I wonder what Microsoft would think about when someone else patents what boilds down to a simple set of calls to their OS?
I think it was a "feature" or a "bug" that was introduced somewhere by Netscape anyways to allow pop-ups to be called by a web page anyways, how different is that?
I haven't been much of a defender or a detractor of the patent system, I now think it definitely needs an overhaul.
Actually, the decryption key costs less than $6 per player, and that is a one-time charge for the life of the player. The DVD-ROM drives are still fairly expensive, and the MPEG / DD decoding circuitry / software isn't exactly a picnic.
Macrovision is easy enough to legally get around.
It'll take a lot of education to get people to dis-embrace the latest format. Right now I think about 85% of US homes have yet to get a DVD player, so you have a solid chance with them.
I'll echo part of my other post, if I can find this series on LD I will get that. In no way will I touch VHS as if you haven't noticed, only supports 1/2 the line resolution and 1/6 the color resolution that a good TV can handle.
VHS is as closed source as DVD is it not? It never became an issue because few cared to hook them up to a computer. There are licence fees for any other common media format, why rant only about DVD?
If I can find this series on LD I will get that. In no way will I touch VHS as if you haven't noticed, only supports 1/2 the line resolution and 1/6 the color resolution that a good TV can handle.
I know that there are many people that don't care about the laws of the US, take a look at the number of people that use Napster. I doubt more than 1% of the use is legal or ethical by any stretch.
I had considered using my old 21" monitor to watch DVDs and videos.
It would be a very budget HD system, but you do generally get the resolutions recommended by the ATSC system.
I bought a 27" Sony Wega as I got sick of little displays. I won't be buying HD for a long time and the TV I bought is a great intermediary step. I like it as I can watch anamorphic movies in full detail and almost no interlace flicker.I really don't want a larger TV than that, I would be shopping for refurbished or used front projectors if I had the money.
It sounds like a university policy problem compounded by a poor design choice by DEC programmers. That's a lot like renting a building that has a doorway without a door and the owner not permitting you to put a guard there.
The problem here is bigger than portscanning though. There is little sense of property on the internet as a whole, where people think that "information wants to be free" when information is just a pile of bits with zero will or desire of its own. We have people stealing music, videos, programs, companies spamming us with our own bandwidth and a lot of people running all over thinking they can do what they damn well want to. Just as I'd like to own a house in which I don't need to have a phalanx cannon to ward off intruders, I shouldn't have to be eternally vigilant about a _computer_.
So in short, I guess there is little sense of accountability on the internet, some feel that the anonymity gives them a right to screw things up for everyone else.
The idea is for a _budget_ component. I don't like the idea either, if you buy electronics on a budget you stand a good chance of getting junk.
The Apex models are nice but they definitely had their share of problems, and their DVD decoding is a bit substandard, the component outs run a little "hot", etc.
Using a computer to play DVDs is something of a hack anyways. You have to have a GOOD TV out, buy a remote for it, tweak the computer, maintain it, make sure all the fans are quiet. The hardest part is finding quality stuff because PC stuff in general is junk IMO, you have to make sure you are willing to spend extra money for better components if they are available. I'd recommend the Creative DXR3 with Hollywood + drivers, that card is pretty good, but no component outs, although there might be a hack out for that.
My answer? Build an old PC to do the MP3 playback if you must, but buy a set-top DVD player. Software DVD players are more prone to bugs because they are made by the tech industry, the same one that gives us the FDIV bug and Windows. The smaller companies that put out DVD playback software just don't have the proper backing that Sony, Toshiba and Pioneer do to make a proper DVD player. Granted, some of their models aren't perfect but I prefer them over some noname or small name software company.
Buying a projector of any kind won't fit any budget that the original person asked.
I agree, I would be willing to try LEDs, although you can get color correct flourescents (very close to 6500K, an official standard for neutral white color in movies and TV). Others say that you can get rid of the flicker by using high frequency LEDs.
I'm not a huge fan of big business but I wonder why the French government wants to stick its nose into their deals like this. Most companies in the US wait about 9 months or a year to release to home video anyways, does the French government feel the need to enforce that? Don't they have better things to do with their time? Micromanaging seemingly innocent sales tactics wouldn't give me a woody. "Honey, I made sure a company delayed a video for another month, lets celebrate!"
