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Noise Reduction
Slides of Sound Fighter System's sound barrier walls, and noise reduction walls. Sound Fighter specializes in highway noise reduction, traffic noise abatement, and and other noise control solutions.
Platforms: Windows
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The two-step noise reduction (TSNR) technique removes the annoying reverberation effect while maintaining the benefits of the decision-directed approach. However, classic short-time noise reduction techniques, including TSNR, introduce harmonic distortion in the enhanced speech. To overcome this...
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SoundSoap is a high-quality, yet easy-to-use, noise reduction and audio restoration tool. By adjusting just a few controls, unwanted hiss, room noise, rumble, electrical hum, clicks and crackles, and other background noise can removed from almost any digital media file - including digital video...
Platforms: Windows, XP, Windows Vista, 7
|License: Freeware
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SoundSoap Pro's comprehensive approach combines three powerful noise reduction and restoration tools - Adaptive Broadband, Click & Crackle, and Hum & Rumble - plus a sophisticated Noise Gate in one plug-in. A unique, fully integrated interface means you're only one click away from a complete...
Platforms: Windows, XP, Windows Vista, 7
|License: Freeware
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WavePad is a sound editor program for Mac OS X. This software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy and paste parts of recording and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction.
Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste,...
Platforms: Mac
|License: Freeware
|Size: 1.42 MB
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ALE is an image-processing program used for tasks such as image mosaicking, super-resolution, deblurring, noise reduction, and anti-aliasing. ALE principle of operation is synthetic capture, combining multiple inputs representing the same scene. Whats New in This Release: - This release...
Platforms: *nix
|License: Freeware
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AbsoluteDeNoiser is an easy to use software that produces very competitive noise reduction filtering for digital images. It is a Java software that should run on almost every machines.
Platforms: Mac
|License: Freeware
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A recent breakthrough in image processing technology to achieve optimal noise reduction, while retaining great image detail, offering you, the user, unprecedented control over the clarity of your photos.
The primary functions of Topaz DeNoise are:
- Remove the most noise while preserving the...
Platforms: Mac
|License: Freeware
|Size: 8.2 MB
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WavePad is a sound editor program for Mac OS X. This software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy and paste parts of recording and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction.
* Sound editing functions include cut,...
Platforms: Mac
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This user interface allows a user to load some Affymetrix data in an Excel file and perform some basic operations on it - log transform, log ratio, normalization, noise reduction, filtering, PCA and clustering, in addition to some visualizations like profile plots, boxplots and matrix...
Platforms: Matlab
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WavePad is a sound editor program for Windows. This software lets you make and edit voice and other audio recordings. You can cut, copy and paste parts of recording and, if required, add effects like echo, amplification and noise reduction.
A list of WavePad's audio editing features follow...
Platforms: Windows
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WavePad is music editing program for the Windows OS. WavePad allows you to create and edit voice, music and other sound recordings. You can duplicate sections of recordings and add echo, amplification, noise reduction and other effects.
The following is a list of features for WavePad Music...
Platforms: Windows, Windows 8, Windows 7, Windows Server
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There are multiple reasons why a clicked photograph has got a snowy appearance because of the presence of tiny glowing speckles. It could be due to a high ISO number low light in the surrounding or an old point-and-shoot camera.
Photo Noise Reducer Pro is a nifty tool designed for Android...
Platforms: Android
|License: Freeware
|Size: 23.37 MB
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Experience increased impact and clarity with clean audio by easily removing unwanted noise and enhancing your recordings. iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner gives you all the tools of a complete audio cleanup suite with straight forward accessibility.
Music & Speech Cleaner's intuitive step-by-step...
Platforms: Windows, Windows Vista, XPX64, 7, 7x64
|License: Freeware
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This product is created for the processing of the amateur video - for example, recorded on the home video equipment or inputted into the PC from TV-tuner or from TV-in of video card. It removes the interlace effect from video and reduces its noise level. The product incorporates the advanced...
