Opinion, not fact. A well encoded DD track will blast away a DTS track. It ALL depends upon the encoding process. A blanket one is better than the other is so far from the truth. Tech specs it might be, but in real life application neither one is always better than the other.
You will still have second discs etc. You'll be able to fit so much more data on a disc, but at the same time the hidef presentation of the movie will take up so much more space. The number of discs used will be about the same as it is now.
Which is why the fine print says they aren't responsible for pricing mistakes.
And yes I do expect the average customer when shopping for an item that runs 300, 400, or more normally to realize that its too good to be true when the price is so low that its crazy.
The people that bought it knew very well that it was too good to be true and when it turned out that it was they bitch about it. Everyone wants a free ride (or close to it) and when they realize that they actually have to pay for something they complain and call it not fair.
This is not bait and switch. Everytime someone gets "screwed" by a company it is not bait and switch. This is just them saying that the deal is no more and never should have been.
They are stating that if you don't like it, return it. They aren't advertising a lower priced item and then when you call try and sell you a higher priced one. They are telling you flat out what it doesn't include. What happened previously was a pricing mistake yet people still feel they are being screwed when they aren't. Its just a bunch of cheap-ass fatwallet people who feel that if they have to pay more than $5 for it then they should sue the company.
The people who are so "worried" about this are the same people that are freaking out about rfid tags. Like I care if someone knows what kind of jeans I wear or what city I'm in. I could care less if someone knows if I'm home or not. People freak out before it becomes mainstream and then when it does they get all silent because they realize how much NOT a big deal it really is.
This is common in every single movie out there. Especially musical scores. The trailers are done way in advance, many times before the score is finished so they either use a score from some other well known movie or just some filler music.
Exactly. Philips is just another low-buck thin display. You get what you pay for, in this case substandard if you buy the philips, but hey its cheap, right? Some people go with the cheapest they can get. People that really care about what they are looking at will spend the extra money to get the best.
I haven't personally seen it, I just read some postings on it, but it sounds just like that. There were screen shots taken with a digital camera. It looked like burn in but would fade after awhile. It might not be a problem anymore and might have just been related to it being brand new technology at the time.
LCoS doesn't have any burn-in problems. There was talk awhile ago about a type of "memory" problem that would fade but it wasn't a permanent burn in. I don't know if that was just a software problem or a hardware problem or if it even exists anymore.
The biggest problem with the big tv's is burn in. That is permanent. Viewing angle is not that big of a deal these days. Accurate colors and dark blacks is a problem, but that can be solved by getting the box calibrated correctly.
"several American start-up companies have already begun offering liquid crystal on silicon, or LCoS, components and televisions."
Toshiba has had an LCoS TV out for quite awhile now. I believe Mitsubishi also has one out. They are super expensive though. Native 1080p resolution and really thin though.
Why are they trying to go after the spammers and not the companies that have the products advertised by the spammers. Basically spam is just email advertisements. If a company uses that as a method then that company should be put out of business or fined heavily. As soon as the customers disappear then the spam will disappear.
Quicktime is available for all platforms that matter.
Oh wait, it won't play on my cell phone or my gameboy either...what about those formats? After all, people who love movies don't only use OS's that are niche products but also have cell phones.
That someone hit the bathroom at 12:30pm and then again at 3:30pm. They also exited the room for a smoke break after their bathroom break. Oh and don't forget the super secret buying of a Snickers bar at 3:35pm.
Nothing like replying to your own. Another thing that annoyed me was the total lack of interaction with your environment. If you are in the rally courses and you slide off the course you shouldn't just bounce off those flimsy orange fence posts...you should go through it and take it down and have to get back on course. If you hit a tree it should flip you.
The absolute worst part is the whole no vehicle damage thing. The best thing in the past games was to use the other cars to push your car around the other cars to win races. May not get you the fastest times but it did make it easy to beat other players and the cpu players.
And all I've seen with the WinXP thing is people using Win 2000 which is just as good. Most of the people who use WinXP got it with new computers. I don't know a single person that went out and bought a copy of XP. They are all still using 2000.
"But come clean, you haven't purchased a game since 1998. Be honest."