LED diodes are not power diodes, for one thing they often can't handle 5V in reverse or forward current mode. Power diodes can take a significant beating because they aren't designed in a delicate manner to give off light. I would want protection circuitry in there, as well as the fact I'd just want straight DC fed to it just so that the duty cycle per LED isn't on/off/on/off, that way fewer LEDs are needed to produce a given amount of light, and the circuitry can be packed behind the lights somewhere.
Still, even with conversion circuitry, that's pretty cool. Many don't like the slow startup times and colors of flourescents, many are used to the "warm" color of incandescents to use in the home.
No, not really. Practically everything ELSE in your house does AC->DC conversion. It can be done with between 70-90% efficiency. LEDs are just that much more efficient and they don't give off that much heat per unit of light power/
An L.E.D. does not have a filament to "heat-up" and thus there is not lost energy, making L.E.D.s approximately 3-5 times more efficient than incandescent bulbs.
I wonder how it compares with flourescent power wise.
Is it wasteful & expensive to have all that circuitry? If LEDs really do get 100,000 hours of duty use, that's 100-200 TIMES the claimed life of incandescent, so for every LED unit you toss in the trash, that compares to maybe 150 glass bulbs in the trash. Flourescents are claimed to get maybe 10,000 hours.
I'm guessing you don't know what a CPUID is. It is the identifier for a specific processor family. It is the one thing that CAN'T be backward compatible.
Someone suggested that the kernel should "fall back" and assume it is an i386 if it can't determine the CPU type. At least you can get the red-flag warning and still be able to boot / install and get your update somehow rather than just totally failing.
Always being backward compatible to everything ia32 is part of Linus' mantra that I remember, he eschewed support for 16 and 32 processor machines to maintain support for the 386 systems.
And the number one rule of gaming, BTW, is never, never, NEVER advocate a game that you have not actually played. Even after being repeatedly burned by over-hyped games that turned out to be disappointing, some people just never learn.
The same goes for movies or any other entertainment venue. Companies or people that put out solid strings of good products can suddently tank. Star Wars 1, anyone? Actually I didn't think it was so bad (I think people had overly high expectations and overly hyped it based on not seeing it) but I didn't think that the original trilogy was all that great, but I was young then, I do have an unwatched trilogy LD set, I'll try to watch it this Christmas, so nobody flame me OK?
I read that the color temperature of Trinitron screens is usually set better and still retain brightness.
Invar tubes tend to not hold brightness as well when the color temperature (color of gray) is set properly.
Most TVs are set high, but the non-trinitrons (invar or what have you) are set even higher to try to compete with the Trinitron's. It was the subject of an Associated Press article a few years back.
I am not suggesting anyone choose one over the other, but I am definitely willing to pay more for a better picture and quality construction. Last time I bought a display, a Trinitron won on the comparisons I made, I try to be impartial in the judgements.
My point is this: if Trinitron were the best, all 10 would be Trinitrons...
I think it says something if 6 out of the top 10 recommended displays are Trinitron. I like them but I will say that there is more to tube display quality than than the Trinitron feature alone. If one can get equivalent or better display out of the invar style displays, great.
IIRC Diamondtron is pretty much the same as Trinitron, but don't quote me on that, I believe Mitsu licenced out Sony's patent or whatever. I never did investigate that.
My guess it is because one is using ordinary lines in a high contrast with their backgrounds.
I don't see high resolution being a problem with either type display.
I have been doing CAD work on an off (mostly on the side or part time) for nearly 8 years now and I don't think it would bother me that much, although my opinion likely won't count for most people.
Heck, with FD Trinitron I would be willing to put up with the minor percieved increase in aliasing for a flat screen.
the Spanish speakers of the world (and there are a lot of them) should focus their energy on making their economies more productive.
As true as this is, but sadly, it seems it won't be tried.
I'm not an econ or politics guy so I don't know why the economies of Spainish speaking countries aren't doing so well. Could it be culture? I think corruption of the governments comes into play here too.
I'd have to say based on my experience with British autos and by their reputation, that the British autos are the worst built in the industrialized world. I believe even the (South) Koreans and Americans make better cars!
Sure they were easy to work on, but that was because there was nothing to them at all, one of my cars had cracked its engine block - on an unmodified car under light use!
Then you have the Jags which were "sporty" at best and had handling equivalent to a balistic missile sub and had a crappy service record before Ford cleaned house. I haven't heard much about the post-Ford Jags, if it's because there aren't any, it's definitely an improvement.
