All HDTV in the US is digital. So, over-the-air broadcasts _can_ be encrypted, because the broadcast is just a digital stream. There's no reason a set-top box couldn't take the broadcast, decrypt it, and pass it out.
Also, Widescreen Review magazine has made a very good point that as long as DVHS vcrs never have analog _inputs_, there will be no reason to restrict analog output of hd content. If there's no easy way for people to record analog signals, they can't pirate the content.
news.com.com indeed. well out of all the april fool's jokes today, this is the only one that got me. oh well. It's believable, but then again a decent prank has to get you to believe something outrageous. This is, eh, not really outrageous. It's like saying "win2k full of new root 'sploits! -- HAHAHA April Fools!" It's practically true _anyway_, even if the details are wrong.
that and a lot of old stuff was written in assembler to take advantage of every little bit of processing power. I'll bet there's a lot of code that is nearly unreadable now.
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if by "looks like windows" you mean it is a WIMP interface, then... duh. if by that you mean "the default theme looks like windows," then... change it. I mean seriously, is there an operating system that doesn't "look like windows" anymore?
so either you get a pc, where you can't reinstall windows, or you get a mac, where you can't touch the hardware. Or, just go to a local shop and get a quality machine with all the cds.
low-wage? then we just end up with the cowboy bebop universe, and that works pretty well too
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the TOP THREE modded comments are all "why would anyone do this?" in varying degrees of trolliness. If there's one problem with the moderation system, it's that many many points are wasted (in this case 10) on duplicate comments.
it's easy to configure grip to automatically rip and sort any cd you put in the drive. That way you just spend some time swapping cds around. You don't need to do it all at once
People were content with cds, and then napster gave them something irresistable. People were buying computers specifically to download napster. Don't misjudge what people "want" just because it's complicated now. I'm burning tv shows that I can't otherwise get, and it's a little cumbersome, but it works. Once people find out they can get The City of New York vs Homer Simpson online, and it's easy, they'll do it.
no, it's closed because that way they can actually make money. You know, like a business plan. You guys get an excellent email program for free, and all you can do is bitch about how one small piece of the puzzle, which only corporations are going to need, isn't open. At some point reality must set in.
yes it does. Part of the microsoft trial demonstrated that although mac, linux, etc existed, MS was still a monopoly. AOL IM may not be the only im protocol, but it might as well be. I tried to use jabber, but my friends refused to switch over because it was too much trouble. So i'm stuck with AIM because it's what everyone else uses.
Often editors will go through a movie, or show, or commercial, and shave frames to the point where everything is still intelligible. It's not called "time trimming," it's called "frame fucking."
I'm not talking about the strict definition of "broadcast quality." The original poster was saying that dvds suck compared to 35 mm film, and implied that they were no better than "a good svhs." The original original poster never said anything about broadcast quality. _my_ point is that compared to anything you see on tv, dvd is an extreme jump ahead. Not to mention the sound quality, which while compressed, is also better than anything on cable. And, with random access, special features, etc, dvd blows away any tape format. I don't care if it's not 4:4:4 or 4:2:2 or whatever, dvd is simply the best picture you can get.
And don't tell me studios actually let anyone else see their hi-def masters and such. Sure it's "consumer quality," but if the content is movies, no one in the world has access to anything better on a regular basis.
you haven't watched cable recently. "Broadcast Quality" is a meaningless term. Smaller channels suffer from about as much pixellation and mpeg2 artifacts as a VCD. Digital cable looks like crap, especially in the red zone. You can VHS tapes marked "broadcase quality," but I sure wouldn't archive my media on it.
Dvd, meanwhile, is 720x480, and when encoded correctly, is more than suitable for broadcast. Now I wouldn't call it Archival Quality. D1 is what should be used in that case. But for broadcast, dvd is better than anything you'll see on TV.
yes, google has now announce you too can find out, ARE YOU A GOOP? Are you more like Lemeetri, or... uh I can't think of any others! Looks like I need goops.google.com!
I think there is a reference to the fact that the other knights did live extremely long after they came out of the cave. So presumably they won't be immortal, but they will live to 150 or something.
those are quite old alpha screenshots. You know it's people like you that cause developers to say, "screw this, no screenshots till it's done." The focus of GNOME 2 hasn't been all on the look and feel, a lot of the work has been about the underlying libraries. For instance those antialiased foreign fonts in the first shot. That's a big big deal, but it's not fruity colors so you overlook it.
"It's not that hard to do with the Mac's 5 year old speech recognition tools."
Why does everything mac people say sound like a dig at everyone else? Why point out that the speech tools are 5 years old, if only to point out that such tools aren't common in the windows/linux world? Just say it's not hard to do and leave it at that.
unless of course you want the picture quality, 5.1 sound, and extra features, not to mention no downloads that take all night, crap out, and have some Hax0rs watermark all over them
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All HDTV in the US is digital. So, over-the-air broadcasts _can_ be encrypted, because the broadcast is just a digital stream. There's no reason a set-top box couldn't take the broadcast, decrypt it, and pass it out.