Actually your wrong, last game I bought was Call of Duty. Nice theory but your wrong. Make a good game and don't use stupid protection mechanisms that impact legit users and people will buy your stuff. Treat all users like they are criminals and people won't buy them. Its as simple as that. But you obviously are like the game developers...you just don't get it.
Of companies that I will NEVER buy a game that they make, but I will do all that I can to download them if they look interesting. They will never get money from me again.
"The idea that slashdot is just a linking system is false in its approach, as it also is a commenting and journalling system that allow for more exploration of the topics than the original article itself."
Based on the "quality" of the exploration of the topics I'd say its not doing a very good job and has "jumped the shark".
It used to be useful but now its turned into a place to waste time.
But thats just my opinion. I tend to want to pay for things that have some value. Web sites that provide news links and a forum that shows how out of touch with reality some people are does not provide any value to me.
All slashdot is is a linking system to other sites. Using ones brain they can get the exact same content in about the same amount of time through various sites combined. Just like fark, its all out there and easy to find so why pay for it?
Even if you ignore the time it takes to download a movie, I don't know anyone who wants to sit in front of their computer screen for 2 hours to watch a movie and there are very few people who have the hardware to play the movie on their tv's. Its not anywhere close to being there yet, check back in 10 years and we'll see where everything is at then.
"People don't just get up and say "I hate Sony!" and then start spreading stories that their machine broke down."
Actually they do. The same as people get up and say they hate microsoft or any other big company. They'll hear about a few folks or even a thousand folks having a problem with a device that sold 10s of millions and assume that it is a defect in the overall device instead of just bad luck in getting a broken one. I've had one since launch also and have had zero problems.
People complain much louder than they praise, its just how it works. No one logs online and says they are having zero problems with a device because they are too busy using it. But as soon as one thing breaks people will log in and be the most vocal group you have ever seen. Even if their numbers are an extremely small percentage of the total ownership.
You shouldn't ignore completely peoples complaints but you should take their complaints with an extremely small grain of sand.
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"DTS is better than DD"
Opinion, not fact. A well encoded DD track will blast away a DTS track. It ALL depends upon the encoding process. A blanket one is better than the other is so far from the truth. Tech specs it might be, but in real life application neither one is always better than the other.
You will still have second discs etc. You'll be able to fit so much more data on a disc, but at the same time the hidef presentation of the movie will take up so much more space. The number of discs used will be about the same as it is now.
Yeah just like people won't rebuy their records and tapes on cd's or just like people won't rebuy their vhs movies on dvd.
Which is why the fine print says they aren't responsible for pricing mistakes.
And yes I do expect the average customer when shopping for an item that runs 300, 400, or more normally to realize that its too good to be true when the price is so low that its crazy.
The people that bought it knew very well that it was too good to be true and when it turned out that it was they bitch about it. Everyone wants a free ride (or close to it) and when they realize that they actually have to pay for something they complain and call it not fair.
This is not bait and switch. Everytime someone gets "screwed" by a company it is not bait and switch. This is just them saying that the deal is no more and never should have been.
They are stating that if you don't like it, return it. They aren't advertising a lower priced item and then when you call try and sell you a higher priced one. They are telling you flat out what it doesn't include. What happened previously was a pricing mistake yet people still feel they are being screwed when they aren't. Its just a bunch of cheap-ass fatwallet people who feel that if they have to pay more than $5 for it then they should sue the company.
The people who are so "worried" about this are the same people that are freaking out about rfid tags. Like I care if someone knows what kind of jeans I wear or what city I'm in. I could care less if someone knows if I'm home or not. People freak out before it becomes mainstream and then when it does they get all silent because they realize how much NOT a big deal it really is.
This is common in every single movie out there. Especially musical scores. The trailers are done way in advance, many times before the score is finished so they either use a score from some other well known movie or just some filler music.
Exactly. Philips is just another low-buck thin display. You get what you pay for, in this case substandard if you buy the philips, but hey its cheap, right? Some people go with the cheapest they can get. People that really care about what they are looking at will spend the extra money to get the best.
I haven't personally seen it, I just read some postings on it, but it sounds just like that. There were screen shots taken with a digital camera. It looked like burn in but would fade after awhile. It might not be a problem anymore and might have just been related to it being brand new technology at the time.
