I'm not that same person... but I have the same size screen. The screens which people were having troubles with were mostly 32" and larger.
I did such a search and noted the problems and still bought my Wega set anyways. Personally I believe that the complaints were overblown at best.
For the minor problems I've found on my set, I hacked into service mode of the TV and corrected them (a hacker's favorite TV? - there are hundreds of adjustment parameters). No TV comes from the factor properly set in any manner anyways.
I think that the present crop are also of a second generation of units where the problems are mostly ironed out.
I would much rather keep the Wega than buy anything else of equal or lower cost. I don't like non-flat screens. A compromise for me would be to get a regular Trinitron, but I simply don't like the boobish shape of most CRTs. I didn't look hard but the Wegas were the only systems that I found to support the 16:9 format in rescanning, without making the DVD player rescale & loose 25% of the detail.
My only real complaint is that they are a tad expensive and they are _heavy_. 110lb for a 27" TV... a real hernia maker if you don't get help!
It really depends on your priorities and how picky (read: anal) one is about getting "good" stuff. IMO $650 in general is too expensive for a DVD player unless it plays LDs as well. One can now buy second generation "progressive scan" DVD players too, for about $400, of course that doesn't leave much for the amp. I only paid $350 for my fairly new DD5.1/DTS reciever, and I'd have to spend twice as much to get noticably better performance, it's just not worth it.
I like the system I have, I enjoy it, even if it isn't the best or whatever. I don't have room for anything bigger than 27" screens and personally, $650 will get a very nice DVD/reciever bundle, compared to what about 99% of the population has. I still visit many homes where they don't even have a DVD player and they're lucky to have a "surround" amp. Not everyone has those kinds of priorities of spending thousands of dollars on home theater, a lot like not everyone wants to spend thousands on a computer so they'll buy a mass-produced unit that will still do what they want at a lower cost.
Really the home audio/theater business seems to get into spending twice as much for 25% better product - something that even John DeLorean commented about in his book on the auto industry.
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I don't know what you mean...
I've never heard of a "law" under that name... I think you might mention what it is in reference to? I have a guess... Is it because I mentioned Nazi, therefore the discussion is moot?
I think it's about as dangerous to apply what appears to be a rule of thumb to every situation as generalizations aren't.
Don't the W2/W4 forms require an SSN/SIN to fill out properly? How about tax forms? They all are job related.
It seems every form that comes in front of me has that. I think some of it might be in reference in using that number to identify you rather than let them confuse you with someone else's with same spelling.
I forgot to preview and check spelling, it's a bit confusing here!
Every culture's religious fears are reflected in their entertainment.
The idea behind the 666 mark is that there is something about accepting the "mark" that explicity means that you reject your religion in taking it. I don't know what that is, but it doesn't seem all that likely that there would be a compulsory visible mark in order to perform day-to-day living for a while yet, as the ACLU would probably be in an uproar with everyone else (plus fasion designers and societies for the advancement of good looking people). The closest is the Social Security number, but not having a number doesn't mean I can't buy things, although I need one to get a legal job.
Although it might not be a great analogy, I think I might liken it to Germans wearing Swastikas in joining the Nazi party, as you'd be hard pressed to come up with a _legitimate_ interpretation of a true religious text that condones some of the activities and platforms of that party.
But to answer the original thread, there are people that live just fine without the internet. So what if they aren't "connected"? Many of those people are more connected to the community than most "wired" people will ever be. The internet is just a tool to me and many people, IMO it isn't life, nor should it be.
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Every culture's religios fears are reflected in their entertainment.
The idea behind the 666 mark is that there is something about accepting the "mark" that explicity means that you reject your religion in taking it. I don't know what that is, but it doesn't seem all that likely that there would be a compulsory mark in order to perform day-to-day living for a while yet. The closest is the Social Security number, but not having a number doesn't mean I can't buy things, although I need one to get a legal job.
Although it might not be a great analogy, I think I might liken it to Germans wearing Swastikas in joining the Nazi party, as you'd be hard pressed to come up with a _legitimage_ interpretation of a true religious text that condones some of the activities and platforms of that party.
But to answer the original thread, there are people that live just fine without the internet. So what if they aren't "connected"? Many of those people are more connected to the community than most "wired" people will ever be.
