He's probably counting the Japanese market blu-ray HD recorders that were available then. Which has virtually no bearing on this argument, since studio titles were not available then, and those machines were not even capable of playing a profile 1 BD movie.
Blu-ray regions are not the same as DVD. U.S./Canada ( as well as Japan and others) are region A, not 1. And many catalog releases are non-region coded and will play anywhere:
Whereas HD-DVD, which did not have region coding, while mostly a good thing, saw some releases delayed here to wait out theatrical releases in other countries, so not all sunshine under that plan either.
Which is why they need to add the "disable iPhone thief" feature where all the remaining power in the battery is converted to a taser-like discharge through the housing at your command.
Extra fun for hacking into your friends' phones and doing this to them at inopportune times (all of them I guess).
We'd still have Microsoft You'd end up with stamps in your passport showing how many times you went to Vegas Disney's based here. Hello eternal copyright. President Schwarzennegger? Who gets lake Tahoe?
Seriously, most of the projectors in this class are under 1000:1 on off contrast. It should be very very low on your list of priorities if you are interested in these.
the review here is of a normal old LCD/DLP projector where they have replaced the bulb with an LED - still have the lends and focusing fun.
Not exactly. This is a new class of smaller projectors mostly using the same engine and cheaper chipsets from TI (DLP) although a few of them are also LCOS or FLCOS.
They are very cheap and intended to be disposable (no relamping available). Some use an RGB triplet of LEDs and emulate a color wheel/DLP combos, and some acutaly use color filters and white LEDs.
Explain to me the fundamental difference between this and the RIAA program where they tried to have universities pay them and then charge students increased fees for music downloadable through the university network. Even if the students didn't want to.
Component is not RGB in spite of the color scheme they have chosen for the connectors. It is split as luma (brightness) and two chroma channels where the third color channel is derived from subtracting the two sent from the brightness. RGB explicitly sends a red, green, and blue color signal, with sync sent either separately or muxed into green.
It has little to do with the age of the film, and mostly to do with the effort the studio puts into the release. Unfortunately, they often seem to think they can just take a crappy 2K scan they did for hidef TV broadcast 5 years ago and port that over to blu-ray, bump the price up and sell it.
Look at titles where they have put in an effort, and regardless of the age of the film, they are pretty stellar. 2001, Planet of the Apes, Bladerunner, Sleeping Beauty, Fistful of Dollars, all the old James Bond film rereleases, there are quite a few BDs of films 30-60 years old that look incredible.
50" Plasma? Most plasma TVs are only capable of 720p.
You are about 2 years out of date. They virtually don't make plasmas smaller than 42" any more and the majority of the models offered are 1080p. LCD ate their lunch in the lower res and smaller size market. They only compete at the premium sizes now.
Maybe it is different in the US than here, but I'm not sure why you expect rights like format-shifting and time-shifting - who granted those rights to you?.
The courts that ruled them as fair use in rather well publicized decisions?
Worked for her. So not true for "any" project with a large number of users. Now if you want to argue it wouldn't work for hugely popular mega-artists, I'd probably agree, but I'd also say so what. Not sure why being a popular artist entitles you to be a millionaire off record sales alone in the first place.
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If you wear rubber pants filled with mayonnaise, the sound is vastly improved as well.
As a point of curiosity, is the gecko irate because of the licking, or was he already that way?
He's probably counting the Japanese market blu-ray HD recorders that were available then. Which has virtually no bearing on this argument, since studio titles were not available then, and those machines were not even capable of playing a profile 1 BD movie.
Blu-ray regions are not the same as DVD. U.S./Canada ( as well as Japan and others) are region A, not 1. And many catalog releases are non-region coded and will play anywhere:
http://regionfreemovies.com/region/free
Whereas HD-DVD, which did not have region coding, while mostly a good thing, saw some releases delayed here to wait out theatrical releases in other countries, so not all sunshine under that plan either.
Which is why they need to add the "disable iPhone thief" feature where all the remaining power in the battery is converted to a taser-like discharge through the housing at your command.
Extra fun for hacking into your friends' phones and doing this to them at inopportune times (all of them I guess).
(Slashdot-centric?) problems with that plan:
We'd still have Microsoft
You'd end up with stamps in your passport showing how many times you went to Vegas
Disney's based here. Hello eternal copyright.
President Schwarzennegger?
Who gets lake Tahoe?
Just a basic comparison of military expenditures:
United States - $ 651,163,000,000 USD
Canada - $ 17,944,621,100 USD
Would you deny that there is a bit of an umbrella effect that allows Canada the luxury of that low figure?
Dark chip technology from TI :)
Seriously, most of the projectors in this class are under 1000:1 on off contrast. It should be very very low on your list of priorities if you are interested in these.
the review here is of a normal old LCD/DLP projector where they have replaced the bulb with an LED - still have the lends and focusing fun.
Not exactly. This is a new class of smaller projectors mostly using the same engine and cheaper chipsets from TI (DLP) although a few of them are also LCOS or FLCOS.
They are very cheap and intended to be disposable (no relamping available). Some use an RGB triplet of LEDs and emulate a color wheel/DLP combos, and some acutaly use color filters and white LEDs.
Explain to me the fundamental difference between this and the RIAA program where they tried to have universities pay them and then charge students increased fees for music downloadable through the university network. Even if the students didn't want to.
Component is not RGB in spite of the color scheme they have chosen for the connectors. It is split as luma (brightness) and two chroma channels where the third color channel is derived from subtracting the two sent from the brightness. RGB explicitly sends a red, green, and blue color signal, with sync sent either separately or muxed into green.
It has little to do with the age of the film, and mostly to do with the effort the studio puts into the release. Unfortunately, they often seem to think they can just take a crappy 2K scan they did for hidef TV broadcast 5 years ago and port that over to blu-ray, bump the price up and sell it.
Look at titles where they have put in an effort, and regardless of the age of the film, they are pretty stellar. 2001, Planet of the Apes, Bladerunner, Sleeping Beauty, Fistful of Dollars, all the old James Bond film rereleases, there are quite a few BDs of films 30-60 years old that look incredible.
50" Plasma? Most plasma TVs are only capable of 720p.
You are about 2 years out of date. They virtually don't make plasmas smaller than 42" any more and the majority of the models offered are 1080p. LCD ate their lunch in the lower res and smaller size market. They only compete at the premium sizes now.
Maybe it is different in the US than here, but I'm not sure why you expect rights like format-shifting and time-shifting - who granted those rights to you? .
The courts that ruled them as fair use in rather well publicized decisions?
It should also be noted that they typically charge more for discs with this feature.
Upscaled DVD output over analog is already prohibited on DVD (and BD) players. So really, it's a good reason not to buy their product in any form.
+1. Most appropriate car analogy I've seen yet.
Fucking Burger King
OK. Can you get it going? I'm kind of tired right now.
Yes, a few artists have. See my example above.
That simply doesn't work for any project with a large number of users.
http://www.jillsobule.com/newcd.asp
Worked for her. So not true for "any" project with a large number of users. Now if you want to argue it wouldn't work for hugely popular mega-artists, I'd probably agree, but I'd also say so what. Not sure why being a popular artist entitles you to be a millionaire off record sales alone in the first place.
While there are certainly a decent assortment of cars for less, I really would not put the label of luxury car at the $30K level.
While the monopoly company has less funds to develop improvement in the software . . .
Wait, which company are we talking about here?
Styrofoam trains are NOT magnetic.
Never say never.
Er . .
Always . . . crap.
Using that logic, you pay for the air in the house or apartment you live in.