So since when has this one judge been appointed chief law officer of the entire Internet? American laws do not affect me since I live in the UK and this is a breach of European privacy laws. Perhaps I'll go and pull our troops from afghanistan and order the execution of Mugabe if it's now OK for one man to act on behalf of the rest of the world. This needs to be jumped all over by the EFF and privacy advocates, that judge should be removed for abuse of power.
"The property was likely stolen from the Defense Department, the report said."
Ok, probably the F-14 parts, but being ex-forces I myself have about 3 NBC suits and a box full of respirator canisters, amongst god knows what else, from clothes to tins, helmets, gortex. It's all just surplus you pick up during your time in. Half of it you can buy and any army surplus store/warehouse anyway.
May I ask why you have put an E on the end of "develop"? I have myself for the past 25 years, yet have been systematically slapped down by people from both sides of the pond:P
The universe is a huge place, what makes NASA think that our telescopes are able to see the "earliest stars and galaxies"? Or is this one of those "We are in the center of the universe" ideologies again?
A CRT can certainly look good, and yes we are on 576i, but there is a significant difference between 576i and 1080i here in the UK. I actually stare at HD panels all day so maybe I'm biased. Another, very big, factor is what the content was recorded on. Most things these days are recorded with HD cameras but transmitted in SD. When viewed the difference is not as significant, but it is still there. And of course the technology present in the screen also determines your final output.
Unfortunately I wouldn't be happy paying a premium for "good enough" content. And, as I'm sure you're aware, ISPs in the UK are appalling. I'm unfortunate enough to be using tiscalis "up to" 8meg on a line that can support 6, I generally get 2.
SACD certainly has been swamped by digital music and standard CD, but you'll find they are popular with the more discerning audiophile and often found in abundance in the more specialised music stores and independents. SACD players can be found at pretty much any hifi specialist (ie not Comet or Joes Hifi)
MiniDisc - whilst it has certainly lost it's appeal with the younger generation is used extensively by professional musicans, recording studios and, in particular, field reporters - you'd be surprised. Certainly the pre-recorded MDs are virtually impossible to find (I think I saw 5 in Dixons about 15 years ago), but the portable MiniDisc player/recorders and hifi seperates can be found in any hifi store.
So as a vast majority of the content on YouTube constitutes of copyright material (video rips, spoofs, audio tracks), does that mean that anyone accessing the latest J-Lo (I cringe) music video will be barred from the net like a patron of the Queen Vic?
What is wrong with you fucking people? The BDC own the BD format, Sony is only one OF MANY HUGE GLOBAL COMPANIES that are involved. You hate Sony, far enough, then you refuse to buy any films from Sony Pictures, MGM, Tristar, Columbia - a huge proportion of the video market. You own no music - given that Sony co-created the CD. Fine, you're loss. But for fucks sake stop bitching and whining about Sony ass raping the world over BD. People now have a MUCH higher standard of video and audio reproduction with greater interactivity - if you don't want this for people, then crawl back into your cave and live a the rest of your life watching reruns of yourself on your Hi8 camcorder and playing with your old, non vaio, amstrad with a 3.5" disk - oh wait, Sony gave you those too.
Um who cares about copy protection, oh that's right, the people who are ripping them off an selling them on and the people who go around downloading films at a shit quality. Personally, I don't care if my DVD's are copy protected, because I bought them, I have them in my house already, and I don't particularly care much for shoddy rips of some bloke in the pub.
Granted a little freedom to convert them to play on my PSP or (should i ever succumb) video iPod, even to stack them on a server would be nice.
I disagree. I'll happily stream a couple of episodes of Family Guy through my 19" monitor when I go to bed (windowed), but I sure as hell wouldn't be watching films on a TV that way. There are several areas of concern;
Firstly, unless you live in Korea you just wouldn't have the bandwidth, Furthermore, you just don't get the quality with on demand video, things like the BBCs iPlayer provide a weak, poor quality TINY window to watch content these resolutions just can't cut it on a 40"+ TV.
For a full 1080p (1920x1080res) film with xvYCC, 24p and 7.1 sound - you'd be packing stupid amounts of data down the line.
