In addition to the VA's and the studion I'd like to add that the localization/translation team are also very important. The reason many anime fans like myself prefer subs is that a lot of Anime's had extremely poor or vastly changed translations along with horrible voice acting. However there were some rare gems with awesome English dubbing like Cowboy Bebop.
It takes me a split second to read one line of subtitles + the fact that it's on the screen rather then below it (like a dashboard). Even if i don't shift my focus from subtitles i can still see the rest of the movie.
Very different from staring at your dashboard, i don't see the road much or notice it at all. The angle difference is much greater and you actually have to move your head to shift visual focus in the car.
Even if the format is proprietary it may not cost as much as the 1-2 penny figure for cd's but it sure as hell doesn't cost more then $2 bucks to produce a umd and a bit more for the packaging. VHS tapes should still cost more then any other format to produce (unless you count chip based cartridges for the gba or something, they win for most expensive media).
Even at $7.99 umd's would make a nice freakin profit.
It's not why it failed, it's the price that killed it. DRM is on numerous medias and most people don't even realize it. Techgeeks aren't the only consumers.
UMD's were far too overpriced to be successful. A movie that plays only on a small portable screen should be priced greatly lower then an equivalent dvd, not equal it.
I've always felt that people who were totally sure that god existed were as nutty as those who were sure god didn't exist. Certain religions like Islam also teach that god will not act in your favor after prayer as all of life is a test. It's your job to keep to the faith no matter what ills you face in life to get into heaven.
Unfortunately that means that god (as a supernatural all knowing and all powerful being--not the existence of the idea of there being a god)does nothing to physically affect us. Which in turn means that there is no evidence of god. But if there truly is such an existence that is simply observing us then there is no way for us to know.
PS3 $500 max with blu-ray accessories to make watching bluray smoother won't cost more then $30 bucks.
Plus there will be lots more then 600k units moved within the first 3 months. Toshiba's gonna have to step up and make a sleeker, cheaper, unit to compete.
Hip Gizmo's aren't the only things tech enthusiasts aren't into. And depending on how broke someone is there can be quite a few things enthusiasts would want.
Is probably 2-3 years in to a console's life not at the last year imo. I bought my ps2 for $199 (now four years later all you'd save is $50) probably a year and a half or less after release. If one buys the games at the end of a games lifetime they lose many years worth of new games.
Eh, I guess i kinda had the the great grandparent's post in the back of my mind when saying that who actually thought that 1080p recordings are of greater quality then film.
My bad, it seems your aware of the loss due to conversion. I didn't post that long winded post as a sole reply to you either, while slashdotters seem to know the individual facts too many posts here are simply ridiculous as people aren't putting two and two together correctly. Thats half the reason i went back to the basics.
Fresh original Film that hasn't been worn out (in most commercial cases film usually hasn't degraded noticeabley anyway) has greater picture quality then 1080p. However, if you've got a 1080p TV your best bet is a source that is digitally recorded at 1080p or greater.
In summary...
As media goes (taking degradation out of the equation): 35mm Film is > 1080p stored in some digital format
For a modern 1080p hdtv (which doens't exist to my knowledge btw--will explain below): Original 1080p digitally recorded media is > 35mm Film.
Why? Simple, the recording for 1080p is already at the max resolution of your tv and most importantly when converting film to a digital format is far from lossless. The reason why your tnt content sucks is because of this, the conversion. The film is being downgraded firstly.
The main reason we are going digital is because we can transfer more video information through the cable lines and the airwaves whelst using equal amounts of bandwidth as analog thanks to modern compression technology. If we had a realistic method of transfering full 35mm quality to a consumer environment it would have been done but that it doesn't exist as you'd need to dedicate much more bandwidth. Two, digital has lots of other nifty benefits like avoidance of degradation on transfers over cable, air, or the change of medias.
Last thing, about 1080p tv's not existing... while most tv's "support" and will display the 1080p content it's inputed with it's not showing the full resolution. I've yet to see any consumer tvs whether they are lcds, plasmas, or otherwise with greater then 1366x768 resolution which is a good deal less then 1920x1080.
