Minidisc was far from a failure overseas, beta is used in tv production, DAT is still used heavily, and memory stick devices are all over the place.
Are there other formats that are better? Sure their are but the examples you gave are not examples of completely failed products.
As far as blu-ray titles its supporters are:
Apple, Dell, HP, Hitachi, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Phillips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK, Thompson, Fox, Disney, Warner, MGM, Vivendi Games, EA, Lions Gate, and I'm sure I missed some. Content is not going to be a problem with either format and its way too early to tell which side is going to win. If dual format drives come out at a good price it might not really matter.
42" is EXTREMELY small and some would convincingly argue that it is too small to notice any difference between 1080p and 1080i on a screen that small. There is a reason the bigger manufacturers don't make 1080p screens that small.
You are forgetting about the 20 gazillion playstation 3's that are going to be sold with blu-ray drives in them. Once the PS3 is released it will overnight generate more blu-ray drives into people's homes than HD-DVD drives have since today.
Every dell desktop machine (and laptop) I've seen has come with the rescue cd and then all the other crap. I've never seen a MS XP install cd in a dell box. From looking on their website you have to pay extra to get a ms reinstall cd. Its only 8 bucks, but still, you are already paying for the OS and cd's cost pennies.
If you are buying a machine from any of these guys and it comes with xp installed you should get the full xp install cd's. There is no reason if I buy a pc from dell that I can't get the xp install cds in the box. Either give me the cd's or let me spec the same exact machine without an os installed.
Sorry Nintendo, if you aren't going to support at least 720p its going to be very hard for me to buy this. Old school low res games just aren't going to look their best on large screen hidef tv's.
Uhhh, you realize the reason for your no calculator rule that you encountered was because they wanted you to learn HOW to do it, not just how to press buttons. Students by the time they get to college should already know how to read and write, so there is no reason to force them to use particular instruments to do so.
Is it such an unreasonable request that Slashdot articles NOT be dumbed down for those too lazy to type www.google.com into their web browser and find the answer to something they don't understand?
The show in question frequently deals with violent crimes or crimes of a sexual nature. The show is about missing people and a group of FBI agents who find them. This is not a show for kids. It was never meant to be a show for kids and it appears in a late timeslot and gets the appropriate rating.
"Is it too much to ask that broadcast television be decent? Why do we have to hold our media to such low standards?"
Is it too much to ask that if people don't like the show or what it is displaying that they change the channel instead of instantly running to the FCC and whining about what they just saw just in case it might 'hurt' someone else. Why do we have to expect our media to provide programming for the lowest common denominator.
Broadcast tv that air's at 9pm central 10pm eastern. Broadcast tv that carries the correct ratings for that show and episode. Its always been acceptible that shows that air later in the night tend to be more adult oriented than those at the earlier timeslots.
I agree, but piratebay does not distribute any intellectual property at all. All they do is provide torrent files. Which as we all know is not anyones property. They are a search engine. Go ahead and type in a name of a recent cd or game into google followed by the word "torrent". You will have exactly the same outcome and going to pirate bay and entering the same name ofthe cd or game in their search box.
Then when one external drive is filled you need another case and more cable for a 2nd. Then a 3rd, then a 4th, etc. Until you have a stack of drives, cables up the wazoo and more noise and heat than anything else in the room drowning out the tv. Or, you put it all up in a central location in a completely different room in the house. Want to add more drives? Just put them in the case already there and you are ready to go. No extra cases, minimal wiring and everything is ready to use. My house already has cat5e wiring throughout. It is a trivial matter (in fact its already done) to have a linux server sitting up in the computer room to serve all the data to whatever device I want to put on the network. This is the ideal configuration.
Thats a bummer. There are media devices out now (and more coming really soon) that allow streaming of iso images of dvd's across a network. But their interfaces are nothing but file based. Rippping to TS folders is an option but I want to avoid that option. Apple has the interface but the other companies have the better functionality.
"Why wouldn't you add an external disk to the mini?"
Because I don't want to have a collection of external hard drives sitting down next to my tv generating more noise and heat and looking down right ugly. So, no. That wouldn't be easier.
So in order to stream ANYTHING across the network it has to be cataloged within iTunes? Ugh...forget that.
More direct question. Rip a dvd into an ISO image, store all the ISO images on a linux box that has a samba share. Can the mini with front row (1) access this filesystem across the network and (2) play the iso image as if the dvd were in the drive with full menu and functionality through front row?
In other words can the mini EASILY act as a stand alone media device?
Why don't they have more info about frontrow? Can it play ripped dvd's? Does it play iso files? Does it support multichannel sound out of the digital out?
Is this finally what a lot of folks have been waiting for for a dvd jukebox server front end?
You can go to google and type in a name of any game and the word torrent to get a link to the torrent file. So why isn't the MPAA going after google? Oh wait, google probably has more money than they do and would fight back and win instead of rolling over and playing dead.