Platforms: Windows
|License: Freeware
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This product is created for the filtration of video of low quality and removing interlace effect in realtime.
The program is implemented as a Microsoft® DirectShow® filter and can connect to such players as:
Microsoft MediaPlayer
Light Alloy
Elecard MPEG Player...
Platforms: Windows
|License: Freeware
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Pixels has a new very useful tool in it, "Find Duplicate Images". The tool lets you find duplicate images by content of images.
Pixels can be used as a great graphics viewer, with features like pre-reading for fast viewing, full screen, easy Delete,Move,Copy, Send mail, Print, and easy...
Platforms: DOS, OS/2, BeOS, Palm OS, Windows, Mac, *nix, Windows CE
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Helicon Filter Free offers full set of the professional post processing tools to the digital photographer. Intuitive interface, context help and full screen preview make it easy to learn. Retouching: - one click artifact removal (unique!) - easy skin tone correction - local geometrical...
Platforms: Windows
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A filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in photographic images produced by digital cameras and scanners. Neat Image is indispensable in low-light (indoors, night, no-flash, astro) and high-speed (sport, action, children) photography. It is a must-have tool for both professional...
Platforms: Mac
|License: Freeware
|Size: 12 MB
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A video filter designed to reduce visible noise and grain in digital video sequences produced by digital video cameras, camcorders, TV-tuners, digitizers of film or analog video. Neat Video provides the most accurate video noise reduction currently available.
Neat Video efficiently reduces noise...
Platforms: Mac
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It's that time again! The 15th Annual Austin Live Nativity will be held tonight at 6:PM at the Austin Clinic parking area. Afterwards, there will be a Turkey Raffle at the Fire House with hot chocolate and cookies—everyone's favorite! This is the kickoff for the Christmas season in Austin and it should be a white one.
There will also be a Santa's Village in Kingston from 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM on December 19th. This event is hosted by the Kingston Volunteer Fire Department. Every child from ages 1 through 17 will get a present and a picture with Santa Claus. Please contact Shannon at 964-2120 with gender and ages of children you will be bringing to visit Santa. Goodies will be served!
For more information about this year's Austin Christmas festivities, contact the Austin Chamber of Commerce from 9:am-Noon, Monday through Friday at 775-964-2200.

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New research shows indigenous eye health 'sadly neglected' across the world
The world's indigenous populations experience significantly higher rates of avoidable vision impairment and a striking lack of support for research to address this major health issue, according to a review of eye health led by the Centre for Eye Research Australia and the University of Melbourne. Read more →
10 Mar
Guidelines developed to protect eye banks
Thousands of people are needlessly blind because they live in a country where they have no access to donated corneal tissue. Every day, surgeons in these communities face the challenge of securing the corneas needed to save sight from eye banks elsewhere – often in places like Australia or New Zealand. Read more →
20 Sep
GPs safeguard vision impaired Australians from depression
Referring vision impaired patients to a GP for treatment significantly decreases their symptoms of depression, a study by the Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) has found. Read more →
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Australia's unique new stem cell robot
Australia's unique new stem cell robot gets working on preventing blindness and restoring sight. The Centre for Eye Research Australia (CERA) today opened the Automated Stem Cell Facility and brought Australia's unique new stem cell robot to life. Read more →
07 Aug
Save Sight Institute launches National Keratoconus Registry
Save Sight Institute is preparing to launch a National Keratoconus Registry to collect high quality data and outcomes from emerging therapies and surgical techniques relating to the management of keratoconus. Read more →
12 Feb
Diabetes trial participants needed
Last November, CERA released the Out of Sight report which identified that diabetes affects approximately one million Australian adults. The number is expected to double by the year 2025, posing major public health and economic concerns. However, little is known whether blood vessel dysfunction in the eye, which causes vision loss in people with diabetes, is due to the effects of high blood glucose (sugar) or an indirect result of chronic cell damage. Read more →


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Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki, declaring Japan's public finances had reached a state of emergency, said Thursday the government is considering introducing a supplementary budget to cut public spending.
