Solid state devices really can't skip, unless maybe it's exposed to enough RF noise! Then you'd probably skip and stutter too as a result of that level of EMI.
Incidentally, my little MD player has 'only' 10 seconds of anti-skip protection, but it took me two months to figure out how to skip it. And try I did. It never, ever, ever skips unless I am really trying, as it takes a fairly solid 'thud' by hand. And of course, my player costs less than any good MP3 player out there, at a decently competitive size with many MP3 players, except of course this one.
What evil does Sony do other than oppose MP3? Sure, they try to promote their own standards sometimes, but some other companies do licence them too.
oops I mean iLink Sony's proprietary protocol built on top of 1394.
What information do you have to indicate that Sony's version is different or incompatible from other 1394 devices? Everything I've seen seems to indicate that iLink is simply a marketing name as IEEE-1394 is pretty stuffy and Firewire is a trademark by Apple.
Also.. all that junk about microwave ovens heating water molecules by using 'specific resonant frequencies' is bunk.
Total bunk? How so? 600W Really isn't all that much power, so you might as well target it at a frequency that it is most effective at. Water _is_ in most food, and microwaving doesn't affect ceramic, plastic or paper unless it is touching something through conduction that is very affected.
I really don't know the absorbtion spectra of water so I can't say much in that area and I can't find anything with Google, so I guess all I can say is maybe you are right. My college Chem professors (ones with PhDs and such) said that it was the case that microwaves were designed such that to resonate water. It makes good sense, as water is possibly the most common molecule in food, has a high thermal capacitance (takes a lot of energy to heat up) and you only need to target a single bond type, the O-H bond, all point to good reason to make this the case, even if it isn't so.
I suppose a tortured construction of the definition of computer programs might be able to draw some digital content not routinely considered to be a program, but imagine the courts would re-read Contu and disagree.
I've heard CD's, videotapes and such called 'software'. It may only be linear, but it does fit the definition of software I learned; essentially software is the signal carried on the medium. VHS players can be considered 'analog computers'. DVDs fit much better as computer software than others because of the complexity of the standard, and even some DVD-video discs have games built into them (Dark City?)
As for your other assertions on archival rights, I really don't care too much, as media can be too fragile at times for computer software. As for movies, the discs are cheap enough to replace that it isn't worth backing up. I'm going to copy what I must to protect MY OWN investment. I can't let any legal eagle tell me I can't protect my investments in software that costs hundreds of dollars
Because customers demanded it, and copy protection wasn't stopping much piracy. Trust me, I was there.
Some copy protection prevents the legitimate use of equipment and functionality that people paid for, such as the c-dilla audio-CD copy protection screws up digital recievers, and Macrovision reduces the possibility of passing the DVD video signal through a vcr for those that don't have A/V recievers or multiple inputs on their TVs.
It is also quite common for mouth movements to not follow speech exactly.
I admit I'm a bit hard on RoLW, but the lip matching thing is usually the fault of American or Canadian dubbing teams, and it takes a lot of work to adjust the words to the video and video to the words. The lips usually synch very well in the original Japanese, but that means reading subtitles, some don't like that either.
Neither animation style is "better" than the other
To a large extent you are right. Animation takes a lot of work, but I still like Japanese animation style versus American movie for movie, TV show to TV show, and there is no comparison between Japan's direct-to-video (OVAs) and American counterparts (Return of Jafar?! Simba's Pride?), and there are no direct-to-video series made here that I know. Compared to what else is on American TV, anime appears to me to be more skillfully drawn. I love Simpsons, but it is rare to find an anime TV show that is that crudely drawn, based on its age, and that's about what many Saturday morning shows are like.
You are right. American companies STILL assume that 1) kids are too dumb to understand any complexity and 2) only kids watch animation - what about the parents?. Thankfully, FOX has broken that mold with Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy. WB's Animaniacs was extremely good at appealing to a wide audience. South Park etc are pretty much adult-only, which unfortunately there is quite a bit of anime that is like that, and anime is even stereotyped as porn too.
RoLW was interesting, except for all the times Deedlit yelled 'Parn!' (about every minute or two:) ), and the fact that 95% of the dragon time really isn't animated. I bought the DVD set then sold it because I thought the dragons were so mediocre that animating a kite would have more action. For the 'record', most of the other animation looks fantastic.