A Phillips tv is not anywhere in the same league as a Toshiba Cinema Display tv. Its like comparing RCA to a Pioneer Elite.
LCoS doesn't have any burn-in problems. There was talk awhile ago about a type of "memory" problem that would fade but it wasn't a permanent burn in. I don't know if that was just a software problem or a hardware problem or if it even exists anymore.
The biggest problem with the big tv's is burn in. That is permanent. Viewing angle is not that big of a deal these days. Accurate colors and dark blacks is a problem, but that can be solved by getting the box calibrated correctly.
"several American start-up companies have already begun offering liquid crystal on silicon, or LCoS, components and televisions."
Toshiba has had an LCoS TV out for quite awhile now. I believe Mitsubishi also has one out. They are super expensive though. Native 1080p resolution and really thin though.
Why are they trying to go after the spammers and not the companies that have the products advertised by the spammers. Basically spam is just email advertisements. If a company uses that as a method then that company should be put out of business or fined heavily. As soon as the customers disappear then the spam will disappear.
Quicktime is available for all platforms that matter.
Oh wait, it won't play on my cell phone or my gameboy either...what about those formats? After all, people who love movies don't only use OS's that are niche products but also have cell phones.
Its just flash. Right click and select zoom.
That someone hit the bathroom at 12:30pm and then again at 3:30pm. They also exited the room for a smoke break after their bathroom break. Oh and don't forget the super secret buying of a Snickers bar at 3:35pm.
Nothing like replying to your own. Another thing that annoyed me was the total lack of interaction with your environment. If you are in the rally courses and you slide off the course you shouldn't just bounce off those flimsy orange fence posts...you should go through it and take it down and have to get back on course. If you hit a tree it should flip you.
The absolute worst part is the whole no vehicle damage thing. The best thing in the past games was to use the other cars to push your car around the other cars to win races. May not get you the fastest times but it did make it easy to beat other players and the cpu players.
And all I've seen with the WinXP thing is people using Win 2000 which is just as good. Most of the people who use WinXP got it with new computers. I don't know a single person that went out and bought a copy of XP. They are all still using 2000.
"But come clean, you haven't purchased a game since 1998. Be honest."
Actually your wrong, last game I bought was Call of Duty. Nice theory but your wrong. Make a good game and don't use stupid protection mechanisms that impact legit users and people will buy your stuff. Treat all users like they are criminals and people won't buy them. Its as simple as that. But you obviously are like the game developers...you just don't get it.
Of companies that I will NEVER buy a game that they make, but I will do all that I can to download them if they look interesting. They will never get money from me again.
"The idea that slashdot is just a linking system is false in its approach, as it also is a commenting and journalling system that allow for more exploration of the topics than the original article itself."
Based on the "quality" of the exploration of the topics I'd say its not doing a very good job and has "jumped the shark".
It used to be useful but now its turned into a place to waste time.
But thats just my opinion. I tend to want to pay for things that have some value. Web sites that provide news links and a forum that shows how out of touch with reality some people are does not provide any value to me.
All slashdot is is a linking system to other sites. Using ones brain they can get the exact same content in about the same amount of time through various sites combined. Just like fark, its all out there and easy to find so why pay for it?
Even if you ignore the time it takes to download a movie, I don't know anyone who wants to sit in front of their computer screen for 2 hours to watch a movie and there are very few people who have the hardware to play the movie on their tv's. Its not anywhere close to being there yet, check back in 10 years and we'll see where everything is at then.
"People don't just get up and say "I hate Sony!" and then start spreading stories that their machine broke down."
Actually they do. The same as people get up and say they hate microsoft or any other big company. They'll hear about a few folks or even a thousand folks having a problem with a device that sold 10s of millions and assume that it is a defect in the overall device instead of just bad luck in getting a broken one. I've had one since launch also and have had zero problems.
People complain much louder than they praise, its just how it works. No one logs online and says they are having zero problems with a device because they are too busy using it. But as soon as one thing breaks people will log in and be the most vocal group you have ever seen. Even if their numbers are an extremely small percentage of the total ownership.
You shouldn't ignore completely peoples complaints but you should take their complaints with an extremely small grain of sand.