I'm looking for a good quality region free Blu-Ray player. Preferably with an eject button on the remote, but all the shops just skeeve me out.
I've never quite seen the point of remote ejects buttons. If you're going to change the disc anyway, what's the hardship in pressing a button with your finger before you take the disc out? If you're not changing the disc, why bother ejecting it?
No doubt there is something obvious I am missing.
My current Blu-Ray player is slow as shit. You press the button and stand there for 10 15 seconds waiting for it to spit out the disk. It's just irritating.
The online shops selling region-free DVD players seem pretty shady to me. I'm looking for a good quality region free Blu-Ray player. Preferably with an eject button on the remote, but all the shops just skeeve me out.
There's plenty of money for all that, it's being hoarded by a new aristocracy.
Bradley Manning, you're the only soldier in the last 11 years to which I can honestly say "Thank you for your service. You are a true hero." The rest of them are "just following orders" in a pair of useless wars. Good on them for serving their country by serving the popularly elected government, but the missions are honorless.
Same here. If the film is rated PG-13 it's usually fair to say that the originality and edginess has been sucked out of it in the name of widening demographics. If the film was ever all that original and interesting in the first place. I'm an adult, I like adult themes that don't appeal to younger kids. PG-13 is usually a good flag.
In my experience, PG-13 movies are all too often tightly focused at the coveted tween/teen demographic. Great for those age groups, but as an adult I find that interesting (adult) issues are often ignored or glossed over to keep the film palatable to younger kids and the parents who want to keep them from seeing too much adult imagery. The plot becomes more childish and gritty reality gives way to blandness. Bruce Willis couldn't even say his iconic catch phrase in the 4th installment of the Die Hard franchise!
There may be exceptions, but usually a PG-13 movie is fluffy while an R movie can touch on more serious sometimes uncomfortable topics and situations.
Sorry, Blu-Ray audio codecs have loss-less compression. And TheGratefulNet sounds like a crusty old man who doesn't like the new-fangled gear. Keep watching your DVDs with compression artifacts in the audio and video!
DVD audio is compressed, Blu-Ray audio is not. There you go. With the same Polk Audio speakers in a 5.1 configuration and an Onkyo receiver/amplifier, I played Fifth Element on DVD and on Blu-Ray using the same Blu-Ray player. I own it in both formats. Blu-Ray sounded much clearer and dynamic. I did the same with the theatrical release of LotR movies.
Are you seriously telling me you can't tell the difference between compressed and CD audio? Might want to get your ears checked!
The untattooed people still out number the tattooed by an order of magnitude. But I know what you mean, when a reality TV show centers around something, it's official mainstream. Shades of gray and all that. Hating on indie or hipster is generally just a way to say "I don't like their fashion" without having to admit to yourself that you care about fashion:D
Clinton didn't get any special powers after the terrorist attacks occurred on his watch, but Bush did. Clinton was bashed, Bush was praised and given more power. Obama was bashed too.
When people who consume traditional/mass-market offerings hadn't heard about "indie" and didn't know that there were people whowanted to do things differently.
People who think "indie" connotes "pretentious" are generally people upset someone else has dared to do something in a different way. In other words, those people want the damn kids off their lawn.
They identify as a group which prefers to avoid the most heavily advertised brands and trends. You call them "hipsters" which is their identity as you have named and categorised their identity.
What's wrong with aspiring to be different? I never understood the hipster-hate that I've seen on the internet. If they want to dress weird and buy obscure products, why hate on them?
The markets had evolved much faster than new regulations could be applied, and of course the existing regulations weren't well enforced either. That's what you get tho...the party in power will put nay-sayers and do-nothings in charge of agencies and programs they don't like as a way to "show" that the agencies don't work. And of course, it's terribly difficult to get any new regulations put into law as no matter how good the economy they are always spun as job killers.
People will still need to differentiate between implementations of HTML that have different features...do they expect us all to just use the latest and hope nothing breaks?!
You're offended that he stole the information? Uh yeah, that's what leakers do. That's how information gets out when the government doesn't want you to know what it is doing.
And who exactly was "put in danger". You know, more danger than what one must expect when forcibly occupying a nation, or conniving with the occupiers of your homeland?
His country lied to him about what it was doing, and he felt we deserved to see how secrecy was being abused.
He's a hero. More of a hero than anyone in Iraq or Afghanistan could ever be.
I can only assume that he did not trust the protections given to American journalists by the American government. If you leak to another nation you have a better chance of your leakings actually getting to the public.
Manning was spying on America for Americans! He felt that the citizens needed to know what was being kept secret from them. The guy was sold a bill of goods about military service, and when he was in the thick of it he realized that he and everyone else had been lied to.
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I'm looking for a good quality region free Blu-Ray player. Preferably with an eject button on the remote, but all the shops just skeeve me out.
I've never quite seen the point of remote ejects buttons. If you're going to change the disc anyway, what's the hardship in pressing a button with your finger before you take the disc out? If you're not changing the disc, why bother ejecting it?
No doubt there is something obvious I am missing.