Suzuki did not specify where cuts would be made but mentioned education and social welfare as areas for review. Noting that Japan's public debt from outstanding issues of government bonds now totaled $346 billion, Suzuki said the situation was being aggravated by shortfalls in tax revenues.


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See a sneak peak at some of our Photography Graduates who will be showcasing at The Raffles Graduate Exhibition 2016. The exhibition will run from the 6th-8th December 2016 at aMBUSH gallery. RSVP is essential, click here to RSVP.
Andrew Mai is an emerging photographer whose current focus is the Australian industrial environment and motorsports.
"We often overlook the impact of industrial landscapes, and their close proximity to suburban areas. This series contrasts industrial areas of Port Kembla with surrounding suburban and natural environments. The graphic composition of this series aims to accentuate the incongruity of industrial areas and the unnatural form that threatens both the natural landscape and the well-being of locals."
Chantelle Kemkemian is a Fashion and Beauty photographer based in Sydney, Australia. Growing up with creative parents, Chantelle discovered an interest in portraiture at an early age. What began as an obsession with illustrating fashion portraits, soon transferred into a career as a make-up artist, through which Chantelle began photographing fashion runway shows with celebrity stylist Donny Galella. Since then, Chantelle has had the opportunity to work alongside respected industry professionals within the fashion industry throughout Sydney.
Influenced by masters in art and photography, Chantelle's work can be described as feminine, refined and classic. Her work is also heavily influenced by her roots in beauty illustration which allows her to create captivating photographs.
"Novus Bellus is a photographic representation of a new, global standard of beauty that is present in today's society. It explores multicultural awareness and appreciation, showcasing models of different ethnicities. Each portrait is a visual celebration of unique ancestral qualities."
Daniel Tran was born in the coastal town of Coffs Harbour, and grew up surrounded by beautiful landscapes along the east coast of Australia. He developed a passion for adventure and photographing nature, moving to Sydney in 2013 and is now in his final year of a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Communication) majoring in Photography at Raffles College.
His major project, Makariri shares a journey through dramatic and moody winter landscapes of New Zealand's south island. It captures the beauty of cold, harsh and remote environments, incorporating both still and moving image to immerse the viewer in the scene. Makariri will be on show at the upcoming Raffles Graduate Exhibition.
Daniel is constantly seeking to capture amazing light and beautiful landscapes. It is his passion to share with others his experiences of the natural world through the images that he creates. Follow his travels on Instagram.
Clare Hodgins lives in Newcastle and works at Maitland Regional Art Gallery as a graphic designer and photographer. She completed a Graphic Design Diploma at Tafe and studied Graphic Communication at Newcastle University before enrolling in a Bachelor of Arts (Visual Communication) majoring in Photography at Raffles College.
She regularly participates in group shows around Newcastle including the annual LookSee exhibition by Zookraft, numerous Roost Creative exhibitions, the Makeit Madeit conference and various exhibitions at Maitland Regional Art Gallery.
Despite being known to embrace a colourful palette to create quirky images and which reflect her imagination and sense of humour. Clare's latest series of dark and moody photographic images takes a different turn, aiming to evoke a strong emotional response in the audience, and can be seen at our upcoming Graduate Exhibition.
"Project D presents dark and moody images that give metaphorical meaning to dead and decaying objects, delighting the audience with an eerie sense of beauty."
This body of work is a combination of two projects – Project D by photographer/graphic designer, Clare Hodgins and Perishable Dandelions by musician/writer, Mitchel Pangas. The art installation comprises of photographs, found objects, soundscape and a book intertwining the photographs and short story. Viewers are invited to draw their own connections between the various elements.
Images from Tiffany Williams' major work have just been published on Grunge 'n' Art (https://www.instagram.com/grungeandart_mag), her work was described as, "an entirely vivid and especially expressive series of snapshot-like photographs..."
