I too still use the DVD/BD service, Lately I have found that its older non-american titles that I can't find on Netflix or other streaming services (I have hulu thru my phone company w/"Limited" commercials, haha unwatchable)
Specifically older UK and Australian titles that weren't even released in movie theaters in the US.
Its also great for great classic old series that haven't made it onto a streaming service (All in the Family for instance).
That's the thing with the DVD service, if it was available for sale on DVD the studio can't restrict it or expire it like they do for streaming.
I love watching the Netflix created content via streaming, but w/o the DVD service, there are things you may want to see you could only find used or on ebay h. Not everyone only watches new releases, there are a 100 years of wonderful movies out there and only a fraction of them are available streaming.
That said, the price keeps inching upward, I'm on the most basic plan now just so I can fill in the gaps when I want to see one of the forementioned types of movies/TV shows... There is a point of diminishing returns on this however, currently i'm ok with the price, but I reevaluate the benefit I am getting with every hike... At some point it won't be worth it, hopefully they don't shoot themselves in the foot and out-price the people that still find this service valuable.
I saw some show where there was a music producer that lameted that the death of the album (which will be be cemented with the death of CDs) meant that every song has to be a "hit". Gone were the gems on the album that you didn't like first play, even the 2nd play, but the 5th+ time you heard them you started to "get" it.
I recognized this phenomena back when I used to copy my CD's to cassette tape to listen to in the car (car CD players still skipped all the time). Songs that I would just skip with my CD remote, I now had to listen to in the car or start fiddling with the FF while I was driving. I noticed I found these "5th play" songs and some of these are still my favorite songs to this day. These are what made albums truly stand out.
As well, there is the artistry described by the parent, where the album is not just a collection of songs, but a cohesive listening experience. When I rip my cds, I still put the whole album on my phone, but there is not much incentive for artists to create albums like this if there is no medium for them to exist on.
Its a shame, another nail in coffin of the dying music industry. Pretty soon music will just be something to put in soundtracks of movies and shows.
Or they could trade cocaine for guns to secretly overthrow a government they don't like... and if they get caught, have some low level patsy take the blame. He'll be ok, he'll just go into talk radio.
I have not read one post that suggests the slashcode moderation system, which has been evolving for years to help minimize the impact these "unproductive" users have on a discussion.
During the NSF days of the internet I loved the usenet, but then the spammers, flamers, etc came and I came running here. I rarly post as usually someone ends up making the point I would have made and I don't feel the need to be redundant. It does baffle me that I have not yet seen a post where a slashdot like moderation system has been suggested, especially ON here.
I find this is true for the Actiontec more for wireless connects than connects over the wired network. Putting another wireless router on helped alot. But still have to reboot it every so often.
My Airport Express hardly ever needs a reboot however.
I was in that, I remember paying like "only" $500 dollars for a USR 14.4k modem "breaking the 9600 barrier" and switching from Hermes to 1st class the GUI bbs system (that people didn't like as much but it had arguably more functionality)
Remember everyone swapping bbs lists and knowing by heart which exchanges were what localies....
As others have said, I see Wireless taking the place of this as the internet becomes more "settled" and less like the wild west it is right now, local wireless networks will be the best way for people to be able to exchange information without direct interference. Such as the one that has cropped up in NYC and other areas.
Yea i was a future-forward dork with my tolkien's obscure reference "handle"...
Was "War Games" the movie, the gospel to alot of people back then or what, either they liked to pan it or liked to praise it, Please don't tell me the closest thing to this for the internet is that awful movie that Sandra Bullock made, "The Net" ugg.... Would it be Hackers 2? or is it that Linux Documentary?
I like to use the cruise control but have not done any real comparisons on the mpg benefits of using a cruise control on a 5-speed manual transmission.
However, i did feel that in top gear this would hopefully be tuned to the most efficient amount of gas needed to maintain speed, but it could just be the easiest if its still vacuum based.
I would like to see DTS (lossess surround audio) become the next "music" standard after CDs
It still allows for high quality lossless stero, but where I see audio should be going is to DVD. I guess they could do DD5.1 (lossy encode) and that still isn't half bad. There have been a few DD5.1 headphones out there so portability isn't as big an argument for stero as it used to be.
Basically there are millions of players out there that can at least play that, its the logical next format. You could hope that they would go back to the masters and remix it for surround sound and studios would upgrade but for a while they will probably just run the stereo thru some signal processing and throw that on a DVD.
