Enough is a enough. A message needs to be sent to these bastards. Suing and fines only do so much. They fine these bastards, they file for bankruptcy and its over. They close the company and the fines and suits go away. Can't sue what doesn't exist and current corp. laws protect us from going after personal assets.
Time to bring some real charges against these fuckers and send a few of them to prison for a good long stretch. And I'm not talking 6 months in a jail with 500 hours of community service. I'm talking 10 years in maximum security.
I know some people say the punishment doesn't fit the crime but I think its time it did. If we would have locked up some of them bastards from Sony then I bet this one wouldn't' happen.
I don't know much about the EVD format but I do know something about the HD-DVd and BR formats. The reason that BR and HD disks need so much space for a HD movie is they are using mpeg-2 for the video format. If they where using a modern format like mpeg-4 they wouldn't need such a big ass disk.
Doing some math I figure if they did use mpeg-4 they could fit a HD movie into about 7 to 8GB.
>> 1) Standard DVD's look like crap on 55" screens. This is subjective, sure, but if you really
>> believe this, you will *never* need HD because you're blind. Standard DVD's leave tons of
>> compression artifacts in dark scenes (even title credits!) which are very visible. Tell me,
>> would you run a 21" computer monitor at 640x480 -- with uncompressed video data? No? Then why
>> do you think that *very* lossy compression of 640x480 looks good at 55"?
>You're on crack.
I think in addition the decoder might have something to do with it too. When I first hooked up my 52" HDTV to a walmart directv decoder I was disappointed too. The picture was blocky and looked like crap. Then I bought a $800 sony HD decoder, Yeah, I paid to much, and the SD channels look great.
Hell the signal coming off the cheap ass tivo i bought looks great in SD.
Actually when you think about it they aren't really good for backing up data. BR and HD disk store what, 35 to 50 GB right now? The smallest drive in my system is 300GB. I have 600 GB a RAID array and 300 GB on my data array. And that is only on one system. These drives cost 500+ bucks for a burner and the disks are 50 bucks each?
For that price and a little more, maybe, I can buy a couple of external drives to back up with. They will be faster and I can reuse them.
Well that blows mule ass. I never heard that before. Come to think of it the real HD that I've been stunned with is from the local PBS HD channel coming over the air. There has been a couple of times I've thought about canceling my HD subscription to Directv.
When I first subscribed to it, it was to get Discovery HD and I was very impressed with it. But then they where running a lot of space and nature shows. Stuff that I'm interested in. Lately is been nothing but Big, monster garage and that chopper show. Shit I don't care for in any definition.
For the record too the shows that I compared where Hunt for Red October in HD off of showtime and the DVD. Looks like my method was flawed. Oh well, live and learn.
I think sony is going to get handed their ass on this one. Sony doesn't have a good track record when trying to release a competing standard. Betamax vs. VHS anyone? PSP against the Nintendo DS? From what I read most of the DVD manufacturing companies would rather go with HD-DVD than BR. because they don't have to reduce their manufacturing lines. They can just up grade the equipment that they make DVD's on. Where with BR they will have to buy all new equipment, buy it from Sony that is.
Another thing is if Sony is the only one manufacturing BR players that will tend to keep the price high. When the price of a HD-DVD player drops to 300 bucks and BR are still around 500 joe walmart shopper is going to buy the cheaper. As more people buy HD-DVD players the prices will continue to tumble putting HD DVD in the lead. Movie studios will abandon the BR because no one is buying it, opting to go with the cheaper and technically inferior HD-DVD. At least I think its technically inferior.
But anyway it comes right down to Sony sinking a few hundred million into a pig that can't dance. An I really have no problems with that what so ever.
Yeap, I think we are in the same boat. You want to hand my that paddle? I bought my HDTV in 2001. I don't regret it for one second, but the best part for me has been the 52" 16:9 picture ratio instead of the HD aspect. Granted my tv is going on 6 years old now and starting to show its age, but I'm not about to replace its not compatable with HD-DVD.
I've been saying that for 2 years. I was able to put a HD movie and a DVD side by side back then. I could barely tell a difference and that was only when I looked. Granted there are some programs that are breath taking in HD. Some of the PBS nature shows are like looking through a window. But I have yet to see a HD movie or TV show that has that level of effect.
Whoo got a couple of liberal hippies feathers in a ruffle. I doubt that you two would recognize sarcasm if it beat you over the head with it. Some where out there a couple of villages are missing their idiots. Why don't you two hippies go back to your day jobs?