For the most part, RoLW dragons are a single frame slid across the background. On the first and last episode, the dragons were decently animated, but it looks like the dragon animator was sleeping on the job so his coworkers found his old paintings and moved the cels by hand. A dragon flying across the background looks stiffer than a glider, no wings flapping, no head or tail motion, just slide the cell across the background.
Why do they care what I do to the chip? It's MY CHIP. I bought it. If i wanna void my warranty and run the thing as fast as it can then why should they try to make that harder for me to do? I believe chip makers should make it as easy as possible to overclock just out of courtesy to their customers.
Overclocking can be used to sell chips at clocks they weren't sold for. Also Intel's customers are distributors. Joe shopper buys an Intel PC at 500 MHz, with a remarked chip that was rated for 350MHz. Joe buys an AMD system that actually is more stable. Joe blames Intel for a flakey computer.
Intel has no real way of determining wether you've exceeded the warranty bounds. Should they pay for the lunatic overclocker's attempts at speed trips? There are people that'll burn up chips and have no qualm returning them saying they're defective.
Every product in every industry is capable of operating outside its maker's specs. When not done properly, this significantly reduces the life of the product. Do you pop two pills when the bottle only says one? Do you use a one ton jack to hold up a two ton truck?
In every industry the manufacturer has to do what they reasonably can to reduce illicit use of their technology or else they could get sued or suffer some other harm.
I hope genes that are discovered and not created are NOT patented. If nature created them, then you have a prior use AND common 'knowledge' to the pre-existing systems.
If there is a process for synthesizing genes, fine patent it if there is something new about it.
We must support the rights of those that use cliche arguments to support their beliefs or else their beliefs would be totally unsupported!:)
The waving fist / nose thing is a mundane and overused illustration.
Is there a right to ignorance? I suppose to an extent, but the US education system requires some education, but apparently they can't force anyone to learn basic stuff needed to live in society, such as literacy.
People shouldn't force their opinions on others, but in no way is stating your arguments to someone forcing. The listener doesn't have to listen.
Summary: 1: Right to free speach 2: Right to ignore what others are saying
Flip side: 1: No right to force anyone to listen or agree 2: No right to force anyone to shut up
These are my opinions, I can't say I've made a good argument or an argument at all. And I haven't discussed the sex thing, possibly the subject of another post.
I bought a couple year old model in which the book says 9.5 hours on Alkaline AA batteries. And it seems pretty accurate, although I get slightly shorter times due to the fact I play it loud in a noisy environment (with / as earplugs!).
Some of the newest ones are so small that they only take a rechargable NiMH or Li ion battery flat pack. Think in terms of how thin the latest and thinnest Palm units are, the battery fits in half THAT thickness.
For now, DTV and HDTV (just a higher picture quality of DTV, term to be phased out) are more expensive. Forcing the demise of analog may be quick, but it'll happen in time.
The prices will go down for the added DTV capabilities, much like how (B&W TV | Color TV | LD | CD | DVD) units used to cost thousands, now you practically get them with your corn flakes, and digital to analog converters will be available cheaply once it gets to mass production.
Do you get ghosts? static? DTV pretty much eliminates them. A magazine I subscribed (Popular Science?) did a test and at every site they tried, DTV reception was fairly flawless while the analog counterpart has static and ghosts.
Other posts indicate that the extra equipment doesn't cost more to operate.
Minidisc players only take 1 AA battery too, for 10 to 20 hours of operation. REMOVABLE 74 minutes recording media costs me about 1.50$US per disc in 20 disc quantities, at a quality that is about that of a well encoded 256kbps mp3. I have yet to skip my MD player and I sure have tried. Before you think that MD is such an obscure format, consider the market for MP3 devices now, there is probably the same level of general awareness involved.
RCA, Panasonic and such have Digital VHS decks NOW. They cost 1000$, but keep in mind that some analog VHS decks also go that high. The digital decks have firewire connections too. If you know anyone that gets Home Theater magazine, scan the index once in a while. Even Radioshack will let you order one.
Do you really think you are lining their pockets? What fraction of the cost of the player do you think they are getting?
I really don't think it is as high as 10$ a player, possibly as little as 1$ or lower. This is just guessing, but licencing costs for technology aren't as high as you think.
The present version of DVD will be supersceded in a couple years anyhow, this is well known now that blue lasers can be made with good reliability. DVDs presently still use higher frequency red lasers AFAIK. Then there's digital VHS available NOW that can record HDTV bit for bit with no loss, the present DVD standard can't display at the higher resolutions without obvious artifacts, and the recordable DVD cant record any better.
The fans and film-buffs will go for the better VCD.
