IIRC, all three star wars films were remastered to hell and back in the "THX remastered version" in theatres. This was the version released a year to year and a half before the special edition. When they released the LaserDiscs they had AC-3 tracks (don't know if they did 5.1, might have been 2.0 with Pro Logic Encoding). I distinctly remember making the comment, "It looks like they filmed it yesterday" when I came out of the film at the theatre.
If the new DVDs are from that master, how hard is it to crop the bars out a bit for 16x9 and turn the anamorphic boolean on in the.IFO. OK, so if the master was actual laserdisc resolution, (or stored as the actual FM composite video signal for some reason) how hard is it to spend a couple of thousand and do a routine transfer of ANY print from the release mentioned above? Also, if it was 5.1, give me 5.1.
Non-Anamorphic is not excuseable for a 2006 release. Remember that ALL dvds were supposed to be Anamorphic from the beginning. Is was just cheaper to master a 4:3 frame with letterboxing and run the very same render to DVD and VHS, and nobody really policed anything.
I would imagine that to real Star Wars fans, ANYTHING from Lucasfilm is bittersweet. I sympathize, as Trek has long since jumped it's own shark, did their own non-anamorphic DVDs, etc. Non-anamorphic will not piss you off until you go out and buy an HDTV (or even an EDTV). A nice anamorphic DVD with a decent bitrate will look pretty damn good with an upconverting player on an HDTV.
Here in america, people are dumb. That's why there are still Full Frame or 4:3 pan and scan DVDs (a version made for all new films by popular demand!). I wouldn't really care but when there is a "Guaranteed to be there" thing at the rental store, you don't get the credit unless they are ALL out.
The new laser systems (new as in the last 5 years) have motion detection at a very high scan rate. It tracks your eye through the entire treatment, and if you move at any point, the procedure just takes longer since the machine pauses, waits for your eye to come back where it wants, and continues.
Alright, its time for those religious people to move the hell out of this country. I will personally deliver someone who believes in this horseshit to the middle east so they can live with those other religious bastards, and hopefully they'll blow each other into oblivion.
This has got to be the most backward shit I have ever seen. I am appalled that the country I live in is so goddamn embarrasing at every turn. You could literally go on for days describing all the things that are wrong and will not change. I hope that we sometime in the near future decide to change in a major way, and ALL of the politicans are sent to jail for their corruption.
Take all your dirty money, let someone graduly convert it to this PED or whatever money for you in small enough increments so authorities don't suspect anything. Let it sit in this game for a while, have them buy pieces of this fake property you created in the game via cheats, hacks etc. deposit said money in your overseas bank account. Insert worm to clear out evidence of cheats and hacks to create virtual real estate from their server logs.
A bit of a pain, but better than going to a casino, changing all your dirty money to chips, playing one game of blackjack, and then cashing you chips in for clean money. (Casinos are on to that now)
Kiss my ass -1 score 2 seconds after submittal. Tis a valid inquiry. What am I going to have to drop everything into iTunes, or buy the full quicktime that they should be giving away at this point to support more sales of their crap?
The thing is, Apple would be cool if they didn't nickel and dime you on everything $399, or whatever and they don't even give you a damn 5 cent cable to connect it to your TV. Nevermind the dock and remote, thats like expecting a second controller for a console gaming system at this point. You should get everything you need. There should also be a dev kit for plug-ins for other formats. The other thing is that they're so damn gay for several reasons.
1. Everyones got an iPod ---Gay 2. U2 is gay ---Whole lotta queer 3. No user replaceable batteries --Gay as hell 4. Undocumented problems, and cover-ups regarding defects on all products. --Rainbows over San Fran gay. 5. Seemingly untested patches and updates that seriously destroy data every so often. --Gayer than 8 guys screwing 9 guys. 6. I could go on for days.
OK now we need to start talking about a free(or reasonably priced) H.264 or MP4 (in a wrapper that apple likes) encoder that I can just set and forget and have the damn thing batch encode all my video overnight.
I think this will definately eat into Lodgenet's PPV Adult video.
There needs to be a shift in paradigm. The simple fact of the matter is that older people have paid time and time again for the same music. They bought it on LP, Cassette, CD, DTS Disc, DVD Audio etc.
Sure, something fundamentally needs to change with the record companies and their formulaic approach to building bands, instead of finding real talent out there, but that is a different argument.
