Some of us would prefer not to infringe copyrights. There's no way that that behavior can be considered fair use. How about a middle ground, where the studios sell us non-crippled products, consumers only make copies we are entitled to make by a reasonable definition of fair use, and everybody lives happily ever after?
Modern display technologies like LCD, DLP, LCoS, and the like don't have scan lines like a CRT, so they are by definition 'progressive'. When they are fed an interlaced input, they have to de-interlace it. Depending on the quality of their deinterlacing algorithms, this may produce inferior picture quality to feeding them a progressive input in the first place. If these displays say 1080p, they are capable of displaying 1080p. In theory 1080p60 should be do-able given the source material and enough bandwidth (I don't think HDMI has it).
Now, a CRT display is either going to interlace, or it's not. Hopefully there are no manufacturers labelling their CRT as 1080p if it really can't scan 1080 lines progressively within the time of one frame. There are very few CRTs capable of 1080p60 being sold as HDTV monitors (and they go for big bucks - typically in projectors), but almost any CRT computer monitor you buy today is capable of handling the task - many will do 1600x1200p60, of course they only accept analog inputs.
That said, I don't think many folks are asking for 1080p60 from their displays, they just don't want interlacing if they can avoid it. So, we'll be happy for the HD sources to give us 1080p24/30. If the CRTs can't handle it, let them eat cake... I mean, let them interlace it. Just don't saddle a nice 21st century LCD display with artifacts left over from the 1930s.
Oh, wow! ONE movie I or my wife give a rat's ass about (Apollo 13) and I already have that on DVD. That, and my TOSHIBA HDTV only has component inputs. I don't guess they'll be getting 5 of my Franklins.
I wonder how long it'll be before some Chinese or Korean manufacturer bucks the system and makes HD-DVD or Blu-Ray players with component video outputs? Oh, and how long before there's some worthwhile content?
In related news... after Gillette released the Mach 3 razor, the quality of replacement blades for their older razors went down. I don't think it is a conspiracy to sell the new stuff, that's just a fortunate side effect (from Gillette's perspective). It's really because they quit investing in upkeep to the production lines for the old stuff.
Is it possible for a rock to exist that is too big for our hypothetical omnipotent God to lift? Obviously not... no matter what a rock's mass is, He can lift it. Since the proposed rock is logically unable to exist, God cannot create it. This is not a limitation on God's power... He can still create any size rock He wants. And then He can lift it.
More to the point: Can God create a circle which is wider than it is tall?
Outside of bootlegs, we will never see Greedo shoot first on DVD, or E.T. chased by gun toting F.B.I. agents. They will be stuck on a crappy medium (VHS) until those tapes stop working.
I don't know about E.T., but the original Star Wars trilogy is also available on Laserdisc. It's pretty close to DVD quality; one big downside is that the Laserdisc isn't anamorphic so you lose 1/3 of the vertical resolution to letterboxing. It's still a heck of a lot better than VHS. I wonder if Star Wars was ever released on Beta?
Windows 3.1? I had a P-Pro 200 machine running Windows NT 4.0 and it was a speed demon. I'd at least use Win 95 with any Pentium... you'd have to stick me with a 486 before I'd feel the need to go all retro on Windows 3.1 (and deal with DOS memory management - what fun).
I wonder, does the lack of Beatles songs on iTMS have anything to do with the legal battles between Apple Computer and Apple Records? Seems logical....
Oh, and you don't have to give your credit card to shady Russians, they take Paypal. Which means you can give your credit card to shady Americans instead.
Pretend for a moment I'm Joe Sixpack. Why do I care whether it's a technology issue or a legal issue? All I know is something doesn't work out of the box, and it worked on Windows. I immediately lose some of my confidence in this new Linux thing.
The specs never state it, because most of the players can't do it. They only expect to read MP3 files off an ISO9660 formatted CD-R(W). Put in a DVD, and it's just going to start looking for.IFO and.VOB files in VIDEO_TS.
