You know I've said the same thing a zillion times myself and the Blu-Ray fanboys flame me for speaking the truth.
Worse yet most people have TVs with screens smaller than 42" and fairly mediocre quality audio systems. Most people will never see any benefit whatsoever from a difference in bitrate. Look at the quality of product WalMart sells and this will tell you what most people have in their living room. I'm willing to bet this won't change by the EOL of BRD tech either.
Well... You are talking about Warner Bros here. A large movie studio.
Cooking books in Hollywood is everyday practice for the simple reason of appearing to run in the red means the studio takes more of the money for themselves rather than paying out to "talent". They get away with it by keeping their industry purposefully obfuscated. It's called "Hollywood Accounting", and yes it is a real term.
4) Sony owns a movie studio and they bet early on to use BD as their format of choice.
BTW, I would say CD is more of a Phillips / Sony format than a Sony / Phillips format. Phillips did the vast majority of the R&D on the disc technology and red book audio. Sony's major contribution was the error correction technology used in red book audio in addition to advertising the hell out of CD.
Even though Eudora has been EOL for a while now I continue to use it. It's a great program and has a bunch of features Thunderbird lacks that I actually use frequently. I use Thunderbird on my work computer and frankly it doesn't seem like it has made much progress since the Netscape 4.5 days.
If all else fails though it would be nice for the Mozilla guys to write a really good importer to bring over my Eudora stuff for when I do choose to move. It would be especially helpful if the file formats are the same across platforms (I don't know if they are currently or not).
In my experience it is quite the opposite, both in life and on slashdot. Especially in the earlier days of slashdot (I remember before there were custom user profiles) it was extremely rare to see a right leaning viewpoint in both articles and comments. In the past 5 or so years things have unfortunately changed quite drastically here and the intarweb in general...
Seems to me that having a MASSIVE amount of players on the market might sway studios back into HD-DVD. Seems like Toshiba could take their second generation player, the very fine HD-A2 and mass produce the thing like crazy and sell them for $89 and push the crap out of them in advertising and store spiffs.
If they can sell for under $100 out the door and Toshiba can keep stores supplied with them the market could easily shift back into the HD-DVD camp. Studios would be retarded not to support a format that has so many players for so cheap (though the power of stupidity is strong in Hollywood). That price point is a guilt free price for most any consumer.
You can't upgrade many of the features the new profiles require with firmware unless the hardware is already there.
Profile 1.1 requires a secondary video and audio processor for PIP support as well as a minimum of 256meg of local storage.
Profile 2.0 requires everything 1.1 has plus an ethernet port and a minimum of 1gig local storage.
Everyone seems to know about the ethernet port but few people seem to know about the storage issue. Profile 2.0 will be an issue with all but a small handful of players on the market today.
As interesting as this is it doesn't really change much. I'm reminded of the New Zealander named Richard Pearse who may have preceded the Wright bros as first in flight. However due to lack of documentation of his achievements it is difficult to really prove accomplished his goal. He also wasn't one much for attention and didn't have any real public records of his work either (newspapers, photographs, etc.). In the end it is an interesting but mostly irrelevant piece of history.
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It's called "Hollywood Accounting". Get the fuck over it.
Which sucks for me because I enjoy a number of European titles. Aside from a few exceptions I'm not into Japanese films nor anime...
You know I've said the same thing a zillion times myself and the Blu-Ray fanboys flame me for speaking the truth.
Worse yet most people have TVs with screens smaller than 42" and fairly mediocre quality audio systems. Most people will never see any benefit whatsoever from a difference in bitrate. Look at the quality of product WalMart sells and this will tell you what most people have in their living room. I'm willing to bet this won't change by the EOL of BRD tech either.
Yeah hopefully we won't have to run Rootkit Revealer on it either...
Well... You are talking about Warner Bros here. A large movie studio.