IMO, the hardware company's are not to blame for the lack of adoption here. It's not surprising there is more then one standard--in the end only one will win. What sucks though is the copy protection and downgrade of video being done at the movie studio's request.
That makes both standards equally unappetizing.
Personally, I want blu-ray to win (simply due to being clearly superior in tech, even if it costs more initially due to being of a vastly different wavelength then dvds in comparison to hd-dvds)even if it costs more now in time it will mature and be as cheap as cds/dvds. At least in this manner we will be making more progress tech wise at the very least.
Copyright protection is a no-issue (when comparing the two techs, in the end neither of them are desireable to me unless the draconic protection schemes are broken or removed) to me because both techs will have the same crippling technology.
I've always been a fan of Japanese and have stuck with the playstations for the last two rounds and haven't even batted the xboxen an eye till i found out Hironobu Sakaguchi(left square/enix and formed mistwalker) would be making games for the xbox360.
I hope this doesn't end up being his downfall:( (one awesome game alone may not convince the japanese public to buy xbox360's en masse), although I must say he and square were pretty damn helpful for the original psx's success.
They just put systems together and nothing they do hasn't been done by pc enthusiasts before them. Alienware has always overpriced their systems for an ultra high margin and their are more cost effective alternatives (gaming machines) by the likes of falcon and a few others.
Theres plenty of budget agp cards in that price range with decent performance, the same could not be said for decent performing ultra cheap pci-e cards till just now.
Thusfar, to my knowledge MS and 3rd parties do not charge money other then the xbox live fee. The ten million downloads were all free downloads in a sense. I'm not sure why in the world it would be compared to a service that charges money per download.
Obviously i was thinking of the bots. Since it's japan they'll come with a plethora of combat abilities and naturally combine to form a even bigger bot.
They want their FF13, their gran turismo 5, metal gear solid 4: The Baby Snake, and whatever the hell exclusive sequels the ps3 will grab.
Sadly, since i love all of those games i'm one of them. Unless the 360 gains a ton of games of genres i like along with a universal amount of glowing reviews for a few of these games I won't touch the thing. I dont' even give a flying craphole about upgraded graphics. I don't even have hdtv so i won't be able to see the details in baby snake's feces. Although my projected purchase period for the ps3 is at the very earliest 2years (i hate launch prices and i see ps2 rpgs keeping me occupied for quite some time).
Right now the only games i'm interested in(for the orig xbox and 360) have better or equal counterparts on the pc. THe same cannot be said for the playstation games.
If movie studios and the mpaa would agree to allow a new disc standard not have such drm features I'd disagree. I hightly doubt it's either hardware companies that even want such forms of copy protection.
The 5200, while clearly greater then vodooo graphic cards from 1997 were quite weak in comparison to their real competition of the time being the ati 9500 series.
Most people i know (actually 100% of them) don't have a modded ps2. It seemed more popular on the psone and even the xbox.
But your average gamer almost definately won't have made any such modifications that would most likely void the warranty anyway to allow them to play copied stuff.
If he did, then i don't think he'd be too surprised at the results if he allowed any phonehome type feature.
Ah sorry, i mistook your first so called "category" to be the first thing you listed. I guess your category's start at zero, you should have specified that!
But I'm not quite sure how i'm a gt fanboy. I actually got gt later in my ps2 enjoying life. It's not quite as awesome as the psx with third party titles and companies just going wild with new types of games but it has a lot more stuff then the gc.
Nintendo's Revolution is hype at it's worst. They've always been very conservative thats why their own games haven't changed much. The overhyped nintendogs is just a dog version of the many digital pet sims that exist already.
The revolutions controller is not a revolution in tech or anything when you consider the stuff availabel in arcades.
What Sony and Microsoft are doing as system makes, is trying to put out the most powerful systems they can. Why? As the makers of hardware that is what Sony should be concentrating on. The game devs have the burden (including sony's inhouse studios) of being creative.
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In addition to the VA's and the studion I'd like to add that the localization/translation team are also very important. The reason many anime fans like myself prefer subs is that a lot of Anime's had extremely poor or vastly changed translations along with horrible voice acting. However there were some rare gems with awesome English dubbing like Cowboy Bebop.
