Forget WOULD have given you for free on the PS2. If there are ~750 cars and ~50 tracks to "buy" for this Gran Turismo HD, but they've not been improved from PS2 levels of detail, that sounds rather suspiciously like the exact contents of GT4 that 90% of the people interested in this probably already DID buy on the PS2.
Given that even the PS2 release of GT4 has a 1080i option, this is purely about making people buy the game all over again for the online mode.
I've neither seen the movie nor read the article (thanks to a slashdotting), but does he really complain that Van Eck phreaking is a completely made-up load of nonsense?
Because he deserves a hardback copy of Cryptonomicon to the head if he is.
All what Japanese PS3? They're only getting 100,000 of them. The US is a slightly larger market, but not 4 times as large, so expect the situation to be even worse over there.
People who aren't sufficiently cynical to realise it needs to be turned off in the first place? I was astounded to find that Microsoft would do such a thing when it was originally introduced.
The mark 1 models, with the same Rover engine that Caterham and a million other small English manufacturers used to use, were a bit of a reliability nightmare, yes - my uncle has the hard-top Exige version, and it's been in and out of the garage a lot.
Fortunately, the new ones use a Toyota engine and a new drivetrain, and they're a LOT better, apparently. I still wouldn't buy any car without a nearby dealership, mind you.
The thing is, once you start talking about 300+ horsepower, you're kind of shoving concern about mpg out the window anyway. Re: your Miata, it's not really designed for raw power, but the fun of cruising along with your top down.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the Lotus Elise; looks gorgeous, and due to the wonder of power/weight ratio does over 30mpg combined, 0-60 in the 5 second range (depending on which one you get) and most importantly turns like a fish. Amazing fun.
The main quote that interests me is the one from a senior guy at Toshiba promising never to do this. So I'm not that worried. The steering committee for the format continue to discuss the idea of future players having region locking, but it's not part of AACS, so they can't force it on currently-available players.
This is utterly fucked as a copy-prevention system for DVD, or even for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
Right now, there are millions of people in the world with their completely legit home movies on home-recorded DVD writeable discs (of assorted formats).
Right now, there are at least tens of thousands of people in the world with shop-bought HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movies. There are probably hundreds of millions of people with shop-bought DVDs.
All the above people will want their discs to continue to work, even if they replace their players due to age. So these hypothetical players must have an ability to play video streams off discs without embedded chips. Which means they'll play pirate movies without chips as well.
This only has a hope in hell of working for region-locking, and there they hit one rather serious problem. ALL the hardware manufacturers know that outside the US, you'll make a lot more money selling a lot more players if you ensure that your region-locking settings are just barely secure enough to avoid the wrath of the DVD Standards Committee, but not enough to stop it being fairly open knowledge how to disable them at home. The public want region-free, and the public get region-free.
For instance, it's pretty much known that the "standard" Toshiba handset hack will work to disable the region locks on the legacy DVD portion of their upcoming HD-E1 and HD-EX1 HD-DVD players, and they aren't even in reviewers hands yet.
Given that many of the latter 1st-party Gamecube games have a little "60Hz only" tag on them because Nintendo Europe couldn't even be arsed to convert them to PAL, you can forget that little excuse.
This means a new standard, and new players all round. It's no longer a DVD, and I'm certainly not running out and buying a new player for it.
On another, rather important, note, they mention it for HD-DVD. HD-DVD doesn't even _have_ region encoding, so they can't tell me the disc is from the wrong one; that's why I want HD-DVD rather than Blu-Ray.
People do give the slightest fuck about how much driving costs. But if you want to use that to help the environment, consider how much they spend on the extra fuel vs. how much a whole new, fuel-efficient car is, in both fuel costs and indeed pollution damage of some fuel vs. manufacture of a new car. Remember, this is about the environment, so their old gas-guzzler has to come right off the road, rather than just passed on to another driver.
"why doesn't the iTunes music store offer higher bitrate stuff?"
In short, because the iTunes Store is selling music to play on iPods. Its reason to exist is to help sell those iPods in the first place, and for my (and I'm guessing the majority's) money, 128kbs is the sweet spot for AAC between acceptable quality on headphones going about my daily business, and the number of songs I can fit on my player.