If the VHS version is $60, how much will the DVD be? $100? Of course, I'll still buy it.. but it better kick ass for that price.
It will probably cost $30 unless it's a super premium edition. Pioneer doesn't yet charge more than $30 for a single DVD.
The reason Akira on tapes costs so much now is that it is out of production, the original company that put it out (Streamline) picked an exclusive distributor that quickly died (Orion) and they couldn't get the distributor rights back.
Being out of production, the tapes have been in very short supply for a LONG time. Limited supply with a strong fan base = an exercise in supply & demand. The shops selling this tape generally know how hard it is to get, a local anime store kept getting their rental copies stolen.
You are right that TLDs won't go away. I think the problem is that it appears that with the current DNS system as it is has to be centralized in some way, else if it were distributed you could have any number of destinations for a given URL. I don't expect the UN or any international body like that to really help here.
The US having a monopoly of the internet? There is a truth to that but I don't feel it's a monopoly in any strict term except on the.org,.mil,.com and the.edu and that's the name service only, I think there are a lot of non-US groups that own domain names in.org and.com. I really wouldn't expect a different outcome if any other country had developed networking technology first and became the Internet leader. I think the fact that (I heard) 70% of the internet's users are in the US means that the US would naturally have the infastructure and vice-versa.
The only reason that we have chaos now is that few were checking if a.com applicant really was a an org intending to be a.com, the registrars just took the money an ran with it as they had no mandate or perogative to check these things, they aren't a city zoning board.
I honestly think it will take some sort of regulation to fix things and that isn't going to happen.
In short, there are no easy answers. I'll have to hunt down and hurt the person that told me that technology solves problems. Some jerk.
I'll admit to not having read the parent post, I agree that you have to start somewhere, I think people should get a moderate feedback rating as a bidder first because that raises the amount of trust I have in the seller. You'll still get bids but they won't be as high as they could be. I REALLY recommend that sellers photograph their item if they want to get their money's worth, I've seen auction differences by up to 50% that can only be explained by whether or not there is an original photograph (i.e., not ripped from somewhere else on the net).
With no negatives (even with no rating at all) no good seller has good cause to turn you down. There are some sellers that do get touchy about it but they have things planted where the sun don't shine, but one must also understand that there are a LOT of deadbeat bidders that make the effort of listing and paying for a listing not worthwhile just so a bidder can "pretend" to buy stuff with "play money" or whatever the motivation is for not paying when their number is up.
I only get about 5-10% deadbeat bidders, and half the time I end up selling to the next highest bidder. I wonder if there are certain items that just attract deadbeat-ness or what.
Frankly bidding $15,000 on an "item" that has so many questionable entries with a seller of ZERO feedback is touchy at best.
I wish I could say the same. I didn't like Gore's woodeness and Bush's record. Frankly I didn't want to continue the Clinton presidency.
I dunno about CmdrTaco calling Bush something like a "head of lettuce" as I don't see Taco having much real to say about politics. I really see little differentiation policy-wise. If Gore had done something notable for the environment in the last 8 years can someone point it out, please? That to me would be a good differentiation, as it seems his position on the environment got pushed to obscurity compared to other things.
Honestly, IMO neither man deserves the job. Both are presently in figurehead positions, neither position truly prepares a person for the job, but can anyone tell me what job prepares a person for the Presidency? Even very militarily successful high-ranking generals have had very mixed results, some good, some bad.
Laserdisk has better video quality than VHS, and is still better than DVD.
Do you have anything to back this up? There are some cases where the LD produced was better than the DVD but that was due to incompetent compression encoding / mastering but that isn't the rule.
Most DVDs remastered with anamorphic transfers take down LD's quality wise hands down.
Also I get problems with color separation that rarely show up with DVDs, LDs store color as composite analog which have to be separated before it gets put on screen, DVDs store them pre-separated.
LD was always too d@mn expensive anyways. The size is about 4x thick with ~5x surface area. The size and weight made it too inconvenient to handle.
Who watches Jerry Springer?
Also, HTDV costs a little more and advertisers are unwilling to pay more for HD program advertising, which is really what is holding up more programming and the purchase of displays. It's a chicken-and-egg scenario. I do agree that mass adoption will likely be delayed as few people feel like upgrading their stuff every five years.
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Maybe I am misunderstanding something...
I wonder what Microsoft would think about when someone else patents what boilds down to a simple set of calls to their OS?
