Pet peeve: This isn't 3D, and no other sound device or technology which has been marketed as "3D" is. If you put a speaker on the ceiling, you might get something approaching 3D, but a bunch of speakers at the same ground level are 2D (a plane), simple stereo is 1D (a line) and mono is 0D (a dot).
I said the IDS box needs a database of malicious data to match traffic against
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With the huge size of existing back-catalogue music collections, all recognisable media (songs/movies) will be in it.
Yeah right... Do you have any idea how big this databese would have to be? You'll have to archive every CD or DVD (at least. Let's not even consider songs or movies from other sources) in it.
How many different CDs are there, even when you limit the database the major record labels? Do you put DVDs released in other countries in it? And how can this system recognize if a single data packet matches any piece of music or video in the database, considering how many different ways it could be encoded?
First Post notwithstanding, Akira _has_ been available on DVD.
Granted, it is only the RC2 version and has only german dubbed audio (which is why I'll never buy it) but it _does_ exist.
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Pet peeve: This isn't 3D, and no other sound device or technology which has been marketed as "3D" is. If you put a speaker on the ceiling, you might get something approaching 3D, but a bunch of speakers at the same ground level are 2D (a plane), simple stereo is 1D (a line) and mono is 0D (a dot).
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With the huge size of existing back-catalogue music collections, all recognisable media (songs/movies) will be in it.
Yeah right... Do you have any idea how big this databese would have to be? You'll have to archive every CD or DVD (at least. Let's not even consider songs or movies from other sources) in it.
How many different CDs are there, even when you limit the database the major record labels? Do you put DVDs released in other countries in it?
And how can this system recognize if a single data packet matches any piece of music or video in the database, considering how many different ways it could be encoded?
First Post notwithstanding, Akira _has_ been available on DVD.
Granted, it is only the RC2 version and has only german dubbed audio (which is why I'll never buy it) but it _does_ exist.