The fact of the matter is, I should be able to rip my CDs, and purchase music online for whatever price, then I am on record as purchaseing/owning the right to listen to those songs. If 5 years from now songs that I have purchased already have been re-mastered from studio recordings and are now available in lossless, DTS 5-channel, MPEG-2 10 channel, whatever... I SHOULD BE ABLE TO FREELY DOWNLOAD THE NEW VERSIONS as they represent a more accurate representation of the recording I purchased the rights to hear. The money I paid was for the recording the artist laid down in the studio. If there is a new means of transmission that more faithfully reproduces the listening experience of that recording, great, give it to me. If not, when I purchase that song, give me the reel-to-reel, or DAT tape, or whatever.
This is the only thing left. You can boot from USB now etc. etc. But when installing windows, and you need to load the driver for say, your SATA controller. If windows would load USB Generic Mass Storage Support in the setup for the benefit of the F6 option that would fix that.
Most BIOS upgrades can be done in windows. However the "boot disk" ones can be adapted for USB flash drives.
Quick, he took the DVD for the in-flight movie, stipped off the Region 9 region code (the special airplane region code...Look it up), ripped it to his hard drive and is now seeding a bittorrent----We'll be ariving in atlanta in six hours......
The security level has been raised to orange as "War of the worlds" was ripped from American Airlines Flight 223......Surely the work of terrorists....
My concern is, what this does for the adoption of bluetooth for non-technically minded people. People don't look into the standard, they don't care about or understand profiles. They hear about this bluetooth thing and:
They want one to go with their new acura after seeing the commercial for the TL, they go out and pay a large amount for the new phone mid-contract, and oh.......phonebook transfers don't work.....no OBEX
They got their new mac and they would like to use the sync with their phone......nope...sorry...
They just picked up the motorola phone tools and they read that they would no longer have to connect a cord up to their phone.......nope sorry
They just got the new e815, and they wanted to do Dial up networking via bluetooth on their Powerbook so they could enjoy EVDO.......sorry
I could give a shit about ringtones and the like, but these are real features that bluetooth is there for, to make things easier. Why don't they just make a filter for the filetypes that could be used as ringtones, and leave the bluetooth profiles?!?!
Why? Apearantly Verizon thinks that the only thing bluetooth should be for is wireless headsets. Crippling has caused issues with handsfree devices, mainly that the phone have had to settle for a earlier version of the protocol stack than the latest due to needing time to cripple the stack. Oh, and update the firmware later yes...NO, cause they take away even more...
Consumers don't like this crap and theres a lot of it going around lately....
Examples:
HDMI - Cool, but why only one jack, I need a switchbox as soon as I bring the TV home?
CableCard - Sorry but Cox communications doesn't have that, and by the way, looks like we won't be getting around to activating the DVI port on the back of our external box.
Local Digitals - Sorry consumers, put up an antenna, cause we're too pussy to move to MPEG-4, and ditch the analogs.
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray - Nuff said..
Anamorphic vs. 4:3 frame letterbox - that confuses many, many people
Internet Explorer - Nuff Said...
Adware and Spyware - Why not just "Viruses". No one goes to jail currently. Not even a shooting, comeon crazys, I'll do the whois queries for you.
Portable MP3 player that plays them from DVD-R, and DVD-DL - screw a fragile hard drive....
A Universal Codec Plug-in Standard - whatever you want to play, in any device. Load the "Universal Binary" Divx, FLAC, OGG etc. codec in anything that supports the UCPS. Doesn't that just make since?
A car stereo that does both XM and Sirius, doesn't require a separate tuner box, and has 2 or three lines of text of the display.
Why isn't spyware legally treated like viruses yet anywhere in the world?
I say that we do some whois queries and walk into those offices with AK-47's and take care of the problem. Guaranteed, a few of these incidents take place, and companies will think twice about making money off of spyware and adware. You can't spend the money in hell!!!
However, its just a suggestion. Otherwise go buy a Mac....Pussy
Yeah, no cell phones, but how long do you think it will take before a businessman's companies' IT dept suggests VoIP in air. Plug a headset into a laptop or PDA w/WiFi, load your favorite VoIP clent (vonage etc.), bam - you got yourself a phone. Tech-savy consumers will also pick up on this.
Yes a "real" cell phone may not be allowed, however you will still have to deal with some prick yelling on a call.
So I call on the soon to be admins of this service. Block all ports not related to Web, e-mail, NNTP, and FTP please. At least there will be some time then before VoIP providers see the potential and create a web-based client.
Start removing commercials and reducing the amount of trailers. (Or a least start them before the "start time" so that the movie starts at the "start time") - and lower the volume on them.
