I didn't get it for picture, enhanced features or really anything to do with the blue ray player part..
I got it because its a nice streaming media player with native HDMI, firmware upgradable and I could easily hook up to my TV. It replaced the old DVD and streaming PC in the cabinet cutting down on heat, power and the number of remotes laying around.
The fact that it plays Blue-Ray disks is a bonus but DVD's still rule the house.. I can't play Blue Ray on the 5 PC's, kids basement TV or in the car player..
The only complaint I have is the 1 concurrent stream pr DVD limit and the 6 "device" limit..
I have the 3 DVD package we can watch in the living room while the kids watch on the Wii and the kid desktop PC at the same time.. We will be adding a 2nd kid's PC so I'll need to bump it out to 4 soon if conflicts pop up.
Dish Network is going away at our house.. Netflix, Hulu for most things. OTA with a MythTV box will fill the local programing void..
some of the the $$ saved by dropping dish goes into higher bandwidth..
Back when the first case came up I suspected it was a move to get EMI to sign a new contract for digital sales.. In the last case EMI was claiming the old contract only covered album sales and was paying Pink Floyd a lower rate for digital sales. Looks like the Old Pink pulled it off..
In my case Comcast is gaining broadband business they wouldn't have had before.
I dropped Dish Network and went to all streaming (Netflix, Hulu) and OTA for locals..
Part of the switch involved upgrading my broadband package so Comcast is getting more $$ from me than before.
Heck without streaming video I'd probably still be on Clearwire.. Clear got really heavy handed with bandwidth throttling so they lost all my business..
If Verizon ever brings FOIS to my area I'll be switching..
The key is don't accept the debt if it's gone past the limits for your state.. There is a table of the limits by state in the link above..
DO NOT ADMIT THAT YOU OWE THE DEBT, DO NOT AGREE TO PAY THE DEBT, DO NOT AGREE TO SEND ANY MONEY TO THEM. If you do, then the statute of limitations might start running all over again, giving them the legal right to sue you.
My wife got a notice from a collector on a 10 year old phone bill. I know it was paid back then but do you have records to prove you paid a bill 10 years ago?.. We had to send them a certified letter stating we do NOT owe this debt to get them to go away.. The collector knew that and admitted they couldn't sue us but they were free to call and send letters until they were asked to stop in writing by certified letter.
Hmm I can get each family member (6 of us) a burger and fry for $2 each.. $12 total and they are all bitching at me 2 hours later because they are still hungry.. Or I can feed all of them for $5-10 and about 30 minutes of my time. As a bonus I still have leftovers I can take to work for Lunch the next day.
Now for single people I'll have to admit.. cooking for one person sucks.. You either make way to much or there isn't enough material in the pan to cook properly.
It's not that they made a few defective products.. the how they handle those defects..
On the server side they make you jump through hoops testing and swapping parts before sending out a warranty replacement.. THEN about half the time the replacement part is defective! DOA or introduces new issues..
The problem got so bad we started marking the old boards going back to Dell.. There were several times we would get our own marked boards back a few weeks later as replacements on another server.. Guess what.. they were still bad!!!!
This was on a Platinum support contract.. I can't imagine what kind of crap the lower level contracts got.
Trust me. The TV station has no control over EBS alerts.. That system to completely automated.
I ran master control for a broadcast TV station for 7 years.. We had plenty of times when the EBS ran a test or an alert right in the middle of a commercial break. All you can do is write it up and move on with your day.
Welcome to my boat.. I bought a Oki C5200N 6 years ago.. Store demo model for $250.. I've had to refill the 3color and 1 block toners once for $90 (ebay refilled toner packs) I've run thousands of pages through it..
She's still running strong.. I'll never go back to ink.
Hulu can and does insert advertising into the video streams.. They have the ability to make new advertising $$ on old content and even target by market.. That is where Hulu's money is going to come from.
Dude I'm doing it right now with a mid level 7 meg cable modem package.. You don't need fiber..
Plus I have access to information I couldn't get with cable.. Like what the heck the kids are watching when I'm not home..
They have Netflix on the Wii.. All I have to do is log into my account and look at the activity.. I can see everything they ware watching.. Heck My Wife is home watching Bones Season 3 episode 15 right now.. I can get that info sitting here at work.
When I dump Dish my ISP is going to get some of the $$ I save in the form of a faster internet package..
So yes the ISP's have incentive to keep providing better and faster services.. As their customers drop traditional TV services they may choose to spend that $$ on better Internet service..
