When the first wave of "enthusiatic" DRM measures for CDs came out in the UK, a few major magazines took to making note of it in their album reviews. e.g.
Major Artist - New Album Doesn't actually work in the office CD player due to "rights management". So we've no idea. The boxart is nice, though. 0/5
I take it if those are the only albums you've bought in 7 years, you've missed out on the rather exellent albums from Bowie and Cash in that time? I can't recommend them enough. Go get "American IV: The Man Comes Around" from Cash and "Heathen" from Bowie for a start.
Given that their intended output format was MTV, the number of videos they could even offer you in HD isn't that high, unless they come from the last few years and the productions studio had a clue. Loads were shot on video rather than film, and there seemed no point in rendering any CG elements at more than SD, even if film was used for live-action.
On the bright side, there are many collections available on DVD, at least there are in Europe. I've got most of the ones I really wanted now.
You probably know this and just had a moment of forgetfulness, but the rather brilliant video for Windowlicker is by Chris Cunningham, not Spike Jonze.
I agree with your more general point; I've bought plenty of video collections on DVD; if you don't already have it, I recommend the one from Warp Records. As well as Windowlicker, it has Cunningham's vid for Come To Daddy and Alex Rutterford's absolutely mindblowing video for Autechre's Granz Graf, which is worth the asking price alone.
"I've seen indications that a large number of people are, for example, still using early AMD64 CPUs and GeForce 5xxx and 6xxx video cards."
I'm still running Barton 2600+ on a clocked ATI 9550, myself. Given that I play a perfectly good game of Battlefield 2 on Medium graphics settings, I've got to guess that I'm not absurdly behind the mainstream curve with that, either. An AMD64 of any kind and a 6xxx card are pretty reasonable by most standards.
Though I don't exactly help myself with the upgrading; every time I consider it to make a shiny new box, I realise how much power the same money spent on a new console would get me, and buy one of those instead.
"Who the FUCK in their right mind would call the PS2 a media centre?"
Umm, you. In your first post of the thread, replying to a discussion about media centres with an unwarranted defence of your poor little PS2 that you thought had been maligned, on account of your lack of basic reading comprehension.
Oh, sorry, you said it had to be someone in their right mind. No idea then, sorry.
If you didn't mean to call the PS2 a media centre, then perhaps you might have tried not mentioning it apropos of nothing in reply to a post about media centres, you dumb trolling cunt.
Yes, I'm stating as fact that the PS2's DVD playing was shit. Because the image quality was objectively terrible in comparison to every other DVD player I've used. I don't care about extraneous features, but it should at least get the basics sorted.
I used what the poster you originally started to attack defined as a media centre, what Microsoft and Sony define as a Media Centre when Microsoft launched Windows XP Media Centre Edition, and Sony launched the PSX, describing it as a Media Centre version of the PS2. Which includes recording. You'll note the way that we didn't refer to the original PS2 at all, until you got all jumpy about the idea that someone had defamed your precious machine.
So if anyone around here is being a troll, it's you. Buh-bye now.
Sorry, I wasn't aware that I'd made up the PSX on the spot, and no other console is a full-on media centre, as they lack recording capabilities. But that's by-the-by, really.
Fair enough, if you just wanted a PS2. My problem with the PS2 was that it was a really, REALLY shit DVD player. Fortunately, I already had a proper one, and so only wanted it to play games on.
Which it does just fine. There really wasn't much they could have done to reduce the cost of the machine by leaving out the DVD playing capabilities, so it's a freebie. The PS3, however, you're paying a fortune for the BluRay drive, which as the 360 demonstrates is just excessive. All in the hope that we might buy some films in the format (not bloody likely, if you look at that format's launch lineup).
These days, the Euro to Pound conversion is a lot more reasonable than it used to be. Because European law bans Nintendo from stopping Tesco and friends from sourcing a machines from Belgium (or wherever in the EU) and selling them in the UK, or making the rest of Europe a different region.
Disney themselves will not sell you The Little Mermaid any more. I'm not the grandparent poster, but from a purely financial point of view, Buena Vista Entertainment see exactly the same amount of money from the sale of a pirate as a second-hand copy; i.e. nothing.
The Pin code is to stop someone 'borrowing' your phone for a minute without your knowledge and fiddling with the encryption settings, by the sound of things.
I checked my facts, Sony are still stating to AVS that the machine will only do 1080i over component. If they're saying something else to other people that's interesting in itself, however.
Although I'm not talking about NVidia's RSX GPU, but the actual DAC chip on the end of that.
The "textures are expensive" argument is essentially nonsense, though. It's all about what the market can bear. Here in the UK, the PC release of Oblivion is £35, the XBox 360 one is £50. If there is any difference, I can't see it.