My current Blu-Ray player is slow as shit. You press the button and stand there for 10 15 seconds waiting for it to spit out the disk. It's just irritating.
The online shops selling region-free DVD players seem pretty shady to me. I'm looking for a good quality region free Blu-Ray player. Preferably with an eject button on the remote, but all the shops just skeeve me out.
There's plenty of money for all that, it's being hoarded by a new aristocracy.
Bradley Manning, you're the only soldier in the last 11 years to which I can honestly say "Thank you for your service. You are a true hero." The rest of them are "just following orders" in a pair of useless wars. Good on them for serving their country by serving the popularly elected government, but the missions are honorless.
Same here. If the film is rated PG-13 it's usually fair to say that the originality and edginess has been sucked out of it in the name of widening demographics. If the film was ever all that original and interesting in the first place. I'm an adult, I like adult themes that don't appeal to younger kids. PG-13 is usually a good flag.
In my experience, PG-13 movies are all too often tightly focused at the coveted tween/teen demographic. Great for those age groups, but as an adult I find that interesting (adult) issues are often ignored or glossed over to keep the film palatable to younger kids and the parents who want to keep them from seeing too much adult imagery. The plot becomes more childish and gritty reality gives way to blandness. Bruce Willis couldn't even say his iconic catch phrase in the 4th installment of the Die Hard franchise!
There may be exceptions, but usually a PG-13 movie is fluffy while an R movie can touch on more serious sometimes uncomfortable topics and situations.
I think I've been trolled.
Sorry, Blu-Ray audio codecs have loss-less compression. And TheGratefulNet sounds like a crusty old man who doesn't like the new-fangled gear. Keep watching your DVDs with compression artifacts in the audio and video!
DVD audio is compressed, Blu-Ray audio is not. There you go. With the same Polk Audio speakers in a 5.1 configuration and an Onkyo receiver/amplifier, I played Fifth Element on DVD and on Blu-Ray using the same Blu-Ray player. I own it in both formats. Blu-Ray sounded much clearer and dynamic. I did the same with the theatrical release of LotR movies.
Are you seriously telling me you can't tell the difference between compressed and CD audio? Might want to get your ears checked!
Won't work. They've already got that base covered. You will only be able to exchange the item for another identical item. No returns.
The audio is so much better than DVD, and picture is much nicer even on my old 720p set.
But I bought the $99 player. And all my disks are used.
I only sold out a little!
The untattooed people still out number the tattooed by an order of magnitude. But I know what you mean, when a reality TV show centers around something, it's official mainstream. Shades of gray and all that. Hating on indie or hipster is generally just a way to say "I don't like their fashion" without having to admit to yourself that you care about fashion :D
Clinton didn't get any special powers after the terrorist attacks occurred on his watch, but Bush did. Clinton was bashed, Bush was praised and given more power. Obama was bashed too.
When people who consume traditional/mass-market offerings hadn't heard about "indie" and didn't know that there were people whowanted to do things differently.
People who think "indie" connotes "pretentious" are generally people upset someone else has dared to do something in a different way. In other words, those people want the damn kids off their lawn.
They identify as a group which prefers to avoid the most heavily advertised brands and trends. You call them "hipsters" which is their identity as you have named and categorised their identity.
What's wrong with aspiring to be different? I never understood the hipster-hate that I've seen on the internet. If they want to dress weird and buy obscure products, why hate on them?
...when you can be so easily swayed by such scant evidence?
The markets had evolved much faster than new regulations could be applied, and of course the existing regulations weren't well enforced either. That's what you get tho...the party in power will put nay-sayers and do-nothings in charge of agencies and programs they don't like as a way to "show" that the agencies don't work. And of course, it's terribly difficult to get any new regulations put into law as no matter how good the economy they are always spun as job killers.
But that's our two-party system.
People will still need to differentiate between implementations of HTML that have different features...do they expect us all to just use the latest and hope nothing breaks?!
You're offended that he stole the information? Uh yeah, that's what leakers do. That's how information gets out when the government doesn't want you to know what it is doing.
And who exactly was "put in danger". You know, more danger than what one must expect when forcibly occupying a nation, or conniving with the occupiers of your homeland?
His country lied to him about what it was doing, and he felt we deserved to see how secrecy was being abused.
He's a hero. More of a hero than anyone in Iraq or Afghanistan could ever be.
I can only assume that he did not trust the protections given to American journalists by the American government. If you leak to another nation you have a better chance of your leakings actually getting to the public.
Manning was spying on America for Americans! He felt that the citizens needed to know what was being kept secret from them. The guy was sold a bill of goods about military service, and when he was in the thick of it he realized that he and everyone else had been lied to.
Only reason I keep my old DVD player is that it is region free.
I bought the cheap Sony BDP-360 (it's slow) and used Blu-Ray disks and prices look the same as DVD 5-7 years ago...with better quality.
Blu-Ray players will improve and the audio is a huge improvement.
Anyone who says upconverted DVD is "just as good" can't do math.
This is just more PC nonsense.
Came here to make this reference :)