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Toshiba To Halt HD-DVD Production
Multiple users have written to tell us that Toshiba is planning to halt production of devices related to HD-DVD. According to Japanese broadcasting network NHK, Toshiba will lose "hundreds of millions of dollars" as the format war finally draws to a close. Regardless, investors are pleased that Toshiba has made the decision to cut its losses. This comes after a last-ditch price cut was unable to prevent Wal-mart from throwing their lot in with Blu-ray, although some sources suggest that Wal-mart was already aware of Toshiba's plans to withdraw from fight.
Ask any catholic..
He tried to kill me with a forklift!
At least the signs are big enough to see. In Belgium they're often tiny, only visible from one direction, and covered in dirt so you can't read them anyway.
I thought in the UK a centreline is more line than gap whereas lane markers are 'lghter':
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But it's been a while.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Troll this BrightFrame religious nut:
http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=-GQYkiekNhQ&fromurl=/watch%3Fv%3D-GQYkiekNhQ
You obviously have no clue about Libertarianism. Nor do you have a clue about how wasteful your government is (assuming the US), that it spends way more than it collects in revenue (taxes), that it conducts torture and kills innocents in needless wars (hint: it didn't start with the Bush Administration, and it won't end their either.)
But since we are into slinging mud at political ideologies, let me add my 2 cents:
Now that I have that off my chest, a word about the Blu-Ray/HD-DVD formats.
Firstly, "Blu-Ray" rolls off the tongue much better than "HD-DVD". Ugh!
Secondly, Blu-Ray storage capacity is quite a bit higher than HD-DVD's
Thirdly, it's about frelling time Toshiba finally woke up to smell reality!
Now that HD-DVD is effectively dead, the market can simply focus on one format, which should result in a quicker price-drop and faster deployment of content, devices, and the like for Blu-Ray. Also, I am so glad I waited until this fallout happened. I predicted that Blu-Ray would finally win, especially since Sony woke up and smelt the reality of PORN! Finally, someone learns from past mistakes and refuses to make them again! A frelling miracle, if you ask me.
Quite frankly, all I care about is having something to back up my terabyte drives to. DVDs have become the floppy disks of the past -- who really wants to shuffle 40 or 50 of them just to backup one frelling drive?
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Actually what is common is downsizing. I am a integrator and the sales guys talk clients into the 60" monsters all the time. my Installers call saying "it wont fit" more often than not because the customer was sold a TV that is entirely too gigantic for their room size.
for a sane apartment or home a 37 is more than big enough. I have a 50 and it is honestly too big it dominates the room and requires 2 people to safely move it. the 60" monsters or larger get even worse. Unless you have a HUGE living room anything bigger than a 42 is nuts.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
Not really - we should be thinking above the postage stamp stuff of the SD era now. You measure based on your distance from the screen... 1.5x screen width (often quoted as 2x screen height but I think they're roughly equivalent). At 37" you're looking at a recommended viewing distance of 4.1 feet. You can use http://myhometheater.homestead.com/viewingdistancecalculator.html to do the calculation.
In fact a lot of stores are undersizing what they sell to consumers for two reasons (1) people have been used to TV as a little box in the corner for years, and that's a hard habit to break, and (2) there's lots of tiny TVs in stock and they have to sell them.
In fact the the average person sitting 8 feet from their TV they shouldn't be looking at around 70 inches ideally, so those 'monsters' you're talking about are the right size. Personally I'm quite happy at 92" and wouldn't go smaller (I'm thinking of going 100" at some point).