I am sure that a lot of those owners would be willing to pay a premium to get HD playback hardware and movies.
I don't expect the HD movies to take off for a while, I would expect that for several years it would be a niche like Laserdisc was, which I think exceeded a million decks, and over thirty thousand LD titles were produced.
There are a great many pet theories about why Lucas is putting off the original trilogy so long.
Waiting for HD-DVD might work, but he just may be waiting for a more "secure" format to come along. Any high-definition movie disc standard has a strong chance of being tightly encrypted and would likely use the encrypted digital-out DVI standard.
My Fiance's wedding budget is 12,000. Any pointers on where I can get her to cut corners?
For reasons unknown, weddings tend to be incredibly stressful and expensive because people let it get out of hand. One recently married couple's suggestion to avoid the stress and expense: elope.:)
But seriously, it seems that people try to invite too many people and make too grand of a wedding. Keep it small & intimate - small hall, small chapel, limited guests. I wouldn't invite casual acquantances or friends and relatives that you haven't seen in ten years. I've been to a few weddings where it seems they invited fifth cousins and even directly invited friends of parents - when those friends don't know the couple to be wedded.
Your second-hand American set bought at a low-low price will be useless within a decade as the analog broadcasts will stop.
When will people actually research the things before making such broad assumptions?
I think _all_ or nearly all set-top HD recievers sold in the US can recieve digital transmission and convert them to most common analog signalling formats. You can buy recievers and converters that will decode digital broadcasts to composite, s-video, component and HD component formats.I would think that European sets would do similar.
In short, YOU CAN USE YOUR EXISTING SET. Just buy that set-top box. It might not show as much detail but you would hopefully be getting benefits from digital transmissions.
It has been remarked in other posts that most shrapnel doesn't travel for kilometers, yet the reflections of these beams could blind others in the single digit kilometers, which probably makes the area at risk of collateral damage radius 10x + and an area and 100x + that of a regular explosive.
From that, I'd rather deal with the risk shrapnel than the risk of blinding by IR laser.
I think it could be fewer than x+3y if more complex logic can be built into the display somehow and if it can handle high bandwidth - VGA and DVI connections are 15 or fewer pins. There are a myriad ways to count all this.
Even herbal treatments in the absense of a proper amount of research can be troublesome. People tend to let themselves think that because it is natural, it can't be dangerous.
Five-nine reliability in the airline industry would mean that we'd see a major commercial jetliner crash about every other day.
No, thanks.
Point taken. Somehow, IMO reasonable reliability in the software and hardware industry is rediculously exensive. I guess it wouldn't be too bad if one were willing to trade off performance (speed) for reliability rather than requiring speed and reliability.
I'd be happy to get consistent two nine or better reliability from my ISP!
One thing to remember is that people give up so dang quickly. Maybe I do that too.
They often don't even bother with the manual. Part of it is the industry, where manuals are often poorly translated from one language to another and on occasion, yet another. Or what is described in the manual doesn't accurately reflect the product that was in the box, often manuals are made before the product is finished, or the product is changed halfway through the run, or it is a new product with a poorly adapted manual.
_I_ can use just about anything out of the box, but I also flip through the manual once or twice just to make sure I covered everything.
You are right, a 50+ year old car can be confusing. Starting up a '40s Buick involves pushing the gas pedal all the way down, the starter switch is at the end of the pedal, once the car is put in "start" mode. Once started, I'm not sure if I've ever listened to or felt a smoother running engine. Shifting pattern often works differently. Then there is the manual shifting, whereas nobody seems to bother with manuals anymore, but you'd think that video game playingpunks could do it with all that coordination that they are supposed to have, but noooo, they have to shred a transmission to bits to figure out how to make it "go".
I do understand that digital recordings are made of discrete samples, but the "warmth" people describe with LPs have almost nothing to do with the high frequency sounds, heck, I've read of people raving over the sound of high-end equipment that actually cuts off at 12kHz.
I believe that there are experiments in which playing with the EQ among other parameters made the two sound the same.
The transfer function of tubes have also been pretty precisely replicated using transitors by Carver, but the product was rejected because it wasn't a tube amp.
"Once you've heard true analog music on vinyl.. played through a tube amp... that opinion will change in the time it takes to recognize the tune.;-)"
Or you could say something to the effect with a fresh album, on a $3000 turntable and a $5000 tube amp...
Which few care to bother with due to the cost and size of media. Don't get me wrong, I have been collecting LDs in the last two years. I like them but the players to get the best out of them are over $1000, and that's a lot of DVD movies that I can buy, which might not have as good color by some people, at least it is higher resolution and doesn't require eccentric and expensive playback equipment to use, never mind the much reduced lendability and transportability of LD (or LP for that matter).
