I am sick of this FUD. Please, if you are going to post things about plasmas, at least be accurate. Of the larger plasma makers, most like Panasonic or Pioneer are currently at 60,000 hours until phosphor half-brightness, and the majority of the rest are at 30,000. 20,000 hours was right in 2002, when those stats were published, but just as in computers, things move fast. If I were to quote the state of Linux in 2002 as the current state, I am sure I'd get flamed mightily.
Sorry if I came out as mad at you, I'm not, but there was another post here which claimed 10,000 hours as the current life span, and I just want to set the record straight.
Actually, if you are willing to build your own PVR (and I can understand that some aren't), there are quite a few options for timeshifting HDTV content. Namely;
There are quite a few opinions on these cards, and if you are really interested you should be sure to check a more recent one because as the software they use changes, so does the capabilities of the cards. As always, a great resource for all of this is the AVS Forum: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/ [avsforum.com]
Never have we had a time when the government wouldn't volunrarily limit its own power when that's what the people desire.
Let's just see, the first case that pops to my head is medical marijuana. Now I don't even really care much for this issue, but it is a fact that the voters in California agreed to let it be used in this manner, and yet the Federal Govenment has come down on some people who decided to do so. You really can't have any more blatent example of the government going against the will of the people than this. I am sure if you spent even more than a minute, you could think of an incredible number of laws that were somehow passed that would not have stood a chance given a popular vote.
And of course, that's the problem with never really being able to have another revolution. So don't kid yourself, were are well on the way toward tyranny and it's really just a matter of time.
Actually it's quite easy to understand the context of not being able to turn over all of the evidence. It has nothing to do with riots if Americans themselves saw the evidence. Simply it's that in order to obtain such sensitive information, it's quite possible that you have to use undercover sources, undisclosed surveillance satellites, etc. To disclose your information is to give away your sources, which certainly would be a breach of national security. Personally I have a lot of opinions on what US world policy has been like lately, but this is one circumstance where it's quite understandable. But yes the Bill of Rights now is in tatters, and that's the greatest loss out of all of this.
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I am sick of this FUD. Please, if you are going to post things about plasmas, at least be accurate. Of the larger plasma makers, most like Panasonic or Pioneer are currently at 60,000 hours until phosphor half-brightness, and the majority of the rest are at 30,000. 20,000 hours was right in 2002, when those stats were published, but just as in computers, things move fast. If I were to quote the state of Linux in 2002 as the current state, I am sure I'd get flamed mightily.
Sorry if I came out as mad at you, I'm not, but there was another post here which claimed 10,000 hours as the current life span, and I just want to set the record straight.
BTW I do not own a plasma, I own a Sony XBR CRT.
Actually, if you are willing to build your own PVR (and I can understand that some aren't), there are quite a few options for timeshifting HDTV content. Namely;
AccessDTV: http://www.accessdtv.com/accessdtv/index.htm
Hauppauge WinTV-HD: http://www.hauppauge.com
Telemann HiPix: http://www.telemann.com/products/dtv200.html
There are quite a few opinions on these cards, and if you are really interested you should be sure to check a more recent one because as the software they use changes, so does the capabilities of the cards. As always, a great resource for all of this is the AVS Forum: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/ [avsforum.com]
If only this were true:
Never have we had a time when the government wouldn't volunrarily limit its own power when that's what the people desire.
Let's just see, the first case that pops to my head is medical marijuana. Now I don't even really care much for this issue, but it is a fact that the voters in California agreed to let it be used in this manner, and yet the Federal Govenment has come down on some people who decided to do so. You really can't have any more blatent example of the government going against the will of the people than this. I am sure if you spent even more than a minute, you could think of an incredible number of laws that were somehow passed that would not have stood a chance given a popular vote.
And of course, that's the problem with never really being able to have another revolution. So don't kid yourself, were are well on the way toward tyranny and it's really just a matter of time.
Actually it's quite easy to understand the context of not being able to turn over all of the evidence. It has nothing to do with riots if Americans themselves saw the evidence. Simply it's that in order to obtain such sensitive information, it's quite possible that you have to use undercover sources, undisclosed surveillance satellites, etc. To disclose your information is to give away your sources, which certainly would be a breach of national security. Personally I have a lot of opinions on what US world policy has been like lately, but this is one circumstance where it's quite understandable. But yes the Bill of Rights now is in tatters, and that's the greatest loss out of all of this.