"Where I came from takes the audience on a nostalgic trip down memory lane, focusing on friendship and nature. The series carries out a photographic narrative approach on a fashion editorial and challenges us to remember where we've come from."
Tiffany also created a magazine showcasing her work.
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The International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) is reporting that at the 15th Annual African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda, discussion is focusing on issues of maternal mortality and maternal health. As linked to the underfunding of maternal health campaigns that we first alerted to yesterday, international focus is being placed importantly on methods of reducing maternal deaths, many of which are preventable with adequate care. Quoting news provider Xinhua, FIGO states that "In order to meet the Millennium Development Goals devised by the agency the country has to do more to improve maternal health both pre- and post-pregnancy."
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August 28, 2001
By SANDRA BLAKESLEE
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. At a growing number of rehabilitation centers, stroke patients move around with their limbs tightly bandaged, mummy style. Toddlers with cerebral palsy are ensconced in partial body casts. Paraplegics are slung in harnesses and made to walk on treadmills, with automatic equipment moving their feet. Even the blind are having their brains reconfigured with a special camera that allows them "see" via a device worn on the tongue.
Rehabilitation may never look the same. Like engineers in thrall to a new idea, many of the doctors and therapists who help patients with brain injuries are using revolutionary insights about the brain to coax the nervous system into rewiring itself.
But even as new approaches show promise, much uncertainty remains about which patients, if any, are likely to benefit from specific treatments. And the amount of rehabilitation time that is covered by Medicare and private insurers is shrinking just as the patients' options are growing.
The new rehabilitation strategies stem from the realization that the brain makes new neurons in adulthood, and from indications in animals that these cells may be able to migrate to areas damaged by disease or injury. Moreover, researchers know that activity can keep neurons from atrophying.
The challenge is translating that increasingly dynamic view of the brain into useful therapies, said Dr. Susan Fitzpatrick, vice president of the James S. McDonnell Foundation in St. Louis, which promotes research on the mind, the brain and behavior.
Of the half-million people who survive strokes each year, a third recover spontaneously. A quarter are too severely injured to benefit from therapy. The rest can be helped to varying degrees by conventional therapy. It is too soon to know how many people may be helped with the new approaches.
Most physicians adopt a wait-and-see attitude after a brain injury because they are pessimistic, said Dr. Jordan Grafman, a neurologist at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke.
"They recommend rehabilitation therapy more out of a sense that something has to be done than a real expectation that it will help the patient," Dr. Grafman said.
To assess where the new therapies are headed, the McDonnell Foundation invited 30 leading research scientists and rehabilitation therapists to Birmingham in July for a two-day meeting.
Dr. Pamela W. Duncan, director of the Center on Aging at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, said at the meeting that the new insights should be greeted cautiously. "The insights hold great promise but we must proceed with caution," Dr. Duncan said. "It is premature to know exactly how beneficial the therapies may be for most patients."
Some patients are very sick and confused, Dr. Duncan said, and nothing much can help them, while others may benefit enormously. So far, she said, there are more questions than answers: Who decides which patients are candidates for the therapies? What is the definition of improvement or recovery? And, more important, who will pay?
A few years ago, Dr. Duncan said, stroke patients who qualified for Medicare services got three weeks of rehabilitation care. Now they get about 11 days. Medicare is cutting back because the cost of rehabilitation services rose to $30 billion in 1996 from $2.5 billion in 1986.
When patients with brain and spinal cord injuries hear about seemingly miraculous new treatments, said Dr. Anne Shumway- Cook, an associate professor and rehabilitation therapist at the University of Washington, they pressure therapists to provide them.
Frustrated that ordinary methods like teaching a patient to get dressed using only one hand do not do much, especially in 11 days or so, many therapists are offering the new treatments without quite knowing how they work, Dr. Shumway-Cook said. If a method fails, no one knows if it was a problem with the technique or with the way it was being delivered.
The new rehabilitation methods try to kick-start the process of self-repair in the brain or spinal cord. One way to do that appears to be to give amphetamines several weeks after a stroke; that strategy is being tested in a large multicenter trial.