I do get the whole audiophile argument, but that's why there's a NAD seperates system in the living room and a whole cabinet of CDs. I still buy my albums on CD, but iTMS is great for when I just want an individual track (usually single B-sides).
If you don't mind losing the disk space on your small portable player, then yes, you can get high quality. However, most of the places I've seen only sell 128kb WMA files anyway, so you're stuffed.
Your old 6502 was probably running at between 2 and 8 kHz. Converting that AM noise to a waveform puts it slap bang in the middle of the audible frequencies.
Now, however, the casino has got to guess that your chip is operating at precisely 1.8GHz, and any unshielded RF noise isn't just the mobile phone in your pocket.
The Cube was going to be £160 here (what I expected the Wii to be) until about a month or so before release, when they dropped it to £130. I remember, because I got one right away, thinking what a bargain it was, compared to the (then dying on its arse) £300 XBox.
Mind you, in the '77 release, the Jedi _are_ the terrorists. Lucas seems to have got something of a bone to pick with Bush, judging from the heavy-handed subtext of the prequels, too.
That's not very surprising, when they just announced an hour ago that they're going to pwn the UK for £180 on the thing, only £20 less than a 360 Core model.
For reference, the $250 you Americans will be paying equates to roughly £134.
Over here in Europe, finding a TV that takes in an RGB signal is a hell of a lot easier than finding one with a component (YCbCr) input. Plus, most that do also take RGB over VGA as well, which is just as good.
Returning to the original argument, there's nothing wrong with HDMI. Just say no to the HDCP encryption if you find it so onerous.
I see your point entirely. I'd rather pay money for something I want and have it in a decent quality.
The problem lies in there being no legal definition of 'decent quality'; after all, I bought CDs rather than download 128kbs mp3 files, but that didn't stop the tonnes of legal bricks falling on Napster's head.
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Forget WOULD have given you for free on the PS2. If there are ~750 cars and ~50 tracks to "buy" for this Gran Turismo HD, but they've not been improved from PS2 levels of detail, that sounds rather suspiciously like the exact contents of GT4 that 90% of the people interested in this probably already DID buy on the PS2.
Given that even the PS2 release of GT4 has a 1080i option, this is purely about making people buy the game all over again for the online mode.
If you've already got a PS2, component cables for it, an LCD with a component input and a copy of GT4, why not just enable the 1080i option?
If your LCD won't take HDMI, there's no way it's going to accept 1080p over component either, so you're not missing out.
I've neither seen the movie nor read the article (thanks to a slashdotting), but does he really complain that Van Eck phreaking is a completely made-up load of nonsense?
Because he deserves a hardback copy of Cryptonomicon to the head if he is.
All what Japanese PS3? They're only getting 100,000 of them. The US is a slightly larger market, but not 4 times as large, so expect the situation to be even worse over there.
I thought even the low-end PS3's controller was wireless. Did this change, then?
People who aren't sufficiently cynical to realise it needs to be turned off in the first place? I was astounded to find that Microsoft would do such a thing when it was originally introduced.
The mark 1 models, with the same Rover engine that Caterham and a million other small English manufacturers used to use, were a bit of a reliability nightmare, yes - my uncle has the hard-top Exige version, and it's been in and out of the garage a lot.
Fortunately, the new ones use a Toyota engine and a new drivetrain, and they're a LOT better, apparently. I still wouldn't buy any car without a nearby dealership, mind you.
The thing is, once you start talking about 300+ horsepower, you're kind of shoving concern about mpg out the window anyway. Re: your Miata, it's not really designed for raw power, but the fun of cruising along with your top down.
Personally, I'm a big fan of the Lotus Elise; looks gorgeous, and due to the wonder of power/weight ratio does over 30mpg combined, 0-60 in the 5 second range (depending on which one you get) and most importantly turns like a fish. Amazing fun.
The main quote that interests me is the one from a senior guy at Toshiba promising never to do this. So I'm not that worried. The steering committee for the format continue to discuss the idea of future players having region locking, but it's not part of AACS, so they can't force it on currently-available players.
This is utterly fucked as a copy-prevention system for DVD, or even for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
Right now, there are millions of people in the world with their completely legit home movies on home-recorded DVD writeable discs (of assorted formats).
Right now, there are at least tens of thousands of people in the world with shop-bought HD-DVD and Blu-Ray movies. There are probably hundreds of millions of people with shop-bought DVDs.