I guess I must be one of those 8% with IPTV.. Well if that's what you want to call a old PC hooked up to the TV. I already had a hacked WRT54G acting as wireless bridge in the equipment cabinet for the Blueray and Dish DVR. Adding a PC was dead simple. I can remote control it via Ultra VNC from my laptop or directly by wireless keyboard/mouse sitting by the TV.
Flat screens have made it easier than ever to watch content off the internet on your TV.. Between Netflix, Hulu and the great signal I get from the OTA HD tuner for locals I hardly even turn on the Dish network box anymore. I'm thinking about dumping Dish at the end of the contract..
At that point I'll build out the existing PC as a Myth box and add HD card for OTA reception.. That will get me the local news and whatever major network junk I want.
Hopefully the locals will pick up on what's going on and offer their local broadcasts online via Hulu or their own web sites.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein
Forgive this guy, he has only read the latest Texas version of 1984, which deals more with people joining the Army to become better people, and shooting down evil atheists and muslims.
Oh yes, the Heinlein version!
That is Hardly a Heinlein point of view..
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history. [Robert Heinlein]
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. [Robert Heinlein]
I doubt you'll get one.. All the new K series digital cameras are backwards compatible with he old K mount lenses.. Heck with the K to M42 adapter you can even use the screw mount lenses.. I have a old M42 50mm f 1.4 prime I use on my K100D.. It's a sweet little lens. There isn't much intensive to develop a digital back when you can score a K100D for $300
The main reason I stuck with Pentax was the ability to keep using all the lenses I already had.
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We got a Blue Ray on a black Friday sale for $99.
I didn't get it for picture, enhanced features or really anything to do with the blue ray player part..
I got it because its a nice streaming media player with native HDMI, firmware upgradable and I could easily hook up to my TV.
It replaced the old DVD and streaming PC in the cabinet cutting down on heat, power and the number of remotes laying around.
The fact that it plays Blue-Ray disks is a bonus but DVD's still rule the house.. I can't play Blue Ray on the 5 PC's, kids basement TV or in the car player..
OK folks.. this is how the government gets it done.
An industrial metal shredder. Nothing left bigger then a dime.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd_O7-rqcHc
I find it funny that "Operation Night Dragon" was conducted during daytime business house..
Here is a good paper on Sodium vs other coolants and it gives a good history of reactors built that used it.
http://www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/SodiumCoolant_NRCpresentation.pdf
FFTF (Fast Flux Test Facility) ran for 10 years (1982-1992) with sodium as a coolant without incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_Flux_Test_Facility
Simi Valley was a test reactor built in 1959..
Try where we WERE years ago..
FFTF was a sodium cooled reactor built at Hanford in 1982 and run until 1992
http://www.hanford.gov/files.cfm/fftffocus.pdf
The only complaint I have is the 1 concurrent stream pr DVD limit and the 6 "device" limit..
I have the 3 DVD package we can watch in the living room while the kids watch on the Wii and the kid desktop PC at the same time..
We will be adding a 2nd kid's PC so I'll need to bump it out to 4 soon if conflicts pop up.
Dish Network is going away at our house..
Netflix, Hulu for most things. OTA with a MythTV box will fill the local programing void..
some of the the $$ saved by dropping dish goes into higher bandwidth..
Back when the first case came up I suspected it was a move to get EMI to sign a new contract for digital sales..
In the last case EMI was claiming the old contract only covered album sales and was paying Pink Floyd a lower rate for digital sales.
Looks like the Old Pink pulled it off..
Link to my comment on the first EMI case
In my case Comcast is gaining broadband business they wouldn't have had before.
I dropped Dish Network and went to all streaming (Netflix, Hulu) and OTA for locals..
Part of the switch involved upgrading my broadband package so Comcast is getting more $$ from me than before.
Heck without streaming video I'd probably still be on Clearwire.. Clear got really heavy handed with bandwidth throttling so they lost all my business..
If Verizon ever brings FOIS to my area I'll be switching..
Most states have a statute of limitations on old uncollected debt..
http://www.bcsalliance.com/y_debt_sol.html
The key is don't accept the debt if it's gone past the limits for your state..
There is a table of the limits by state in the link above..
DO NOT ADMIT THAT YOU OWE THE DEBT,
DO NOT AGREE TO PAY THE DEBT,
DO NOT AGREE TO SEND ANY MONEY TO THEM.
If you do, then the statute of limitations might start running all over again, giving
them the legal right to sue you.