The therapies that rely on restricting or encouraging movement are based on the idea that after a brain injury, a number of brain cells are killed outright, but many cells surrounding the injury are merely stunned. The therapies try to wake up the cells that have been stunned, said Dr. Edward Taub, a neuroscientist at the University of Alabama.
"Right after a stroke, a limb is paralyzed," Dr. Taub said. "Whenever the person tries to move an arm, it simply doesn't work." Even when all the cells that represent the arm in the brain are not dead, he said, the patient, expecting failure, stops trying to move it. "We call it learned non- use," Dr. Taub said.
When the patient relies on the good arm, the recovery of the use of the bad arm becomes less likely.
One approach, called constraint-induced movement-based therapy, rests on the principle that lots of practice can reorganize the brain, said Dr. Wolfgang Miltner, a neuroscientist at the Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena in Germany. But it has to be carried out in a specific manner.
"You don't just repeat movements," Dr. Miltner said. "You have to shape them, which means thinking about the elements of each movement."
In the therapy, a person's good arm is immobilized in thick bandages so the bad arm must be used. Or a good leg is put in a splint, forcing greater reliance on the bad leg. Patients practice moving the bad limb six to seven hours every day for two to three weeks. They sweep the floor, throw balls, draw, play checkers, or walk to the cafeteria.
More than 150 stroke patients have been treated with this method in Birmingham and in Germany, Dr. Taub said, and all have improved, some regaining a great deal of movement. The improvements appear to be permanent, he added.
Constraint-induced movement therapy
cannot work if it is given two hours a day for three days a week for a
couple of weeks, Dr. Taub said, which is what most medical insurance plans
allow. The therapy must be intensive and almost overwhelming, he said.
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Push Square: "There will have been one of two reactions to Microsoft's sizeable Xbox One delay within Sony's colossal European headquarters today: cheers or mopped brows. At almost every turn, the North American company has been playing into the PlayStation maker's hands, and this latest setback is just another example of that. It's certainly not the end of the world for the Redmond-based firm, but it's not exactly sunshine and rainbows either."
Playstation dominance once again? I'm really looking forward to unboxing my PS4 day one.
And sniffing that freshness of new opened stuff.
Don't judge me :P.
Well it's not like Europe was won by Microsoft this gen. They only made things worse over there.
MS is on defense next-gen sony has it eyes sit on NA MS strongest/biggest market and so far MS loosing market share -according to the per-orders-
so i think MS did a smart move here, they dont hve the same chance they had last gen with x360 so there's no need to fight in loosing battles over territories which PlaytStation brand is everything , MS must get NA by any mean necessary
BLACKOO this is the same theory I have . MicroSCAM are putting all their eggs in one basket. M$ are losing ground and now are digging in at their fort North America. All the 180s are do to microSCAM pre orders are not where they expected them to be . PS4 is all sold out even game bundles AND m$ still have plenty of xbones available for pre-order microSCAM is in full panic mode. They are retreating to their stronghold North America they know if they lose too much market share in North America they are in big trouble.
X1 preorders aren't that high and people are gonna change their x1 preorders if it happens that Sony makes a ground breaking announcement like they did at e3 where this time they'll say that for Sony there is no distinction between gamers and everyone should be allowed to have a PS4 day one.. In other words, worldwide release as soon as October.
Its weird but I love the smell of cardboard and wood. I always love the smell of places like Lowes or Homedepot.
Gman sure is trying to be N4G's next Georgenoob...
Looks like the Xbone delay rumor on gamereactor turned out to be true. And just a few hours ago xbox fans were saying how it was only a stupid rumour and that MS would never do such a thing. :-) Says a lot about the accuracy of people's intuitions.
This merely cements my belief in my original posts from earlier this year. I do not believe Microsoft had any intention of launching this year...anywhere. Not only did Sony's February announcement catch MS unawares as regards hardware specifications but more importantly I think they were totally unprepared by Sony's plans to launch worldwide this year.