The different color temperature was a problem at first. I'm a photographer an I screwed one of these in to lamp beside the computer. I thought the light was the same until I calabrated my monitor. Prints that looked good on my desktop turned out to look aweful under "normal" light. Since then I've calabrated my monitor under natural light and my prints look so much better.
Yeah, I feel that way too. I got those big ass 75 watt incandesent bulbs in all my shit too. I used to give a ratts ass about the environment too but realized that I turn 40 real soon. By the time the environment changes so much that I care I'll be dead.
Now excuse me while I go out an price a big ass SUV and I need to pick up some old fashon CFC for my A/C.
Okay, everyone tell the truth. Is there anyone who saw previews for this movie actually think it was going to be a good movie? I sat through one trailer for it and it almost sucked the fur off my balls.
And its really bad when someone springs some homemade geratric porn on you. Don't know about the rest of you but nothing turns me off faster than seeing grandpaw in a gimp suit.
You know you can have a life on friday night and still watch your geek shows. There are two devices that let you do this by recording the shows so you can watch them later.
One of them is called a V-C-R and you can pick one up at a flea market for a few bucks. They first got popular back in the '70 when people relized they could watch porn at home. Or if they had a camera they could make their own porn. (I wouldn't recommend the home made to anyone though. Its usually just 5 mins of some dude poorly focues bare ass bouncing.) It works by letting you record the show you want to watch on a very fragle tape like substance in pour quality.
The other is called a D-V-R. It works pretty much the same way as a VCR but instead of tape, it uses an expensive and fragle highly spinning disk of death. One of the best things about a dvr is after a while it will start suggesting shows for you to watch. You might find that it has better taste in TV than you do. I know mine does.
Tell me about. I remember 20 years ago when young lady was just getting into email she ask me if a virus could be spread by email. I just laughed and said no, it would never happen. It would require that email readers have the ability to execute code passed to them, and nobody would be stupid enough to write a mail program that would do that. Execute code passed to it from anyone.
Pretty much the same way here too. I used to be a big fan of everything sony. I bought a sony dvd player, big screen TV, surround sound, a camera, even this laptop I'm on right now is a sony vaio. Then I bought a sony PDA, TH-55, and it crapped out 1 day after I bought. I took it back the store that I got it from and after a week they found another one. After I replaced it, it lasted for about 6 months then it died. I sent it in for the warrenty replacement. Sony sat on it for about six months then sent it back to me saying that the battery was dammaged and the unit wasnn't covered.
AFter a few months of crawling up channels I was told to go fuck myself. I did get some satasfaction by sending the head bastards in charge of the department a box of dead road kill, since that was about the only thing I could do.
Since then I will not ever buy anything sony, nor will I recommend sony to my friends. I've even been told to leave the local tv store for telling a customer that he doesn't want to buy the 3500 sony tv he was looking at. So far if I add up all my damage that I've done telling people not to buy sony and directing them to compeating products I have cost sony about 15,000 bucks. Big fucking price to pay for boning me out of a fucking 300 PDA.
We had a problem like that back when I was in college. We would par^H^H^Hstudy all night and I would just crash at his pad. The neighbor would put her butt ugly little yappy dog out about 6 am and the fucker would just bark all morning. After about 3 days of this he my friend had, had enough. Well one shot with a.22 rifle later, one last yap, and we slept in peace till noon.
How is that going to make the monster bigger? You break the fucker, the old fart can't replace it, or if he does you break the next one. Sooner or later the problem will go away because at a 1000 bucks a pop the old goat will sooner or later run out of money.
The only problem I see is people getting caught doing it. That is why I say you dress in black with a black hood. Come over the fence from a different angle from where you live, beat the fucker with a hammer, then leave in a different direction. For even better results you can leave the battered carcase of the damn thing on his porch so he'll get the message.
If you can't get close enough to hit it with a hammer then think pellet gun. Almost completely silent, none traceable, and will do the job just fine. A shot through the speaker cone or the power supply should do it. Make sure you are a good shot though because you only want to take one shot. While they are silent they are not completely noiseless, but its almost impossible to trace the sound of a single gun shot.
As for the moral qualms, the old fucker didn't have any qualms about putting the fucker up. Sometimes violence is the only answer and morals are a thing best put on the shelf for a while.
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How about the programmer that wrote he code? Or the president of the company that owns the code? Even the name on the web register would do.
And don't give me any shit about the programmer just doing what he was paid to do. He knew what he was writting.