Stupid, yeah, but who ever said consumer electronics companies made products that make sense?
I think it's pretty obvious that you don't design a building to withstand something like what happened on 9/11/01. You pray (or hope, if your belief system doesn't include deities) that it never happens, and design escape routes to get all the occupants the hell out if it does.
Why worry about how much a plane full of burning jet fuel will weaken the structure? Anyone who hangs around in that building is going to die anyway. It's a miracle the towers stood as long as they did, and that the death toll wasn't much, much higher.
No shit. Talk about finally getting a chance to get away from it all. And, when you do get stuck on the phone with your mother, the several minute propagation delay means she won't notice the awkward pauses as you try to explain why you haven't called lately.
There's analog stereo audio too. Well, on most LD releases. If there's a Dolby Digital track, it takes up the space of the right(?) channel and the analog soundtrack is reduced to mono.
On the bright side, no MPEG compression artifacts!
No, OO.org is the bottleneck. Even the hideously bloated Word 2003 takes less than five seconds from clicking the icon in the Start menu to being ready to type. And my computer is not state-of-the-art... my disk is a relatively modest Maxtor 30GB ATA-66 drive.
Besides, it takes less time to think "Open Word" than "Open OpenOffice.org"!:)
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Some of us would prefer not to infringe copyrights. There's no way that that behavior can be considered fair use. How about a middle ground, where the studios sell us non-crippled products, consumers only make copies we are entitled to make by a reasonable definition of fair use, and everybody lives happily ever after?
Oh, and my second wish is for world peace.
Modern display technologies like LCD, DLP, LCoS, and the like don't have scan lines like a CRT, so they are by definition 'progressive'. When they are fed an interlaced input, they have to de-interlace it. Depending on the quality of their deinterlacing algorithms, this may produce inferior picture quality to feeding them a progressive input in the first place. If these displays say 1080p, they are capable of displaying 1080p. In theory 1080p60 should be do-able given the source material and enough bandwidth (I don't think HDMI has it).
Now, a CRT display is either going to interlace, or it's not. Hopefully there are no manufacturers labelling their CRT as 1080p if it really can't scan 1080 lines progressively within the time of one frame. There are very few CRTs capable of 1080p60 being sold as HDTV monitors (and they go for big bucks - typically in projectors), but almost any CRT computer monitor you buy today is capable of handling the task - many will do 1600x1200p60, of course they only accept analog inputs.
That said, I don't think many folks are asking for 1080p60 from their displays, they just don't want interlacing if they can avoid it. So, we'll be happy for the HD sources to give us 1080p24/30. If the CRTs can't handle it, let them eat cake... I mean, let them interlace it. Just don't saddle a nice 21st century LCD display with artifacts left over from the 1930s.
Oh, wow! ONE movie I or my wife give a rat's ass about (Apollo 13) and I already have that on DVD. That, and my TOSHIBA HDTV only has component inputs. I don't guess they'll be getting 5 of my Franklins.
I wonder how long it'll be before some Chinese or Korean manufacturer bucks the system and makes HD-DVD or Blu-Ray players with component video outputs? Oh, and how long before there's some worthwhile content?
In related news... after Gillette released the Mach 3 razor, the quality of replacement blades for their older razors went down. I don't think it is a conspiracy to sell the new stuff, that's just a fortunate side effect (from Gillette's perspective). It's really because they quit investing in upkeep to the production lines for the old stuff.
I was going to say the same thing, but you beat me to it while I was laughing at the comment above about avian flu vaccine.
Is it possible for a rock to exist that is too big for our hypothetical omnipotent God to lift? Obviously not... no matter what a rock's mass is, He can lift it. Since the proposed rock is logically unable to exist, God cannot create it. This is not a limitation on God's power... He can still create any size rock He wants. And then He can lift it.
More to the point: Can God create a circle which is wider than it is tall?