I already see a larger and larger "DVD-Music" section in Best Buys and Circuit-City, this way they can add videos and other things that they already are making, the audio is becoming the promotional for this mass market where before the videos would promote the album.
Of course it is protected by the mighty CSS encryption. but do they really think they are going to force everyone to buy another player? or will they phase this in by skipping the DVD format and sticking to CD as they won't have to retool until the new encryption on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD (which I heard at least one will have DTS) hits the streets.
They will always produce SOMETHING to sell to those audiophiles that give people that like to listen to music a bad name (The ones that put the brass cones under their cd players insisting it softens or deepens or blah blah). The people who probably buy SACD and its 2 Mhz sample rate. So for the people with mortal hearing, something like Flac, Ape, Applelosses (basically wav encoded lossless) would be the best format for the future because the bandwidth and capacites will rise over the future and for backward compatability or the budget minded they will be able to use compression on their older/cheaper devices.
I would say the PC won because of its open architecture allowing clones of the original IBM PC which many many business were already buying from, typerwriter/computer they both have keyboards right?)and competition to come in. Marketing and branding (Intel Inside?) came later to try to differentiate what where basically commodity parts that "just did the job" to all but "computer enthusiasts".
Now Windows is a whole nother story filled with intrigue and howling and antitrust lawsuits that get brushed under the rug with the right campaign contributions. But hey, lets face it, if the world were all macs and unix boxes only the windows people would be crying about how those operating systems don't do x,y and z.
On top of it all, you hear about these awardwinning, groundbreaking Apple ads, but I never heard of IBM and its charlie chaplin winning any. Kinda funny they chose a silent movie character when the only way to make sound of the machine was to do some funky interrrupts to the tape port.
Just for the record I have a Mac OS 9, OS X, Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, and a 2 Win boxes (one is for gaming)
I'd say that having the ability to run all these boxes and have them talk to eachother in useful ways means that competion is good.
And to the parent, as long as people are in the equation, so will popularity and the methodoligy of manipulating it.
So.
To bring all this back on topic, essential some computer in spain is deciding what everyone in the work listens to? How wrong does this sound? What's it run on?
Hmmmm, what happens now when someone uses one of these new subscription services music services we all hate so much rent some o that 3.5M songs so they can do their own statistical analysis service that works in realtime or cheaply so you can play a hit while you jam!
Even better you could use a genetic algorithm that
creates a bot that can write hits. Then you don't have to worry about that pesky "artist" stealing all your composer royalties cause they won't have to take songs written by humans anymore, they will just be playing them.
The library system is probabaly one of the MPAA's biggest customers, wonder how much they charge THEM for a DVD? Its only the taxpayers money anyway....
I guess its the bird in the hand worth two in the bush in this case (ie overcharge govt institution vs snag more potential buyers who would probably only rent if no libary option existed)
What about designer pets then? How about a clone of the white house dog or cat? How about Movie animals, how much would someone pay for Benji or Milo or Otis?
They could crank 'em out couldn't they?
its called float, but with interest rates down its pretty mimiamal but this way they can send you the cash when its convient for them, and not at time of sale.
I have had bad experinces with the rebates but I have also saved alot of money. What I hate the worst are the bait and switch tacticts they often use, have very few of the item and then if you try to get a "rain check" you find the rebates (often multiple now) don't fit some critera such as purchase date.
I did suscessfully do this at Circuit City once however getting a 52x Lite-on CD burner for 15 dollars, it took about 2 months to get. I don't know witch is a worse offender for the bait and switch CompUSA or Bestbuy, to me they tie for the worst of 'em.
I think this "solution" for "firewalling" documents is mainly for places that can (or think they can) secure access to an area (with the usual cameras, metal detectors, body searches, and so on) so you can't carry in some sort of electronic copy device (above mentioned cameras, scanners,etc)
They also search you going OUT.
Now far be it from them stopping you from taking ANY work home to do on your own time, so this way they can just do a scan of your stack of "work" and verify that no classified documents are therein, and this is also a FAST thing, so that when 5 'oclock rolls around you don't have riots when people are leaving.
I think its a pipedream tho, sounds more like some great solution that they use to string along controlfreak corp-espionage and intel types so they pour millions in funds that aren't even officially budgeted in developing it and of course the people who are working on it have a great job.