I compared an official legal VCD on my system with a laserdisc of the exact same title, and there simply is no comparison in video quality, and Laserdisc has far better audio. Usually DVDs are better than their Laserdisc counterpart too.
The only reason VCD can be considered at an advantage is its copiability.
At one time I thought that many words were misused before I looked them up in a dictionary.
Personally I believe you are fighting a loosing battle. The hacker community doesn't want to be labeled like criminals, so they try to push a new usage and a new word cracker. Obviously the population as a whole and mass media didn't accept this, despite the rant campains and possibly some write-ins to the journalists. I do still believe that criminal should be an adjective for hacker, where hacker really shouldn't be an assumed criminal, so I do agree on that point.
from the time people called for a boycott of DIVX and Circuit City, rejoice it's dead and now the DVD consortium tries on some brass knuckles. Video CDs (or is it CD Video, whatever was also called CD-i movie) never was as good as VHS, presently the minimum video standard.
A boycott really isn't all that effective unless there is a reasonable alternative. I've gotten used to the quality, features and convenience of DVD. I have an 26 episode set of four dual layer DVDs in which the fancy packaging is about as large as a VHS cassette.
There really isn't a partially viable alternative to the DVD format anymore, DIVX is dead (which should not resurrect as the standard should NOT be US centric), everyone's abandoned the LaserDisc which didn't take off much in the US, was quickly abandoned by the users and companies in favor of DVD.
I already have a DVD player, and have a small collection of discs. I still have more LDs than DVDs but that will probably be reversed with in a year. It appears the mastering work gets more attention on DVD now than many LDs recieved, and usually the quality of the video is limited by the quality of the master work.
The Star Wars trilogy looks AWESOME on laserdisc, even version just before the 'Special Edition'. Lucasfilm had a standard called 'THX Laserdisc' which did very well in keeping the standards high. Several DVDs have THX certification, but I have yet to see a set of standards developed for DVD in mind.
That is cable though. Every time I check broadcast TV I come up to about 22 1/2 minutes for the show itself, BUT I count the opening and closing credits, as they are part of the show and aren't commercials.
I think broadcast and cable are set to different standards. Your example makes me happy that I am not a cable subscriber.
Take the operation to some two-bit backwater country like Osama Bin Laden did. Of course, he has hundreds of millions to help convince governments to help hide him...
Once you have a certain amount of influence, you can extort 'protection money' from any wealthy company or family for the safety of said entity. Donate to a 'charity' that is a front, and you are safe - it looks good on the books until you're discovered. The investigators in this case believe this has happened very often with this person, and claim to have evidence of such.
For some odd reason, Lucasfilm was fairly big on the Laserdisc format (also made a THX Laserdisc standard too), an essentially now-dead format in the US. LD is still alive in Japan because they have as 10%+ player penetration vs 1-% in the US.
WAITAMINUTE! Why this inconsistency!? There are more DVD players now than there ever were LD players (in the US), so why is Lucas holding out on a more popular format? The copy protection scheme really doesn't sell much more or fewer copies IMO...
I have the original edition (remastered) of the Star Wars Trilogy on LD, so I'm not concerned, and LDs CANNOT have Macrovision, so I can make a VHS copy to play at a friend's house.:)
Of course, I know all the drawbacks of LD vs DVD, so no one needs to reply to me to say them...
Nice... your Sampling theory is the MINIMUM frequency required to record the signal. It is also called the 'Nyquist theory' or something. Doubling the frequency of the sound introduces aliasing at even 1/4 the sampling frequency.
If you own crappy audio equipment or have enough external noise, you my not hear it, but it is there.
Your checkerboard idea is invalid, consider some picture instead.
Well, there isn't much anymore to get people to take Lucas seriously.
If he was so great and not a Hollywood sellout, then why the near billion dollar campaigns by Lucas-Pepsi-KFC-Pizza Hut (the last three are all the same company).
If his movies and his companies are so great, then WHY THE FRIGGING HECK is Lucasfilm dragging its feet on DVD? I have yet to see a Lucas movie on DVD anywhere. If you say copy protection, a faint possibility, but he released on Laserdisc, a medium with absolutely zero copy protection to VHS. The VHS copy protection that he and the rest of the free world uses was easier to defeat than CSS.
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Solid state devices really can't skip, unless maybe it's exposed to enough RF noise! Then you'd probably skip and stutter too as a result of that level of EMI.