I've used Chase's site with Firefox and Safari (and, last time I had a Linux desktop box, Konqueror). Never had any major problems.
Outside of bootlegs, we will never see Greedo shoot first on DVD, or E.T. chased by gun toting F.B.I. agents. They will be stuck on a crappy medium (VHS) until those tapes stop working.
I don't know about E.T., but the original Star Wars trilogy is also available on Laserdisc. It's pretty close to DVD quality; one big downside is that the Laserdisc isn't anamorphic so you lose 1/3 of the vertical resolution to letterboxing. It's still a heck of a lot better than VHS. I wonder if Star Wars was ever released on Beta?
Windows 3.1? I had a P-Pro 200 machine running Windows NT 4.0 and it was a speed demon. I'd at least use Win 95 with any Pentium... you'd have to stick me with a 486 before I'd feel the need to go all retro on Windows 3.1 (and deal with DOS memory management - what fun).
But... the Greeks don't want no freaks.
But diesels stink. Unless they're running biodiesel, then they smell like french fries. Mmmm....
Umm, you forgot step 0. Find a store that sells ipods that doesn't keep them in a locked cabinet.
Canadians, we're obsessed with the weather.
Why do you need an app on your computer to tell you the weather? Wouldn't a static text box saying "It's cold!" be sufficient?
I wonder, does the lack of Beatles songs on iTMS have anything to do with the legal battles between Apple Computer and Apple Records? Seems logical....
Oh, and you don't have to give your credit card to shady Russians, they take Paypal. Which means you can give your credit card to shady Americans instead.
So, let's see... You could run Mac OSX in Cherry OS (or PearPC) in VirtualPC on your Mac. How slow would that be?
Don't confuse technology with legal issues.
Pretend for a moment I'm Joe Sixpack. Why do I care whether it's a technology issue or a legal issue? All I know is something doesn't work out of the box, and it worked on Windows. I immediately lose some of my confidence in this new Linux thing.
The specs never state it, because most of the players can't do it. They only expect to read MP3 files off an ISO9660 formatted CD-R(W). Put in a DVD, and it's just going to start looking for .IFO and .VOB files in VIDEO_TS.
Stupid, yeah, but who ever said consumer electronics companies made products that make sense?
No, but he could hold Huygens on a line held under the dorsal guiding feathers... no, wait, I'm thinking of a Titanian swallow. Carry on, then.
I'm not a structural engineer, but...
I think it's pretty obvious that you don't design a building to withstand something like what happened on 9/11/01. You pray (or hope, if your belief system doesn't include deities) that it never happens, and design escape routes to get all the occupants the hell out if it does.
Why worry about how much a plane full of burning jet fuel will weaken the structure? Anyone who hangs around in that building is going to die anyway. It's a miracle the towers stood as long as they did, and that the death toll wasn't much, much higher.
I liked Clockwork Orange, but I agree that it's pretty weird to dis 2001 for requiring drugs and then say C.O. was different.
Now where'd I put my spoon?
No shit. Talk about finally getting a chance to get away from it all. And, when you do get stuck on the phone with your mother, the several minute propagation delay means she won't notice the awkward pauses as you try to explain why you haven't called lately.
Despite the awkward ending due to the death of Bela Lugosi, Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) is a pretty good sci fi film.
Very underappreciated.
There's not a lossless video compression standard that works on DVD, though.
There's analog stereo audio too. Well, on most LD releases. If there's a Dolby Digital track, it takes up the space of the right(?) channel and the analog soundtrack is reduced to mono.
On the bright side, no MPEG compression artifacts!
No, OO.org is the bottleneck. Even the hideously bloated Word 2003 takes less than five seconds from clicking the icon in the Start menu to being ready to type. And my computer is not state-of-the-art... my disk is a relatively modest Maxtor 30GB ATA-66 drive.
:)
Besides, it takes less time to think "Open Word" than "Open OpenOffice.org"!