Yes, but even if CT brain + CT chest only equalled 250 chest X-rays, that's still quite a few X-rays.
Also, if I remember correctly, they sometimes inject stuff into patients taking CT brain to make those CT scans more sensitive. That would level the difference between CT brain and CT abdomen some, esp. if that injection is itself radioactive.
Thank you. I didn't realize that the "fit for purpose" standard doesn't apply to DRMed work in America. Sorry I was so hard on you...
If the DVD logo is all but meaningless--that's depressing.
If "fit for purpose" does not cover "I assumed it would work because it looks like, and is labeled like, other products that do work"--then what, exactly, does it cover?
Have you been following the pet food recall?
If you have not, then know this: pet food of various sorts has been recalled by the FDA because of poisoned wheat gluten. I do mean poisoned--cats and dogs have died from it, of kidney failure. The FDA can't go directly after the manufacturer of the wheat gluten because it is in China. All the companies who used that wheat gluten, however, have to recall all the products that might have it. And any retailer who knowingly left recalled pet food on the shelves after it was recalled is, or will be, in trouble with the FDA.
In short, two layers of middlemen are being punished for this, since the manufacturer is beyond the gov.'s reach. If you blame pet-owners for buying the poisoned food before the recall, we'll be ticked off--we didn't know, and we got no benefit from it--only risk. The retailers at least got money from any sales that didn't get sent back!
This sort of thing would also apply to JERKY INC. and anyone distributing its products. If the government knew how to regulate tech, it would apply to these Sony copy-controlled DVDs and the stores that stock them.
So, retailer will go broke if it stocks Sony DVDs because of too many returns.
Retailer will go broke if it doesn't stock Sony DVDs because it will lose sales to everyone who is still stocking (non-working) Sony DVDs.
Catch-22.
I think a sensible retailer, given those choices, should want the one that keeps its customer service intact.
I also believe that no brick&mortar retailer has "a full selection of titles." There are simply too many titles out there for that. Admittedly, having no Sony titles at all would be conspicuous, but I imagine that a creative retailer could fill the empty space with, say, extra anime DVDs and an explanation for the absence of Sony titles.
No sane customer wants to buy DVDs that don't work. If a retailer makes clear that they don't stock Sony DVDs because Sony DVDs don't work, that may make up in goodwill what would've been lost from losing sales of any Sony DVDs that did work.
I understand that the MPAA once said that people should purchase back-up DVDs: that is, they'd like you to use the same kind of prerecorded DVD for back-up as you use for your primary.
So, even if torrenting material from a film DVD that you own a non-working copy of is legal, it will likely give the MPAA fits.
No, the new discs don't play on all Sony DVD players. It appears that Sony's DVD players actually have more problems with them than some other brands.
Sony claims that they will fix their affected players. The question is, when?
Maybe they're hoping that fans of Sony movies will think it's the player that's broken and update to Blu-Ray. Anyone test if off-the-shelf DVDs of those films play in Blu-Ray players yet? (I imagine that Sony films can come in Blu-Ray format, so...)
I didn't follow it closely, but I couldn't help but follow it.
The big media never said a Joe Sixpack caught the racist words. The big media didn't say anything about who first raised the red flag. Imus did say it, and it didn't matter to the big media who first thought it was newsworthy once it became newsworthy.
Hey, in the early days of coverage, the big media wouldn't even say what Imus said; they just said that it was something denigrating to the Rutgers women's basketball team and racist. I thought for a while that "nigger" might have been involved, since that's the most obvious racist word to aim at blacks.
I didn't know "ho" was race-specific, BTW. I didn't hear the adjective preceding it until this post, so I wasn't sure of racism. But I don't think that it's good to call people prostitutes unless they actually are.
There are other services that provide such movies. They are called video-on-demand or pay-per-view, on cable or satellite. (Cable seems to have more flexible vs.) Cable video-on-demand has full DVD quality; hey, if you have an HD cable box, you can get full HD quality on some films.
Since Apple's films won't have better resolution than cable video-on-demand, how will Apple's service improve over theirs--aside from not being from a cable company? And how quickly?
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...
BTW, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1950s flick, and it's not propaganda of the sort you're thinking of.