Everything about the Xone seems cobbled together in an emergency meeting. Their original plans for the unit as regards DRM were ill-conceived and hardly thought through and their hardware is grossly underpowered. All of their back peddling speaks of the sorts of matters which would have been resolved in advance given a proper development time. Everything connected with the Redmond outing smells rushed as if it were decided overnight. Now the lack of proper testing over time has cost them chip yields and the inability to meet shipment is the result of unplanned console deployment rather than customer demand.
These cancelations will cause Sony to greatly increase their US marketing in order to hit MS at home. Great news for us but quite grim for the Done.
I agree nothing like the smell of a new console
http://media.tumblr.com/879... <--MS
Yield problems is pretty much confirmed. lol
So many problems with this console. They definitely WERE NOT ready when Sony announced PS4. lol They aren't even having a livestream for Gamescom! XD Guess they really did blow most of their load at E3 and don't have much else to show. lol
...... Anyways, 13 regions??? The number 13 isn't unlucky at all. lol
I give credit to the posters who early on in this current gen called it when they said it would take Sony two console releases to finish off MS.
God I love that new stuff smell :P particularly game instruction manuals :p (might be the binding glue LOL) weird but it smells pretty satisfying :P
dat smell...yeah, love it too!
13 countries, not region!
The delay tells me one of two things either they are getting lower yields because of some last minute overclocking or they want to bombard the xbone with as many units as possible in the most important territories.
I'm not going to judge you Majin-Vega... I have to smell all the new things I buy too :D
@Morganfell:- I 100% agree with you.
It would seem like MS were never going for 2013 launch after all. After PS4 feb reveal it was ultra quiet from MS.
All these reversals could of been done in the development stage and in private but they have had to rush their schedule. Why? Because PS3 is doing so well everywhere else apart from the US and the PS4 seems likely to steam ahead.
The strong line up of developers and great franchise games have helped Sony get back the lead that the 360 had from a years head start.
MS do NOT believe their product could catch up if PS4 had a year head start. Good point, Morganfell!
I'm guessing Microsoft is doing this to release the console earlier by only producing consoles to the countries with the highest demand while also really hurting popularity in the others. The less units they produce, the quicker it will be for them to ship them all out. Then they can keep supplying till other countries get to receive it. If they release it earlier, will this hurt the PS4? No, to Microsoft this is already a lost battle. If the Xbox One gets a week or 2 earlier release day, it's not going to make a difference compared to having a 1 year advantage. Sony has been prepared way before the Xbox One, the PS4 is not a rushed console. And who knows, maybe Sony will surprise us all and release it in October with all the demand they have received. This article confirms Microsoft are in panic mode and unprepared. High chance the Xbox One was still a prototype when they first showed it and still is now.
actually every time i buy blank DVDs i always smell them don't now why
It's all about China now guys. Whoever sell the most there will win the console war!
the funny thing is here that sony didn't really change a whole lot this gen.
Microsoft just seems to like inflicting self harm
ps2 says ''ill be back'' ps3 gets the chip from skynet, ps4 walks in.
So in other words... PS4 is Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Hey Microsoft... Remember when I told you I'd kill you last?? I lied!
Different movie of course, but still classic Arnold!
So Microsoft being dead in Europe is pretty much confirmed at this point. lol
Their only stronghold there is the UK and even there, they are getting curb-stomped in pre orders... lol
Yep ,time to watch T2 for the millionth time :)
Fanboys are out in full force today. Summer camp cancelled?????
Good laugh with that one....bubble for you. :)
I wasn't going to buy not the X1 nor the PS4 at launch... so if the consoles are released a bit later in my country, no difference for me.
Well that's good for you I guess but it sucks for anyone else that wanted one on the first day.
You came here to post this?....
Haven't placed a pre-order for either console either seems like a good strategy.
Microsoft realy sucks at marketing they should have kept their cards closed on which countries the xb1 would launch first.
