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A Closer Look At D-VHS At DVDfile.com
great throwdini writes: "Peter M. Bracke of DVDfile.com
has written
a more thoughtful piece on D-VHS
(mentioned in the Slashdot article,
Copy-Protected Digital VHS)
based on his impressions of a press demonstration.
Says Fox's VP of Marketing, Peter Staddon,
'If we thought it (D-VHS) was going to kill DVD,
we wouldn't be doing it.'
Peter has even put together a nice little
factsheet
on the format.
Encryption may be absent on D-VHS tapes,
but it looks like the practice of region coding may continue."
Private Pyle, I'm gonna give you three seconds, exactly three fuckin' seconds, to wipe that stupid lookin' grin off your face or I will gouge out your eyeballs and skull fuck you!
- Mighty-Troll was here
- They are shy or antisocial;
- They spend a large percentage of their free time on a computer;
- They are quick to criticise the government or corporations, often
complaining about their "rights online";
- They are obsessed with privacy;
- They have a tendency to play violent computer games;
- They frequently illegally copy music, movies, or software;
- They listen to aggressive, "alternative" music;
- They have an aversion to going outside;
- They like to reverse-engineer, or "hack", anything they can
for no substantive reason;
- They use software such as Linux, which is designed by and for
hackers.
For the sake of national security, please report all potential terrorists to the NSA.This is the second article today that I have seen the world "boondoggle" in. Is this the new media catchword of the week or something?
Do I need to start using it in everyday speech??
-Restil
Play with my webcams and lights here
My God, people, get some priorities!!
Hey, fucktard, do you think you're contributing anything by repeating exactly what's been said in every other article on this topic to be posted on Slashdot?
Is your company running tools written by ma
Today, the discovery of huge caches of Chinese-made munitions in al-Quaeda bunkers proves once and for all that China supports terrorism. Keep in mind that publically, China claims to support America's anti-terror initiative. I haven't seen that type of oriental treachery since Pearl Harbor--and you know how we remedied that situation.
Now, as President Bush has said, "You're either with us, or you're against us." China, with actions not words, has shown itself to be against the United States. As we speak, China is funneling more arms to anti-American terrorists and building up its own nuclear capabilities with stolen American technology. China has previously shown its insolence by refusing to immediately return a downed American spy-plane and its crew; a plane, I might add, that was forced to land due to the incompetence of a Chinese fighter jockey.
Clearly, China wishes to challenge the supremacy of America and the West. They want a fight, let's give them a fight. Let's return to basics, return to the only type of diplomacy respected in Asia. Nuclear diplomacy.
I'm calling for a massive, pre-emptive strike against Chinese nuclear installations, military concentrations, and population centers. The first volley of ICBMs will remove any possiblity that the Chinese can respond to our operation in kind. Next, we decimate China's military with a series of well placed nuclear strikes. Once we attain air superiority, we can then spend a leisurely couple of weeks mopping up China's civilian population.
Note, also, that this proposal kills two birds with one stone. President Bush has already committed to reducing America's nuclear arsenal by something like 4000 warheads. A pre-emptive strike against China, which is something we need to do anyway, will allow us to get our money's worth out of the surplus warheads, as well as saving us the cost of disarming them and disposing of them.
Write your Senators and Representatives. Tell them you demand a US first strike against China. If not for your own safety, do it for the children.
Remeber, if we don't get them, they'll get us. Do you want to go through life dogged by worries about a Chinese sneak attack? Or would it be better to ignore the knee-jerk international outrage and liberal hand-wringing and solve the problem of China for good.
"I can understand copy protection "
Do you mean that in the sense that:
"I understand why Hitler hated the jews"
or is more along the lines of;
"I understand why a serial kill does it"
Or maybe its more like:
"I understand that men sometimes have sexual feelings for other men"
No really. What do you mean by this kind of inanity. Its enough to make a free man puke.
Increase the size of formats. Tapes will always be much bigger than hard drives for a reasonable amount of cash. We can't trade DVDs too easily because of the 9GB size. That goes away in a few years, but by that point, we've got DVHS and HD-DVD. Later, you add some sort of 3d or multiple view type features. You improve the format, and stay ahead of the hard disk curve. People can copy it, just as with VHS, and now with DVDs->DiVX, but only at a quality loss. Doesn't change status quo from the film producer's point of view. At the same time, it doesn't piss off people like me and lead to boycotts or, at the very least, damn good rationalizations for piracy. I must admit. I like the new strategy. I really don't mind paying for content, but I do mind paying for something crippled. This avoids the problems.
I hate forgetting 's. I hate hitting submit instead of preview. I hate life. I hate you.
Ok, I'm better now.
--- At my sig, unleash hell.