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Here's another idea. Mind your own business and stop trying to tell people what is fun and what isn't.
You have your idea of a good time, others have their own ideas. What makes this world great is that everyones ideas are different. So how about you enjoy yours and I'll enjoy mine and we won't try to tell each other that they are "wrong".
You honestly believe that by the time halo 2 pc ships 70% will have vista? You're smoking something fierce. The majority of folks stay one OS level behind the latest. I refused to go to XP until I bought a new machine and I even had a developer cheap version already sitting at home that I refuse to install. I had the hardware for it but there was no need to go there. When Vista comes out the only people who have it initially are the retards who think they HAVE to get the latest, and those people who buy new dells that it ships on. Everyone else will sit and wait.
Halo 1 didn't have very large system demands, halo 2 was released for the same hardware as 1 and should easily run on current winxp and 2000 systems.
"Hell, if you look at a lot of today's games, they can't be run on legacy OSes like Win98 and ME (heaven forbid). Because gamers don't use them!"
There are alot more things wrong with old windows OS's besides gamers not using them.
Halo being an xbox only sold a ton of xbox hardware. Halo 2 will NOT be able to move OS sales like it can consoles. Its not going to happen.
The problem is that no one know how well the PS3 will play blue-ray movies. If the quality of the PS2 to play dvd's is any indication a lot of folks are going to be disappointed.
Microsoft will learn very quickly that they can't treat PC gamers like console gamers. Its a completely different world. There is no such thing as an exclusive release on the pc side. No other game developer will make a game that only runs on Vista and risk alienating the entire community.
So nintendo has proved time and again that they can shrink hardware smaller and smaller and release new versions that aren't any different than previous versions. Ok, ooo, wow, we get it. How about something amazing that will make people go WOW I GOTTA GET THAT?
Hate to burst your bubble but you realize THX is not an encoding process but a list of specifications on volume and speaker location. Did you spend the time to adjust all your speakers and sound levels and room dampening to match the THX spec? If not then you aren't listening to anything in "glorious 7.1 THX certified sound". And there aren't even any dvd's that are in 7.1 sound so basically your sound card is guessing to fill in the extra channels. Nothing really to be bragging about.
I would of expected only the lazyiest of slashdotter to not have researched what equipment they actually own.
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Minidisc was far from a failure overseas, beta is used in tv production, DAT is still used heavily, and memory stick devices are all over the place.
Are there other formats that are better? Sure their are but the examples you gave are not examples of completely failed products.
As far as blu-ray titles its supporters are:
Apple, Dell, HP, Hitachi, LG, Mitsubishi, Panasonic, Pioneer, Phillips, Samsung, Sharp, Sony, TDK, Thompson, Fox, Disney, Warner, MGM, Vivendi Games, EA, Lions Gate, and I'm sure I missed some. Content is not going to be a problem with either format and its way too early to tell which side is going to win. If dual format drives come out at a good price it might not really matter.
42" is EXTREMELY small and some would convincingly argue that it is too small to notice any difference between 1080p and 1080i on a screen that small. There is a reason the bigger manufacturers don't make 1080p screens that small.
You are forgetting about the 20 gazillion playstation 3's that are going to be sold with blu-ray drives in them. Once the PS3 is released it will overnight generate more blu-ray drives into people's homes than HD-DVD drives have since today.
Every dell desktop machine (and laptop) I've seen has come with the rescue cd and then all the other crap. I've never seen a MS XP install cd in a dell box. From looking on their website you have to pay extra to get a ms reinstall cd. Its only 8 bucks, but still, you are already paying for the OS and cd's cost pennies.
If you are buying a machine from any of these guys and it comes with xp installed you should get the full xp install cd's. There is no reason if I buy a pc from dell that I can't get the xp install cds in the box. Either give me the cd's or let me spec the same exact machine without an os installed.
Sorry Nintendo, if you aren't going to support at least 720p its going to be very hard for me to buy this. Old school low res games just aren't going to look their best on large screen hidef tv's.
Uhhh, you realize the reason for your no calculator rule that you encountered was because they wanted you to learn HOW to do it, not just how to press buttons. Students by the time they get to college should already know how to read and write, so there is no reason to force them to use particular instruments to do so.
Is it such an unreasonable request that Slashdot articles NOT be dumbed down for those too lazy to type www.google.com into their web browser and find the answer to something they don't understand?
e =off&q=Nvidia+SLI&btnG=Search
Here, I'll even help you:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=lang_en&saf
First link that gets returned.
The show in question frequently deals with violent crimes or crimes of a sexual nature. The show is about missing people and a group of FBI agents who find them. This is not a show for kids. It was never meant to be a show for kids and it appears in a late timeslot and gets the appropriate rating.
"Is it too much to ask that broadcast television be decent? Why do we have to hold our media to such low standards?"