Not sure if I should believe them but if they haven't already made the xb1 compatible with European television providers boxes it probably is not a bad move, in order to prevent maybe even more negative publicity.
They get a FREE GAME with the purchase of a console in those delayed regions so why is that a bad thing. Sony didnt give a free game with a year of delays for PS3
fermcr - fermcr11
What's more ironic is you getting busted answering with an alternative account.
"You came here to post this?.... "
... and you came here to post that!
How Ironic!"
How many accounts does one need? A better question is why would you want more than one? Anyway, you would at least think you would be more original and have different user names and not just add numbers next to an existing one.
I have 5478 N4G accounts...oops, created a new one, it's 5479 N4G accounts now.. SOOOO WHAT!!!... what are going to do now?
Call a wambulance !
You have 5479 split personalities and so far, that one is the stupidest one.
Anything further said could be considered child abuse. Seeing that one of your 5479 accounts was banned was sufficient enough. For now.
If N4G would tighten their belt more often people like me, gamers that actually have something to contribute, would add value to sites like this instead of just lurking in the shadows as to not combat the ignorance. Since the battle of ignorance can only be won by ignoring it.
Oh well, back to the shadows.
Enjoy fermcr
It's certainly looking that way at the moment...And in the next week or so, we'll know more about what some of the bigger Sony studios are up to. :)
Sony are bound to use this as an opportunity to gain an even stronger grip of Europe - or at least aim to.
Interesting times....
if i was running sony i would do my absolute best to launch PS4 world wide, especially in those countries where xbox one won't Launch till 2014
PlayStation brand is already so strong in Europe and the news from MS will do nothing more than to make it even stronger
come to think of it has MS kept any of their word or features they announced at E3, they been back tracking ever since
many who will want a next gen console will buy the 1st available one in their respective countries, so a world wide launch could really have huge incentive for sony
if I were Sony I would push for an October launch, that would be the knockout blow.
I have a friend in best buy who told me they are getting ps4 shipments at the end of this month. Don't know how true it is tho.
Can't wait for PS4 to be announced and get a release date worldwide!(Including in my country and countries that I vist usually)
Can't Gamescom come soon?
I am from Egypt and I also vist and buy games in KSA and UAE alot.
EDIT1: (I know it'll be realsed in USA and EU first then Japan and Asia countries still just hoping a release date for either KSA or UAE as well)
EDIT2: Why the disagree? What did I do?
PS4 is region free so you get one in US (Amazon) , probably cheaper than in other countries.
Also you can find anything you want in UAE, I heard.
I got disagrees too for asking a question! Funny. I guess I may not ask!!!!
yes unboxing, something special about doing it yourself., I'm glad it wasn't whored out like a cheap youtube vid.
dear Redempteur
You bet your ass they did another 180 and got rid of Kinect along with of all the dumbasses who had no clue. Just how far they strayed from a successful Xbox 360 Business model still has heads scratching. The Xbox 360 earned billions I imagine. Anyway, at least MS got the shit RIGHT. MS will look like geniuses once the XB1 is officially cheaper than the PS4.
*Now who's smiling
*Brace yourselves Sony fanboys!!! THAT KINECT-LESS XB1 SKUis IMMINENT!!! Probably the last 180 they'll need just before xmas $349 or less as it is rumored the weaker console and cheaper get folks back on
Once again? You know it took 6 years for PS3 to knock the 360 in to 3rd place right?
Despite a huge launch price difference, and a 1 year head-start. It's not how you start it's how you finish.
even accounting shipping difference , it's still an initially uber expansive console that everyone ragged upon , at first , with "no games" , that turned things around and completely caught up
RAY it had a year headstart because PS3 was delayed for a year. Now you want to say something about MS because they have a delay in 8 regions? GTFOH! They are even giving those regions a FREE GAME because of it. What did you get from SONY on their delay? NOT A GODDAMN THING
You're really grasping at straws there. All manufacturers reports shipped numbers because when they ship they are sold as far as they are concerned.