Even people who like junk mail in their mailbox probably don't want 10,000 pieces of junk mail in their mailbox at once, every day.
No individual gets mailed so much snail mail that he can't keep on top of it. Quite a few people get that amount of spam.
Hold on!
Not all films from the '30s, '40s, & '50s are equal.
Jimmy Stewart is a name actor, famous for his work among film afficiandos. I believe that most Jimmy Stewart flicks are worth more than most contemporary films.
Also, the films from that era should include many that are public domain. Apple should put those films out, without DRM, ASAP.
Anyone else annoyed that It's a Wonderful Life was removed from public domain by a technicality? (The film was into public domain, but it was belatedly discovered that the soundtrack wasn't...)
"Instead I think the entire thing should be organized by Yukoslavia, not because they'll be neutral about it, but because they never get a turn at having way too much power."
Tell that to the Croatians. Tell that to the Muslims of Bosnia.
HD, or even DVD, would be a good option, but it had better not be the only option yet. There are still quite a few Americans who have only dial-up, and there is a slight chance some of them would be interested in these films from iTunes. It would be nice if they could download these films without tying up their phone lines for a week...
Northernsongs predates Beatlemania; it was founded in '63. The record deal was in '62. There are only four Beatles songs that predate Northernsongs--the first two singles and their B-sides.
The Beatles allowed Northernsongs to be founded because, in theory, they would own it. It wasn't to avoid taxes, but to gain control. Collectively, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their manager ended up owning 49% of it, with Dick James & friends owning the other 51%. Not real control for the Beatles, but they weren't business-savvy. The actual tax-dodges started a year later.
I do not understand why the Beatles sold their stakes in '69 when everyone else did. I don't know if anyone does.
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Yes, but even if CT brain + CT chest only equalled 250 chest X-rays, that's still quite a few X-rays.
Also, if I remember correctly, they sometimes inject stuff into patients taking CT brain to make those CT scans more sensitive. That would level the difference between CT brain and CT abdomen some, esp. if that injection is itself radioactive.
Thank you. I didn't realize that the "fit for purpose" standard doesn't apply to DRMed work in America. Sorry I was so hard on you...
If the DVD logo is all but meaningless--that's depressing.
If "fit for purpose" does not cover "I assumed it would work because it looks like, and is labeled like, other products that do work"--then what, exactly, does it cover?
Have you been following the pet food recall?
If you have not, then know this: pet food of various sorts has been recalled by the FDA because of poisoned wheat gluten. I do mean poisoned--cats and dogs have died from it, of kidney failure. The FDA can't go directly after the manufacturer of the wheat gluten because it is in China. All the companies who used that wheat gluten, however, have to recall all the products that might have it. And any retailer who knowingly left recalled pet food on the shelves after it was recalled is, or will be, in trouble with the FDA.
In short, two layers of middlemen are being punished for this, since the manufacturer is beyond the gov.'s reach. If you blame pet-owners for buying the poisoned food before the recall, we'll be ticked off--we didn't know, and we got no benefit from it--only risk. The retailers at least got money from any sales that didn't get sent back!
This sort of thing would also apply to JERKY INC. and anyone distributing its products. If the government knew how to regulate tech, it would apply to these Sony copy-controlled DVDs and the stores that stock them.
So, retailer will go broke if it stocks Sony DVDs because of too many returns.
Retailer will go broke if it doesn't stock Sony DVDs because it will lose sales to everyone who is still stocking (non-working) Sony DVDs.
Catch-22.
I think a sensible retailer, given those choices, should want the one that keeps its customer service intact.
I also believe that no brick&mortar retailer has "a full selection of titles." There are simply too many titles out there for that. Admittedly, having no Sony titles at all would be conspicuous, but I imagine that a creative retailer could fill the empty space with, say, extra anime DVDs and an explanation for the absence of Sony titles.
No sane customer wants to buy DVDs that don't work. If a retailer makes clear that they don't stock Sony DVDs because Sony DVDs don't work, that may make up in goodwill what would've been lost from losing sales of any Sony DVDs that did work.
You do realize that your argument would also have applied to Sony's rootkitted CDs?
I understand that the MPAA once said that people should purchase back-up DVDs: that is, they'd like you to use the same kind of prerecorded DVD for back-up as you use for your primary.
