You could say the same about the vast majority of videos being released on any format. OTOH, I recently bought THE RED SHOES on Blu-ray as a gift for a friend. Hardly a Michael Bay film. As always, you have to look a bit harder to find the good stuff, because the studios want you to buy whatever dogshit they just wasted three hundred million bucks on, and the retailers want to sell that dogshit to you.
The MPAA doesn't refuse to rate films. However, sometimes companies who aren't MPAA signatories will refuse to [i]submit[/i] films to be rated which would never get anything less restrictive than an NC-17 rating due to their content. No rating at all is, illogically and unfairly, less of a commercial liability than an NC-17, and unlike getting an NC-17, it doesn't cost money to not get rated.
The city itself was probably a big part of your problem. Done correctly, RF deals much better with wide open spaces than it does with interference-filled urban environments.
Because you lose quality when you take a lossy encoding, decode it, and then re-encode it with a lossy codec. I don't WANT to lose quality, that's why I'm watching a Blu-ray in the first place. Christ.
Honestly, it's nearing the point where we should physically confront these politicians and smack them upside the head.
Nearing the point? Only in the sense that we're so far past that point now that we've actually circled the earth and it is once again looming on the horizon.
Verizon's FIOS FireWire port, at least in my house, is fully active, and I have a HD full of programs recorded entirely legally from it. Now, the port's currently BROKEN, thanks to the latest "update", but certainly not disabled. I could get a horribly mangled MPEG stream out of it right now (if there was any point, as it IS horribly mangled to the point of uselessness).
It's saddening that there's people who still believe there's anything substantially liberal about the American media. Unless we're talking about Pacifica or something - and somehow I don't think that's what most people mean by "liberal media". Then again, nobody in this country knows what liberalism even is anymore. Barack Obama gets called a SOCIALIST routinely... which I'm sure is a source of endless amusement and no small amount of confusion to actual socialists the world over.
I definitely record from the outputs on my STB. Plenty of movies never made it to DVD or even VHS, or made it in horrible condition, which get run from time to time on cable, frequently in pristine condition. Stuff that I'd have bought if only it were an option - but a perceived lack of demand, indifferent, mismanaged, out-of-business distributors, rights issues, or whatever have kept it out of circulation.
Or, I should say, I USED to record from the STB outputs... until the most recent FIOS software update broke FireWire output and HDMI simultaneously. Thanks, Verizon douchebags!
To my shock and amazement, the Region 1 DVD release of the film JCVD from Peace Arch Entertainment has two non-DRM "digital copies", one in MP4 and one in WMV format. Both play fine in Ubuntu and on any device which supports MP4 and/or WMV. It's nice to see a company do this correctly. I've been meaning to write them a thank you note - think I'll do that now.
I hate the term "digital copy" though. Did DVDs and Blu-rays become something other than digital copies at some point?
This win was more a rebuke to the conservatives than anything else.
And that's more than enough justification for me. American conservatives are making me wish we really were shipping them off to FEMA camps. Fortunately for them/unfortunately for everyone else, it's merely delusion.
Apple did this. iMac G5s which came with three USB 2 ports shipped with a keyboard containing a two-port USB 1 hub. Don't know how long this was the case, but at least initially that's what they were doing.
Did you SEE the movies Fox made based on Marvel properties? Other than the first two X-MEN films, it's been wall to wall dogshit. If Fox had bought Marvel instead of Disney, the pathetic whining and moaning from people who don't know what the hell they're talking about would be far worse and far more justifiable. Fox never met the property that they couldn't micro-mismanage into oblivion. They're the ones who hired Brett Ratner to make X-MEN 3. Disney will let Marvel do what Marvel wants to do because Disney likes money. Interference with Marvel would poison the brand and with it Disney's massive investment in it. Disney releases of Marvel films will be through a subsidiary company, most likely Touchstone.
Last time Marvel was owned by a movie studio it was the short lived post-Roger Corman incarnation of New World Pictures. This couldn't possibly turn out any worse than that did.
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That's where the porn lives.
I am from Virginia. Not only is this news to me, but it's news directly contradictory to my personal experience.
You could say the same about the vast majority of videos being released on any format. OTOH, I recently bought THE RED SHOES on Blu-ray as a gift for a friend. Hardly a Michael Bay film. As always, you have to look a bit harder to find the good stuff, because the studios want you to buy whatever dogshit they just wasted three hundred million bucks on, and the retailers want to sell that dogshit to you.