But also retailers don't order more stock when what they have isn't selling. Retailers today don't carry extra stock, it costs them too much money. So that means the the shipped numbers are the sold numbers after a few weeks.
The PS3 shipped later than the Xbox 360 because they had to wait for the bluray and HDMI 1.3 specs to be completed. By waiting they were able to ship with more advanced tech. And still they caught up and passed 360 sales despite the 12-24 months sales lead the 360 had over the PS3. The Xbox One isn't going to gain any technological advantage by shipping late, it will just be late.
Business 101
Companies don't do business through consignment. Companies manufacture a product. They than set an MSRP for said product. They than sell their products below that MSRP to vendors. Vendors pay said company for their shipment of units for said product. Vendor (Best Buy, GameStop, Amazon, Wal-Mart, etc) sells product for a profit at or around MSRP.
What ever Sony, MS, Nintendo, etc.. ship. They got bank for already. In house consumer numbers can never truly be known and is a moot talking point. We then start getting into how many 360 are actually still working because of hardware issues, etc... Who cares? Sony, MS and Nintendo got their bank the minute the vendor paid them for the shipment of their products. That is ALL the companies care about.
So shipped vs sold doesn't really matter.
Does it?
And how many repeat 360 purchases were there due to RROD?
I know at least 3 people that bought B/U 360's..
If I told you how many 360's I purchase you would probably think I was full of it. Currently I own 6 and have 5 in my house.
To be honest, as per my name sake, I don't know a 360 gamer that hasn't purchased no less than 2 360's. I have one friend that purchased 1 more than me and quite a few that have purchased more than 3.
"What did you get from SONY on their delay? NOT A GODDAMN THING"
Sony did give us something and you know what it was? A reliable console at launch.
Sorry but Microsoft rushing the 360 to beat the PS3 caused the first generation of 360s to suffer massive hardware failures.
Heres proof in case you dont believe me.
"Here are their findings:
Console failure rate
Xbox 360 – 54.2%
Playstation 3 – 10.6%
Wii – 6.8%"
More proof.
"There is a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff we can't know here. But, based on the numbers, a failure rate between 29% and 43% would not be unreasonable. So maybe those 33% reports aren't so far off the mark, after all."
Anyways its nice that Microsoft is giving away a free game to make up for the delay but the last time they gave away something (XBOX Live Outage) the game was a terrible game called undertow.
"Major Nelson just pinged us to let us know that Undertow has been pegged as the game that will be offered for free as an apology for the recent troubles on Xbox Live."
OT: Anyways i always believed that Microsoft was caught off guard by the PS4s unveiling and all their 180s and these delays prove most of my theory's right. I just dont understand how a firm can screw up a product launch so badly. In my opinion Microsoft should just delay the system by a year and make it a lot better.
It would of been a hell of alot sooner if it wasn't for RROD.
POOR Sony fanboys calling victory already 3 months prior to launch on a 6-7 year console cycle. No doubt MS GOTS A PLAN. Inevitable Sony will get undecut by MS sooner than later
*A Kinect-less Xbox One SKU will close any possible lead Sony might have .
*If MS is getting their ass kicked that badly in preorders you can bet your lil Sony fanboy asses MS has a cheaper SKU on deck which explains the Kinect reversal . MARK MY WORDS $349
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Sony didn't 'delay' the PS3...it was announced in 2005 with no price and no date, with a bunch of pre-rendered trailers...
Ms reacted by running a public hardware beta beginning in late 2005...the price they payed for rushing to beat Sony out the gate was over $1 billion JUST in warranty changes...let alone losses on every console sold at the time...
just stating, there was never a 'delay'...obviously Sony would've preferred to hit the market sooner...but its not like they announced a release window...then missed it...which is what MS is currently in the middle of for specific territories...
Their "plan" is do undo everything they had planned at first because they realised they were going straight in a wall.
As a result they are unprepared and they know themselves that they can't deliver ... the only good thing microsft has done is to realise quickly that their initial strategy was a failure.


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