I think it was a "feature" or a "bug" that was introduced somewhere by Netscape anyways to allow pop-ups to be called by a web page anyways, how different is that?
I haven't been much of a defender or a detractor of the patent system, I now think it definitely needs an overhaul.
Actually, the decryption key costs less than $6 per player, and that is a one-time charge for the life of the player. The DVD-ROM drives are still fairly expensive, and the MPEG / DD decoding circuitry / software isn't exactly a picnic.
Macrovision is easy enough to legally get around.
It'll take a lot of education to get people to dis-embrace the latest format. Right now I think about 85% of US homes have yet to get a DVD player, so you have a solid chance with them.
I'll echo part of my other post, if I can find this series on LD I will get that. In no way will I touch VHS as if you haven't noticed, only supports 1/2 the line resolution and 1/6 the color resolution that a good TV can handle.
VHS is as closed source as DVD is it not? It never became an issue because few cared to hook them up to a computer. There are licence fees for any other common media format, why rant only about DVD?
If I can find this series on LD I will get that. In no way will I touch VHS as if you haven't noticed, only supports 1/2 the line resolution and 1/6 the color resolution that a good TV can handle.
Aren't you taking this out of proportion?
I know that there are many people that don't care about the laws of the US, take a look at the number of people that use Napster. I doubt more than 1% of the use is legal or ethical by any stretch.
I had considered using my old 21" monitor to watch DVDs and videos.
It would be a very budget HD system, but you do generally get the resolutions recommended by the ATSC system.
I bought a 27" Sony Wega as I got sick of little displays. I won't be buying HD for a long time and the TV I bought is a great intermediary step. I like it as I can watch anamorphic movies in full detail and almost no interlace flicker.I really don't want a larger TV than that, I would be shopping for refurbished or used front projectors if I had the money.
It sounds like a university policy problem compounded by a poor design choice by DEC programmers. That's a lot like renting a building that has a doorway without a door and the owner not permitting you to put a guard there.
The problem here is bigger than portscanning though. There is little sense of property on the internet as a whole, where people think that "information wants to be free" when information is just a pile of bits with zero will or desire of its own. We have people stealing music, videos, programs, companies spamming us with our own bandwidth and a lot of people running all over thinking they can do what they damn well want to. Just as I'd like to own a house in which I don't need to have a phalanx cannon to ward off intruders, I shouldn't have to be eternally vigilant about a _computer_.
So in short, I guess there is little sense of accountability on the internet, some feel that the anonymity gives them a right to screw things up for everyone else.
The idea is for a _budget_ component. I don't like the idea either, if you buy electronics on a budget you stand a good chance of getting junk.
The Apex models are nice but they definitely had their share of problems, and their DVD decoding is a bit substandard, the component outs run a little "hot", etc.
Using a computer to play DVDs is something of a hack anyways. You have to have a GOOD TV out, buy a remote for it, tweak the computer, maintain it, make sure all the fans are quiet. The hardest part is finding quality stuff because PC stuff in general is junk IMO, you have to make sure you are willing to spend extra money for better components if they are available. I'd recommend the Creative DXR3 with Hollywood + drivers, that card is pretty good, but no component outs, although there might be a hack out for that.
My answer? Build an old PC to do the MP3 playback if you must, but buy a set-top DVD player. Software DVD players are more prone to bugs because they are made by the tech industry, the same one that gives us the FDIV bug and Windows. The smaller companies that put out DVD playback software just don't have the proper backing that Sony, Toshiba and Pioneer do to make a proper DVD player. Granted, some of their models aren't perfect but I prefer them over some noname or small name software company.
Buying a projector of any kind won't fit any budget that the original person asked.
I should have said high frequency ballasts (for flourescent bubls only).
I agree, I would be willing to try LEDs, although you can get color correct flourescents (very close to 6500K, an official standard for neutral white color in movies and TV). Others say that you can get rid of the flicker by using high frequency LEDs.
I'm not a huge fan of big business but I wonder why the French government wants to stick its nose into their deals like this. Most companies in the US wait about 9 months or a year to release to home video anyways, does the French government feel the need to enforce that? Don't they have better things to do with their time? Micromanaging seemingly innocent sales tactics wouldn't give me a woody. "Honey, I made sure a company delayed a video for another month, lets celebrate!"
I think plastic lenses might solve your conundrum to an extent. Also changing the design of the plastic case it's packaged in can help nicely too.