I think part of the problem of implementing universal health care in the US was with the most recent big attempt to institute it. Under the wing of Mrs. Clinton, a bunch of people with no public accountability and with no public visibility, holed themselves up to make a proposal. When specific details were learned of the process, it killed it. I don't remember if even the names of most the people involved in it were released. The whole thing was just an exceedingly complex mess, with I believe two counter proposals, all three proposed systems of heath care were printed on a grand total of 2700 pages, so public confidence on it wasn't bolstered by that either.
It's much like when G.W. Bush formed an energy policy and tries to hide the list of people he consulted, one can imagine that one isn't too pleased with that.
Also, I really don't know if the "corporatized news media" is really involved in making people think that Canadian health care sucks, but really loose anecdotes spread around by callers and hosts of talk shows, and grass roots word of mouth. I don't remember reading a single newspaper article or TV news spot that really discussed the state of Canadian heath care.
For one, non-Sony manufacturers have been making MD players and drives for many years now.
Even Sonys have gotten cheaper, I just saw a pocket MD player / recorder for $150. I've seen numerous good MD recorder decks that were cheaper than equivalent CD recorder decks, and there was no portable "pocket" CD recorder that I have seen as opposed to a player, so there's no comparison on that aspect.
CDs are too big, other smaller available storage formats are too pricey and held too few songs (~$50 for 128MB). The best alternative to MD I've seen is the iPod, although I've met some people that said they would be afraid to go jogging with it because it is an expensive mini hard disc in there.
I really don't know too much about MP3 being less lossy in compression, but on both sides, it does depend on the encoder, and also on the bit rates chosen.
Missed some, just about all Phillips DVD players can be hacked by using a universal remote.
Most DVD player brands have hacks available for their more common players, and even some of the less common, higher end players.
You can get playback from the off-brand DVD players, but my experience is that it's better to get a bigger name-brand player than to cheap out. I'd rather go for quality, so I went for a Panasonic RP-56 and chipped it. Its hack consists of a simple chip and a firmware upgrade.
As you seem to imply, I bet a real degree has a lot more weight to it in the "real" world than a certification paper. I don't know if I'd give a rip about certifications, in the end I guess degrees are pieces of paper too, if one doesn't have what it takes to thrive in the real world, it doesn't matter what the degree is.
It also sort of bothers me when adults complain about Jar-Jar and now CG Yoda. We all saw the original trilogy for the first time when we were younger than we are now. I don't know about you, but I accepted the Ewoks then, and in subsequent viewings I've accepted them (for better or worse) as part of Star Wars package. Attempting impartiality, I don't think they are any better than Jar Jar or CG Yoda.
Heh, I've been trying to make that point for some time, thank you for bringing it to a good illustration.
One thing I've noticed last month watching Disney classics is that Jar-Jar seems to be remarkably similar to Goofy, with the sloppy neck, floppy ears, long flat snout and overall clumsy idiot personality.
"Finally if you had bothered to read to the end of the article, the greens are against not because it would be ugly, but simple because the money could be better spent on a clean water supply for all the local population."
I wonder if their argument is a bit backwards. The situation in Sicily might be caused by the fact that they have no good access to the mainland. With easier access both ways, it might result in changes to the island social climate such that the problem will end up being solved as a byproduct.
In some ways, "build it and they will come" might actually work. Much sillier things have happened.
I will admit that the bridge's price tag is HUGE. Such a move has a lot of risk and should be considered with all due care.
"Remember, thousands of people purchased LD players and discs, despite their higher cost, only marginally improved video (although much better audio)"
I believe the video quality of LD to be quite a bit better than VHS, the resolution is about 68% higher, and there's often less line jitter and line drop-outs. The added resolution might not be as visible, but often only because of the mastering or the display used. Heck, I have a few LDs that are at least as good as the released DVD, but those are unfortunate cases where the company involved didn't understand DVD.
I never got into LD until after people started selling off their movies and players for cheaper than the equivalent VHS stuff.
I do agree, it's the high-end videophile that will care about D-VHS. Maybe I will look at them when players drop sufficiently in price, the tapes look cheap enough after discounts.
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So, this is for both HD TV owners, all 2 of them?
Try about 2 million HDTV sets in use in the USA.
I am sure that a lot of those owners would be willing to pay a premium to get HD playback hardware and movies.
I don't expect the HD movies to take off for a while, I would expect that for several years it would be a niche like Laserdisc was, which I think exceeded a million decks, and over thirty thousand LD titles were produced.
Star WARS: Attack of the CLONES.
I like to think of it as Attack of the Gungans.
Sheesh, where have you been?
Some people wish to pretend they've never seen or heard of the movie. I don't entirely blame them.
