Re:This is really, really old news...and a hoax
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Actually, it wasn't a Hoax, just a project that got shelved after the issue of PCFormat it was announced in went to the printers... PCFormat was a little annoyed about it at the time as their scoop rapidly turned into "non-news". I'm not sure if the story about the homestation getting cancelled was posted on PCFormats website or not (and I can't check as the site has been slashdotted), but it was definately in the magazine itself.
The answer to that depends on the number of soundtracks (and the quality of said tracks). I suspect it _could_ be possible, but there'd be no space for anything else... Personally, seeing as DVD's are not _that_ expensive to manufacture, they'd be better off with a DVD per film anyway.
The question is, is it worth waiting for the inevitable box-set with all three films in it? I suppose the answer to that question will depends on whether the box-set will contain the same extras or a completely different set (in an attempt to get fans to buy both).
Actually, the problem with the ending of Evangelion (as I heard it from some _serious_ anime buffs in the UK) is as follows.
Throughout the making of Evangelion they would often finish episodes within a day of the transmission on TV Tokyo (the company that funded it). This was all well and good till an episode _fairly_ near the end that was just a little bit gory (and it was shown unseen by the TV Tokyo staff at 6pm).
After that they insisted on proof watching all the episodes before transmission. The final episodes were rejected and they only had a day or so to make a replacement (so had to use a lot of canned footage), hence an episode that turned out to be a major anti-climax. I've still got to see "End of Eva", the alternate/simultanious ending movie they made at a later date and is _meant_ to be much more what they had in mind...
(If my facts are wrong, I appologise, but this is what I was told after watching the series at an anime society I attend).
I guess the bbc have hired some sensible people that don't see why they should throw money at companies like microsoft to provide inherently insecure software to them, not to meantion the costs incurred in supporting said software.
Interestingly (at least to me), Amazon made a move away from IIS to Apache a while ago and is expected to save a stupid ammount of money on support costs... With fairly well known names like these beginning to move to open source platforms, perhaps some other companies might get the hint that they're good solutions and jump ship as well... If enough do it then Microsoft may have to actually produce good software for once...
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Actually, it wasn't a Hoax, just a project that got shelved after the issue of PCFormat it was announced in went to the printers... PCFormat was a little annoyed about it at the time as their scoop rapidly turned into "non-news". I'm not sure if the story about the homestation getting cancelled was posted on PCFormats website or not (and I can't check as the site has been slashdotted), but it was definately in the magazine itself.
The answer to that depends on the number of soundtracks (and the quality of said tracks). I suspect it _could_ be possible, but there'd be no space for anything else... Personally, seeing as DVD's are not _that_ expensive to manufacture, they'd be better off with a DVD per film anyway.
The question is, is it worth waiting for the inevitable box-set with all three films in it? I suppose the answer to that question will depends on whether the box-set will contain the same extras or a completely different set (in an attempt to get fans to buy both).
Actually, the problem with the ending of Evangelion (as I heard it from some _serious_ anime buffs in the UK) is as follows.
Throughout the making of Evangelion they would often finish episodes within a day of the transmission on TV Tokyo (the company that funded it). This was all well and good till an episode _fairly_ near the end that was just a little bit gory (and it was shown unseen by the TV Tokyo staff at 6pm).
After that they insisted on proof watching all the episodes before transmission. The final episodes were rejected and they only had a day or so to make a replacement (so had to use a lot of canned footage), hence an episode that turned out to be a major anti-climax. I've still got to see "End of Eva", the alternate/simultanious ending movie they made at a later date and is _meant_ to be much more what they had in mind...
(If my facts are wrong, I appologise, but this is what I was told after watching the series at an anime society I attend).
I guess the bbc have hired some sensible people that don't see why they should throw money at companies like microsoft to provide inherently insecure software to them, not to meantion the costs incurred in supporting said software.
Interestingly (at least to me), Amazon made a move away from IIS to Apache a while ago and is expected to save a stupid ammount of money on support costs... With fairly well known names like these beginning to move to open source platforms, perhaps some other companies might get the hint that they're good solutions and jump ship as well... If enough do it then Microsoft may have to actually produce good software for once...
Nah... It's just a pipedream I guess....