I'm sure they have no end of great ideas couched in this scenerio because these are the people who are willing to spend money on this. Security managers probably make little gigglings noises, or excessive drooling when they get pitched stuff like this, when they are told that they could link every document to a person and therefore be able to LITERALLY follow the "paper trail" around to see who has come in contact with said paper. (use timecode from scanner to sync to timecode on camaras covering area and you could get a dozen snapshots or short clips showing a little storyline with everyplace the document was scanned. (i hear over doorways is what they are doing in warehouses)
Of course then there is the guy who is making a pouch for the EZ-pass that I hear uses RFID that is supposed to block it or make it transparent to scanners. Course then they will have scanners for what the pouches are made of etc. Either way the companies making these products will be happy to make new products to escalate the RFID arms race.
It concerns me that anyone interested in maintaining their privacy has to keep up this constant battle, facing stern legalse warning you not to provide the supermarket false information about where you live,etc. Instead they make it easy to give in, to just let it happen because of course why should you care if you have nothing to hide, essentially branding you a "criminal " or a "kook" if you do try to maintain your privacy.
forget it, they will never make a movie of the Silmarillion, I love tolkien and I never got thru more than 1/2 of it, I kept falling asleep! As audiences all over would do if they try to make this a movie, its a mythos, at best they would rape it by elarborating on one or two of the above stories mentioned and interweave the LoTR stuff for the tie in, everyone would be outraged and everyone would still be bored it would be a flop. (btw i couldn't even more than just skim 'em so that doesn't bode well)
Hobbit however is another story they could do this really great. The animated one was ok, but Jackson's done these so well so far I wouldn't mind seeing it done that way.
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I too still use the DVD/BD service, Lately I have found that its older non-american titles that I can't find on Netflix or other streaming services (I have hulu thru my phone company w/"Limited" commercials, haha unwatchable)
Specifically older UK and Australian titles that weren't even released in movie theaters in the US.
Its also great for great classic old series that haven't made it onto a streaming service (All in the Family for instance).
That's the thing with the DVD service, if it was available for sale on DVD the studio can't restrict it or expire it like they do for streaming.
I love watching the Netflix created content via streaming, but w/o the DVD service, there are things you may want to see you could only find used or on ebay h. Not everyone only watches new releases, there are a 100 years of wonderful movies out there and only a fraction of them are available streaming.
That said, the price keeps inching upward, I'm on the most basic plan now just so I can fill in the gaps when I want to see one of the forementioned types of movies/TV shows... There is a point of diminishing returns on this however, currently i'm ok with the price, but I reevaluate the benefit I am getting with every hike... At some point it won't be worth it, hopefully they don't shoot themselves in the foot and out-price the people that still find this service valuable.
-yy1
I think the precident for this is the Apple vs Microsoft suit in the 80's when Windows came out, Apple claimed "look and feel" was too similar.
They lost.
I'd say both companies are doing ok now, so when a competitor copies you, your only real option is to keep innovating.
Innovate or DIE!
-yy1
I saw some show where there was a music producer that lameted that the death of the album (which will be be cemented with the death of CDs) meant that every song has to be a "hit". Gone were the gems on the album that you didn't like first play, even the 2nd play, but the 5th+ time you heard them you started to "get" it.
I recognized this phenomena back when I used to copy my CD's to cassette tape to listen to in the car (car CD players still skipped all the time). Songs that I would just skip with my CD remote, I now had to listen to in the car or start fiddling with the FF while I was driving. I noticed I found these "5th play" songs and some of these are still my favorite songs to this day. These are what made albums truly stand out.
As well, there is the artistry described by the parent, where the album is not just a collection of songs, but a cohesive listening experience. When I rip my cds, I still put the whole album on my phone, but there is not much incentive for artists to create albums like this if there is no medium for them to exist on.
Its a shame, another nail in coffin of the dying music industry. Pretty soon music will just be something to put in soundtracks of movies and shows.
Why didn't you just put bootcamp on it?
Unless this was like 10 years ago and it was PPC it would have run windows.
Or they could trade cocaine for guns to secretly overthrow a government they don't like... and if they get caught, have some low level patsy take the blame. He'll be ok, he'll just go into talk radio.
-yy1
Honest answer = we all hate DRM cause we just wanna pirate shit.
I mean its nice to be able to transfer it to different devices and such, but come on, who doesn't want shit for free.
see... its been evolving! You just proved my point...
Why does everyone suggest either ban or charge?
I have not read one post that suggests the slashcode moderation system, which has been evolving for years to help minimize the impact these "unproductive" users have on a discussion.
During the NSF days of the internet I loved the usenet, but then the spammers, flamers, etc came and I came running here. I rarly post as usually someone ends up making the point I would have made and I don't feel the need to be redundant. It does baffle me that I have not yet seen a post where a slashdot like moderation system has been suggested, especially ON here.
