yes, because a brilliantly white screen in a black theatre is not distracting.
If you need to check email during a movie, then you don't need to be at that movie. I don't pay $10 to see your screen flashing on and off in front of me distracting me from the film.
That used couch can quite easily have smells, squashed cushions, and be very different from when it was new. Games are digital and as long as the disk works it will work the same as when new.
If he had been hit by a bus and killed the city would have been even more screwed, so yes, the city is partially to blame for not having a backup plan to begin with.
Did you miss the part where I said that's if you do NOTHING else that uses bandwidth? Primetime goes from 8 til 11, then there's the late shows and the late late shows.
It's 12:30am and I am still awake watching the news in the background. I need to get up before 7 tomorrow and I will.
Wake up at 6 and put on the morning news and watch that for 30 minutes while dressing and waking up. Assuming I am single and nobody else in the house watches any TV while I am at work.
Just add a stay at home parent with a baby or toddler and you're even more likely, almost guaranteed, to run well over 6 hours a day.
So you're saying comcast will get you one way or another. Since I can use a TiVo with the comcast HD services, I can use that much more easily than finding all the strange little shows in their respective streaming sites. Including the two bit operation that is local access from the library.
Also, where are the BluRay changers? I have a 5 disc DVD changer that allows us to put in 5 different movies and the kids can flip between whichever one they want to watch, instead of having them load and unload disc after disc with their grubby hands and possible break a loading tray
What bluray rage?
The price difference of 2 to 3 dollars is a 20 percent difference. That's not nothing and after you buy 30 or 40 movies it adds up.
a 20% difference is nowhere near "almost the exact same price". It's 20%... MORE.
The average person doesn't give a crap that a combo bluray has more copies of the movie, hell, *I* don't care if it's more copies. I can create my own digital copy if I even want one. Why would you want to buy the bluray, the DVD and a digital copy?
OK, Every week CompUSA offered a new release for 9.99 that was released that week. Circuit City followed suit for a whole. Reel.com offered almost unlimited buy one get one free at under $20 total for two BRAND NEW release DVDs. 800.com had similar sales and started with a buy any 3 DVDs for one dollar deal when they opened up. Best Buy had brand new release DVDs for about $12.99.
Your claim wasn't that it was only 20% more, it was they were almost the exact same price.
I didn't say you can barely see a quality difference, I said the difference between VHS and DVD was far greater than that between DVD and BluRay, play a DVD on an upscaling player and the difference is even less. Who cares if it's Bluray + DVD + digital copy, the price you see when you look at the DVD and look at the bluray are different, it doesn't matter if you get more copies.
People drive blocks to save 5 cents per gallon when they fill their car, they're not going to pay 2, 3, 15 dollars more for the bluray when the difference isn't that great.
CDs sound better than mp3s, yet mp3s are selling gang busters....
When DVDs were brand new you could get them for $10 each for new releases every week. It was the height of the tech bubble and there were 10s of stores jumping for your dollar.
You claimed there were about the same price, they're not and BluRay is more expensive in every case in that list, by at much as over double
The top 25 of 2011 so far at Amazon. Some DVDs are only a dollar or two cheaper than their Blu-Ray version, some are ten, the Walking Dead is 17 dollars cheaper on DVD
That and the total improvement of blu-ray vs DVD just is nowhere near the huge difference between DVD and VHS in other areas aside from rewind
Blu-Ray is also more expensive than DVD counterparts.
Remember when DVDs were first released the VHS market had a rental price policy for months after release and then consumer prices would come later. You could buy the Matrix on DVD for under $20 or pay $90ish for the VHS, or rent it.
Disagreed. Why doesn't every movie begin with the birth of the protagonist? Because it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Motivations can be gleaned before or during or way after the event that transforms Peter Parker into Spiderman.
Everyone knows the basics of the Spiderman, Superman and Batman characters. A basic understanding of that is all that's really needed.
The reason Superman Returns blew chunks was because the plot was awful, not because we didn't know the origin.
Did we know John McClane's origin? No, we figured out his motivations as he crawled and bled through the Nakatomi tower.
Was it announced anywhere that there was a problem on EA's side? I loaded up the game and it told me I couldn't play my saves. There was no notice on the forums or in the game itself that said that there were problems with auth servers. So how was I to know the problem wasn't on my end?
COD may be what you want, but it sure isn't what I want. I would love something new and fresh, or even an update of OLD titles that were great but weren't from the same 4 or 5 different type of game. FPS games are not that much different from each other in the grand scheme of things.
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yes, because a brilliantly white screen in a black theatre is not distracting.
If you need to check email during a movie, then you don't need to be at that movie. I don't pay $10 to see your screen flashing on and off in front of me distracting me from the film.
Are they charging a full game price for it? Or expansion pricing?
That used couch can quite easily have smells, squashed cushions, and be very different from when it was new. Games are digital and as long as the disk works it will work the same as when new.
What's a used downloadable game worth?
Supercheap guys wait til the game goes on sale on Steam for under $5. Screw the high price of used games.
If he had been hit by a bus and killed the city would have been even more screwed, so yes, the city is partially to blame for not having a backup plan to begin with.
Seriously? They were storing passwords in a way that could be unencrypted?
