What's the big deal, if you want to watch a Japanese DVD at home, all you have to do is:
fly to Japan
buy a DVD player
fly back to the US
wire it up.
relax and enjoy the movie
Then, the next weekend, you want to watch a Spanish DVD. No problem.....See there are ways around access control.
In this case, would the airplane be a device used to circumvent access?
Why is Sony losing on the PS2? Easy, the PS2 happens to be one of the cheap(est) DVD player on the market.
I've wondered if this might be a problem for them, but a couple of things don't add up for me here
Isn't it a little early to say that Sony is losing money on the PS2? Do any consoles make money immediately after their release?
Aren't PS2s around $300? That doesn't make them anywhere near cheap for a DVD player. Brand name players (even Sony) are around $200. No-names are as low as $99.
Frys electronics was also giveing away a free DVD of Jurassic Park which looks better on the PS2 than on my Sony DVD player also looking in the parental controll menu it appears that you can set the region codes to whatever you want, has anyone seen if it really works?
Region Code != Country code
The purpose of the country setting is to allow the DVD player to use a rating system consistent with local standards. In practice, today's DVD discs typically have a single table, so the player's country setting is irrelevent. At any rate, this has nothing whatsoever to do with region coding.
Emissions relocation is by and large a Good Thing.
I agree with your points, but relocation of emissions can also be a Bad Thing if you happen to live in the place to which the emissions are relocated. In Indiana, we like to burn some really nasty sulfur coal. The wind naturally relocates these emissions on Ohio. We're pretty happy with this arrangement, and therefore continue to burn nasty coal.
In a place like California, the mountains keep pretty much all of California's emissions in California. California is therefore much more careful about emissions. So do the degree to which this care is a Good Thing, relocation of emissions can be a Bad Thing.
Yes, but using 2:1 or 2.5:1 lossless compression is so easy, that halves the data rate. I'm not sure what compression Meridian Lossless Compressions achieves, but I'm pretty sure it exceeds 2.5:1.
OK, and MLP is part of the DVD-Audio specification, not the DVD-Video specification. My point is that the DVD-Video specification doesn't allow 24/96 5.1 channel audio. Today's mainstream players won't play it. What's your point?
President of United States of America or any other country's leader is NOT a geek. He does not have to understand what OSS really means and what p2p is. There are much much more important issues than napster to be considered first,
such as education, before american kids become the dumbest on the planet(well, some already are, and they troll on slashdot), environment protection, health care, tax cut, etc. heh, I could use a couple of extra thousands every year to go to vacation while the rest of the trolls moaning over their loss of access to mp3s on slashdot.
Since education is a state function, I view anything that national politicians say about education as either fluff or a bid for over-reaching their authority.
If they goal was simply to make better audio available, they would be releasing regular DVDs without video tracks. 5.1 24-bit 96khz. No, instead they want you to buy a whole new machine that essentially does they same thing, except is broken by disabling the digital output!
I totally agree with your point here. DVD-Audio will be a tough sell.
In the tradition of geekdom and Usenet, I will point out a minor problem with your numbers:
(24 bits)*(96kHz)*(5 channels) = 11.5 Mbits / sec
1x DVD speed delivers only 10 Mbits / sec. Therefore, a 24 bit, 96kHz, 5.1 channel disc wouldn't be legal DVD-Video.
That's a good point. I think it also explains why the U.S. has a system for taking money from the young people and giving it to the old people (Social Security).
Please moderate the parent up to 5. This whole story is bunch of crap. As rgrimm stated, Disney has been doing the since forever. It's not a change to the specification.
The natural format for such a large optical disc would be UDF of course. I am not sure if this is also on that DVD (or if dual ISO 9660 / UDF discs are possible at all).
I'm not sure about the partiucular DVD in question, but the ISO-9660/UDF combination is very common. The DVD-Video standard requires this exact format (UDF Bridge).
Hardly. The Babel fish puzzle walks you through, step by step. You have to do many things to solve it, but there's plenty of feedback on the sequence you have to follow.
I'd like to second that. I've given up on *a lot* of text adventure games, but solved the babel fish puzzle.
Haven't you heard that the MPAA has added Copyleft to the lawsuit for providing these t-shirts?
So order while you can.
That's very interesting, since the shirt doesn't even have the key on it. Copyleft does, however, send a hard copy of the code (with the key) along with the shirt.
oh contrair...
I had an athlon 300a overclocked to 450 for a little under a year. It never got terribly hot, but eventually it just died. By being dead I mean that it
just started spewing out errors, more and more often until I got a new chip. Then all was ok.
And I can honestly say that in the dozen-odd times I've watched Episode I, I never once thought, "Hey, there's Kenny Baker." It was always, "Hey, there's R2-D2."
Therefore, I'd conclude that Kenny's portrayal was a success.
Let's hope that we can watch episode II and never once think "Hey, there's CGI!" and rather always "Hey, there's R2-D2".
I think you're right, but maybe there's a business model for the casual user to buy application services through his ISP. I suspect that the dial-up services are scrambling for additional features in a competive market.
I do do not believe that the states have the right to levy such tax on these purchases. Here is article 1, section 10, paragraph 2 of the Constiution of the United States: No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
So maybe deep linking keeps the companies from filling their sites with crap. I mean, if Ticket Master's signal-to-noise ratio is so low that navigating their site is unpleasant, maybe they should feel some pressure to fix that. On the other hand, maybe they'll just be sure to put banner ads on every single page just in case of deep linking.
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In a place like California, the mountains keep pretty much all of California's emissions in California. California is therefore much more careful about emissions. So do the degree to which this care is a Good Thing, relocation of emissions can be a Bad Thing.
oops. I accidentally moderated this down. I'll reply to cancel.
In the tradition of geekdom and Usenet, I will point out a minor problem with your numbers:
(24 bits)*(96kHz)*(5 channels) = 11.5 Mbits / sec
1x DVD speed delivers only 10 Mbits / sec. Therefore, a 24 bit, 96kHz, 5.1 channel disc wouldn't be legal DVD-Video.
That's a good point. I think it also explains why the U.S. has a system for taking money from the young people and giving it to the old people (Social Security).
Please moderate the parent up to 5. This whole story is bunch of crap. As rgrimm stated, Disney has been doing the since forever. It's not a change to the specification.
They know that you can disable a never-before-seen alien computer by uploading a virus from a Mac. What else do you need to know?
It's not "shadow of a doubt". It's "reasonable doubt", although in the OJ case . . .
DVD-R (write-once DVD) comes in two flavors now: 3.95Gbytes and 4.7Gbytes. Both of the are single layered formats.
I think you're right, but maybe there's a business model for the casual user to buy application services through his ISP. I suspect that the dial-up services are scrambling for additional features in a competive market.
I do do not believe that the states have the right to levy such tax on these purchases. Here is article 1, section 10, paragraph 2 of the Constiution of the United States: No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing it's inspection Laws: and the net Produce of all Duties and Imposts, laid by any State on Imports or Exports, shall be for the Use of the Treasury of the United States; and all such Laws shall be subject to the Revision and Controul of the Congress.
So maybe deep linking keeps the companies from filling their sites with crap. I mean, if Ticket Master's signal-to-noise ratio is so low that navigating their site is unpleasant, maybe they should feel some pressure to fix that. On the other hand, maybe they'll just be sure to put banner ads on every single page just in case of deep linking.