There are a great many pet theories about why Lucas is putting off the original trilogy so long.
Waiting for HD-DVD might work, but he just may be waiting for a more "secure" format to come along. Any high-definition movie disc standard has a strong chance of being tightly encrypted and would likely use the encrypted digital-out DVI standard.
My Fiance's wedding budget is 12,000. Any pointers on where I can get her to cut corners?
:)
For reasons unknown, weddings tend to be incredibly stressful and expensive because people let it get out of hand. One recently married couple's suggestion to avoid the stress and expense: elope.
But seriously, it seems that people try to invite too many people and make too grand of a wedding. Keep it small & intimate - small hall, small chapel, limited guests. I wouldn't invite casual acquantances or friends and relatives that you haven't seen in ten years. I've been to a few weddings where it seems they invited fifth cousins and even directly invited friends of parents - when those friends don't know the couple to be wedded.
Hmmm, a $10,000+ wedding and nothing to show for it...
Your second-hand American set bought at a low-low price will be useless within a decade as the analog broadcasts will stop.
When will people actually research the things before making such broad assumptions?
I think _all_ or nearly all set-top HD recievers sold in the US can recieve digital transmission and convert them to most common analog signalling formats. You can buy recievers and converters that will decode digital broadcasts to composite, s-video, component and HD component formats.I would think that European sets would do similar.
In short, YOU CAN USE YOUR EXISTING SET. Just buy that set-top box. It might not show as much detail but you would hopefully be getting benefits from digital transmissions.
Dude, your links are 404.
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It has been remarked in other posts that most shrapnel doesn't travel for kilometers, yet the reflections of these beams could blind others in the single digit kilometers, which probably makes the area at risk of collateral damage radius 10x + and an area and 100x + that of a regular explosive.
From that, I'd rather deal with the risk shrapnel than the risk of blinding by IR laser.
http://www.redflag-linux.com/upfiles/soft/defaut.g if
:) - note smiley for the humor impared
And some people tried to claim that the GNU movement wasn't about communism.
Well, China's entrance into key trade agreements and organizations can hinge on how well they uphold key treaties, such as the Berne Convention.
But it is a moot point in this discussion, as far as the brains on this board said, it appears it might be a '98 work-alike, not a clone.
I think it could be fewer than x+3y if more complex logic can be built into the display somehow and if it can handle high bandwidth - VGA and DVI connections are 15 or fewer pins. There are a myriad ways to count all this.
Even herbal treatments in the absense of a proper amount of research can be troublesome. People tend to let themselves think that because it is natural, it can't be dangerous.
Five-nine reliability in the airline industry would mean that we'd see a major commercial jetliner crash about every other day.
No, thanks.
Point taken. Somehow, IMO reasonable reliability in the software and hardware industry is rediculously exensive. I guess it wouldn't be too bad if one were willing to trade off performance (speed) for reliability rather than requiring speed and reliability.
I'd be happy to get consistent two nine or better reliability from my ISP!
That's sad.
One thing to remember is that people give up so dang quickly. Maybe I do that too.
They often don't even bother with the manual. Part of it is the industry, where manuals are often poorly translated from one language to another and on occasion, yet another. Or what is described in the manual doesn't accurately reflect the product that was in the box, often manuals are made before the product is finished, or the product is changed halfway through the run, or it is a new product with a poorly adapted manual.
_I_ can use just about anything out of the box, but I also flip through the manual once or twice just to make sure I covered everything.
You are right, a 50+ year old car can be confusing. Starting up a '40s Buick involves pushing the gas pedal all the way down, the starter switch is at the end of the pedal, once the car is put in "start" mode. Once started, I'm not sure if I've ever listened to or felt a smoother running engine. Shifting pattern often works differently. Then there is the manual shifting, whereas nobody seems to bother with manuals anymore, but you'd think that video game playingpunks could do it with all that coordination that they are supposed to have, but noooo, they have to shred a transmission to bits to figure out how to make it "go".
Matrox was never known for their exceptional gaming. I don't think they ever made special claims to beat anyone else in frame rate.
I do understand that digital recordings are made of discrete samples, but the "warmth" people describe with LPs have almost nothing to do with the high frequency sounds, heck, I've read of people raving over the sound of high-end equipment that actually cuts off at 12kHz.
I believe that there are experiments in which playing with the EQ among other parameters made the two sound the same.
The transfer function of tubes have also been pretty precisely replicated using transitors by Carver, but the product was rejected because it wasn't a tube amp.
The reasons that vinyl sounds difference IS technical, the difference is in the charactaristic transfer function.
I believe there are boxes that can be bought to convert the tranfer function of a CD to make it sound like an album.
I think the RIAA equalization curve for vinyl also plays into it too, as it boosts the bass below 120Hz by several dB.