Also, Widescreen Review magazine has made a very good point that as long as DVHS vcrs never have analog _inputs_, there will be no reason to restrict analog output of hd content. If there's no easy way for people to record analog signals, they can't pirate the content.
news.com.com indeed. well out of all the april fool's jokes today, this is the only one that got me. oh well. It's believable, but then again a decent prank has to get you to believe something outrageous. This is, eh, not really outrageous. It's like saying "win2k full of new root 'sploits! -- HAHAHA April Fools!" It's practically true _anyway_, even if the details are wrong.
seriously guys, shut up already. NOT FUNNY.
on the avifile download page there's a link to "divx4linux" with the version 5 codec. Grab that and recompile. I haven't tried it myself but I am now.
if you didn't notice, they imported princess mononoke and changed nothing, save the dub.
You mean the voiceovers with such gems as:
"I'd had a belly-ful of killing!"
and
"they don't advertise for killers in the newspaper"
that and a lot of old stuff was written in assembler to take advantage of every little bit of processing power. I'll bet there's a lot of code that is nearly unreadable now.
if by "looks like windows" you mean it is a WIMP interface, then ... duh. if by that you mean "the default theme looks like windows," then ... change it. I mean seriously, is there an operating system that doesn't "look like windows" anymore?
so either you get a pc, where you can't reinstall windows, or you get a mac, where you can't touch the hardware. Or, just go to a local shop and get a quality machine with all the cds.
low-wage? then we just end up with the cowboy bebop universe, and that works pretty well too
the TOP THREE modded comments are all "why would anyone do this?" in varying degrees of trolliness. If there's one problem with the moderation system, it's that many many points are wasted (in this case 10) on duplicate comments.
it's easy to configure grip to automatically rip and sort any cd you put in the drive. That way you just spend some time swapping cds around. You don't need to do it all at once
People were content with cds, and then napster gave them something irresistable. People were buying computers specifically to download napster. Don't misjudge what people "want" just because it's complicated now. I'm burning tv shows that I can't otherwise get, and it's a little cumbersome, but it works. Once people find out they can get The City of New York vs Homer Simpson online, and it's easy, they'll do it.
no, it's closed because that way they can actually make money. You know, like a business plan. You guys get an excellent email program for free, and all you can do is bitch about how one small piece of the puzzle, which only corporations are going to need, isn't open. At some point reality must set in.
yes it does. Part of the microsoft trial demonstrated that although mac, linux, etc existed, MS was still a monopoly. AOL IM may not be the only im protocol, but it might as well be. I tried to use jabber, but my friends refused to switch over because it was too much trouble. So i'm stuck with AIM because it's what everyone else uses.
Often editors will go through a movie, or show, or commercial, and shave frames to the point where everything is still intelligible. It's not called "time trimming," it's called "frame fucking."
I'm not talking about the strict definition of "broadcast quality." The original poster was saying that dvds suck compared to 35 mm film, and implied that they were no better than "a good svhs." The original original poster never said anything about broadcast quality. _my_ point is that compared to anything you see on tv, dvd is an extreme jump ahead. Not to mention the sound quality, which while compressed, is also better than anything on cable. And, with random access, special features, etc, dvd blows away any tape format. I don't care if it's not 4:4:4 or 4:2:2 or whatever, dvd is simply the best picture you can get.
And don't tell me studios actually let anyone else see their hi-def masters and such. Sure it's "consumer quality," but if the content is movies, no one in the world has access to anything better on a regular basis.
you haven't watched cable recently. "Broadcast Quality" is a meaningless term. Smaller channels suffer from about as much pixellation and mpeg2 artifacts as a VCD. Digital cable looks like crap, especially in the red zone. You can VHS tapes marked "broadcase quality," but I sure wouldn't archive my media on it.
Dvd, meanwhile, is 720x480, and when encoded correctly, is more than suitable for broadcast. Now I wouldn't call it Archival Quality. D1 is what should be used in that case. But for broadcast, dvd is better than anything you'll see on TV.
yes, google has now announce you too can find out, ARE YOU A GOOP? Are you more like Lemeetri, or ... uh I can't think of any others! Looks like I need goops.google.com!
I think there is a reference to the fact that the other knights did live extremely long after they came out of the cave. So presumably they won't be immortal, but they will live to 150 or something.
geez, you're not going to make any money if you don't even pimp your own comic!
those are quite old alpha screenshots. You know it's people like you that cause developers to say, "screw this, no screenshots till it's done." The focus of GNOME 2 hasn't been all on the look and feel, a lot of the work has been about the underlying libraries. For instance those antialiased foreign fonts in the first shot. That's a big big deal, but it's not fruity colors so you overlook it.
forget changing the disc, just plunk down a couple extra bucks for a second cdrom for the OS. Otherwise everything would have to be in RAM.
"It's not that hard to do with the Mac's 5 year old speech recognition tools."
Why does everything mac people say sound like a dig at everyone else? Why point out that the speech tools are 5 years old, if only to point out that such tools aren't common in the windows/linux world? Just say it's not hard to do and leave it at that.
unless of course you want the picture quality, 5.1 sound, and extra features, not to mention no downloads that take all night, crap out, and have some Hax0rs watermark all over them
and for 100$, it's a bargain