Enough is a enough. A message needs to be sent to these bastards. Suing and fines only do so much. They fine these bastards, they file for bankruptcy and its over. They close the company and the fines and suits go away. Can't sue what doesn't exist and current corp. laws protect us from going after personal assets.
Time to bring some real charges against these fuckers and send a few of them to prison for a good long stretch. And I'm not talking 6 months in a jail with 500 hours of community service. I'm talking 10 years in maximum security.
I know some people say the punishment doesn't fit the crime but I think its time it did. If we would have locked up some of them bastards from Sony then I bet this one wouldn't' happen.
Your friend is indeed a wise man. Heed his advice.
I don't know much about the EVD format but I do know something about the HD-DVd and BR formats. The reason that BR and HD disks need so much space for a HD movie is they are using mpeg-2 for the video format. If they where using a modern format like mpeg-4 they wouldn't need such a big ass disk.
Doing some math I figure if they did use mpeg-4 they could fit a HD movie into about 7 to 8GB.
>> 1) Standard DVD's look like crap on 55" screens. This is subjective, sure, but if you really >> believe this, you will *never* need HD because you're blind. Standard DVD's leave tons of >> compression artifacts in dark scenes (even title credits!) which are very visible. Tell me, >> would you run a 21" computer monitor at 640x480 -- with uncompressed video data? No? Then why >> do you think that *very* lossy compression of 640x480 looks good at 55"? >You're on crack.
I think in addition the decoder might have something to do with it too. When I first hooked up my 52" HDTV to a walmart directv decoder I was disappointed too. The picture was blocky and looked like crap. Then I bought a $800 sony HD decoder, Yeah, I paid to much, and the SD channels look great.
Hell the signal coming off the cheap ass tivo i bought looks great in SD.
Actually when you think about it they aren't really good for backing up data. BR and HD disk store what, 35 to 50 GB right now? The smallest drive in my system is 300GB. I have 600 GB a RAID array and 300 GB on my data array. And that is only on one system. These drives cost 500+ bucks for a burner and the disks are 50 bucks each?
For that price and a little more, maybe, I can buy a couple of external drives to back up with. They will be faster and I can reuse them.
Damn straight. Someone give this man a chair, make sure it's not the one plugged in.
Well that blows mule ass. I never heard that before. Come to think of it the real HD that I've been stunned with is from the local PBS HD channel coming over the air. There has been a couple of times I've thought about canceling my HD subscription to Directv.
When I first subscribed to it, it was to get Discovery HD and I was very impressed with it. But then they where running a lot of space and nature shows. Stuff that I'm interested in. Lately is been nothing but Big, monster garage and that chopper show. Shit I don't care for in any definition.
For the record too the shows that I compared where Hunt for Red October in HD off of showtime and the DVD. Looks like my method was flawed. Oh well, live and learn.
I think sony is going to get handed their ass on this one. Sony doesn't have a good track record when trying to release a competing standard. Betamax vs. VHS anyone? PSP against the Nintendo DS? From what I read most of the DVD manufacturing companies would rather go with HD-DVD than BR. because they don't have to reduce their manufacturing lines. They can just up grade the equipment that they make DVD's on. Where with BR they will have to buy all new equipment, buy it from Sony that is.
Another thing is if Sony is the only one manufacturing BR players that will tend to keep the price high. When the price of a HD-DVD player drops to 300 bucks and BR are still around 500 joe walmart shopper is going to buy the cheaper. As more people buy HD-DVD players the prices will continue to tumble putting HD DVD in the lead. Movie studios will abandon the BR because no one is buying it, opting to go with the cheaper and technically inferior HD-DVD. At least I think its technically inferior.
But anyway it comes right down to Sony sinking a few hundred million into a pig that can't dance. An I really have no problems with that what so ever.
Yeap, I think we are in the same boat. You want to hand my that paddle? I bought my HDTV in 2001. I don't regret it for one second, but the best part for me has been the 52" 16:9 picture ratio instead of the HD aspect. Granted my tv is going on 6 years old now and starting to show its age, but I'm not about to replace its not compatable with HD-DVD.
I've been saying that for 2 years. I was able to put a HD movie and a DVD side by side back then. I could barely tell a difference and that was only when I looked. Granted there are some programs that are breath taking in HD. Some of the PBS nature shows are like looking through a window. But I have yet to see a HD movie or TV show that has that level of effect.
Whoo got a couple of liberal hippies feathers in a ruffle. I doubt that you two would recognize sarcasm if it beat you over the head with it. Some where out there a couple of villages are missing their idiots. Why don't you two hippies go back to your day jobs?