LED diodes are not power diodes, for one thing they often can't handle 5V in reverse or forward current mode. Power diodes can take a significant beating because they aren't designed in a delicate manner to give off light. I would want protection circuitry in there, as well as the fact I'd just want straight DC fed to it just so that the duty cycle per LED isn't on/off/on/off, that way fewer LEDs are needed to produce a given amount of light, and the circuitry can be packed behind the lights somewhere.
Still, even with conversion circuitry, that's pretty cool. Many don't like the slow startup times and colors of flourescents, many are used to the "warm" color of incandescents to use in the home.
No, not really. Practically everything ELSE in your house does AC->DC conversion. It can be done with between 70-90% efficiency. LEDs are just that much more efficient and they don't give off that much heat per unit of light power/
An L.E.D. does not have a filament to "heat-up" and thus there is not lost energy, making L.E.D.s approximately 3-5 times more efficient than incandescent bulbs.
I wonder how it compares with flourescent power wise.
Is it wasteful & expensive to have all that circuitry? If LEDs really do get 100,000 hours of duty use, that's 100-200 TIMES the claimed life of incandescent, so for every LED unit you toss in the trash, that compares to maybe 150 glass bulbs in the trash. Flourescents are claimed to get maybe 10,000 hours.
I'm guessing you don't know what a CPUID is. It is the identifier for a specific processor family. It is the one thing that CAN'T be backward compatible.
Someone suggested that the kernel should "fall back" and assume it is an i386 if it can't determine the CPU type. At least you can get the red-flag warning and still be able to boot / install and get your update somehow rather than just totally failing.
Always being backward compatible to everything ia32 is part of Linus' mantra that I remember, he eschewed support for 16 and 32 processor machines to maintain support for the 386 systems.
Personally I'd love to see if DOS runs on a P4.
And the number one rule of gaming, BTW, is never, never, NEVER advocate a game that you have not actually played. Even after being repeatedly burned by over-hyped games that turned out to be disappointing, some people just never learn.
The same goes for movies or any other entertainment venue. Companies or people that put out solid strings of good products can suddently tank. Star Wars 1, anyone? Actually I didn't think it was so bad (I think people had overly high expectations and overly hyped it based on not seeing it) but I didn't think that the original trilogy was all that great, but I was young then, I do have an unwatched trilogy LD set, I'll try to watch it this Christmas, so nobody flame me OK?
I read that the color temperature of Trinitron screens is usually set better and still retain brightness.
Invar tubes tend to not hold brightness as well when the color temperature (color of gray) is set properly.
Most TVs are set high, but the non-trinitrons (invar or what have you) are set even higher to try to compete with the Trinitron's. It was the subject of an Associated Press article a few years back.
I am not suggesting anyone choose one over the other, but I am definitely willing to pay more for a better picture and quality construction. Last time I bought a display, a Trinitron won on the comparisons I made, I try to be impartial in the judgements.
My point is this: if Trinitron were the best, all 10 would be Trinitrons...
I think it says something if 6 out of the top 10 recommended displays are Trinitron. I like them but I will say that there is more to tube display quality than than the Trinitron feature alone. If one can get equivalent or better display out of the invar style displays, great.
IIRC Diamondtron is pretty much the same as Trinitron, but don't quote me on that, I believe Mitsu licenced out Sony's patent or whatever. I never did investigate that.
Can you clarify why this is a problem?
My guess it is because one is using ordinary lines in a high contrast with their backgrounds.
I don't see high resolution being a problem with either type display.
I have been doing CAD work on an off (mostly on the side or part time) for nearly 8 years now and I don't think it would bother me that much, although my opinion likely won't count for most people.
Heck, with FD Trinitron I would be willing to put up with the minor percieved increase in aliasing for a flat screen.
the Spanish speakers of the world (and there are a lot of them) should focus their energy on making their economies more productive.
As true as this is, but sadly, it seems it won't be tried.
I'm not an econ or politics guy so I don't know why the economies of Spainish speaking countries aren't doing so well. Could it be culture? I think corruption of the governments comes into play here too.
Funny post....
I'd have to say based on my experience with British autos and by their reputation, that the British autos are the worst built in the industrialized world. I believe even the (South) Koreans and Americans make better cars!
Sure they were easy to work on, but that was because there was nothing to them at all, one of my cars had cracked its engine block - on an unmodified car under light use!
Then you have the Jags which were "sporty" at best and had handling equivalent to a balistic missile sub and had a crappy service record before Ford cleaned house. I haven't heard much about the post-Ford Jags, if it's because there aren't any, it's definitely an improvement.
