i still find something puzzling about this comparison..
why a DVD+R? DVD+R holds ~4.7GBs of data while a commercially produced movie DVD holds almost double. anyone who's made a movie back-up using dvd shrink or other transcoders degrade the video quality. comparing the original DVD with the transcoded version shows a significant difference if you have a quality display.
why didn't sony use a regular commercial DVD instead of a copied version?
is it possible that they're comparing a degraded DVD back-up version to a blu-ray version? if one can tell the difference between original DVD and backed-up DVD, then of course there will be a significant difference between this backup and the blu-ray.
that's even leaving out the fanatical preaching of using taiyo yuden discs as well;)
this has been one of the biggest arguements towards using open source software. companies can theoretically trust open source software because everyone sees the code and they can easily modify it. my question is though, even though we have the source, do people actually read the thousands and thousands of lines of code in the program they're using or just the parts that would interest them (for modifying/improvement purposes)?
people mention Mac OS X as a viable "open source product making money for big business". that may be true to an extent, but people seem to ignore that apple's main money maker is their hardware. they can release their operating system (or major parts of it) under open source because in the long run it helps their hardware sales. unlike Apple, Microsoft is in the business of selling the software. They sell their operating system to run on other people's hardware. with open source, microsoft cannot make the same profits as they once did, only having options such as RedHat, etc, such as value added packages or support.
if they have an expansion pack so i can improve my social life in college too... just install *Hot Date* and i can find cuter girls in my computer engineering classes (or girls period)
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i still find something puzzling about this comparison..
why a DVD+R? DVD+R holds ~4.7GBs of data while a commercially produced movie DVD holds almost double. anyone who's made a movie back-up using dvd shrink or other transcoders degrade the video quality. comparing the original DVD with the transcoded version shows a significant difference if you have a quality display.
why didn't sony use a regular commercial DVD instead of a copied version?
is it possible that they're comparing a degraded DVD back-up version to a blu-ray version? if one can tell the difference between original DVD and backed-up DVD, then of course there will be a significant difference between this backup and the blu-ray.
that's even leaving out the fanatical preaching of using taiyo yuden discs as well ;)
this has been one of the biggest arguements towards using open source software. companies can theoretically trust open source software because everyone sees the code and they can easily modify it. my question is though, even though we have the source, do people actually read the thousands and thousands of lines of code in the program they're using or just the parts that would interest them (for modifying/improvement purposes)?
i guess this brings a new meaning to "free-as-in-beer"
people mention Mac OS X as a viable "open source product making money for big business". that may be true to an extent, but people seem to ignore that apple's main money maker is their hardware. they can release their operating system (or major parts of it) under open source because in the long run it helps their hardware sales. unlike Apple, Microsoft is in the business of selling the software. They sell their operating system to run on other people's hardware. with open source, microsoft cannot make the same profits as they once did, only having options such as RedHat, etc, such as value added packages or support.
if they have an expansion pack so i can improve my social life in college too... just install *Hot Date* and i can find cuter girls in my computer engineering classes (or girls period)