"Once you've heard true analog music on vinyl.. played through a tube amp... that opinion will change in the time it takes to recognize the tune. ;-)"
Or you could say something to the effect with a fresh album, on a $3000 turntable and a $5000 tube amp...
Which few care to bother with due to the cost and size of media. Don't get me wrong, I have been collecting LDs in the last two years. I like them but the players to get the best out of them are over $1000, and that's a lot of DVD movies that I can buy, which might not have as good color by some people, at least it is higher resolution and doesn't require eccentric and expensive playback equipment to use, never mind the much reduced lendability and transportability of LD (or LP for that matter).
I think part of the problem of implementing universal health care in the US was with the most recent big attempt to institute it. Under the wing of Mrs. Clinton, a bunch of people with no public accountability and with no public visibility, holed themselves up to make a proposal. When specific details were learned of the process, it killed it. I don't remember if even the names of most the people involved in it were released. The whole thing was just an exceedingly complex mess, with I believe two counter proposals, all three proposed systems of heath care were printed on a grand total of 2700 pages, so public confidence on it wasn't bolstered by that either.
It's much like when G.W. Bush formed an energy policy and tries to hide the list of people he consulted, one can imagine that one isn't too pleased with that.
Also, I really don't know if the "corporatized news media" is really involved in making people think that Canadian health care sucks, but really loose anecdotes spread around by callers and hosts of talk shows, and grass roots word of mouth. I don't remember reading a single newspaper article or TV news spot that really discussed the state of Canadian heath care.
For one, non-Sony manufacturers have been making MD players and drives for many years now.
Even Sonys have gotten cheaper, I just saw a pocket MD player / recorder for $150. I've seen numerous good MD recorder decks that were cheaper than equivalent CD recorder decks, and there was no portable "pocket" CD recorder that I have seen as opposed to a player, so there's no comparison on that aspect.
CDs are too big, other smaller available storage formats are too pricey and held too few songs (~$50 for 128MB). The best alternative to MD I've seen is the iPod, although I've met some people that said they would be afraid to go jogging with it because it is an expensive mini hard disc in there.
I really don't know too much about MP3 being less lossy in compression, but on both sides, it does depend on the encoder, and also on the bit rates chosen.
Missed some, just about all Phillips DVD players can be hacked by using a universal remote.
Most DVD player brands have hacks available for their more common players, and even some of the less common, higher end players.
You can get playback from the off-brand DVD players, but my experience is that it's better to get a bigger name-brand player than to cheap out. I'd rather go for quality, so I went for a Panasonic RP-56 and chipped it. Its hack consists of a simple chip and a firmware upgrade.
As you seem to imply, I bet a real degree has a lot more weight to it in the "real" world than a certification paper. I don't know if I'd give a rip about certifications, in the end I guess degrees are pieces of paper too, if one doesn't have what it takes to thrive in the real world, it doesn't matter what the degree is.
It also sort of bothers me when adults complain about Jar-Jar and now CG Yoda. We all saw the original trilogy for the first time when we were younger than we are now. I don't know about you, but I accepted the Ewoks then, and in subsequent viewings I've accepted them (for better or worse) as part of Star Wars package. Attempting impartiality, I don't think they are any better than Jar Jar or CG Yoda.
Heh, I've been trying to make that point for some time, thank you for bringing it to a good illustration.
One thing I've noticed last month watching Disney classics is that Jar-Jar seems to be remarkably similar to Goofy, with the sloppy neck, floppy ears, long flat snout and overall clumsy idiot personality.
"Finally if you had bothered to read to the end of the article, the greens are against not because it would be ugly, but simple because the money could be better spent on a clean water supply for all the local population."
I wonder if their argument is a bit backwards. The situation in Sicily might be caused by the fact that they have no good access to the mainland. With easier access both ways, it might result in changes to the island social climate such that the problem will end up being solved as a byproduct.
In some ways, "build it and they will come" might actually work. Much sillier things have happened.
I will admit that the bridge's price tag is HUGE. Such a move has a lot of risk and should be considered with all due care.
"Remember, thousands of people purchased LD players and discs, despite their higher cost, only marginally improved video (although much better audio)"
I believe the video quality of LD to be quite a bit better than VHS, the resolution is about 68% higher, and there's often less line jitter and line drop-outs. The added resolution might not be as visible, but often only because of the mastering or the display used. Heck, I have a few LDs that are at least as good as the released DVD, but those are unfortunate cases where the company involved didn't understand DVD.
I never got into LD until after people started selling off their movies and players for cheaper than the equivalent VHS stuff.
I do agree, it's the high-end videophile that will care about D-VHS. Maybe I will look at them when players drop sufficiently in price, the tapes look cheap enough after discounts.