Incidentally, my little MD player has 'only' 10 seconds of anti-skip protection, but it took me two months to figure out how to skip it. And try I did. It never, ever, ever skips unless I am really trying, as it takes a fairly solid 'thud' by hand. And of course, my player costs less than any good MP3 player out there, at a decently competitive size with many MP3 players, except of course this one.
Sony's much too evil for that.
What evil does Sony do other than oppose MP3? Sure, they try to promote their own standards sometimes, but some other companies do licence them too.
oops I mean iLink Sony's proprietary protocol built on top of 1394.
What information do you have to indicate that Sony's version is different or incompatible from other 1394 devices? Everything I've seen seems to indicate that iLink is simply a marketing name as IEEE-1394 is pretty stuffy and Firewire is a trademark by Apple.
I hope so, as right now 60" HDTVs with 1200 lines of vertical resolution are being sold. And they look nice.
Also.. all that junk about microwave ovens heating water molecules by using 'specific resonant frequencies' is bunk.
Total bunk? How so? 600W Really isn't all that much power, so you might as well target it at a frequency that it is most effective at. Water _is_ in most food, and microwaving doesn't affect ceramic, plastic or paper unless it is touching something through conduction that is very affected.
I really don't know the absorbtion spectra of water so I can't say much in that area and I can't find anything with Google, so I guess all I can say is maybe you are right. My college Chem professors (ones with PhDs and such) said that it was the case that microwaves were designed such that to resonate water. It makes good sense, as water is possibly the most common molecule in food, has a high thermal capacitance (takes a lot of energy to heat up) and you only need to target a single bond type, the O-H bond, all point to good reason to make this the case, even if it isn't so.
I suppose a tortured construction of the definition of computer programs might be able to draw some digital content not routinely considered to be a program, but imagine the courts would re-read Contu and disagree.
I've heard CD's, videotapes and such called 'software'. It may only be linear, but it does fit the definition of software I learned; essentially software is the signal carried on the medium. VHS players can be considered 'analog computers'. DVDs fit much better as computer software than others because of the complexity of the standard, and even some DVD-video discs have games built into them (Dark City?)
As for your other assertions on archival rights, I really don't care too much, as media can be too fragile at times for computer software. As for movies, the discs are cheap enough to replace that it isn't worth backing up. I'm going to copy what I must to protect MY OWN investment. I can't let any legal eagle tell me I can't protect my investments in software that costs hundreds of dollars
Because customers demanded it, and copy protection wasn't stopping much piracy. Trust me, I was there.
Some copy protection prevents the legitimate use of equipment and functionality that people paid for, such as the c-dilla audio-CD copy protection screws up digital recievers, and Macrovision reduces the possibility of passing the DVD video signal through a vcr for those that don't have A/V recievers or multiple inputs on their TVs.
It is also quite common for mouth movements to not follow speech exactly.
I admit I'm a bit hard on RoLW, but the lip matching thing is usually the fault of American or Canadian dubbing teams, and it takes a lot of work to adjust the words to the video and video to the words. The lips usually synch very well in the original Japanese, but that means reading subtitles, some don't like that either.
Neither animation style is "better" than the other
To a large extent you are right. Animation takes a lot of work, but I still like Japanese animation style versus American movie for movie, TV show to TV show, and there is no comparison between Japan's direct-to-video (OVAs) and American counterparts (Return of Jafar?! Simba's Pride?), and there are no direct-to-video series made here that I know. Compared to what else is on American TV, anime appears to me to be more skillfully drawn. I love Simpsons, but it is rare to find an anime TV show that is that crudely drawn, based on its age, and that's about what many Saturday morning shows are like.
You are right. American companies STILL assume that 1) kids are too dumb to understand any complexity and 2) only kids watch animation - what about the parents?. Thankfully, FOX has broken that mold with Simpsons, Futurama and Family Guy. WB's Animaniacs was extremely good at appealing to a wide audience. South Park etc are pretty much adult-only, which unfortunately there is quite a bit of anime that is like that, and anime is even stereotyped as porn too.
RoLW was interesting, except for all the times Deedlit yelled 'Parn!' (about every minute or two :) ), and the fact that 95% of the dragon time really isn't animated. I bought the DVD set then sold it because I thought the dragons were so mediocre that animating a kite would have more action. For the 'record', most of the other animation looks fantastic.
For the most part, RoLW dragons are a single frame slid across the background. On the first and last episode, the dragons were decently animated, but it looks like the dragon animator was sleeping on the job so his coworkers found his old paintings and moved the cels by hand. A dragon flying across the background looks stiffer than a glider, no wings flapping, no head or tail motion, just slide the cell across the background.