It takes me a split second to read one line of subtitles + the fact that it's on the screen rather then below it (like a dashboard). Even if i don't shift my focus from subtitles i can still see the rest of the movie.
Very different from staring at your dashboard, i don't see the road much or notice it at all. The angle difference is much greater and you actually have to move your head to shift visual focus in the car.
Even if the format is proprietary it may not cost as much as the 1-2 penny figure for cd's but it sure as hell doesn't cost more then $2 bucks to produce a umd and a bit more for the packaging. VHS tapes should still cost more then any other format to produce (unless you count chip based cartridges for the gba or something, they win for most expensive media).
Even at $7.99 umd's would make a nice freakin profit.
It's not why it failed, it's the price that killed it. DRM is on numerous medias and most people don't even realize it. Techgeeks aren't the only consumers.
UMD's were far too overpriced to be successful. A movie that plays only on a small portable screen should be priced greatly lower then an equivalent dvd, not equal it.
I've always felt that people who were totally sure that god existed were as nutty as those who were sure god didn't exist. Certain religions like Islam also teach that god will not act in your favor after prayer as all of life is a test. It's your job to keep to the faith no matter what ills you face in life to get into heaven.
Unfortunately that means that god (as a supernatural all knowing and all powerful being--not the existence of the idea of there being a god)does nothing to physically affect us. Which in turn means that there is no evidence of god. But if there truly is such an existence that is simply observing us then there is no way for us to know.
PS3 $500 max with blu-ray accessories to make watching bluray smoother won't cost more then $30 bucks.
Plus there will be lots more then 600k units moved within the first 3 months. Toshiba's gonna have to step up and make a sleeker, cheaper, unit to compete.
Hip Gizmo's aren't the only things tech enthusiasts aren't into. And depending on how broke someone is there can be quite a few things enthusiasts would want.
Is probably 2-3 years in to a console's life not at the last year imo. I bought my ps2 for $199 (now four years later all you'd save is $50) probably a year and a half or less after release. If one buys the games at the end of a games lifetime they lose many years worth of new games.
Just used the search function of slashdot, last year they said they'd release it this year too. SO their dates are still consistent.
I wonder how much of the games revenue goes back into blizzard and wow versus the cut Vivendi Universal takes.
Eh, I guess i kinda had the the great grandparent's post in the back of my mind when saying that who actually thought that 1080p recordings are of greater quality then film.
My bad, it seems your aware of the loss due to conversion. I didn't post that long winded post as a sole reply to you either, while slashdotters seem to know the individual facts too many posts here are simply ridiculous as people aren't putting two and two together correctly. Thats half the reason i went back to the basics.
Fresh original Film that hasn't been worn out (in most commercial cases film usually hasn't degraded noticeabley anyway) has greater picture quality then 1080p. However, if you've got a 1080p TV your best bet is a source that is digitally recorded at 1080p or greater.
In summary...
As media goes (taking degradation out of the equation):
35mm Film is > 1080p stored in some digital format
For a modern 1080p hdtv (which doens't exist to my knowledge btw--will explain below):
Original 1080p digitally recorded media is > 35mm Film.
Why? Simple, the recording for 1080p is already at the max resolution of your tv and most importantly when converting film to a digital format is far from lossless. The reason why your tnt content sucks is because of this, the conversion. The film is being downgraded firstly.
The main reason we are going digital is because we can transfer more video information through the cable lines and the airwaves whelst using equal amounts of bandwidth as analog thanks to modern compression technology. If we had a realistic method of transfering full 35mm quality to a consumer environment it would have been done but that it doesn't exist as you'd need to dedicate much more bandwidth. Two, digital has lots of other nifty benefits like avoidance of degradation on transfers over cable, air, or the change of medias.
Last thing, about 1080p tv's not existing... while most tv's "support" and will display the 1080p content it's inputed with it's not showing the full resolution. I've yet to see any consumer tvs whether they are lcds, plasmas, or otherwise with greater then 1366x768 resolution which is a good deal less then 1920x1080.