My wife got a notice from a collector on a 10 year old phone bill. I know it was paid back then but do you have records to prove you paid a bill 10 years ago?.. We had to send them a certified letter stating we do NOT owe this debt to get them to go away..
The collector knew that and admitted they couldn't sue us but they were free to call and send letters until they were asked to stop in writing by certified letter.
Only poor people pay taxes.
Funny all the poor people I know are getting earned income credits,child credits and so on.. They get back a couple thousand more than they paid in..
Rock flies right through paper.. Nothing beats rock!
Hmm I can get each family member (6 of us) a burger and fry for $2 each.. $12 total and they are all bitching at me 2 hours later because they are still hungry..
Or I can feed all of them for $5-10 and about 30 minutes of my time. As a bonus I still have leftovers I can take to work for Lunch the next day.
Now for single people I'll have to admit.. cooking for one person sucks.. You either make way to much or there isn't enough material in the pan to cook properly.
It's not that they made a few defective products.. the how they handle those defects..
On the server side they make you jump through hoops testing and swapping parts before sending out a warranty replacement.. THEN about half the time the replacement part is defective! DOA or introduces new issues..
The problem got so bad we started marking the old boards going back to Dell.. There were several times we would get our own marked boards back a few weeks later as replacements on another server.. Guess what.. they were still bad!!!!
This was on a Platinum support contract.. I can't imagine what kind of crap the lower level contracts got.
Trust me. The TV station has no control over EBS alerts..
That system to completely automated.
I ran master control for a broadcast TV station for 7 years.. We had plenty of times when the EBS ran a test or an alert right in the middle of a commercial break. All you can do is write it up and move on with your day.
No the Lahar took that smoldering hole your hose used to sit on and washed it 50 miles down stream.. Don't worry.. It's safe under 50 feet of mud..
CBS should simply change the title to 01110011011010000110100101110100 my dad says
Problem solved.. 1 and 0 are harmless
Welcome to my boat..
I bought a Oki C5200N 6 years ago..
Store demo model for $250..
I've had to refill the 3color and 1 block toners once for $90 (ebay refilled toner packs)
I've run thousands of pages through it..
She's still running strong.. I'll never go back to ink.
Hulu can and does insert advertising into the video streams..
They have the ability to make new advertising $$ on old content and even target by market..
That is where Hulu's money is going to come from.
Dude I'm doing it right now with a mid level 7 meg cable modem package.. You don't need fiber..
Plus I have access to information I couldn't get with cable.. Like what the heck the kids are watching when I'm not home..
They have Netflix on the Wii.. All I have to do is log into my account and look at the activity.. I can see everything they ware watching..
Heck My Wife is home watching Bones Season 3 episode 15 right now.. I can get that info sitting here at work.
When I dump Dish my ISP is going to get some of the $$ I save in the form of a faster internet package..
So yes the ISP's have incentive to keep providing better and faster services.. As their customers drop traditional TV services they may choose to spend that $$ on better Internet service..
I guess I must be one of those 8% with IPTV.. Well if that's what you want to call a old PC hooked up to the TV.
I already had a hacked WRT54G acting as wireless bridge in the equipment cabinet for the Blueray and Dish DVR. Adding a PC was dead simple.
I can remote control it via Ultra VNC from my laptop or directly by wireless keyboard/mouse sitting by the TV.
Flat screens have made it easier than ever to watch content off the internet on your TV..
Between Netflix, Hulu and the great signal I get from the OTA HD tuner for locals I hardly even turn on the Dish network box anymore.
I'm thinking about dumping Dish at the end of the contract..
At that point I'll build out the existing PC as a Myth box and add HD card for OTA reception.. That will get me the local news and whatever major network junk I want.
Hopefully the locals will pick up on what's going on and offer their local broadcasts online via Hulu or their own web sites.
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
Robert Heinlein
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
Robert Heinlein
Forgive this guy, he has only read the latest Texas version of 1984, which deals more with people joining the Army to become better people, and shooting down evil atheists and muslims.
Oh yes, the Heinlein version!
That is Hardly a Heinlein point of view..
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H.Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not recieve this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history. [Robert Heinlein]
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you may not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. [Robert Heinlein]
I doubt you'll get one.. All the new K series digital cameras are backwards compatible with he old K mount lenses..
Heck with the K to M42 adapter you can even use the screw mount lenses..
I have a old M42 50mm f 1.4 prime I use on my K100D.. It's a sweet little lens.
There isn't much intensive to develop a digital back when you can score a K100D for $300
The main reason I stuck with Pentax was the ability to keep using all the lenses I already had.