I can't comment on the new Cable being laid across Africa or the Middle east, but I have been following the situation in the Caribbean for a while. It really has taken off, with residential speeds in some countries going from 256kbps, to 2Mbps, to 6Mbps (at the same pricepoint) within the span for just a couple months. If you want a cool graphic showing the new fiber connections being made in the region, click the link below:
http://nwncable.com/
Most of the reason for this happens to be in the "lucky" position the Caribbean finds itself in geologically. It's right between the US and South America, so as economies grow on both sides, lots of new cable gets laid in between. The new US-Colombia Expressway cable, for example, as increased capacity in Jamaica tremendously, with residential speeds approaching 15Mb/s for the equivalent of $40 US dollars.
There is also quite a bit of fiber being run into the oil rich island of Trinidad in the Southern Caribbean. Shouldn't require too much explanation for that one.
Not quite sure why people assume all of the Africa is starving or lacks critical infrastructure. Take a look at the pictures on the wikipedia entry for Johannesburg, for comparison sake. There are definitely places in Africa where physicists, engineers and scientists of all types can, and are, earning a decent living.
Might not be a very cost-efficient backup solution, but it should help out some small video studios out there. We already have one pr0n producer (CDGirls.com), who plans to burn-to-sell Blu-ray movies in the future. No DRM needed, either;)
http://www.avn.com/articles/287130.html for full article
Yea, Sony really killed "this promising format". Think about how much better it would have been without those 3 million (and counting) players sold.
Really dude, I know bashing SONY is fun and all, but be logical.
Anyone else find the summary a little bit light on the whole "evidence" thing? There's one amazon help thread and a blog with only one post (suspiciously named "Sony Strikes Again"?).
Don't you think we should look a bit more into this, you know, before getting all up in arms? This kinda stuff is how FUD gets started.
It's still Liberty City. Notice how the ship behind the russian/eastern european guy had "Platypus, Liberty City" painted on it. Not to mention the "liberteen" newspaper and the "LCPD" car in the Times Square-ish area. Shocking they are using real-world buildings, but they aren't going to full-on remplicate NYC.
I understand some are just looking for a gaming-only handheld, but why no love for the multimedia aspect? Man shall not live by gaming alone; sometimes it's nice to kick back with some music or movies to enjoy.
The advantage Blu-ray has in the audio formats is the inclusion of multichannel linear PCM soundtracks. These are uncompressed, and they will give you a better quality sound than the Dolby Digital format most HD-DVDs use. The downside to uncompressed PCM is that, you guessed it, it chews up quite a bit of space. They can't simply just transfer over all that data onto a HD-DVD, given that there is only 30 GB to work with, as compared to the 50GB blu-ray allows. You might see this change with newer audio codecs (Dolby Digital TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, both of which promise the quality of lossless, without the large space requirement).
When was the last time you actually bought porn on a disc? The "porn will decide the format war" line makes a good story, but it's not terribly relevant anymore. Why bother going to a store now that you have the nearly unlimited, constantly updated, always available, endlessly variable, blissfully anonymous porn-delivery system we fondly call "the internets".
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I can't comment on the new Cable being laid across Africa or the Middle east, but I have been following the situation in the Caribbean for a while. It really has taken off, with residential speeds in some countries going from 256kbps, to 2Mbps, to 6Mbps (at the same pricepoint) within the span for just a couple months. If you want a cool graphic showing the new fiber connections being made in the region, click the link below: http://nwncable.com/ Most of the reason for this happens to be in the "lucky" position the Caribbean finds itself in geologically. It's right between the US and South America, so as economies grow on both sides, lots of new cable gets laid in between. The new US-Colombia Expressway cable, for example, as increased capacity in Jamaica tremendously, with residential speeds approaching 15Mb/s for the equivalent of $40 US dollars. There is also quite a bit of fiber being run into the oil rich island of Trinidad in the Southern Caribbean. Shouldn't require too much explanation for that one.
Not quite sure why people assume all of the Africa is starving or lacks critical infrastructure. Take a look at the pictures on the wikipedia entry for Johannesburg, for comparison sake. There are definitely places in Africa where physicists, engineers and scientists of all types can, and are, earning a decent living.
Might not be a very cost-efficient backup solution, but it should help out some small video studios out there. We already have one pr0n producer (CDGirls.com), who plans to burn-to-sell Blu-ray movies in the future. No DRM needed, either ;)
http://www.avn.com/articles/287130.html for full article
Yea, Sony really killed "this promising format". Think about how much better it would have been without those 3 million (and counting) players sold. Really dude, I know bashing SONY is fun and all, but be logical.
Anyone else find the summary a little bit light on the whole "evidence" thing? There's one amazon help thread and a blog with only one post (suspiciously named "Sony Strikes Again"?). Don't you think we should look a bit more into this, you know, before getting all up in arms? This kinda stuff is how FUD gets started.
It's still Liberty City. Notice how the ship behind the russian/eastern european guy had "Platypus, Liberty City" painted on it. Not to mention the "liberteen" newspaper and the "LCPD" car in the Times Square-ish area. Shocking they are using real-world buildings, but they aren't going to full-on remplicate NYC.
I understand some are just looking for a gaming-only handheld, but why no love for the multimedia aspect? Man shall not live by gaming alone; sometimes it's nice to kick back with some music or movies to enjoy.
Buy from Microsoft instead. They are a much better company.
The advantage Blu-ray has in the audio formats is the inclusion of multichannel linear PCM soundtracks. These are uncompressed, and they will give you a better quality sound than the Dolby Digital format most HD-DVDs use. The downside to uncompressed PCM is that, you guessed it, it chews up quite a bit of space. They can't simply just transfer over all that data onto a HD-DVD, given that there is only 30 GB to work with, as compared to the 50GB blu-ray allows. You might see this change with newer audio codecs (Dolby Digital TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, both of which promise the quality of lossless, without the large space requirement).
pr0n embraced internet, not 'HD'. If anything, pr0n companies are going to pioneer digital distribution, not any disk based format.
Maybe because mircosoft is the monopoly power?
When was the last time you actually bought porn on a disc? The "porn will decide the format war" line makes a good story, but it's not terribly relevant anymore. Why bother going to a store now that you have the nearly unlimited, constantly updated, always available, endlessly variable, blissfully anonymous porn-delivery system we fondly call "the internets".