I agree that 360p sucks, but want to point out that since the show is letterboxed, 360p is very close to NTSC resolution. A few years ago we were all fine with that.
Of course their horizontal resolution could be a lot less than NTSC's 400ish dots.
Give me good character dramas, lousy SciFi shows about ships that are less reliable than my Hyundai Sonata just aren't interesting.
It was a good character drama set on a rickety ship in a mostly low-tech setting. It seems like your only complaint is they're not on a flashy ship having space battles. This appears to be a personal preference, rather than saying anything about the quality of the show
I was put off by the cowboys in space thing and didn't watch many episodes until it came out on DVD. Now that I've viewed the episodes in the correct order with an open mind, I love the show. Joss Whedon writes great dialog.
Personally, I think the whole thing is silly anyways, there's more important things to worry about than one's ability to get high. Besides, people will do it regardless of the law anyway.
What could be more important than our supposedly free country destroying the lives of our fellow citizens because they choose to use a safer alternative to alcohol? We can't control the injustices other countries do to their people, but we sure as hell can stop the talaban style policies here.
but they've been taught at school that when such stuff starts to come up on the screen the correct response is to "crash" the computer -- meaning hit the power button (since popups spawn popups spawn popups and it's nearly impossible to close them all).
That's great advice if you want to screw up your filesystem. If you don't want to risk wrecking your PC over a little porn, hit File|Work Offline in most browsers and then close the window.
I have noticed pixelation in the recordings of certain shows
That's not the DirecTivo. DTV is overcompressing the data to squeeze in more channels. It used to be you'd see that in fast moving scenes with sharp lines only, now it's visible all the time and is often very distracting. They try to con people with the talk of digital quality picture and sound. Yes it's digital, but quality is a stretch.
It's for more than the server market. With my tiger mp dual 1600+ / 512 meg of ram I can capture DV to disk, convert other dv to divx using premier as a frame server and virtualdub as the encoder, and continue to use the pc with no delays and no lost frames on the capture. It's such a vast improvement over my ghz athlon machine that there's no comparison. All this for $650. Not bad.
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I agree that 360p sucks, but want to point out that since the show is letterboxed, 360p is very close to NTSC resolution. A few years ago we were all fine with that.
Of course their horizontal resolution could be a lot less than NTSC's 400ish dots.
Besides, Firefly wasn't that good to begin with.
Give me good character dramas, lousy SciFi shows about ships that are less reliable than my Hyundai Sonata just aren't interesting.
It was a good character drama set on a rickety ship in a mostly low-tech setting.
It seems like your only complaint is they're not on a flashy ship having space battles. This appears to be a personal preference, rather than saying anything about the quality of the show
I was put off by the cowboys in space thing and didn't watch many episodes until it came out on DVD. Now that I've viewed the episodes in the correct order with an open mind, I love the show. Joss Whedon writes great dialog.
Personally, I think the whole thing is silly anyways, there's more important things to worry about than one's ability to get high. Besides, people will do it regardless of the law anyway.
What could be more important than our supposedly free country destroying the lives of our fellow citizens because they choose to use a safer alternative to alcohol?
We can't control the injustices other countries do to their people, but we sure as hell can stop the talaban style policies here.
but they've been taught at school that when such stuff starts to come up on the screen the correct response is to "crash" the computer -- meaning hit the power button (since popups spawn popups spawn popups and it's nearly impossible to close them all).
That's great advice if you want to screw up your filesystem. If you don't want to risk wrecking your PC over a little porn, hit File|Work Offline in most browsers and then close the window.
I have noticed pixelation in the recordings of certain shows
That's not the DirecTivo. DTV is overcompressing the data to squeeze in more channels. It used to be you'd see that in fast moving scenes with sharp lines only, now it's visible all the time and is often very distracting. They try to con people with the talk of digital quality picture and sound. Yes it's digital, but quality is a stretch.
It's for more than the server market. With my tiger mp dual 1600+ / 512 meg of ram I can capture DV to disk, convert other dv to divx using premier as a frame server and virtualdub as the encoder, and continue to use the pc with no delays and no lost frames on the capture. It's such a vast improvement over my ghz athlon machine that there's no comparison. All this for $650. Not bad.
the discs can be had for $11 online.
not bit-by-bit, but you can rip a dvd and write it back to a blank.