The different color temperature was a problem at first. I'm a photographer an I screwed one of these in to lamp beside the computer. I thought the light was the same until I calabrated my monitor. Prints that looked good on my desktop turned out to look aweful under "normal" light. Since then I've calabrated my monitor under natural light and my prints look so much better.
Yeah, I feel that way too. I got those big ass 75 watt incandesent bulbs in all my shit too. I used to give a ratts ass about the environment too but realized that I turn 40 real soon. By the time the environment changes so much that I care I'll be dead.
Now excuse me while I go out an price a big ass SUV and I need to pick up some old fashon CFC for my A/C.
Okay, everyone tell the truth. Is there anyone who saw previews for this movie actually think it was going to be a good movie? I sat through one trailer for it and it almost sucked the fur off my balls.
And its really bad when someone springs some homemade geratric porn on you. Don't know about the rest of you but nothing turns me off faster than seeing grandpaw in a gimp suit.
You actually have a very good point there. I'm not sure how it got the ideal but for the first year of our relationship my tivo though I was gay.
You know you can have a life on friday night and still watch your geek shows. There are two devices that let you do this by recording the shows so you can watch them later.
One of them is called a V-C-R and you can pick one up at a flea market for a few bucks. They first got popular back in the '70 when people relized they could watch porn at home. Or if they had a camera they could make their own porn. (I wouldn't recommend the home made to anyone though. Its usually just 5 mins of some dude poorly focues bare ass bouncing.) It works by letting you record the show you want to watch on a very fragle tape like substance in pour quality.
The other is called a D-V-R. It works pretty much the same way as a VCR but instead of tape, it uses an expensive and fragle highly spinning disk of death. One of the best things about a dvr is after a while it will start suggesting shows for you to watch. You might find that it has better taste in TV than you do. I know mine does.
Bullshit! ..537 post!!! hot damn!
Tell me about. I remember 20 years ago when young lady was just getting into email she ask me if a virus could be spread by email. I just laughed and said no, it would never happen. It would require that email readers have the ability to execute code passed to them, and nobody would be stupid enough to write a mail program that would do that. Execute code passed to it from anyone.
Pretty much the same way here too. I used to be a big fan of everything sony. I bought a sony dvd player, big screen TV, surround sound, a camera, even this laptop I'm on right now is a sony vaio. Then I bought a sony PDA, TH-55, and it crapped out 1 day after I bought. I took it back the store that I got it from and after a week they found another one. After I replaced it, it lasted for about 6 months then it died. I sent it in for the warrenty replacement. Sony sat on it for about six months then sent it back to me saying that the battery was dammaged and the unit wasnn't covered.
AFter a few months of crawling up channels I was told to go fuck myself. I did get some satasfaction by sending the head bastards in charge of the department a box of dead road kill, since that was about the only thing I could do.
Since then I will not ever buy anything sony, nor will I recommend sony to my friends. I've even been told to leave the local tv store for telling a customer that he doesn't want to buy the 3500 sony tv he was looking at. So far if I add up all my damage that I've done telling people not to buy sony and directing them to compeating products I have cost sony about 15,000 bucks. Big fucking price to pay for boning me out of a fucking 300 PDA.
Who gives a shit? Its not your or my ass that's going to wind up in jail.
We had a problem like that back when I was in college. We would par^H^H^Hstudy all night and I would just crash at his pad. The neighbor would put her butt ugly little yappy dog out about 6 am and the fucker would just bark all morning. After about 3 days of this he my friend had, had enough. Well one shot with a .22 rifle later, one last yap, and we slept in peace till noon.
Bullshit!
How is that going to make the monster bigger? You break the fucker, the old fart can't replace it, or if he does you break the next one. Sooner or later the problem will go away because at a 1000 bucks a pop the old goat will sooner or later run out of money.
The only problem I see is people getting caught doing it. That is why I say you dress in black with a black hood. Come over the fence from a different angle from where you live, beat the fucker with a hammer, then leave in a different direction. For even better results you can leave the battered carcase of the damn thing on his porch so he'll get the message.
If you can't get close enough to hit it with a hammer then think pellet gun. Almost completely silent, none traceable, and will do the job just fine. A shot through the speaker cone or the power supply should do it. Make sure you are a good shot though because you only want to take one shot. While they are silent they are not completely noiseless, but its almost impossible to trace the sound of a single gun shot.
As for the moral qualms, the old fucker didn't have any qualms about putting the fucker up. Sometimes violence is the only answer and morals are a thing best put on the shelf for a while.