It is very often a distribution issue. There is often money in the region, but it rarely goes to those in need. Sometimes culture and public polices hinder sustainable food production in the region. Wars have a tendency to wipe out crops and severely hinder harvesting if there's anything left.
Hear me out, I'm not a "commie" here, trust me.
When aid goes to an impovershed nation, does it really go to those in need? Or do the power cartels snap it up, give a little bit of it out for nice media photoshoots to make us feel good when the power brokers are stuffing themselves?
Fidel Castro lives very nicely. So does Moamar Quadaffi and Saddam Hussein, and every other tyrant. When we try to "hurt" them, the people under them suffer. Do their leaders suffer?
No.
Space exploration in itself is such a small fraction of the world's economy that gutting it might actually do more harm to our future ability to sustain the earth than the money used down here ever could.
I know the US and the post-industrialized nations aren't perfect, but sometimes things are totally outside our control. The sh!t's going to hit the fan many times in the comming decades due to pollution, unrest and overpopulation, I doubt the pocket change we send up would be a worse overall investment than leaving it down here.
Frankly, if you want the truth, there will _always_ be poor people. A very wise man said that a couple millennia ago, and for 2000 years, he's right. I am _not_ saying give up, but there is a point where throwing money at a problem does more harm than good. Many of those that have _actually_ been on missionary or field aid trips to impovershed nations know this. It's not about money. It's also about trust and ambition. Many nations are capable of a better sustaining food supply but due to culture and distrust, they often cling to many thousand year old tried and untrue methods of farming, they won't listen to anyone to try the new methods, the ones that do are outcast and at times murdered.
Usually extreme poverty is caused by political problems in the region (war, strife, militaristic gangs, oppressive gvmt, etc), not the lack of wealth. Sometimes it's because people are dumber than rocks, but that's redundant to politics.
There were a lot of impovershed people at the time of Columbus. If a certain queen thought that giving money away to poor people rather than building three small boats was a good idea, the world likely would look significantly different, wouldn't it? OK, there are bad parts about it, but every era has a dark side.
I know there were some Sparc clones, notable is Ross Semiconductor. I think Fujitsu did as well.
Alphas had up to two cloners. One _was_ Samsung, but they are OEM to Compaq as well now. Mitsubishi was in the 21164PC alliance but it seems they backed out before fabbing them. Both cloners were licenced.
The way Intel supposedly had cloners in the beginning is that to be allowed to be used in military and certain government projects, your products had to be made by more than one company, so Intel licenced out their mask designs. They backed out of the government and therefore the mask licencing market at around the 386 days, so many companies had "486" chips that were poor performers at best and ended up being souped up 386 chips with bigger cache. To keep up since then everyone had to make their own P5 and up designs.
Actually not on little baby-boy genitals. They are usually drawn with low detail and are never done with sexual intention. They don't draw female genitals at all really in non-hentai anime, and it is mosaiced on hentai.
Of note is that the _rarely_ draw pubic hair as it is considered vulgar.
Maybe, but I believe the fact that they'd rather forget about it and are embarassed about it plays into it. This is the land where people won't react if someone farts in a public place so as not to embarass the "perpetrator". They pretend it never happened. Same with sneezing.
Frankly, I really can't believe that tentacle rape really is all that popular (part of the Hentai sub-genre). What little hentai I have actually seen is extremely crappily animated and poorly drawn at best, and really there isn't _anything_ in mainstream anime that is _that_ poorly done. So that suggests to me that there really isn't that much money in it. In the US market for it doesn't seem to be all that big either as most places that stock it seem to not be able to afford giving big discounts, and the fact that less than 5% of releases are Hentai.
Of that, I haven't seen many comments that suggests there really is much kiddie porn as is, usually all the people are fully developed, and biologically adults although at many times overdeveloped. Their idea of sexual adulthood legally starts at age 13 as well (their age of consent), so that has some affect I suppose. Actually I heard the age of consent in some places of the US used to be as low as 11, but those days are long gone, 18 is fairly standard, although Hawaii is said to be 14 and Michigan is 16, I don't know about other states. For interstate - 18 is it, so if an adult Ohio resident took a 16yr old to MI to have "legal" sex, they just tripped up federal statutes right at the state line.