Cooking books in Hollywood is everyday practice for the simple reason of appearing to run in the red means the studio takes more of the money for themselves rather than paying out to "talent". They get away with it by keeping their industry purposefully obfuscated. It's called "Hollywood Accounting", and yes it is a real term.
You forgot the fourth point...
4) Sony owns a movie studio and they bet early on to use BD as their format of choice.
BTW, I would say CD is more of a Phillips / Sony format than a Sony / Phillips format. Phillips did the vast majority of the R&D on the disc technology and red book audio. Sony's major contribution was the error correction technology used in red book audio in addition to advertising the hell out of CD.
Annoying use of a commercial as metaphor = My 2 cents.
You're right, if they named it it would be called "Microsoft WiFi 5-Gbps Ultimate Express Edition"
"It's a cookbook!"
Uh oh, Mom was the last to get an IP and she broke the intarweb!
I think you mean Wayne and Garth. Bill and Ted never said that. ;p
^^ Mod this guy up!
Even though Eudora has been EOL for a while now I continue to use it. It's a great program and has a bunch of features Thunderbird lacks that I actually use frequently. I use Thunderbird on my work computer and frankly it doesn't seem like it has made much progress since the Netscape 4.5 days.
If all else fails though it would be nice for the Mozilla guys to write a really good importer to bring over my Eudora stuff for when I do choose to move. It would be especially helpful if the file formats are the same across platforms (I don't know if they are currently or not).
In my experience it is quite the opposite, both in life and on slashdot. Especially in the earlier days of slashdot (I remember before there were custom user profiles) it was extremely rare to see a right leaning viewpoint in both articles and comments. In the past 5 or so years things have unfortunately changed quite drastically here and the intarweb in general...
Those were the days...
It's a blog, you expect anything different?
I'm half waiting for someone to post videos of "Leave The TSA Alone!!" on there...
The names of this release sounds like a chapter from Stephen Colbert's Alpha Squad 7: Lady Nocturne: A Tek Jansen Adventure ...
Seems to me that having a MASSIVE amount of players on the market might sway studios back into HD-DVD. Seems like Toshiba could take their second generation player, the very fine HD-A2 and mass produce the thing like crazy and sell them for $89 and push the crap out of them in advertising and store spiffs.
If they can sell for under $100 out the door and Toshiba can keep stores supplied with them the market could easily shift back into the HD-DVD camp. Studios would be retarded not to support a format that has so many players for so cheap (though the power of stupidity is strong in Hollywood). That price point is a guilt free price for most any consumer.
You can't upgrade many of the features the new profiles require with firmware unless the hardware is already there.
Profile 1.1 requires a secondary video and audio processor for PIP support as well as a minimum of 256meg of local storage.
Profile 2.0 requires everything 1.1 has plus an ethernet port and a minimum of 1gig local storage.
Everyone seems to know about the ethernet port but few people seem to know about the storage issue. Profile 2.0 will be an issue with all but a small handful of players on the market today.
Nope. There is *no* region coding whatsoever in the current HD-DVD spec. None. Zip. Nada.
Proof: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD#Digital_rights_management
You "loath (sic) the Mac horde"? Just curious does that include CmdrTaco?
imagine a beowulf... nevermind. i can still remember 10 years ago the first time someone posted that joke...
Aww man. I was looking forward to an Iron Chef game. The fun you could have zesting a lemon using a DS stylus or Wii remote. Excitement guaranteed.
Nah but if it was decent though I'd take a look at it. Cooking Mama was an interesting surprise for example.
As interesting as this is it doesn't really change much. I'm reminded of the New Zealander named Richard Pearse who may have preceded the Wright bros as first in flight. However due to lack of documentation of his achievements it is difficult to really prove accomplished his goal. He also wasn't one much for attention and didn't have any real public records of his work either (newspapers, photographs, etc.). In the end it is an interesting but mostly irrelevant piece of history.
or replace "???" with "big marketing blitz".
Now's your chance to jump in and make some silly claim about how stable your windows system is and that you never reboot so this won't affect you.