Although, if that were the case, I wouldn't have had to pay the same price at the cinema, and more on DVD for the rather excellent "Primer" (shooting budget: $7000) than the rather less excellent "King Kong" (shooting budget: $207000000).
Not true. The video file on the current crop of HD-DVD discs is stored in exactly the same 1080p/24fps format as BluRay films. The only limitation at the moment is that Toshiba's player is using video output chip that only handles up to 1080i, as the 1080p ones are still prohibitively expensive. The rest of the board is all designed and ready for when they dump a 1080p-capable chip on for the 2nd generation of players (probably around the end of the year).
"The low-end PS3 still puts out 1080p both in movies and games."
Sorry, but it doesn't. They're only putting a 1080i video chip in there as part of the cost saving, even if you can find a device that will accept 1080p over component. Sony confirmed this to AVS during E3. If you want 1080p, you'll need the top-end model.
Also, according to Microsoft, they've still to reach a definite decision about whether they need to design a way to get HDMI for the HD-DVD plugin. It'll only be 1080i, though.
Wii is definitely 480p only, no 720p. Nintendo don't think 720p is worth adding, when they haven't given it enough power to make the most of that resolution.
Cynicism wins again. As far as I can tell, the idea is to sell you the games all over again, rather than allow you to make your own disc images. The exact workings of the emulation we don't know yet, but this is basically a direct attempt to match Nintendo's Virtual Console on the Wii.
Portable DVD players are just too big, though. I barely cope with the size of the PSP; anything that has to be wide enough to fit a 5" DVD into isn't going to fit in my jacket pocket.
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"Movies on memory cards don't have DVD-like menus like UMD movies do."
As an old fan of Laserdisc, why do you say that like it's a point _against_ memory cards? I don't like DVD menus. At all.
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Or to put it more simply, the Environmental Science group has a louder voice than the Dinosaur Regeneration Science one.
Hmm. I wonder why?
When the first wave of "enthusiatic" DRM measures for CDs came out in the UK, a few major magazines took to making note of it in their album reviews. e.g.
Major Artist - New Album
Doesn't actually work in the office CD player due to "rights management". So we've no idea. The boxart is nice, though.
0/5
and so on.
I take it if those are the only albums you've bought in 7 years, you've missed out on the rather exellent albums from Bowie and Cash in that time? I can't recommend them enough. Go get "American IV: The Man Comes Around" from Cash and "Heathen" from Bowie for a start.
Given that their intended output format was MTV, the number of videos they could even offer you in HD isn't that high, unless they come from the last few years and the productions studio had a clue. Loads were shot on video rather than film, and there seemed no point in rendering any CG elements at more than SD, even if film was used for live-action.
On the bright side, there are many collections available on DVD, at least there are in Europe. I've got most of the ones I really wanted now.
You probably know this and just had a moment of forgetfulness, but the rather brilliant video for Windowlicker is by Chris Cunningham, not Spike Jonze.
I agree with your more general point; I've bought plenty of video collections on DVD; if you don't already have it, I recommend the one from Warp Records. As well as Windowlicker, it has Cunningham's vid for Come To Daddy and Alex Rutterford's absolutely mindblowing video for Autechre's Granz Graf, which is worth the asking price alone.
"I've seen indications that a large number of people are, for example, still using early AMD64 CPUs and GeForce 5xxx and 6xxx video cards."
I'm still running Barton 2600+ on a clocked ATI 9550, myself. Given that I play a perfectly good game of Battlefield 2 on Medium graphics settings, I've got to guess that I'm not absurdly behind the mainstream curve with that, either. An AMD64 of any kind and a 6xxx card are pretty reasonable by most standards.
Though I don't exactly help myself with the upgrading; every time I consider it to make a shiny new box, I realise how much power the same money spent on a new console would get me, and buy one of those instead.
But my Tempest polygon kicks your suspiciously similar GW polygon's arse in turn.
"Who the FUCK in their right mind would call the PS2 a media centre?"
Umm, you. In your first post of the thread, replying to a discussion about media centres with an unwarranted defence of your poor little PS2 that you thought had been maligned, on account of your lack of basic reading comprehension.
Oh, sorry, you said it had to be someone in their right mind. No idea then, sorry.
If you didn't mean to call the PS2 a media centre, then perhaps you might have tried not mentioning it apropos of nothing in reply to a post about media centres, you dumb trolling cunt.
Yes, I'm stating as fact that the PS2's DVD playing was shit. Because the image quality was objectively terrible in comparison to every other DVD player I've used. I don't care about extraneous features, but it should at least get the basics sorted.