Japan is also the country that insists on mosaics on all genital nudity, something that even we do not have, so if it is released "uncensored" here, we generally see "more" than the Japanese do, as the US companies usually get the pre-mosaic footage.
In the mouse world, unfortunately units for "lefties" have about 1/10th the market, which is why many generic designs are symmetrical.
I guess my question is if the design was tested for a wide range of hand sizes... for long spindly fingers to short stubby ones to large or small hands.
The design looks cool. It's not really all that complex but it has to have mind-numbing attention to every detail to be a solid product.
If there really is a big gamer market for this I wouldn't rule out having one for the other hand as well.
The "click of death" doesn't seem all that common. It's good to know that it exists, but it hasn't affected anyone that I know, and I know people with ATAPI, SCSI and USB Zip drives.
Before I invested in a Zip drive I looked into it heavily before buying one. Not everyone looks into the potential problems before buying a product, I think it's important to do. If one doesn't own a Zip I don't see any reason for them to know of its existence, so I don't see the point in calling them an idiot.
As for the modding, it's too late, it's been modded up some already.
I understand that having a user name while posting doesn't mean that you are telling everyone who you are in real life, but for me it's easier to differentiate between different posters in an argument. If there is a thread with 5 branches and 15 sub branches, half of the posts from AC's mind you, it's easier to understand:
1) who is saying what
2) any pattern in the discussion
Also, by logging in (though you can still post anonymously when logged in) you can use the slashbox settings to take out the anime subject and Jon Katz columns as well (the #2 and #1 benefits of logging in, respectively, thank you, unless you dislike timothy with a passion, then #3 and #1).
I would say something of "scope" comparision of pre- and post- encoding does serve to some interest if you want to make sure that you are matching the original waveform as well as possible. Perceptual encoding is designed to throw out information that you are less likely to notice, but it isn't perfect.
Just listening to it might not mean a whole lot to a lot of people because the average computer audio device is crap - particularly the amps and speakers, but sometimes the DACs as well. They usually don't have much in the way of dynamic range or bandwidth, and the flatness across the bandwidth isn't. Of course, you have to have good hearing and also be able to pick out problems in the sound as well, most people aren't audio entusiasts or connoisieurs.
Do they put the copyright on when the movie is completed or started?
If it takes a year to make a movie, an assumption, I do know some movies take a long time, from design to shipping film reels, they probably had everything planned out in 1996 or earlier.
Oh well. Someone thought the Window Manager used was based on HP, that's not something I'd know.
The workstations didn't have to be. The central unit can be anything, it doesn't need a GUI, just serve up CPU power, files, what have you. An SGI would probably have been best suited to doing purty 3D graphics at the time.
They had Unix, they just didn't say so. It definitely wasn't Windows, Be or Mac. It looked like a modified FVWM setup or something. IIRC, there weren't any fancy Enlightenments at the time.
Cable companies tend to have a monopoly on the line they laid down.
I don't know about DSL though. The phone company owns the line but I don't know what arrangements they do to allow third parties use the line for DSL service.
Basically, if it is such that only once service can reach your area, it might be under the perview of the state PSC (Public Service Commission). Complain to them. I know Ameritech is in a crap load of trouble with several state's PSCs, because they did early retirement with their maintainance staff, won't hire part timers and are way understaffed.
I thought that the typical (non-EV6/Athlon) CPU FSB is a transmission line structure, with the CPU, bridges and memory interface chips all on the same bus.
I know encoding Dolby ProLogic _IS_ pretty trivial. I think any senior EE student can do it with their own custom experimental hardware, with analog electronics. I don't know the innards of S/PDIF, but digitally ProLogic shouldn't be all that hard to encode, it would be harder to compute all the audio data before "encoding".
I really don't know the internals of the PS2 or AC-3/DD5.1 so I can't respond to the 5.1 argument, but it's been in use for over five years now, the encoding format should be a fairly known quanity. I imagine that there are tricks for that as well, we'll have to see.
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I'm not that same person... but I have the same size screen. The screens which people were having troubles with were mostly 32" and larger.
I did such a search and noted the problems and still bought my Wega set anyways. Personally I believe that the complaints were overblown at best.
For the minor problems I've found on my set, I hacked into service mode of the TV and corrected them (a hacker's favorite TV? - there are hundreds of adjustment parameters). No TV comes from the factor properly set in any manner anyways.