Why do they care what I do to the chip? It's MY CHIP. I bought it. If i wanna void my warranty and run the thing as fast as it can then why should they try to make that harder for me to do? I believe chip makers should make it as easy as possible to overclock just out of courtesy to their customers.
Overclocking can be used to sell chips at clocks they weren't sold for. Also Intel's customers are distributors. Joe shopper buys an Intel PC at 500 MHz, with a remarked chip that was rated for 350MHz. Joe buys an AMD system that actually is more stable. Joe blames Intel for a flakey computer.
Intel has no real way of determining wether you've exceeded the warranty bounds. Should they pay for the lunatic overclocker's attempts at speed trips? There are people that'll burn up chips and have no qualm returning them saying they're defective.
Every product in every industry is capable of operating outside its maker's specs. When not done properly, this significantly reduces the life of the product. Do you pop two pills when the bottle only says one? Do you use a one ton jack to hold up a two ton truck?
In every industry the manufacturer has to do what they reasonably can to reduce illicit use of their technology or else they could get sued or suffer some other harm.
I hope genes that are discovered and not created are NOT patented. If nature created them, then you have a prior use AND common 'knowledge' to the pre-existing systems.
If there is a process for synthesizing genes, fine patent it if there is something new about it.
We must support the rights of those that use cliche arguments to support their beliefs or else their beliefs would be totally unsupported! :)
The waving fist / nose thing is a mundane and overused illustration.
Is there a right to ignorance? I suppose to an extent, but the US education system requires some education, but apparently they can't force anyone to learn basic stuff needed to live in society, such as literacy.
People shouldn't force their opinions on others, but in no way is stating your arguments to someone forcing. The listener doesn't have to listen.
Summary:
1: Right to free speach
2: Right to ignore what others are saying
Flip side:
1: No right to force anyone to listen or agree
2: No right to force anyone to shut up
These are my opinions, I can't say I've made a good argument or an argument at all. And I haven't discussed the sex thing, possibly the subject of another post.
I bought a couple year old model in which the book says 9.5 hours on Alkaline AA batteries. And it seems pretty accurate, although I get slightly shorter times due to the fact I play it loud in a noisy environment (with / as earplugs!).
Some of the newest ones are so small that they only take a rechargable NiMH or Li ion battery flat pack. Think in terms of how thin the latest and thinnest Palm units are, the battery fits in half THAT thickness.
For now, DTV and HDTV (just a higher picture quality of DTV, term to be phased out) are more expensive. Forcing the demise of analog may be quick, but it'll happen in time.
The prices will go down for the added DTV capabilities, much like how (B&W TV | Color TV | LD | CD | DVD) units used to cost thousands, now you practically get them with your corn flakes, and digital to analog converters will be available cheaply once it gets to mass production.
Do you get ghosts? static? DTV pretty much eliminates them. A magazine I subscribed (Popular Science?) did a test and at every site they tried, DTV reception was fairly flawless while the analog counterpart has static and ghosts.
Other posts indicate that the extra equipment doesn't cost more to operate.
Minidisc players only take 1 AA battery too, for 10 to 20 hours of operation. REMOVABLE 74 minutes recording media costs me about 1.50$US per disc in 20 disc quantities, at a quality that is about that of a well encoded 256kbps mp3. I have yet to skip my MD player and I sure have tried. Before you think that MD is such an obscure format, consider the market for MP3 devices now, there is probably the same level of general awareness involved.
As with most technology, do you expect it to stay expensive?
RCA, Panasonic and such have Digital VHS decks NOW. They cost 1000$, but keep in mind that some analog VHS decks also go that high. The digital decks have firewire connections too. If you know anyone that gets Home Theater magazine, scan the index once in a while. Even Radioshack will let you order one.
Ditital Beta has been around for a while I hear.
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic...
Boycotts just don't work like this.
Do you really think you are lining their pockets? What fraction of the cost of the player do you think they are getting?
I really don't think it is as high as 10$ a player, possibly as little as 1$ or lower. This is just guessing, but licencing costs for technology aren't as high as you think.
The present version of DVD will be supersceded in a couple years anyhow, this is well known now that blue lasers can be made with good reliability. DVDs presently still use higher frequency red lasers AFAIK. Then there's digital VHS available NOW that can record HDTV bit for bit with no loss, the present DVD standard can't display at the higher resolutions without obvious artifacts, and the recordable DVD cant record any better.