Is it too much to ask that if people don't like the show or what it is displaying that they change the channel instead of instantly running to the FCC and whining about what they just saw just in case it might 'hurt' someone else. Why do we have to expect our media to provide programming for the lowest common denominator.
Broadcast tv that air's at 9pm central 10pm eastern. Broadcast tv that carries the correct ratings for that show and episode. Its always been acceptible that shows that air later in the night tend to be more adult oriented than those at the earlier timeslots.
I agree, but piratebay does not distribute any intellectual property at all. All they do is provide torrent files. Which as we all know is not anyones property. They are a search engine. Go ahead and type in a name of a recent cd or game into google followed by the word "torrent". You will have exactly the same outcome and going to pirate bay and entering the same name ofthe cd or game in their search box.
Then when one external drive is filled you need another case and more cable for a 2nd. Then a 3rd, then a 4th, etc. Until you have a stack of drives, cables up the wazoo and more noise and heat than anything else in the room drowning out the tv. Or, you put it all up in a central location in a completely different room in the house. Want to add more drives? Just put them in the case already there and you are ready to go. No extra cases, minimal wiring and everything is ready to use. My house already has cat5e wiring throughout. It is a trivial matter (in fact its already done) to have a linux server sitting up in the computer room to serve all the data to whatever device I want to put on the network. This is the ideal configuration.
Thats a bummer. There are media devices out now (and more coming really soon) that allow streaming of iso images of dvd's across a network. But their interfaces are nothing but file based. Rippping to TS folders is an option but I want to avoid that option. Apple has the interface but the other companies have the better functionality.
"Why wouldn't you add an external disk to the mini?"
Because I don't want to have a collection of external hard drives sitting down next to my tv generating more noise and heat and looking down right ugly. So, no. That wouldn't be easier.
So in order to stream ANYTHING across the network it has to be cataloged within iTunes? Ugh...forget that.
More direct question. Rip a dvd into an ISO image, store all the ISO images on a linux box that has a samba share. Can the mini with front row (1) access this filesystem across the network and (2) play the iso image as if the dvd were in the drive with full menu and functionality through front row?
In other words can the mini EASILY act as a stand alone media device?
Why don't they have more info about frontrow? Can it play ripped dvd's? Does it play iso files? Does it support multichannel sound out of the digital out?
Is this finally what a lot of folks have been waiting for for a dvd jukebox server front end?
Do you have HDMI inputs on your tv? If not then it effects you.
You can go to google and type in a name of any game and the word torrent to get a link to the torrent file. So why isn't the MPAA going after google? Oh wait, google probably has more money than they do and would fight back and win instead of rolling over and playing dead.
Here's another idea. Mind your own business and stop trying to tell people what is fun and what isn't.
You have your idea of a good time, others have their own ideas. What makes this world great is that everyones ideas are different. So how about you enjoy yours and I'll enjoy mine and we won't try to tell each other that they are "wrong".
You honestly believe that by the time halo 2 pc ships 70% will have vista? You're smoking something fierce. The majority of folks stay one OS level behind the latest. I refused to go to XP until I bought a new machine and I even had a developer cheap version already sitting at home that I refuse to install. I had the hardware for it but there was no need to go there. When Vista comes out the only people who have it initially are the retards who think they HAVE to get the latest, and those people who buy new dells that it ships on. Everyone else will sit and wait.
Halo 1 didn't have very large system demands, halo 2 was released for the same hardware as 1 and should easily run on current winxp and 2000 systems.
"Hell, if you look at a lot of today's games, they can't be run on legacy OSes like Win98 and ME (heaven forbid). Because gamers don't use them!"
There are alot more things wrong with old windows OS's besides gamers not using them.
Halo being an xbox only sold a ton of xbox hardware. Halo 2 will NOT be able to move OS sales like it can consoles. Its not going to happen.
The problem is that no one know how well the PS3 will play blue-ray movies. If the quality of the PS2 to play dvd's is any indication a lot of folks are going to be disappointed.
Microsoft will learn very quickly that they can't treat PC gamers like console gamers. Its a completely different world. There is no such thing as an exclusive release on the pc side. No other game developer will make a game that only runs on Vista and risk alienating the entire community.
So nintendo has proved time and again that they can shrink hardware smaller and smaller and release new versions that aren't any different than previous versions. Ok, ooo, wow, we get it. How about something amazing that will make people go WOW I GOTTA GET THAT?
Yawn...
I've been looking at their box also, my only problem is that it only supports 4 drives. They have no info on a box that supports more than 4.
Hate to burst your bubble but you realize THX is not an encoding process but a list of specifications on volume and speaker location. Did you spend the time to adjust all your speakers and sound levels and room dampening to match the THX spec? If not then you aren't listening to anything in "glorious 7.1 THX certified sound". And there aren't even any dvd's that are in 7.1 sound so basically your sound card is guessing to fill in the extra channels. Nothing really to be bragging about.
I would of expected only the lazyiest of slashdotter to not have researched what equipment they actually own.