OH the irony!
Instead of just banning them, perhaps you should set up some sort of moderation system 8P
Isn't slashcode open source?
Hasn't slashdot itself been built to help minimize the impact of "bullies" fan-boys, flamers, grouchers, etc...
I think its hilarious that this question has been asked on slashdot, since its moderation system has been evolving to handle this problem for years.
I find this is true for the Actiontec more for wireless connects than connects over the wired network. Putting another wireless router on helped alot. But still have to reboot it every so often.
My Airport Express hardly ever needs a reboot however.
I was in that, I remember paying like "only" $500 dollars for a USR 14.4k modem "breaking the 9600 barrier" and switching from Hermes to 1st class the GUI bbs system (that people didn't like as much but it had arguably more functionality)
Remember everyone swapping bbs lists and knowing by heart which exchanges were what localies....
As others have said, I see Wireless taking the place of this as the internet becomes more "settled" and less like the wild west it is right now, local wireless networks will be the best way for people to be able to exchange information without direct interference. Such as the one that has cropped up in NYC and other areas.
Yea i was a future-forward dork with my tolkien's obscure reference "handle"...
Was "War Games" the movie, the gospel to alot of people back then or what, either they liked to pan it or liked to praise it, Please don't tell me the closest thing to this for the internet is that awful movie that Sandra Bullock made, "The Net" ugg.... Would it be Hackers 2? or is it that Linux Documentary?
because they know during the adult swim only the kids (and kids at heart) are watching and during daytime tv its mom and dad who they are targeting.
I like to use the cruise control but have not done any real comparisons on the mpg benefits of using a cruise control on a 5-speed manual transmission.
However, i did feel that in top gear this would hopefully be tuned to the most efficient amount of gas needed to maintain speed, but it could just be the easiest if its still vacuum based.
this company will last just until one of the things pops a leak and falls onto someones house or car or something.
What About DTS?
I would like to see DTS (lossess surround audio) become the next "music" standard after CDs
It still allows for high quality lossless stero, but where I see audio should be going is to DVD. I guess they could do DD5.1 (lossy encode) and that still isn't half bad. There have been a few DD5.1 headphones out there so portability isn't as big an argument for stero as it used to be.
Basically there are millions of players out there that can at least play that, its the logical next format. You could hope that they would go back to the masters and remix it for surround sound and studios would upgrade but for a while they will probably just run the stereo thru some signal processing and throw that on a DVD.
I already see a larger and larger "DVD-Music" section in Best Buys and Circuit-City, this way they can add videos and other things that they already are making, the audio is becoming the promotional for this mass market where before the videos would promote the album.
Of course it is protected by the mighty CSS encryption. but do they really think they are going to force everyone to buy another player? or will they phase this in by skipping the DVD format and sticking to CD as they won't have to retool until the new encryption on Blu-Ray and HD-DVD (which I heard at least one will have DTS) hits the streets.
They will always produce SOMETHING to sell to those audiophiles that give people that like to listen to music a bad name (The ones that put the brass cones under their cd players insisting it softens or deepens or blah blah). The people who probably buy SACD and its 2 Mhz sample rate. So for the people with mortal hearing, something like Flac, Ape, Applelosses (basically wav encoded lossless) would be the best format for the future because the bandwidth and capacites will rise over the future and for backward compatability or the budget minded they will be able to use compression on their older/cheaper devices.
I would say the PC won because of its open architecture allowing clones of the original IBM PC which many many business were already buying from, typerwriter/computer they both have keyboards right?)and competition to come in. Marketing and branding (Intel Inside?) came later to try to differentiate what where basically commodity parts that "just did the job" to all but "computer enthusiasts".
Now Windows is a whole nother story filled with intrigue and howling and antitrust lawsuits that get brushed under the rug with the right campaign contributions. But hey, lets face it, if the world were all macs and unix boxes only the windows people would be crying about how those operating systems don't do x,y and z.
On top of it all, you hear about these awardwinning, groundbreaking Apple ads, but I never heard of IBM and its charlie chaplin winning any. Kinda funny they chose a silent movie character when the only way to make sound of the machine was to do some funky interrrupts to the tape port.
Just for the record I have a Mac OS 9, OS X, Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, and a 2 Win boxes (one is for gaming)
I'd say that having the ability to run all these boxes and have them talk to eachother in useful ways means that competion is good.