The fans and film-buffs will go for the better VCD.
I compared an official legal VCD on my system with a laserdisc of the exact same title, and there simply is no comparison in video quality, and Laserdisc has far better audio. Usually DVDs are better than their Laserdisc counterpart too.
The only reason VCD can be considered at an advantage is its copiability.
At one time I thought that many words were misused before I looked them up in a dictionary.
Personally I believe you are fighting a loosing battle. The hacker community doesn't want to be labeled like criminals, so they try to push a new usage and a new word cracker. Obviously the population as a whole and mass media didn't accept this, despite the rant campains and possibly some write-ins to the journalists. I do still believe that criminal should be an adjective for hacker, where hacker really shouldn't be an assumed criminal, so I do agree on that point.
from the time people called for a boycott of DIVX and Circuit City, rejoice it's dead and now the DVD consortium tries on some brass knuckles. Video CDs (or is it CD Video, whatever was also called CD-i movie) never was as good as VHS, presently the minimum video standard.
A boycott really isn't all that effective unless there is a reasonable alternative. I've gotten used to the quality, features and convenience of DVD. I have an 26 episode set of four dual layer DVDs in which the fancy packaging is about as large as a VHS cassette.
There really isn't a partially viable alternative to the DVD format anymore, DIVX is dead (which should not resurrect as the standard should NOT be US centric), everyone's abandoned the LaserDisc which didn't take off much in the US, was quickly abandoned by the users and companies in favor of DVD.
I already have a DVD player, and have a small collection of discs. I still have more LDs than DVDs but that will probably be reversed with in a year. It appears the mastering work gets more attention on DVD now than many LDs recieved, and usually the quality of the video is limited by the quality of the master work.
The Star Wars trilogy looks AWESOME on laserdisc, even version just before the 'Special Edition'. Lucasfilm had a standard called 'THX Laserdisc' which did very well in keeping the standards high. Several DVDs have THX certification, but I have yet to see a set of standards developed for DVD in mind.
Boy, this post wandered!
That is cable though. Every time I check broadcast TV I come up to about 22 1/2 minutes for the show itself, BUT I count the opening and closing credits, as they are part of the show and aren't commercials.
I think broadcast and cable are set to different standards. Your example makes me happy that I am not a cable subscriber.
I tried to read the threads, but I can't seem to find it, and I have no real interest in seeing the movie at my cost.
I didn't see The Truman Show until I watched it for free. It was well worth the cost and time though.
Once you have a certain amount of influence, you can extort 'protection money' from any wealthy company or family for the safety of said entity. Donate to a 'charity' that is a front, and you are safe - it looks good on the books until you're discovered. The investigators in this case believe this has happened very often with this person, and claim to have evidence of such.
For some odd reason, Lucasfilm was fairly big on the Laserdisc format (also made a THX Laserdisc standard too), an essentially now-dead format in the US. LD is still alive in Japan because they have as 10%+ player penetration vs 1-% in the US.
:)
WAITAMINUTE! Why this inconsistency!? There are more DVD players now than there ever were LD players (in the US), so why is Lucas holding out on a more popular format? The copy protection scheme really doesn't sell much more or fewer copies IMO...
I have the original edition (remastered) of the Star Wars Trilogy on LD, so I'm not concerned, and LDs CANNOT have Macrovision, so I can make a VHS copy to play at a friend's house.
Of course, I know all the drawbacks of LD vs DVD, so no one needs to reply to me to say them...
Nice... your Sampling theory is the MINIMUM frequency required to record the signal. It is also called the 'Nyquist theory' or something. Doubling the frequency of the sound introduces aliasing at even 1/4 the sampling frequency.
If you own crappy audio equipment or have enough external noise, you my not hear it, but it is there.
Your checkerboard idea is invalid, consider some picture instead.
Well, there isn't much anymore to get people to take Lucas seriously.
If he was so great and not a Hollywood sellout, then why the near billion dollar campaigns by Lucas-Pepsi-KFC-Pizza Hut (the last three are all the same company).
If his movies and his companies are so great, then WHY THE FRIGGING HECK is Lucasfilm dragging its feet on DVD? I have yet to see a Lucas movie on DVD anywhere. If you say copy protection, a faint possibility, but he released on Laserdisc, a medium with absolutely zero copy protection to VHS. The VHS copy protection that he and the rest of the free world uses was easier to defeat than CSS.