round of funding of $225 million, bringing its valuation to a whopping $3.8 billion. This latest funding round comes after another infusion of $200 million in February. Overall, that's quite a handful of scratch for a company that offers nothing but virtual mood boards, but its overwhelmingly female user base earns it a massive amount of referral traffic. That's music to investors' ears, of course. How that traffic will translate into revenue, however, remains to be seen.
AllThingsD, which first reported the funding deal, suggests that this new windfall might be used to push Pinterest further internationally. The company recently hired country managers in England and France, where Pinterest launched its first localized, non-English edition in June. Sources told AllThingsD that the company wants to expand to up to a dozen more countries by year's end. And, when that happens, we'll find out if pictures of wedding gowns and cupcakes have true global appeal. (AllThingsD)
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Lost (2004 TV Series)
The survivors of a plane crash are forced to work together in order to survive on a seemingly deserted tropical island. (44 mins.)
Stars: Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway
Fringe (2008 TV Series)
An FBI agent is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist and his son in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena. (46 mins.)
Stars: Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, Jasika Nicole, John Noble
Game of Thrones (2011 TV Series)
While a civil war brews between several noble families in Westeros, the children of the former rulers of the land attempt to rise up to power. Meanwhile a forgotten race, bent on destruction, plans to return after thousands of years in the North. (56 mins.)
Stars: Emilia Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Kit Harington, Lena Headey
Breaking Bad (2008 TV Series)
A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family's financial future. (49 mins.)
Stars: Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, Anna Gunn, Betsy Brandt
Cheers (1982 TV Series)
The regulars of the Boston bar Cheers share their experiences and lives with each other while drinking or working at the bar where everybody knows your name. (22 mins.)
Stars: Ted Danson, Rhea Perlman, John Ratzenberger, George Wendt
M*A*S*H (1972 TV Series)
The staff of an army hospital in the Korean war find that laughter is the best way to deal with their situation. (25 mins.)
Stars: Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, Loretta Swit, Jamie Farr
Hill Street Blues (1981 TV Series)
The lives and work of the staff of an inner city police precinct. (60 mins.)
Suits (2011 TV Series)
On the run from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant college-dropout, finds himself a job working with Harvey Specter, one of New York City's best lawyers. (44 mins.)
Twin Peaks (1990 TV Series)
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Journeyman (2007 TV Series)
A man travels back in time to help people in trouble. (45 mins.)
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Sheriff Deputy Rick Grimes leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by the walking dead. Fighting the dead, fearing the living. (44 mins.)
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Snarf: Shrimp?
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Had this product shipped site to store and it arrived quickly. Although overall I am happy with the purchase, the side shelves do not have stainless steel tops with tool hooks despite how they are advertised on walmart and camp chef's website. The shelves I received were painted black steel. Also the grease tray was missing. I emailed camp chef directly and they confirmed that there had been a design change on the side shelves and quickly shipped out the missing grease tray. Get the hose/adapter that allows you to run this stove off of standard size propane tanks. Stove is 29" long by 16" wide by 12" tall when folded up with the legs and side shelves stored underneath the stove so it is bigger and heavier than some, but it was purchased for truck camping and tailgating, so its size was not a major issue.
Excellent portable, but larger grill.
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This grill meets all of my expectations. You can grill on it, use it as a stove. It's not to big, just a bit on the heavy side for me. I would recommend this for any apartment dweller, serious campers, or tailgaters.
I have only cooked on this stove once so far and it went pretty well, this stove is a bit heavy and the cooking grids were hard to get clean.The cooking grids have a rather large oval solid section in the middle, which made it hard to evenly cook new york strips on.I mostly use this for hot dogs and hamburgers so it should be good. I am used to a grill with a glossy ceramic coating that cleans up easier than this pourus coating.I wonder how long the lid latch is going to hold up, it seems cheesy.It sets up easily and really has some wow appeal,the legs are super sturdy.The instructions state that the ss lid will dis colour and I wont be spending time cleaning that so it might get ugly as time goes on.Its probably as good a portable tailgate style grill as you are going to find in this price range.
The grill itself is nice and big, definitely heavy but i like that it can be used at home and camping, although when I received it the box the damaged and had looked as if it had been opened and retaped shut, after getting the grill out of the box I realized the grill itself was damaged and broken. Very dissapointed seeming this was suppose to be a gift.