I think that the present crop are also of a second generation of units where the problems are mostly ironed out.
I would much rather keep the Wega than buy anything else of equal or lower cost. I don't like non-flat screens. A compromise for me would be to get a regular Trinitron, but I simply don't like the boobish shape of most CRTs. I didn't look hard but the Wegas were the only systems that I found to support the 16:9 format in rescanning, without making the DVD player rescale & loose 25% of the detail.
My only real complaint is that they are a tad expensive and they are _heavy_. 110lb for a 27" TV... a real hernia maker if you don't get help!
It really depends on your priorities and how picky (read: anal) one is about getting "good" stuff. IMO $650 in general is too expensive for a DVD player unless it plays LDs as well. One can now buy second generation "progressive scan" DVD players too, for about $400, of course that doesn't leave much for the amp. I only paid $350 for my fairly new DD5.1/DTS reciever, and I'd have to spend twice as much to get noticably better performance, it's just not worth it.
I like the system I have, I enjoy it, even if it isn't the best or whatever. I don't have room for anything bigger than 27" screens and personally, $650 will get a very nice DVD/reciever bundle, compared to what about 99% of the population has. I still visit many homes where they don't even have a DVD player and they're lucky to have a "surround" amp. Not everyone has those kinds of priorities of spending thousands of dollars on home theater, a lot like not everyone wants to spend thousands on a computer so they'll buy a mass-produced unit that will still do what they want at a lower cost.
Really the home audio/theater business seems to get into spending twice as much for 25% better product - something that even John DeLorean commented about in his book on the auto industry.
I don't know what you mean...
I've never heard of a "law" under that name... I think you might mention what it is in reference to? I have a guess... Is it because I mentioned Nazi, therefore the discussion is moot?
I think it's about as dangerous to apply what appears to be a rule of thumb to every situation as generalizations aren't.
Don't the W2/W4 forms require an SSN/SIN to fill out properly? How about tax forms? They all are job related.
It seems every form that comes in front of me has that. I think some of it might be in reference in using that number to identify you rather than let them confuse you with someone else's with same spelling.
I forgot to preview and check spelling, it's a bit confusing here!
Every culture's religious fears are reflected in their entertainment.
The idea behind the 666 mark is that there is something about accepting the "mark" that explicity means that you reject your religion in taking it. I don't know what that is, but it doesn't seem all that likely that there would be a compulsory visible mark in order to perform day-to-day living for a while yet, as the ACLU would probably be in an uproar with everyone else (plus fasion designers and societies for the advancement of good looking people). The closest is the Social Security number, but not having a number doesn't mean I can't buy things, although I need one to get a legal job.
Although it might not be a great analogy, I think I might liken it to Germans wearing Swastikas in joining the Nazi party, as you'd be hard pressed to come up with a _legitimate_ interpretation of a true religious text that condones some of the activities and platforms of that party.
But to answer the original thread, there are people that live just fine without the internet. So what if they aren't "connected"? Many of those people are more connected to the community than most "wired" people will ever be. The internet is just a tool to me and many people, IMO it isn't life, nor should it be.
Every culture's religios fears are reflected in their entertainment.
The idea behind the 666 mark is that there is something about accepting the "mark" that explicity means that you reject your religion in taking it. I don't know what that is, but it doesn't seem all that likely that there would be a compulsory mark in order to perform day-to-day living for a while yet. The closest is the Social Security number, but not having a number doesn't mean I can't buy things, although I need one to get a legal job.
Although it might not be a great analogy, I think I might liken it to Germans wearing Swastikas in joining the Nazi party, as you'd be hard pressed to come up with a _legitimage_ interpretation of a true religious text that condones some of the activities and platforms of that party.
But to answer the original thread, there are people that live just fine without the internet. So what if they aren't "connected"? Many of those people are more connected to the community than most "wired" people will ever be.
Before that they show Ross Perot punching a hole in is straw hat.
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I think it was somewhere in the end of the first poster's comment.
Poverty is the lack of wealth...
It is very often a distribution issue. There is often money in the region, but it rarely goes to those in need. Sometimes culture and public polices hinder sustainable food production in the region. Wars have a tendency to wipe out crops and severely hinder harvesting if there's anything left.