If the VHS version is $60, how much will the DVD be? $100? Of course, I'll still buy it.. but it better kick ass for that price.
It will probably cost $30 unless it's a super premium edition. Pioneer doesn't yet charge more than $30 for a single DVD.
The reason Akira on tapes costs so much now is that it is out of production, the original company that put it out (Streamline) picked an exclusive distributor that quickly died (Orion) and they couldn't get the distributor rights back.
Being out of production, the tapes have been in very short supply for a LONG time. Limited supply with a strong fan base = an exercise in supply & demand. The shops selling this tape generally know how hard it is to get, a local anime store kept getting their rental copies stolen.
You are right that TLDs won't go away. I think the problem is that it appears that with the current DNS system as it is has to be centralized in some way, else if it were distributed you could have any number of destinations for a given URL. I don't expect the UN or any international body like that to really help here.
.org, .mil, .com and the .edu and that's the name service only, I think there are a lot of non-US groups that own domain names in .org and .com. I really wouldn't expect a different outcome if any other country had developed networking technology first and became the Internet leader. I think the fact that (I heard) 70% of the internet's users are in the US means that the US would naturally have the infastructure and vice-versa.
.com applicant really was a an org intending to be a .com, the registrars just took the money an ran with it as they had no mandate or perogative to check these things, they aren't a city zoning board.
The US having a monopoly of the internet? There is a truth to that but I don't feel it's a monopoly in any strict term except on the
The only reason that we have chaos now is that few were checking if a
I honestly think it will take some sort of regulation to fix things and that isn't going to happen.
In short, there are no easy answers. I'll have to hunt down and hurt the person that told me that technology solves problems. Some jerk.
I'll admit to not having read the parent post, I agree that you have to start somewhere, I think people should get a moderate feedback rating as a bidder first because that raises the amount of trust I have in the seller. You'll still get bids but they won't be as high as they could be. I REALLY recommend that sellers photograph their item if they want to get their money's worth, I've seen auction differences by up to 50% that can only be explained by whether or not there is an original photograph (i.e., not ripped from somewhere else on the net).
With no negatives (even with no rating at all) no good seller has good cause to turn you down. There are some sellers that do get touchy about it but they have things planted where the sun don't shine, but one must also understand that there are a LOT of deadbeat bidders that make the effort of listing and paying for a listing not worthwhile just so a bidder can "pretend" to buy stuff with "play money" or whatever the motivation is for not paying when their number is up.
I only get about 5-10% deadbeat bidders, and half the time I end up selling to the next highest bidder. I wonder if there are certain items that just attract deadbeat-ness or what.
Frankly bidding $15,000 on an "item" that has so many questionable entries with a seller of ZERO feedback is touchy at best.
I voted for NEITHER Bush, or Gore
I wish I could say the same. I didn't like Gore's woodeness and Bush's record. Frankly I didn't want to continue the Clinton presidency.
I dunno about CmdrTaco calling Bush something like a "head of lettuce" as I don't see Taco having much real to say about politics. I really see little differentiation policy-wise. If Gore had done something notable for the environment in the last 8 years can someone point it out, please? That to me would be a good differentiation, as it seems his position on the environment got pushed to obscurity compared to other things.
Honestly, IMO neither man deserves the job. Both are presently in figurehead positions, neither position truly prepares a person for the job, but can anyone tell me what job prepares a person for the Presidency? Even very militarily successful high-ranking generals have had very mixed results, some good, some bad.
Laserdisk has better video quality than VHS, and is still better than DVD.
Do you have anything to back this up? There are some cases where the LD produced was better than the DVD but that was due to incompetent compression encoding / mastering but that isn't the rule.
Most DVDs remastered with anamorphic transfers take down LD's quality wise hands down.
Also I get problems with color separation that rarely show up with DVDs, LDs store color as composite analog which have to be separated before it gets put on screen, DVDs store them pre-separated.
LD was always too d@mn expensive anyways. The size is about 4x thick with ~5x surface area. The size and weight made it too inconvenient to handle.
Who watches Jerry Springer?
Also, HTDV costs a little more and advertisers are unwilling to pay more for HD program advertising, which is really what is holding up more programming and the purchase of displays. It's a chicken-and-egg scenario. I do agree that mass adoption will likely be delayed as few people feel like upgrading their stuff every five years.