IMO, the hardware company's are not to blame for the lack of adoption here. It's not surprising there is more then one standard--in the end only one will win. What sucks though is the copy protection and downgrade of video being done at the movie studio's request.
That makes both standards equally unappetizing.
Personally, I want blu-ray to win (simply due to being clearly superior in tech, even if it costs more initially due to being of a vastly different wavelength then dvds in comparison to hd-dvds)even if it costs more now in time it will mature and be as cheap as cds/dvds. At least in this manner we will be making more progress tech wise at the very least.
Copyright protection is a no-issue (when comparing the two techs, in the end neither of them are desireable to me unless the draconic protection schemes are broken or removed) to me because both techs will have the same crippling technology.
I've always been a fan of Japanese and have stuck with the playstations for the last two rounds and haven't even batted the xboxen an eye till i found out Hironobu Sakaguchi(left square/enix and formed mistwalker) would be making games for the xbox360.
:( (one awesome game alone may not convince the japanese public to buy xbox360's en masse), although I must say he and square were pretty damn helpful for the original psx's success.
I hope this doesn't end up being his downfall
They just put systems together and nothing they do hasn't been done by pc enthusiasts before them. Alienware has always overpriced their systems for an ultra high margin and their are more cost effective alternatives (gaming machines) by the likes of falcon and a few others.
Theres plenty of budget agp cards in that price range with decent performance, the same could not be said for decent performing ultra cheap pci-e cards till just now.
Thusfar, to my knowledge MS and 3rd parties do not charge money other then the xbox live fee. The ten million downloads were all free downloads in a sense. I'm not sure why in the world it would be compared to a service that charges money per download.
Obviously i was thinking of the bots. Since it's japan they'll come with a plethora of combat abilities and naturally combine to form a even bigger bot.
Hrm, i'd like a Beowulf Cluster of these!
They want their FF13, their gran turismo 5, metal gear solid 4: The Baby Snake, and whatever the hell exclusive sequels the ps3 will grab.
Sadly, since i love all of those games i'm one of them. Unless the 360 gains a ton of games of genres i like along with a universal amount of glowing reviews for a few of these games I won't touch the thing. I dont' even give a flying craphole about upgraded graphics. I don't even have hdtv so i won't be able to see the details in baby snake's feces. Although my projected purchase period for the ps3 is at the very earliest 2years (i hate launch prices and i see ps2 rpgs keeping me occupied for quite some time).
Right now the only games i'm interested in(for the orig xbox and 360) have better or equal counterparts on the pc. THe same cannot be said for the playstation games.
If movie studios and the mpaa would agree to allow a new disc standard not have such drm features I'd disagree. I hightly doubt it's either hardware companies that even want such forms of copy protection.
It's the movie studios trying to force it down.
The 5200, while clearly greater then vodooo graphic cards from 1997 were quite weak in comparison to their real competition of the time being the ati 9500 series.
Most people i know (actually 100% of them) don't have a modded ps2. It seemed more popular on the psone and even the xbox.
But your average gamer almost definately won't have made any such modifications that would most likely void the warranty anyway to allow them to play copied stuff.
If he did, then i don't think he'd be too surprised at the results if he allowed any phonehome type feature.
I have no idea why one of my least insightful posts gets a +5, probably because i was negative on the ps3's future.
Ah sorry, i mistook your first so called "category" to be the first thing you listed. I guess your category's start at zero, you should have specified that!
But I'm not quite sure how i'm a gt fanboy. I actually got gt later in my ps2 enjoying life. It's not quite as awesome as the psx with third party titles and companies just going wild with new types of games but it has a lot more stuff then the gc.
Nintendo's Revolution is hype at it's worst. They've always been very conservative thats why their own games haven't changed much. The overhyped nintendogs is just a dog version of the many digital pet sims that exist already.
The revolutions controller is not a revolution in tech or anything when you consider the stuff availabel in arcades.
What Sony and Microsoft are doing as system makes, is trying to put out the most powerful systems they can. Why? As the makers of hardware that is what Sony should be concentrating on. The game devs have the burden (including sony's inhouse studios) of being creative.