Stop playing the so-called "pop" music that they want to shove down your throats before the projector starts up. (Leave it something neutral like classical music). I don't need to be reminded of the RIAA's bullshit story of file-sharing cutting into sales when its very clear what is wrong...the music sucks balls. - while I'm about to be screwed by the MPAA.
JAM CELL PHONES PLEASE! - this one is just plain obvious. Worried about an emergency? Install a goddamn "Emergency" button on the wall next to the fire alarm. If the fire alarm goes off, or the emergency button is pressed, the jammer stops. The same fine applies for falsely pressing the emergency button as pulling the fire alarm.
No babies. period. No conversational talking, period. You don't shut up and you're out - thats it, done - your name is on file - happens two more times and you are not allowed back in the theater for 2 years.
Now if I have to deal with all that bullshit in the theaters, why would I go. If I like the movie I'll still buy the DVD you dipshits.
P.S. All that bullshit and they don't even let you smoke - I think a cell phone would be more annoying than a lit cigarette?
CDMA is what the Aircards use. CDPD is no longer in use for civilians. The card is sweet as long as you keep up with the updates on Sierrawireless' site, use the new style "longer" stub antenna with the red tip or an external one available from cellantenna.com. Verizon has a new BroadbandAccess service that is slowly expanding, However I am waiting for sierrawireless' card before I upgrade mine.
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IIRC, all three star wars films were remastered to hell and back in the "THX remastered version" in theatres. This was the version released a year to year and a half before the special edition. When they released the LaserDiscs they had AC-3 tracks (don't know if they did 5.1, might have been 2.0 with Pro Logic Encoding). I distinctly remember making the comment, "It looks like they filmed it yesterday" when I came out of the film at the theatre.
.IFO. OK, so if the master was actual laserdisc resolution, (or stored as the actual FM composite video signal for some reason) how hard is it to spend a couple of thousand and do a routine transfer of ANY print from the release mentioned above? Also, if it was 5.1, give me 5.1.
If the new DVDs are from that master, how hard is it to crop the bars out a bit for 16x9 and turn the anamorphic boolean on in the
Non-Anamorphic is not excuseable for a 2006 release. Remember that ALL dvds were supposed to be Anamorphic from the beginning. Is was just cheaper to master a 4:3 frame with letterboxing and run the very same render to DVD and VHS, and nobody really policed anything.
I would imagine that to real Star Wars fans, ANYTHING from Lucasfilm is bittersweet. I sympathize, as Trek has long since jumped it's own shark, did their own non-anamorphic DVDs, etc. Non-anamorphic will not piss you off until you go out and buy an HDTV (or even an EDTV). A nice anamorphic DVD with a decent bitrate will look pretty damn good with an upconverting player on an HDTV.
Here in america, people are dumb. That's why there are still Full Frame or 4:3 pan and scan DVDs (a version made for all new films by popular demand!). I wouldn't really care but when there is a "Guaranteed to be there" thing at the rental store, you don't get the credit unless they are ALL out.
Scientists Reproduce Deja Vu in controlled environment. In other news: Applicable bugzilla entry for the Matrix status changed to "minor"
The new laser systems (new as in the last 5 years) have motion detection at a very high scan rate. It tracks your eye through the entire treatment, and if you move at any point, the procedure just takes longer since the machine pauses, waits for your eye to come back where it wants, and continues.
Alright, its time for those religious people to move the hell out of this country. I will personally deliver someone who believes in this horseshit to the middle east so they can live with those other religious bastards, and hopefully they'll blow each other into oblivion.
This has got to be the most backward shit I have ever seen. I am appalled that the country I live in is so goddamn embarrasing at every turn. You could literally go on for days describing all the things that are wrong and will not change. I hope that we sometime in the near future decide to change in a major way, and ALL of the politicans are sent to jail for their corruption.
But you still go to church. The only way to show them is to not go. I give this country 50 years max before it becomes irrelivant and falls.
Now if they can just send us a patch for exchange that fixes the AJAX in OWA to give our firefox/opera/safari/etc. users a rich expeirence!!!!
This is such a fresh dupe you can still smell the packing material of when it was posted the first time.
Who cares about the candybar form factor anyway.
It like ma bell I got da I'll Communication
Take all your dirty money, let someone graduly convert it to this PED or whatever money for you in small enough increments so authorities don't suspect anything. Let it sit in this game for a while, have them buy pieces of this fake property you created in the game via cheats, hacks etc. deposit said money in your overseas bank account. Insert worm to clear out evidence of cheats and hacks to create virtual real estate from their server logs.