So, even if torrenting material from a film DVD that you own a non-working copy of is legal, it will likely give the MPAA fits.
No, the new discs don't play on all Sony DVD players. It appears that Sony's DVD players actually have more problems with them than some other brands.
Sony claims that they will fix their affected players. The question is, when?
Maybe they're hoping that fans of Sony movies will think it's the player that's broken and update to Blu-Ray. Anyone test if off-the-shelf DVDs of those films play in Blu-Ray players yet? (I imagine that Sony films can come in Blu-Ray format, so...)
Yeah, but $2000 would buy at least a hundred DVDs. Maybe even a hundred non-working DVDs--and no sane person would buy that many non-working DVDs.
Let's hope this thing works like McCoy's medical tricorder, rather than Dr. Beverly Crusher's.
So they actually do trepanning in England?
Careful, or they'll send you applications that already have "Yes, please lend me money" checkmarked!
Oh. That would be kinda sad if Apple went the way of Sony.
I didn't follow it closely, but I couldn't help but follow it.
The big media never said a Joe Sixpack caught the racist words. The big media didn't say anything about who first raised the red flag. Imus did say it, and it didn't matter to the big media who first thought it was newsworthy once it became newsworthy.
Hey, in the early days of coverage, the big media wouldn't even say what Imus said; they just said that it was something denigrating to the Rutgers women's basketball team and racist. I thought for a while that "nigger" might have been involved, since that's the most obvious racist word to aim at blacks.
I didn't know "ho" was race-specific, BTW. I didn't hear the adjective preceding it until this post, so I wasn't sure of racism. But I don't think that it's good to call people prostitutes unless they actually are.
Apple open source Hollywood?
Sorry, the MPAA isn't going to allow that if they have any say at all.
There are other services that provide such movies. They are called video-on-demand or pay-per-view, on cable or satellite. (Cable seems to have more flexible vs.) Cable video-on-demand has full DVD quality; hey, if you have an HD cable box, you can get full HD quality on some films.
Since Apple's films won't have better resolution than cable video-on-demand, how will Apple's service improve over theirs--aside from not being from a cable company? And how quickly?
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, Vertigo, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance...
BTW, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a 1950s flick, and it's not propaganda of the sort you're thinking of.
Even people who like junk mail in their mailbox probably don't want 10,000 pieces of junk mail in their mailbox at once, every day.
No individual gets mailed so much snail mail that he can't keep on top of it. Quite a few people get that amount of spam.
Who said this was going to be left to the market?
The US government is supporting & funding all the initiatives to "rebuild" the internet.
Hold on!
Not all films from the '30s, '40s, & '50s are equal.
Jimmy Stewart is a name actor, famous for his work among film afficiandos. I believe that most Jimmy Stewart flicks are worth more than most contemporary films.
Also, the films from that era should include many that are public domain. Apple should put those films out, without DRM, ASAP.
Anyone else annoyed that It's a Wonderful Life was removed from public domain by a technicality? (The film was into public domain, but it was belatedly discovered that the soundtrack wasn't...)
"Instead I think the entire thing should be organized by Yukoslavia, not because they'll be neutral about it, but because they never get a turn at having way too much power."
Tell that to the Croatians. Tell that to the Muslims of Bosnia.
HD, or even DVD, would be a good option, but it had better not be the only option yet. There are still quite a few Americans who have only dial-up, and there is a slight chance some of them would be interested in these films from iTunes. It would be nice if they could download these films without tying up their phone lines for a week...
Hey, I'm impressed that the poster actually linked to Apple's site. If Apple says it's gonna happen, then it almost certainly is gonna happen.
Yes. That format is called "film reel viewed in theater."
Northernsongs predates Beatlemania; it was founded in '63. The record deal was in '62. There are only four Beatles songs that predate Northernsongs--the first two singles and their B-sides.
The Beatles allowed Northernsongs to be founded because, in theory, they would own it. It wasn't to avoid taxes, but to gain control. Collectively, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their manager ended up owning 49% of it, with Dick James & friends owning the other 51%. Not real control for the Beatles, but they weren't business-savvy. The actual tax-dodges started a year later.
I do not understand why the Beatles sold their stakes in '69 when everyone else did. I don't know if anyone does.