Did you miss the part where I said that's if you do NOTHING else that uses bandwidth? Primetime goes from 8 til 11, then there's the late shows and the late late shows.
It's 12:30am and I am still awake watching the news in the background. I need to get up before 7 tomorrow and I will.
Wake up at 6 and put on the morning news and watch that for 30 minutes while dressing and waking up. Assuming I am single and nobody else in the house watches any TV while I am at work.
Just add a stay at home parent with a baby or toddler and you're even more likely, almost guaranteed, to run well over 6 hours a day.
Hardly. I love in a college town of 60,000. We only receive PBS over the air. Everything else is too far out of range to be received via antenna.
Books also eventually degrade and need to be replaced....
yeah, you mean AT&T with their 150GB cap? That's the only other broadband choice
Netflix HD streaming averages 2GB/hr for me.
If you have no way to get content to the DVR, i.e. you cut cable.... Ummm, what are you streaming on your DVR?
In the discussion of replacing cable TV with internet streaming, it's not for a lot of use cases.
Do you surf the web, read email, and watch TV for 4 hours a day? It's not enough.
If you want to use more advanced things like VPN and remote desktop, the odd youtube video, download your music and games .... oops, too bad.
Add an offsite backup service to the mix and you're easily blowing through that 250GB cap
So you're saying comcast will get you one way or another. Since I can use a TiVo with the comcast HD services, I can use that much more easily than finding all the strange little shows in their respective streaming sites. Including the two bit operation that is local access from the library.
Comcast's 250GB cap limits you to 4 hours of HD streaming a day for a 30 day month. Assuming you do NOTHING else with your internet
Also, where are the BluRay changers? I have a 5 disc DVD changer that allows us to put in 5 different movies and the kids can flip between whichever one they want to watch, instead of having them load and unload disc after disc with their grubby hands and possible break a loading tray
What bluray rage?
The price difference of 2 to 3 dollars is a 20 percent difference. That's not nothing and after you buy 30 or 40 movies it adds up.
a 20% difference is nowhere near "almost the exact same price". It's 20%... MORE.
The average person doesn't give a crap that a combo bluray has more copies of the movie, hell, *I* don't care if it's more copies. I can create my own digital copy if I even want one. Why would you want to buy the bluray, the DVD and a digital copy?
OK, Every week CompUSA offered a new release for 9.99 that was released that week. Circuit City followed suit for a whole. Reel.com offered almost unlimited buy one get one free at under $20 total for two BRAND NEW release DVDs. 800.com had similar sales and started with a buy any 3 DVDs for one dollar deal when they opened up.
Best Buy had brand new release DVDs for about $12.99.
Your claim wasn't that it was only 20% more, it was they were almost the exact same price.
I didn't say you can barely see a quality difference, I said the difference between VHS and DVD was far greater than that between DVD and BluRay, play a DVD on an upscaling player and the difference is even less. Who cares if it's Bluray + DVD + digital copy, the price you see when you look at the DVD and look at the bluray are different, it doesn't matter if you get more copies.
People drive blocks to save 5 cents per gallon when they fill their car, they're not going to pay 2, 3, 15 dollars more for the bluray when the difference isn't that great.
CDs sound better than mp3s, yet mp3s are selling gang busters....
When DVDs were brand new you could get them for $10 each for new releases every week. It was the height of the tech bubble and there were 10s of stores jumping for your dollar.
You claimed there were about the same price, they're not and BluRay is more expensive in every case in that list, by at much as over double
Seriously?
http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_85231331_8?ie=UTF8&docId=1000668461&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-6&pf_rd_r=0NPANR10CQAV41KXG8BK&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1292763082&pf_rd_i=130
The top 25 of 2011 so far at Amazon. Some DVDs are only a dollar or two cheaper than their Blu-Ray version, some are ten, the Walking Dead is 17 dollars cheaper on DVD
If the median american is pretty dumb, how dumb is the portion of the population below it?
That and the total improvement of blu-ray vs DVD just is nowhere near the huge difference between DVD and VHS in other areas aside from rewind
Blu-Ray is also more expensive than DVD counterparts.
Remember when DVDs were first released the VHS market had a rental price policy for months after release and then consumer prices would come later. You could buy the Matrix on DVD for under $20 or pay $90ish for the VHS, or rent it.
Disagreed. Why doesn't every movie begin with the birth of the protagonist? Because it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Motivations can be gleaned before or during or way after the event that transforms Peter Parker into Spiderman.
Everyone knows the basics of the Spiderman, Superman and Batman characters. A basic understanding of that is all that's really needed.
The reason Superman Returns blew chunks was because the plot was awful, not because we didn't know the origin.
Did we know John McClane's origin? No, we figured out his motivations as he crawled and bled through the Nakatomi tower.
Kind of. Cyrsis for $5 doesn't matter to me when I want to play a great immersive RPG
> Do something else while the problem gets fixed.
Was it announced anywhere that there was a problem on EA's side? I loaded up the game and it told me I couldn't play my saves. There was no notice on the forums or in the game itself that said that there were problems with auth servers. So how was I to know the problem wasn't on my end?
COD may be what you want, but it sure isn't what I want. I would love something new and fresh, or even an update of OLD titles that were great but weren't from the same 4 or 5 different type of game. FPS games are not that much different from each other in the grand scheme of things.