And to the parent, as long as people are in the equation, so will popularity and the methodoligy of manipulating it.
So.
To bring all this back on topic, essential some computer in spain is deciding what everyone in the work listens to? How wrong does this sound? What's it run on?
Hmmmm, what happens now when someone uses one of these new subscription services music services we all hate so much rent some o that 3.5M songs so they can do their own statistical analysis service that works in realtime or cheaply so you can play a hit while you jam!
Even better you could use a genetic algorithm that
creates a bot that can write hits. Then you don't have to worry about that pesky "artist" stealing all your composer royalties cause they won't have to take songs written by humans anymore, they will just be playing them.
Sounds bleak, hope I'm wrong.
I'd like to know how you get paid for pointing out the obvious, where can I get that job? Is that why blogging is so popular?
The library system is probabaly one of the MPAA's biggest customers, wonder how much they charge THEM for a DVD? Its only the taxpayers money anyway....
I guess its the bird in the hand worth two in the bush in this case (ie overcharge govt institution vs snag more potential buyers who would probably only rent if no libary option existed)
What about designer pets then? How about a clone of the white house dog or cat? How about Movie animals, how much would someone pay for Benji or Milo or Otis? They could crank 'em out couldn't they?
Don't IBM use Linux Now?
its called float, but with interest rates down its pretty mimiamal but this way they can send you the cash when its convient for them, and not at time of sale. I have had bad experinces with the rebates but I have also saved alot of money. What I hate the worst are the bait and switch tacticts they often use, have very few of the item and then if you try to get a "rain check" you find the rebates (often multiple now) don't fit some critera such as purchase date. I did suscessfully do this at Circuit City once however getting a 52x Lite-on CD burner for 15 dollars, it took about 2 months to get. I don't know witch is a worse offender for the bait and switch CompUSA or Bestbuy, to me they tie for the worst of 'em.
I think this "solution" for "firewalling" documents is mainly for places that can (or think they can) secure access to an area (with the usual cameras, metal detectors, body searches, and so on) so you can't carry in some sort of electronic copy device (above mentioned cameras, scanners ,etc)
They also search you going OUT.
Now far be it from them stopping you from taking ANY work home to do on your own time, so this way they can just do a scan of your stack of "work" and verify that no classified documents are therein, and this is also a FAST thing, so that when 5 'oclock rolls around you don't have riots when people are leaving.
I think its a pipedream tho, sounds more like some great solution that they use to string along controlfreak corp-espionage and intel types so they pour millions in funds that aren't even officially budgeted in developing it and of course the people who are working on it have a great job.
I'm sure they have no end of great ideas couched in this scenerio because these are the people who are willing to spend money on this. Security managers probably make little gigglings noises, or excessive drooling when they get pitched stuff like this, when they are told that they could link every document to a person and therefore be able to LITERALLY follow the "paper trail" around to see who has come in contact with said paper. (use timecode from scanner to sync to timecode on camaras covering area and you could get a dozen snapshots or short clips showing a little storyline with everyplace the document was scanned. (i hear over doorways is what they are doing in warehouses)
Of course then there is the guy who is making a pouch for the EZ-pass that I hear uses RFID that is supposed to block it or make it transparent to scanners. Course then they will have scanners for what the pouches are made of etc. Either way the companies making these products will be happy to make new products to escalate the RFID arms race.
It concerns me that anyone interested in maintaining their privacy has to keep up this constant battle, facing stern legalse warning you not to provide the supermarket false information about where you live,etc. Instead they make it easy to give in, to just let it happen because of course why should you care if you have nothing to hide, essentially branding you a "criminal " or a "kook" if you do try to maintain your privacy.
http://www.free-project.org/
I think this is what you are talking about?
SO where is the PNG equivelent for FAT? When Unisys pulled this crap with GIF alot of places went with PNG.
wouldn't be simple enough to create a new filesystem for embedded devices and just swap it out gradually like they did with GIF?
forget it, they will never make a movie of the Silmarillion, I love tolkien and I never got thru more than 1/2 of it, I kept falling asleep! As audiences all over would do if they try to make this a movie, its a mythos, at best they would rape it by elarborating on one or two of the above stories mentioned and interweave the LoTR stuff for the tie in, everyone would be outraged and everyone would still be bored it would be a flop. (btw i couldn't even more than just skim 'em so that doesn't bode well)
Hobbit however is another story they could do this really great. The animated one was ok, but Jackson's done these so well so far I wouldn't mind seeing it done that way.