Hear me out, I'm not a "commie" here, trust me.
When aid goes to an impovershed nation, does it really go to those in need? Or do the power cartels snap it up, give a little bit of it out for nice media photoshoots to make us feel good when the power brokers are stuffing themselves?
Fidel Castro lives very nicely. So does Moamar Quadaffi and Saddam Hussein, and every other tyrant. When we try to "hurt" them, the people under them suffer. Do their leaders suffer?
No.
Space exploration in itself is such a small fraction of the world's economy that gutting it might actually do more harm to our future ability to sustain the earth than the money used down here ever could.
I know the US and the post-industrialized nations aren't perfect, but sometimes things are totally outside our control. The sh!t's going to hit the fan many times in the comming decades due to pollution, unrest and overpopulation, I doubt the pocket change we send up would be a worse overall investment than leaving it down here.
Frankly, if you want the truth, there will _always_ be poor people. A very wise man said that a couple millennia ago, and for 2000 years, he's right. I am _not_ saying give up, but there is a point where throwing money at a problem does more harm than good. Many of those that have _actually_ been on missionary or field aid trips to impovershed nations know this. It's not about money. It's also about trust and ambition. Many nations are capable of a better sustaining food supply but due to culture and distrust, they often cling to many thousand year old tried and untrue methods of farming, they won't listen to anyone to try the new methods, the ones that do are outcast and at times murdered.
Usually extreme poverty is caused by political problems in the region (war, strife, militaristic gangs, oppressive gvmt, etc), not the lack of wealth. Sometimes it's because people are dumber than rocks, but that's redundant to politics.
There were a lot of impovershed people at the time of Columbus. If a certain queen thought that giving money away to poor people rather than building three small boats was a good idea, the world likely would look significantly different, wouldn't it? OK, there are bad parts about it, but every era has a dark side.
I know there were some Sparc clones, notable is Ross Semiconductor. I think Fujitsu did as well.
Alphas had up to two cloners. One _was_ Samsung, but they are OEM to Compaq as well now. Mitsubishi was in the 21164PC alliance but it seems they backed out before fabbing them. Both cloners were licenced.
The way Intel supposedly had cloners in the beginning is that to be allowed to be used in military and certain government projects, your products had to be made by more than one company, so Intel licenced out their mask designs. They backed out of the government and therefore the mask licencing market at around the 386 days, so many companies had "486" chips that were poor performers at best and ended up being souped up 386 chips with bigger cache. To keep up since then everyone had to make their own P5 and up designs.
on mosaics on all genital nudity
Actually not on little baby-boy genitals. They are usually drawn with low detail and are never done with sexual intention. They don't draw female genitals at all really in non-hentai anime, and it is mosaiced on hentai.
Of note is that the _rarely_ draw pubic hair as it is considered vulgar.
Frankly, they feel that they did no wrong.
Maybe, but I believe the fact that they'd rather forget about it and are embarassed about it plays into it. This is the land where people won't react if someone farts in a public place so as not to embarass the "perpetrator". They pretend it never happened. Same with sneezing.
Frankly, I really can't believe that tentacle rape really is all that popular (part of the Hentai sub-genre). What little hentai I have actually seen is extremely crappily animated and poorly drawn at best, and really there isn't _anything_ in mainstream anime that is _that_ poorly done. So that suggests to me that there really isn't that much money in it. In the US market for it doesn't seem to be all that big either as most places that stock it seem to not be able to afford giving big discounts, and the fact that less than 5% of releases are Hentai.
Of that, I haven't seen many comments that suggests there really is much kiddie porn as is, usually all the people are fully developed, and biologically adults although at many times overdeveloped. Their idea of sexual adulthood legally starts at age 13 as well (their age of consent), so that has some affect I suppose. Actually I heard the age of consent in some places of the US used to be as low as 11, but those days are long gone, 18 is fairly standard, although Hawaii is said to be 14 and Michigan is 16, I don't know about other states. For interstate - 18 is it, so if an adult Ohio resident took a 16yr old to MI to have "legal" sex, they just tripped up federal statutes right at the state line.
Japan is also the country that insists on mosaics on all genital nudity, something that even we do not have, so if it is released "uncensored" here, we generally see "more" than the Japanese do, as the US companies usually get the pre-mosaic footage.