It is indeed a key factor to BD success. The BDC marketed well over HD DVD, the name HDDVD creates confusion with consumers which is never a good thing. People I know went out and bought Transformers on HD DVD, because HD means High Def right? and their TV was HD and they had a PS3 which shows HD. Add to the mix HDD/DVD recorders that are now replacing VCRs and you have a pit of confusion. Countless times people have asked me for "HD recorders" (referring to HDD), "It says it's HD(D) so why won't it play my HD DVD?" et cetera.
Wrong side? MiniDisc is still huge in the recording and media industry, BetaMax was superior in quality but lost out - fair enough. There's nothing wrong with Memory sticks (apart from the M2) - it's not like you're forced use them through the purchase of a shit camera - I'm now on my 3rd digital camera and 2nd camcorder all Sony, because, while they do make some shit, the products are good enough to warrant me going back again.
People also like to point out the failures; Sony gave us some very good new technologies
Compact Disc for example 3.5 Floppy Disc (as someone pointed out) Betacam (a derivative of Betamax) is still used now by professionals The walkman - the first portable music player which paved the way for all MP3 players today. The Portable CD player Video8 Hi8 Digital8 DAT tape Components of DVD MiniDisc which won the war against Philips Digital Compact Cassette They gave us 7.1 channel audio through SDDS
So for a company that everyone keeps slating as failing to push through any standards, they seem to be doing quite well.:P
Well lets not forget, Sony own Sony Pictures (previously Columbia/tristar), Sony BMG and have a huge stake in MGM, so they do have a lot of weight in the film industry and a lot to lose if it all goes tits up.
I don't know about the states, but in the UK the HD broadcasters are only putting out 720p and 1080i, which a HD Ready (yet not full HD) panel will be fine for (1366x768). The difference between 480i and 720p content is huge! Like most things, they will push out the higher end stuff to get interest and then start dropping the quality to pack more shit in, there has already been a noticeable drop in quality with the UK's SkyHD service. Just as with our "Freeview (576i)" free digital service - of which there was enough bandwidth for about 30 channels, we now have about 98 and the quality is appalling. It's the society we now live in were people want more and don't care what the quality is like - but complain about it non the less. I for one am not happy with shoddy downloaded DVD rips at 640x480, nor am I content with 64kbps MP3 playing through the speakers on my phone, I don't buy cables that cost 50p/c. I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old.
Sony have a similar system in place in their D and X series TV's. They run at 100hz and use a system dubbed "motionflow". Basically what this does is, rather than duplicating frames as most 100hz does, it says "well if the ball is in the top left in frame one, and in the bottom right in the second, then it must be in the middle at the between point", it then inserts the additional frame accordingly. It works surprisingly well - in fact it can make it look so much more realistic that it looks fake sometimes (think Xena, Andromeda - not that I watch these I must add.).
Unless I'm living in Korea or Tokyo, I don't want to be downloading 25-200gb over a period of days just to watch a film.
And I agree, the battle is not over - because there never was a battle. The Japanese have been used BD solely for years, it's only in the West were we like to bitch and whine about everything that the media can jump on do we have this "problem".
As for SACD, it's still doing well, in the UK at least, as is MD. And I for one can quite clearly tell the difference between CD and SACD, I wouldn't buy one because I'm not an audiophile. But given todays "need" for 1bps MP3 played through a mobile/cellphone - it's nice to have a bit of quality now and then.
Oh it will play, but the PS3 doesn't support 24p or the xvYCC colour system and a host of other enhancement features. If you want an old rounder - go for a PS3, if you're into your films then a dedicated BD player is the way to go.
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Nothing to see here but a bunch of amerifags crying. Move along.
If Google must go through with this then I'm all in favour of supplying the >12 Terabytes (BBC) to viacom................ on floppy disk.
So since when has this one judge been appointed chief law officer of the entire Internet? American laws do not affect me since I live in the UK and this is a breach of European privacy laws. Perhaps I'll go and pull our troops from afghanistan and order the execution of Mugabe if it's now OK for one man to act on behalf of the rest of the world. This needs to be jumped all over by the EFF and privacy advocates, that judge should be removed for abuse of power.