All the above people will want their discs to continue to work, even if they replace their players due to age. So these hypothetical players must have an ability to play video streams off discs without embedded chips. Which means they'll play pirate movies without chips as well.
This only has a hope in hell of working for region-locking, and there they hit one rather serious problem. ALL the hardware manufacturers know that outside the US, you'll make a lot more money selling a lot more players if you ensure that your region-locking settings are just barely secure enough to avoid the wrath of the DVD Standards Committee, but not enough to stop it being fairly open knowledge how to disable them at home. The public want region-free, and the public get region-free.
For instance, it's pretty much known that the "standard" Toshiba handset hack will work to disable the region locks on the legacy DVD portion of their upcoming HD-E1 and HD-EX1 HD-DVD players, and they aren't even in reviewers hands yet.
Given that many of the latter 1st-party Gamecube games have a little "60Hz only" tag on them because Nintendo Europe couldn't even be arsed to convert them to PAL, you can forget that little excuse.
This means a new standard, and new players all round. It's no longer a DVD, and I'm certainly not running out and buying a new player for it.
On another, rather important, note, they mention it for HD-DVD. HD-DVD doesn't even _have_ region encoding, so they can't tell me the disc is from the wrong one; that's why I want HD-DVD rather than Blu-Ray.
People do give the slightest fuck about how much driving costs. But if you want to use that to help the environment, consider how much they spend on the extra fuel vs. how much a whole new, fuel-efficient car is, in both fuel costs and indeed pollution damage of some fuel vs. manufacture of a new car. Remember, this is about the environment, so their old gas-guzzler has to come right off the road, rather than just passed on to another driver.
"why doesn't the iTunes music store offer higher bitrate stuff?"
In short, because the iTunes Store is selling music to play on iPods. Its reason to exist is to help sell those iPods in the first place, and for my (and I'm guessing the majority's) money, 128kbs is the sweet spot for AAC between acceptable quality on headphones going about my daily business, and the number of songs I can fit on my player.
I do get the whole audiophile argument, but that's why there's a NAD seperates system in the living room and a whole cabinet of CDs. I still buy my albums on CD, but iTMS is great for when I just want an individual track (usually single B-sides).
If you don't mind losing the disk space on your small portable player, then yes, you can get high quality. However, most of the places I've seen only sell 128kb WMA files anyway, so you're stuffed.
Your old 6502 was probably running at between 2 and 8 kHz. Converting that AM noise to a waveform puts it slap bang in the middle of the audible frequencies.
Now, however, the casino has got to guess that your chip is operating at precisely 1.8GHz, and any unshielded RF noise isn't just the mobile phone in your pocket.
The Cube was going to be £160 here (what I expected the Wii to be) until about a month or so before release, when they dropped it to £130. I remember, because I got one right away, thinking what a bargain it was, compared to the (then dying on its arse) £300 XBox.
Sorry, I must have a missed the reference to 8 pins, then. SCART has 21 of the buggers.
Mind you, in the '77 release, the Jedi _are_ the terrorists. Lucas seems to have got something of a bone to pick with Bush, judging from the heavy-handed subtext of the prequels, too.
That's not very surprising, when they just announced an hour ago that they're going to pwn the UK for £180 on the thing, only £20 less than a 360 Core model.
For reference, the $250 you Americans will be paying equates to roughly £134.
Would you? Find me a device that plays 576p at 60Hz and I'll be suitably impressed. PAL60 is 480p.
Over here in Europe, finding a TV that takes in an RGB signal is a hell of a lot easier than finding one with a component (YCbCr) input. Plus, most that do also take RGB over VGA as well, which is just as good.
Returning to the original argument, there's nothing wrong with HDMI. Just say no to the HDCP encryption if you find it so onerous.
I see your point entirely. I'd rather pay money for something I want and have it in a decent quality.
The problem lies in there being no legal definition of 'decent quality'; after all, I bought CDs rather than download 128kbs mp3 files, but that didn't stop the tonnes of legal bricks falling on Napster's head.
Don't you have meters anywhere you could keep an eye on?
Extensive tracking on a per device basis is probably going to use up energy itself, so I'm really not sure if that bit will achieve too much.
They're not getting Wii Sports however, by the sound of it.
Besides, if you really want to get sick about the price of consoles in Japan, look at the 360...