The dub is very close to the subs. Some people like it that way. GW poetic? I've never heard that slant before, I'll keep it in mind when I watch it.
You can probably ask.
In the mouse world, unfortunately units for "lefties" have about 1/10th the market, which is why many generic designs are symmetrical.
I guess my question is if the design was tested for a wide range of hand sizes... for long spindly fingers to short stubby ones to large or small hands.
The design looks cool. It's not really all that complex but it has to have mind-numbing attention to every detail to be a solid product.
If there really is a big gamer market for this I wouldn't rule out having one for the other hand as well.
The "click of death" doesn't seem all that common. It's good to know that it exists, but it hasn't affected anyone that I know, and I know people with ATAPI, SCSI and USB Zip drives.
Before I invested in a Zip drive I looked into it heavily before buying one. Not everyone looks into the potential problems before buying a product, I think it's important to do. If one doesn't own a Zip I don't see any reason for them to know of its existence, so I don't see the point in calling them an idiot.
As for the modding, it's too late, it's been modded up some already.
I understand that having a user name while posting doesn't mean that you are telling everyone who you are in real life, but for me it's easier to differentiate between different posters in an argument. If there is a thread with 5 branches and 15 sub branches, half of the posts from AC's mind you, it's easier to understand:
1) who is saying what
2) any pattern in the discussion
Also, by logging in (though you can still post anonymously when logged in) you can use the slashbox settings to take out the anime subject and Jon Katz columns as well (the #2 and #1 benefits of logging in, respectively, thank you, unless you dislike timothy with a passion, then #3 and #1).
I would say something of "scope" comparision of pre- and post- encoding does serve to some interest if you want to make sure that you are matching the original waveform as well as possible. Perceptual encoding is designed to throw out information that you are less likely to notice, but it isn't perfect.
Just listening to it might not mean a whole lot to a lot of people because the average computer audio device is crap - particularly the amps and speakers, but sometimes the DACs as well. They usually don't have much in the way of dynamic range or bandwidth, and the flatness across the bandwidth isn't. Of course, you have to have good hearing and also be able to pick out problems in the sound as well, most people aren't audio entusiasts or connoisieurs.
Do they put the copyright on when the movie is completed or started?
If it takes a year to make a movie, an assumption, I do know some movies take a long time, from design to shipping film reels, they probably had everything planned out in 1996 or earlier.
Oh well. Someone thought the Window Manager used was based on HP, that's not something I'd know.
The workstations didn't have to be. The central unit can be anything, it doesn't need a GUI, just serve up CPU power, files, what have you. An SGI would probably have been best suited to doing purty 3D graphics at the time.
Contact? Jodie Foster and a bunch of hack(er)s?
They had Unix, they just didn't say so. It definitely wasn't Windows, Be or Mac. It looked like a modified FVWM setup or something. IIRC, there weren't any fancy Enlightenments at the time.
I would think that for that amount of money they could con some poor P.I. to steal one from Sony R&D.
They can also buy an import too.
It's not worth $15,000 when you can wait a week and get one for $300, provided you did the preorder or camped out.
Frankly, I'm not sure if it is worth $300 as is.
Switch to....?
Cable companies tend to have a monopoly on the line they laid down.
I don't know about DSL though. The phone company owns the line but I don't know what arrangements they do to allow third parties use the line for DSL service.
Basically, if it is such that only once service can reach your area, it might be under the perview of the state PSC (Public Service Commission). Complain to them. I know Ameritech is in a crap load of trouble with several state's PSCs, because they did early retirement with their maintainance staff, won't hire part timers and are way understaffed.
I thought that the typical (non-EV6/Athlon) CPU FSB is a transmission line structure, with the CPU, bridges and memory interface chips all on the same bus.
?
I know encoding Dolby ProLogic _IS_ pretty trivial. I think any senior EE student can do it with their own custom experimental hardware, with analog electronics. I don't know the innards of S/PDIF, but digitally ProLogic shouldn't be all that hard to encode, it would be harder to compute all the audio data before "encoding".
I really don't know the internals of the PS2 or AC-3/DD5.1 so I can't respond to the 5.1 argument, but it's been in use for over five years now, the encoding format should be a fairly known quanity. I imagine that there are tricks for that as well, we'll have to see.