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4 Video Game Gimmicks Nobody Likes Anymore
A decade ago, sci-fi movies like The Island and Minority Report promised us a future where we didn't have to pick up controllers to play video games. Well, guess what: It's here! The future arrived! And it sucks! After the promising start of the Wii, the impressive technological potential of the Kinect, and the "hey guys, we're doing this too, we guess" of the PlayStation Move, it looks like the state of interactive gaming has screeched to a painful halt. Here's why:
#4. The PlayStation 4 Camera Is Used for Porn, Drugs, Weirdness (Anything but Gaming)
The world was introduced to the PlayStation 4's Playroom (a mini-game that uses a camera to show you interacting with cool special effects on your TV) when Ice-T kicked little virtual robots on Jimmy Fallon's show. Remember that? Lots of people do, because the PS4 camera immediately sold out as gamers began broadcasting their Playroom sessions online. Here's how Sony imagined everyone would use this thing:
And here's what the Internet did instead:
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He starts blowing the gun too.
Yep, turns out that having something deeply, deeply wrong with you is a prerequisite for being the sort of person who would want to broadcast your life through a video game console. Some people got drunk and gave their numbers to the Internet, with predictable results. Some people performed live sex acts or knocked robots around with their nearly bare asses. And this guy just used it to show the world his Yu-Gi-Oh card collection.
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This is exactly how we imagine everyone who's still a Yu-Gi-Oh fan in 2014.
And of course Japan makes it weirder because they have to. Those links are from a specific show called Pinup Girl Party, which is less sexy than you'd think. Or exactly as sexy, if you're into housekeepers stripping down to blow birthday cakes and just being Japanese in general.
via nichegamer.net
Pictured: someone's pants right now.
The average users of Playroom seemed to fall into four often-overlapping categories: perverts, drunks, weirdos ... oh, and children. Like this kid here, who is told by a random commenter, "I'm at your window watching you" and actually goes to check:
Aww, that's adora- wait, no, that's terrifying. Why is that kid on the Internet's equivalent of a sex dungeon, and why are there 10 people watching him? Only two weeks after the service started, Twitch banned all Playroom broadcasts and so, for the most part, ended this great experiment. Clearly, humanity isn't prepared to put Internet cameras on our game machines, and we doubt it ever will be.
Of course, this "interactive gaming" thing might have been fucked from the start ...
#3. Nintendo's Motion Controls Peaked With Wii Bowling
Back in 2006, Nintendo's Wii Sports was hailed as the beginning of a new era for video games. An era where you could play bowling by swinging the controller with your arm, for example, or you could ... no, that's it. The bowling game was Nintendo's first great idea for how to use their new motion-sensor controllers, and eight years later we're still waiting for them to think of a second one. For half the Wii's games, the best they could come up with was shake the controller to do whatever:
A game so complex, Homer Simpson's drinking bird could master it.
Wii Sports sold 82.5 million copies and became the Nintendo Wii's best-selling game, followed by Mario Kart Wii (35.5 million) and another version of Wii Sports (32.6 million). The lesson was obvious: People like pretend bowling ... and mustachioed Italian plumbers driving go-karts. Even though they never developed the painfully obvious Mario Bowling Kart, and allowing for the caveat that those units-sold numbers include bundled copies, the Wii did pretty well on the implicit promise that Wii Sports was only the beginning and that something even more amazing would come in the future. It had to, right?
Nope, that was it. Fast-forward to today: The best-selling game for Nintendo's next console, the Wii U, is New Super Mario Bros U -- basically the same Mario game you played as a kid, with slightly better graphics. It's sold only 4.16 million copies, and like 4.15 million of those probably went to actual mustachioed Italian plumbers.
"Yes, honey, this is exactly what daddy's job is really like."
So that's where Nintendo's "new era of interactivity" ended up: in retro-style Mario games. Nintendo all but ditched the motion-sensor technology (or at least stopped trying to come up with new uses for it) and decided to jump on the bandwagon of the next big thing: touchscreens!
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During the 1890s evangelical Protestants took to preaching on the streets in southern Irish towns and cities. They provoked an angry response, with large Catholic crowds gathering to protest at their activities. This created a difficult situation for the authorities. Obliged, on the one hand, to protect the rights and liberties of the preachers, they also looked to nurture behaviour appropriate to the sectarian realities in Ireland. At stake was the extent to which Ireland could be treated as an undifferentiated part of the United Kingdom, with W. E. H. Lecky increasingly recognizing the need for a different legal basis in Ireland. These events formed part of the wider evolution of 'constructive unionism'. More broadly, respectable Irish Protestant and Catholic disapproval of preachers and the 'mob' revealed the way in which class attitudes cut across sectarian identities, suggesting that the political dividends paid the wider unionist movement by this exposure of the apparent realities of 'Rome rule' were little valued in the locale. Similarly, interventions by home rule politicians reinforced the sense that conciliating British public opinion was a central concern. Here was an example of how locally orientated sectarianism helped shape national political agendas.
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When sellers hire incompetent agents, buyers save thousands.
Homebuyers are amazed at how easy it is to pay less for a home. They can't believe their luck when they see a home priced at $500,000 and the agent says the owners will accept $470,000. They think, "Wow, we would have gladly paid more than that!"