I used what the poster you originally started to attack defined as a media centre, what Microsoft and Sony define as a Media Centre when Microsoft launched Windows XP Media Centre Edition, and Sony launched the PSX, describing it as a Media Centre version of the PS2. Which includes recording. You'll note the way that we didn't refer to the original PS2 at all, until you got all jumpy about the idea that someone had defamed your precious machine.
So if anyone around here is being a troll, it's you. Buh-bye now.
Sorry, I wasn't aware that I'd made up the PSX on the spot, and no other console is a full-on media centre, as they lack recording capabilities. But that's by-the-by, really.
Fair enough, if you just wanted a PS2. My problem with the PS2 was that it was a really, REALLY shit DVD player. Fortunately, I already had a proper one, and so only wanted it to play games on.
Which it does just fine. There really wasn't much they could have done to reduce the cost of the machine by leaving out the DVD playing capabilities, so it's a freebie. The PS3, however, you're paying a fortune for the BluRay drive, which as the 360 demonstrates is just excessive. All in the hope that we might buy some films in the format (not bloody likely, if you look at that format's launch lineup).
These days, the Euro to Pound conversion is a lot more reasonable than it used to be. Because European law bans Nintendo from stopping Tesco and friends from sourcing a machines from Belgium (or wherever in the EU) and selling them in the UK, or making the rest of Europe a different region.
True. However, our PSP Value Packs are £180, our PS3 will be £425, and XBox 360 games cost £50. So yes, we get absolutely reamed on game sales.
I'm not the grandparent, but I'll make a more reasonable statement:
Seperate components are the way to go, because a single media box won't record a programme while someone is playing a game on it.
Woah, you mean we've got to use a second file extension if we switch to lossless?
That's far too much work, let's just invent an entire new standard, just so our image directories look neat.
Disney themselves will not sell you The Little Mermaid any more. I'm not the grandparent poster, but from a purely financial point of view, Buena Vista Entertainment see exactly the same amount of money from the sale of a pirate as a second-hand copy; i.e. nothing.
Which article? The Ars Technica one in the story summary I read states
"On one level, he's correct. Few consumers will appreciate the difference between 1080i on a component cable (analog) and 1080p on HDMI."
I can't see any others, other than your link to PS3Scene, and that's blocked by my proxy.
The Pin code is to stop someone 'borrowing' your phone for a minute without your knowledge and fiddling with the encryption settings, by the sound of things.
I checked my facts, Sony are still stating to AVS that the machine will only do 1080i over component. If they're saying something else to other people that's interesting in itself, however.
Although I'm not talking about NVidia's RSX GPU, but the actual DAC chip on the end of that.
The "textures are expensive" argument is essentially nonsense, though. It's all about what the market can bear. Here in the UK, the PC release of Oblivion is £35, the XBox 360 one is £50. If there is any difference, I can't see it.
Although, if that were the case, I wouldn't have had to pay the same price at the cinema, and more on DVD for the rather excellent "Primer" (shooting budget: $7000) than the rather less excellent "King Kong" (shooting budget: $207000000).
"Microsoft backs HD-DVD, which doesn't do 1080p."
Not true. The video file on the current crop of HD-DVD discs is stored in exactly the same 1080p/24fps format as BluRay films. The only limitation at the moment is that Toshiba's player is using video output chip that only handles up to 1080i, as the 1080p ones are still prohibitively expensive. The rest of the board is all designed and ready for when they dump a 1080p-capable chip on for the 2nd generation of players (probably around the end of the year).
"The low-end PS3 still puts out 1080p both in movies and games."
Sorry, but it doesn't. They're only putting a 1080i video chip in there as part of the cost saving, even if you can find a device that will accept 1080p over component. Sony confirmed this to AVS during E3. If you want 1080p, you'll need the top-end model.
Also, according to Microsoft, they've still to reach a definite decision about whether they need to design a way to get HDMI for the HD-DVD plugin. It'll only be 1080i, though.
Wii is definitely 480p only, no 720p. Nintendo don't think 720p is worth adding, when they haven't given it enough power to make the most of that resolution.
Cynicism wins again. As far as I can tell, the idea is to sell you the games all over again, rather than allow you to make your own disc images. The exact workings of the emulation we don't know yet, but this is basically a direct attempt to match Nintendo's Virtual Console on the Wii.
Portable DVD players are just too big, though. I barely cope with the size of the PSP; anything that has to be wide enough to fit a 5" DVD into isn't going to fit in my jacket pocket.
"Movies on memory cards don't have DVD-like menus like UMD movies do."
As an old fan of Laserdisc, why do you say that like it's a point _against_ memory cards? I don't like DVD menus. At all.