The MPAA doesn't refuse to rate films. However, sometimes companies who aren't MPAA signatories will refuse to [i]submit[/i] films to be rated which would never get anything less restrictive than an NC-17 rating due to their content. No rating at all is, illogically and unfairly, less of a commercial liability than an NC-17, and unlike getting an NC-17, it doesn't cost money to not get rated.
Keep digging that hole.
Eventually?
Correction: as of 2009 the 27" iMac actually can be used as a monitor via its DisplayPort connector. (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3924).
The city itself was probably a big part of your problem. Done correctly, RF deals much better with wide open spaces than it does with interference-filled urban environments.
Mod parent Gitmo.
I believe a region free DVD player would be an illegal DRM circumvention tool.
(Love and agree w/your sig.)
Because you lose quality when you take a lossy encoding, decode it, and then re-encode it with a lossy codec. I don't WANT to lose quality, that's why I'm watching a Blu-ray in the first place. Christ.
"the ever-popular integrated 35mm film projector and DVD player."
WANT BAD:LY.
Honestly, it's nearing the point where we should physically confront these politicians and smack them upside the head.
Nearing the point? Only in the sense that we're so far past that point now that we've actually circled the earth and it is once again looming on the horizon.
Verizon's FIOS FireWire port, at least in my house, is fully active, and I have a HD full of programs recorded entirely legally from it. Now, the port's currently BROKEN, thanks to the latest "update", but certainly not disabled. I could get a horribly mangled MPEG stream out of it right now (if there was any point, as it IS horribly mangled to the point of uselessness).
It's saddening that there's people who still believe there's anything substantially liberal about the American media. Unless we're talking about Pacifica or something - and somehow I don't think that's what most people mean by "liberal media". Then again, nobody in this country knows what liberalism even is anymore. Barack Obama gets called a SOCIALIST routinely... which I'm sure is a source of endless amusement and no small amount of confusion to actual socialists the world over.
I definitely record from the outputs on my STB. Plenty of movies never made it to DVD or even VHS, or made it in horrible condition, which get run from time to time on cable, frequently in pristine condition. Stuff that I'd have bought if only it were an option - but a perceived lack of demand, indifferent, mismanaged, out-of-business distributors, rights issues, or whatever have kept it out of circulation.
Or, I should say, I USED to record from the STB outputs... until the most recent FIOS software update broke FireWire output and HDMI simultaneously. Thanks, Verizon douchebags!
If Obama was smart, he'd publicly endorse air, leading immediately to the entire Republican party boycotting it.
To my shock and amazement, the Region 1 DVD release of the film JCVD from Peace Arch Entertainment has two non-DRM "digital copies", one in MP4 and one in WMV format. Both play fine in Ubuntu and on any device which supports MP4 and/or WMV. It's nice to see a company do this correctly. I've been meaning to write them a thank you note - think I'll do that now.
I hate the term "digital copy" though. Did DVDs and Blu-rays become something other than digital copies at some point?
Where do all the scientists who are skeptics fit in?
A thimble.
This win was more a rebuke to the conservatives than anything else.
And that's more than enough justification for me. American conservatives are making me wish we really were shipping them off to FEMA camps. Fortunately for them/unfortunately for everyone else, it's merely delusion.
that shit was old from day one.
Mod parent insightful.
I would just as soon see them all shot.
I feel the same way about you, if it's any consolation.
Apple did this. iMac G5s which came with three USB 2 ports shipped with a keyboard containing a two-port USB 1 hub. Don't know how long this was the case, but at least initially that's what they were doing.
Did you SEE the movies Fox made based on Marvel properties? Other than the first two X-MEN films, it's been wall to wall dogshit. If Fox had bought Marvel instead of Disney, the pathetic whining and moaning from people who don't know what the hell they're talking about would be far worse and far more justifiable. Fox never met the property that they couldn't micro-mismanage into oblivion. They're the ones who hired Brett Ratner to make X-MEN 3. Disney will let Marvel do what Marvel wants to do because Disney likes money. Interference with Marvel would poison the brand and with it Disney's massive investment in it. Disney releases of Marvel films will be through a subsidiary company, most likely Touchstone.
Last time Marvel was owned by a movie studio it was the short lived post-Roger Corman incarnation of New World Pictures. This couldn't possibly turn out any worse than that did.
Also, Marvel/Pixar = WIN.