The Best Deal for the Buyers
There is nothing wrong with wanting to get the best deal when you are buying a home. What is wrong is what incompetent agents do to homesellers - they charge thousands of dollars in commissions but they under-sell the homes. They make it easy for buyers to get bargains.
To buy a bargain or pay less than you are prepared to pay, you will need to find an incompetent agent. You might not be treated well, but you will often get a lower price.
You may wonder, if agents get a percentage of the selling price, why they under-sell homes so often. The answer is simple: It requires little effort to make sales when the prices are low. Also, an extra $10,000 on the price means as little as $100 to the salesperson. "Just sell it and get the commission", is the attitude of most typical agents. A sale means commission and no sale means no commission. It's get the sale at any price.
The Betrayal of Sellers
One of the biggest complaints made by homesellers is that agents seem to work for the buyers instead of the sellers. When it comes to respecting the privacy of the sellers, some agents are more than incompetent, they are negligent. Incompetent agents betray sellers.
The first thing buyers notice about incompetent agents is how they speak about the sellers and their homes. One buyer explained it simply when she said, "The agents are such blabber mouths."
These agents will openly state that a home is "over-priced" or that the seller is "unrealistic". Many an agent has been caught by a homeseller who has sent a friend to enquire about their home. When the sellers discover how the agents talk 'behind their backs', they are furious.
And the buyers are amazed. Many buy cheaply, but they would never choose the same agent when they sell. They cannot respect agents who betray sellers.
Questions Which Reduce the Price
If you want to reduce a price, you can start by asking an incompetent agent just four questions.
1. "Why are they asking this price?"
You don't have to say anything else. This question immediately puts the agent in the position of having to defend the price. And, if the agent is concerned about the price - as most of them are - you will often be given a reduction. The response is likely to be, "Well, it's a bit dear, I know. But they will listen to offers."
You can use this question for any product. It doesn't have to be real estate. No matter what you want to buy, you can ask the reason for the price. It works in dress shops, it works in hotels, it works everywhere. All you say is, "Why are you asking this price?" And, if there is any chance of a reduction, you will get it.
Incompetent agents assume that a question about the price means the price is too high. As most agents want to lower the price to make a sale, they will admit that the price is high. They will try to get it cheaper for you. They won't realise that you may buy at the price being asked. Buyers often say the reason they didn't pay more for a home is that "the agent didn't ask for more."
However, the best agents answer this question by saying: "They are asking this price because... [points out the positive features - location, condition and so on]." End of answer.
2. "Why are they selling?"
This is where incompetent agents reveal the sellers' confidential reason for selling. The answer will be something like, "Oh, they are getting divorced," or "They are in a bit of financial trouble," or "They have bought something else and they need to sell this to pay for the other place."
It almost defies belief that a professional person could reveal such details. When you know that the sellers are forced to sell, who can blame you for offering a lower price?
The best agents answer this question by saying: "They are selling for personal reasons but I know they are serious." End of answer.
3. "How long has it been For Sale?"
The longer a home has been for sale, the more likely it is to sell for a lower price. The perception is that the owners will be getting desperate and will accept a low offer. Often this is true. The incompetent agent will answer this question by saying something like, "Oh, it's been on the market for a while but they will listen to offers now." The seller is again vulnerable to a low offer.
The best agents will answer this question by saying, "It has been for sale for six weeks (or however long) but we don't expect it to be for sale much longer." The seller is protected.
4. "What will they take?"
This is where the incompetent agents really cost the sellers thousands. Their answers to this question can be incredibly negligent.
Assume the home is priced at $250,000. One of the most common responses goes something like this: "Oh, they did have an offer of $230,000 which they accepted, but the buyers found something else, so I know you can get it for $230,000."
If the home is what you want and you can afford $250,000, the agent has just handed you at least $20,000 of the sellers' money.
Incompetent agents always reveal the sellers' lowest price in response to the "What will they take?" question.
The best agents will answer this question by saying: "Well, I know they will take the asking price. Did you want to buy it?"
These four questions show how incompetent agents under-sell homes. As a buyer, you can ask many more questions. Agents will keep giving you information which helps you.


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The FCC auction of the 700 MHz wireless spectrum is turning out to be more controversial than a Steve Ballmer speech. The auction, slated to begin January 24, 2008, has been tied up with court challenges from Verizon, confusing announcements from AT&T, and in-and-out games from Microsoft.
Verizon, which sued to overturn the FCC's ruling that the winner will have to let customers choose what equipment they want to use, dropped it's suit today after the Court of Appeals refused to fast-track the request. Meanwhile, news agencies busy reporting that AT&T a) definitely would, b) definitely would not, and c) might possibly enter the auction.
For it's part, Microsoft announced it would not participate in the auction, though no word yet from Google about whether it intends to participate.
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