This may be a UK thing but they do very nice CD/MP3 players for about $100US. My $120 one (and that was 2 years ago now) even plays VCDs via a little composite out.
Yes. I bought a Dreamcast a year after release when it looked like it was starting to go downhill. I got a good price on a nearly new system with Crazy Taxi.
I bought it because it was a system with some damn good games that I could suddenly see myself getting very cheap.
And I did.
Today I own 44 legal Dreamcast games, the majority of the ones I purchased where grabbed for comparative chump change.
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That I see as the worse case scenario for my 9 month old Xbox for which I currently own 4 games. If the worst comes to the very worst I'll pick up a mod chip once XBLive dies and use it with emulators as the "Everything before 2000" console.
Plus, in general, we'd have to say that the english speaking film world is very much "based" in one place. Certainly a lot more than the english language music world is.
The arcade division Atari Games was sold long ago and has bounced round owners and is now the one owned by Infograms and being used to batch all their shit.
The Console / Computer biz is different. That was eventually folded into JDS around when the Jag died.
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This may be a UK thing but they do very nice CD/MP3 players for about $100US. My $120 one (and that was 2 years ago now) even plays VCDs via a little composite out.
Yes. I bought a Dreamcast a year after release when it looked like it was starting to go downhill. I got a good price on a nearly new system with Crazy Taxi.
I bought it because it was a system with some damn good games that I could suddenly see myself getting very cheap.
And I did.
Today I own 44 legal Dreamcast games, the majority of the ones I purchased where grabbed for comparative chump change.
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That I see as the worse case scenario for my 9 month old Xbox for which I currently own 4 games. If the worst comes to the very worst I'll pick up a mod chip once XBLive dies and use it with emulators as the "Everything before 2000" console.
Gumpei Yokoi, I salute your creativity and your energy, but the time is not right just yet.
It's worth letting you know if you don't.
Unfortunately Gumpei was killed in a car accident in (iirc)1999.
In the UK, the master system lasted 1985-1995, in Brazil it still goes.
Far to Americentric an article
I guessed but I had to be pedantic since I already had the more important "death" not "written" point to address.
So , at present Australians can get up to the beginning of 1953. Seems a hell of a lot easier to follow than the mess of dates the parent posted.
Not quite.
Up to 50 years after the end of the year of the author's death
i.e - they can get stuff up to the end of 1952, assuming the author also died that year.
I wonder though. What if they wrote something in 1951, died in 1952, but it was only discovered (and published) in 1973. What applies?
Plus, in general, we'd have to say that the english speaking film world is very much "based" in one place. Certainly a lot more than the english language music world is.
If it's $150k for a (say) 8MB song.
I wouldn't want to be on the recieving end of the suit for downloading that Bowling for Columbine DVD!
(and yes, if some bugger released it on DVD I'd be first in line to buy)
No, I assumed it was what you listened to because you implied you went to $5 concerts.
So I was saying they were subsidising you.
Clearly I not only grabbed the wrong end of the stick, but then proceeded to beat myself with it. Apologies.
Yes but here, it's the already popular that gets the price break.
Effectively britney is currently subsidising the low selling end of the record company's library.
And that's probably what you listen to.
We've always paid the same 17.5% sales tax on online sales as we've paid anywhere else.
Didn't stop it taking off.
This only applies if you're from outside the EU.
Equally it should apply in this case if you're outside the US
It happened, Creative released a card.
No-one noticed.
It's only a month since they were CONVICTED AND FINED for years of deliberate price fixing and intimidation in europe.
The arcade division Atari Games was sold long ago and has bounced round owners and is now the one owned by Infograms and being used to batch all their shit.
The Console / Computer biz is different. That was eventually folded into JDS around when the Jag died.
They DO lose money on the hardware.
They make money on software.
But not just their software. They make a healthy $ on EVERY game released for it, may it be made by Sega, EA or CmdrTaco.
It's the third party software money that pays for the hardware losses of the first 2 years or so.
And there's an additional thought here.
If Britney fell to $5 a CD but the smaller selling acts had to stay at $15.
Do you think the gap in sales between the two would get bigger or smaller.
Bizzarely the one thing we DON'T want is for "pop" pop to fall in price because that will only spur its sales and give us EVEN more of it.
An alternative (and obviously more british) version of this is the Hitchikers Guide to the galaxy 2.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/
(although it appears to have been pre-slashdotted right now)
Indeed under that view the ipod would have to be illegal since the only thing you CAN do is stick MP3s on it.
:P
Actually if you own the copyright I suppose you can use the ipod just to listen to your own music.
What a nice life that person leads
I don't think they want us having the freedom that would offer, so commercial audio is unikely in that form.
For hobby, occasional "Ministry" package then yeah, damn good idea.
Yes personal insults. Very classy.
We should be looking to save space rather than rely on HD growth. The best non-lossy compression should be worth a hunt.
So what you're saying is that home production may drive it?
True, I'm wondering for the normal people though.
For Jimmy and Phil, it's Mp3s still. Home Divxing is rare although P2P is giving it a fairly major kick. Do we think they'll get involved in that?
Maybe future hard drive growth for normal users will simply be driven by the size of their pipe.
Sorry, I should have used "lossless" rather than "uncompressed"
Oh and I'm assuming a lot of the video growth is offset by an improvement in lossless video codec's compression.
Which is actually quite clever.
Because in those days, all you really wanted the HD for was to avoid swapping disks.
So you had your 100 discs and it was like having a very quick 100 disc multichanger.
Somehow thinking about it like that was more impressive than "Here's 7MB"