A bit of a pain, but better than going to a casino, changing all your dirty money to chips, playing one game of blackjack, and then cashing you chips in for clean money. (Casinos are on to that now)
Kiss my ass -1 score 2 seconds after submittal. Tis a valid inquiry. What am I going to have to drop everything into iTunes, or buy the full quicktime that they should be giving away at this point to support more sales of their crap?
The thing is, Apple would be cool if they didn't nickel and dime you on everything $399, or whatever and they don't even give you a damn 5 cent cable to connect it to your TV. Nevermind the dock and remote, thats like expecting a second controller for a console gaming system at this point. You should get everything you need. There should also be a dev kit for plug-ins for other formats. The other thing is that they're so damn gay for several reasons.
1. Everyones got an iPod ---Gay
2. U2 is gay ---Whole lotta queer
3. No user replaceable batteries --Gay as hell
4. Undocumented problems, and cover-ups regarding defects on all products. --Rainbows over San Fran gay.
5. Seemingly untested patches and updates that seriously destroy data every so often. --Gayer than 8 guys screwing 9 guys.
6. I could go on for days.
Cage match Jobs vs. Ballmer - both on PCP
Piss on it
OK now we need to start talking about a free(or reasonably priced) H.264 or MP4 (in a wrapper that apple likes) encoder that I can just set and forget and have the damn thing batch encode all my video overnight.
I think this will definately eat into Lodgenet's PPV Adult video.
There needs to be a shift in paradigm. The simple fact of the matter is that older people have paid time and time again for the same music. They bought it on LP, Cassette, CD, DTS Disc, DVD Audio etc.
Sure, something fundamentally needs to change with the record companies and their formulaic approach to building bands, instead of finding real talent out there, but that is a different argument.
The fact of the matter is, I should be able to rip my CDs, and purchase music online for whatever price, then I am on record as purchaseing/owning the right to listen to those songs. If 5 years from now songs that I have purchased already have been re-mastered from studio recordings and are now available in lossless, DTS 5-channel, MPEG-2 10 channel, whatever... I SHOULD BE ABLE TO FREELY DOWNLOAD THE NEW VERSIONS as they represent a more accurate representation of the recording I purchased the rights to hear. The money I paid was for the recording the artist laid down in the studio. If there is a new means of transmission that more faithfully reproduces the listening experience of that recording, great, give it to me. If not, when I purchase that song, give me the reel-to-reel, or DAT tape, or whatever.
How come no one has ever brought this up?
If they got rid of the 1.25 and made the 1.42 across the board, and...
If they included the wireless keyboard and mouse, and...
made the upgrade to 1GB ram $99 or less...
Add 5400 and 7200 rpm drives to the mix.
Price differential to then be determined by HD space/rpm, presence of superdrive and top end having 1GB ram.
I'm sure the women is only in control of the functions the man has showed them how to use(several times)....
Look honey....it just won't record "Not without my daughter part 6: Afganistan" because the title is too long.....honest....
This is the only thing left. You can boot from USB now etc. etc. But when installing windows, and you need to load the driver for say, your SATA controller. If windows would load USB Generic Mass Storage Support in the setup for the benefit of the F6 option that would fix that.
Most BIOS upgrades can be done in windows. However the "boot disk" ones can be adapted for USB flash drives.
Quick, he took the DVD for the in-flight movie, stipped off the Region 9 region code (the special airplane region code...Look it up), ripped it to his hard drive and is now seeding a bittorrent----We'll be ariving in atlanta in six hours......
The security level has been raised to orange as "War of the worlds" was ripped from American Airlines Flight 223......Surely the work of terrorists....
Try right clicking the shortcut, hit properties, then in the target line add the following to the end: /Prefetch:1
/Prefetch:1
ex.
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe"
Should speed it right up
My concern is, what this does for the adoption of bluetooth for non-technically minded people. People don't look into the standard, they don't care about or understand profiles. They hear about this bluetooth thing and:
They want one to go with their new acura after seeing the commercial for the TL, they go out and pay a large amount for the new phone mid-contract, and oh.......phonebook transfers don't work.....no OBEX
They got their new mac and they would like to use the sync with their phone......nope...sorry...