I pity all these people that fail to tell the difference between a game and reality, I really do.
"The property was likely stolen from the Defense Department, the report said."
Ok, probably the F-14 parts, but being ex-forces I myself have about 3 NBC suits and a box full of respirator canisters, amongst god knows what else, from clothes to tins, helmets, gortex. It's all just surplus you pick up during your time in. Half of it you can buy and any army surplus store/warehouse anyway.
May I ask why you have put an E on the end of "develop"? I have myself for the past 25 years, yet have been systematically slapped down by people from both sides of the pond :P
The universe is a huge place, what makes NASA think that our telescopes are able to see the "earliest stars and galaxies"? Or is this one of those "We are in the center of the universe" ideologies again?
A CRT can certainly look good, and yes we are on 576i, but there is a significant difference between 576i and 1080i here in the UK. I actually stare at HD panels all day so maybe I'm biased. Another, very big, factor is what the content was recorded on. Most things these days are recorded with HD cameras but transmitted in SD. When viewed the difference is not as significant, but it is still there. And of course the technology present in the screen also determines your final output.
Thank you for pointing that out, I don't live in the states myself but I'm sure anyone who does will find that information useful. :)
Unfortunately I wouldn't be happy paying a premium for "good enough" content. And, as I'm sure you're aware, ISPs in the UK are appalling. I'm unfortunate enough to be using tiscalis "up to" 8meg on a line that can support 6, I generally get 2.
SACD certainly has been swamped by digital music and standard CD, but you'll find they are popular with the more discerning audiophile and often found in abundance in the more specialised music stores and independents. SACD players can be found at pretty much any hifi specialist (ie not Comet or Joes Hifi)
MiniDisc - whilst it has certainly lost it's appeal with the younger generation is used extensively by professional musicans, recording studios and, in particular, field reporters - you'd be surprised. Certainly the pre-recorded MDs are virtually impossible to find (I think I saw 5 in Dixons about 15 years ago), but the portable MiniDisc player/recorders and hifi seperates can be found in any hifi store.
So as a vast majority of the content on YouTube constitutes of copyright material (video rips, spoofs, audio tracks), does that mean that anyone accessing the latest J-Lo (I cringe) music video will be barred from the net like a patron of the Queen Vic?
What is wrong with you fucking people? The BDC own the BD format, Sony is only one OF MANY HUGE GLOBAL COMPANIES that are involved. You hate Sony, far enough, then you refuse to buy any films from Sony Pictures, MGM, Tristar, Columbia - a huge proportion of the video market. You own no music - given that Sony co-created the CD. Fine, you're loss. But for fucks sake stop bitching and whining about Sony ass raping the world over BD. People now have a MUCH higher standard of video and audio reproduction with greater interactivity - if you don't want this for people, then crawl back into your cave and live a the rest of your life watching reruns of yourself on your Hi8 camcorder and playing with your old, non vaio, amstrad with a 3.5" disk - oh wait, Sony gave you those too.
-ffs-
Um who cares about copy protection, oh that's right, the people who are ripping them off an selling them on and the people who go around downloading films at a shit quality. Personally, I don't care if my DVD's are copy protected, because I bought them, I have them in my house already, and I don't particularly care much for shoddy rips of some bloke in the pub.
Granted a little freedom to convert them to play on my PSP or (should i ever succumb) video iPod, even to stack them on a server would be nice.
"What really ticks me about this is that Blu-ray was not a better format."
Is this a troll?
I disagree. I'll happily stream a couple of episodes of Family Guy through my 19" monitor when I go to bed (windowed), but I sure as hell wouldn't be watching films on a TV that way. There are several areas of concern;
Firstly, unless you live in Korea you just wouldn't have the bandwidth,
Furthermore, you just don't get the quality with on demand video, things like the BBCs iPlayer provide a weak, poor quality TINY window to watch content these resolutions just can't cut it on a 40"+ TV.
For a full 1080p (1920x1080res) film with xvYCC, 24p and 7.1 sound - you'd be packing stupid amounts of data down the line.