They just picked up the motorola phone tools and they read that they would no longer have to connect a cord up to their phone.......nope sorry
They just got the new e815, and they wanted to do Dial up networking via bluetooth on their Powerbook so they could enjoy EVDO.......sorry
I could give a shit about ringtones and the like, but these are real features that bluetooth is there for, to make things easier. Why don't they just make a filter for the filetypes that could be used as ringtones, and leave the bluetooth profiles?!?!
Why? Apearantly Verizon thinks that the only thing bluetooth should be for is wireless headsets. Crippling has caused issues with handsfree devices, mainly that the phone have had to settle for a earlier version of the protocol stack than the latest due to needing time to cripple the stack. Oh, and update the firmware later yes...NO, cause they take away even more...
Consumers don't like this crap and theres a lot of it going around lately....
Examples:
HDMI - Cool, but why only one jack, I need a switchbox as soon as I bring the TV home?
CableCard - Sorry but Cox communications doesn't have that, and by the way, looks like we won't be getting around to activating the DVI port on the back of our external box.
Local Digitals - Sorry consumers, put up an antenna, cause we're too pussy to move to MPEG-4, and ditch the analogs.
HD-DVD vs. Blu-Ray - Nuff said..
Anamorphic vs. 4:3 frame letterbox - that confuses many, many people
Internet Explorer - Nuff Said...
Adware and Spyware - Why not just "Viruses". No one goes to jail currently. Not even a shooting, comeon crazys, I'll do the whois queries for you.
Portable MP3 player that plays them from DVD-R, and DVD-DL - screw a fragile hard drive....
A Universal Codec Plug-in Standard - whatever you want to play, in any device. Load the "Universal Binary" Divx, FLAC, OGG etc. codec in anything that supports the UCPS. Doesn't that just make since?
A car stereo that does both XM and Sirius, doesn't require a separate tuner box, and has 2 or three lines of text of the display.
A lot of half-baked shit out there.........
Shouldn't they be talking to AMD?
He who controls the spice, controls the universe...
We just need to get Mau'dib to whip us up some rain to wash away the sand....
Create an account then, under preferences you can check what stories you don't want to hear about.
Why isn't spyware legally treated like viruses yet anywhere in the world?
I say that we do some whois queries and walk into those offices with AK-47's and take care of the problem. Guaranteed, a few of these incidents take place, and companies will think twice about making money off of spyware and adware. You can't spend the money in hell!!!
However, its just a suggestion. Otherwise go buy a Mac....Pussy
hahahahaha
Yeah, no cell phones, but how long do you think it will take before a businessman's companies' IT dept suggests VoIP in air. Plug a headset into a laptop or PDA w/WiFi, load your favorite VoIP clent (vonage etc.), bam - you got yourself a phone. Tech-savy consumers will also pick up on this.
Yes a "real" cell phone may not be allowed, however you will still have to deal with some prick yelling on a call.
So I call on the soon to be admins of this service. Block all ports not related to Web, e-mail, NNTP, and FTP please. At least there will be some time then before VoIP providers see the potential and create a web-based client.
Respect me and I will respect you MPAA.
They need to do the following:
Start removing commercials and reducing the amount of trailers. (Or a least start them before the "start time" so that the movie starts at the "start time") - and lower the volume on them.
Stop playing the so-called "pop" music that they want to shove down your throats before the projector starts up. (Leave it something neutral like classical music). I don't need to be reminded of the RIAA's bullshit story of file-sharing cutting into sales when its very clear what is wrong...the music sucks balls. - while I'm about to be screwed by the MPAA.
JAM CELL PHONES PLEASE! - this one is just plain obvious. Worried about an emergency? Install a goddamn "Emergency" button on the wall next to the fire alarm. If the fire alarm goes off, or the emergency button is pressed, the jammer stops. The same fine applies for falsely pressing the emergency button as pulling the fire alarm.
No babies. period. No conversational talking, period. You don't shut up and you're out - thats it, done - your name is on file - happens two more times and you are not allowed back in the theater for 2 years.
Now if I have to deal with all that bullshit in the theaters, why would I go. If I like the movie I'll still buy the DVD you dipshits.
P.S. All that bullshit and they don't even let you smoke - I think a cell phone would be more annoying than a lit cigarette?
CDMA is what the Aircards use. CDPD is no longer in use for civilians. The card is sweet as long as you keep up with the updates on Sierrawireless' site, use the new style "longer" stub antenna with the red tip or an external one available from cellantenna.com. Verizon has a new BroadbandAccess service that is slowly expanding, However I am waiting for sierrawireless' card before I upgrade mine.