It is indeed a key factor to BD success. The BDC marketed well over HD DVD, the name HDDVD creates confusion with consumers which is never a good thing. People I know went out and bought Transformers on HD DVD, because HD means High Def right? and their TV was HD and they had a PS3 which shows HD. Add to the mix HDD/DVD recorders that are now replacing VCRs and you have a pit of confusion. Countless times people have asked me for "HD recorders" (referring to HDD), "It says it's HD(D) so why won't it play my HD DVD?" et cetera.
I believe the betacam is a derivative of betamax.
Wrong side? MiniDisc is still huge in the recording and media industry, BetaMax was superior in quality but lost out - fair enough. There's nothing wrong with Memory sticks (apart from the M2) - it's not like you're forced use them through the purchase of a shit camera - I'm now on my 3rd digital camera and 2nd camcorder all Sony, because, while they do make some shit, the products are good enough to warrant me going back again.
:P
People also like to point out the failures; Sony gave us some very good new technologies
Compact Disc for example
3.5 Floppy Disc (as someone pointed out)
Betacam (a derivative of Betamax) is still used now by professionals
The walkman - the first portable music player which paved the way for all MP3 players today.
The Portable CD player
Video8
Hi8
Digital8
DAT tape
Components of DVD
MiniDisc which won the war against Philips Digital Compact Cassette
They gave us 7.1 channel audio through SDDS
So for a company that everyone keeps slating as failing to push through any standards, they seem to be doing quite well.
Well lets not forget, Sony own Sony Pictures (previously Columbia/tristar), Sony BMG and have a huge stake in MGM, so they do have a lot of weight in the film industry and a lot to lose if it all goes tits up.
Ok it's not a 42, but this 40" 1080p is a good TV and comes in at $999
http://www.millenniumcamera.com/viewproduct.aspx?ID=3497439&l=Froogle
I don't know about the states, but in the UK the HD broadcasters are only putting out 720p and 1080i, which a HD Ready (yet not full HD) panel will be fine for (1366x768). The difference between 480i and 720p content is huge! Like most things, they will push out the higher end stuff to get interest and then start dropping the quality to pack more shit in, there has already been a noticeable drop in quality with the UK's SkyHD service. Just as with our "Freeview (576i)" free digital service - of which there was enough bandwidth for about 30 channels, we now have about 98 and the quality is appalling. It's the society we now live in were people want more and don't care what the quality is like - but complain about it non the less. I for one am not happy with shoddy downloaded DVD rips at 640x480, nor am I content with 64kbps MP3 playing through the speakers on my phone, I don't buy cables that cost 50p/c. I don't know, maybe I'm just getting old.
Sony have a similar system in place in their D and X series TV's. They run at 100hz and use a system dubbed "motionflow". Basically what this does is, rather than duplicating frames as most 100hz does, it says "well if the ball is in the top left in frame one, and in the bottom right in the second, then it must be in the middle at the between point", it then inserts the additional frame accordingly. It works surprisingly well - in fact it can make it look so much more realistic that it looks fake sometimes (think Xena, Andromeda - not that I watch these I must add.).
"downloadable HD content."
Unless I'm living in Korea or Tokyo, I don't want to be downloading 25-200gb over a period of days just to watch a film.
And I agree, the battle is not over - because there never was a battle. The Japanese have been used BD solely for years, it's only in the West were we like to bitch and whine about everything that the media can jump on do we have this "problem".
As for SACD, it's still doing well, in the UK at least, as is MD. And I for one can quite clearly tell the difference between CD and SACD, I wouldn't buy one because I'm not an audiophile. But given todays "need" for 1bps MP3 played through a mobile/cellphone - it's nice to have a bit of quality now and then.
"especially since Blu Ray costs more and does not offer anything over DVD except a high resolution."
You don't know much about DVD vs BD do you?
Oh it will play, but the PS3 doesn't support 24p or the xvYCC colour system and a host of other enhancement features. If you want an old rounder - go for a PS3, if you're into your films then a dedicated BD player is the way to go.