The only thing is that is against the Terms and Conditions that one must Agree to in order for the Install to complete.
[J] You mean like with the upgrade versions of windows or Adobe Photoshop? Are you saying that people should go ahead and buy the cheaper upgrade version and hack it to install without an earlier full version? Is that what you are saying? If you don't have a mac, then you don't have a right to install the upgrade. Apple only sells upgrade boxes. The full versions come with new hardware from Apple.
theoretical and not real world advantage from real world evaluation of discs.
extra space is fine for special features, but so is an extra disc.
in the end, it doesn't really matter unless you are one of those who has golden ears and thinks they can pass a double blind test on lossless audio vs compressed...which frankly most everyone fails. The additional bandwidth, studios are able to encode the video at a higher bitrate which means it is less likely to have compression artifacts. i would suggest looking up the technical comparison on wikipedia. It will show you what each format has to offer from a technical perspective. There are several films which were released by Paramount before they accepted money from Toshiba to go HD DVD exclusive which show a better quality picture for the blu-ray version. Flags of our Fathers is one example.
I doubt studios will use that extra space because they're still in the mindset of "one feature length movie per disc". The extra space will be useful for data storage by PC users, but not until media and drive prices come way down. Maybe you are not aware of the fact that not only is there a capacity advantage for Blu-ray but also an audio/video bandwidth advantage as well. Releases from blu-ray supporting studios have been taking advantage of the extra bandwidth for better picture and sound quality through higher rate encodes. Neutral studios such as Warner have been doing a quick port from HD DVD to Blu-ray in most case. Because if this, many people have trouble seeing a difference when they compare the same movie on each format because they are the same damn encode with no effort taken to create a better product on Blu-ray.
Fact: 3G phones can have their 3G radio turned off to preserve battery life, resorting to GPRS/EDGE if needed.
Fact: WiFi is not as widespread as 3G. Try finding a wireless signal when you're in a car driving down the freeway.
Fact: There are more-technically-advanced phones available from other companies, with decent battery life Fact: 3G is not as widespread as 2G and 2.5G in North America. Try finding a 3G signal when you're in a car driving down the freeway.
Supposedly more technically advanced MP3 players prefered by some slashdotters did not sell better than the iPod because they were harder to use, sync and setup for average consumers.
...but not because of K-Mart. HD-DVD won the day they named it that.
People don't know anything about one format or the other, or even care, but they know HD is good and DVD sounds familiar and easy to use. HD-DVD was a great move because it leveraged the gajillions of dollars that have already been pumped into marketing "HD" and "DVD", and the familiarity that goes with both. Uh.... no. It confuses consumers who think an HD DVD player is a upscaling DVD player or they think their existing upscaling DVD player will play back HD DVDs.
Most average joes I've spoken to believe Blu-ray is the future even if they personally have not bought one yet.
If you count PS3's, blu-ray has a 10:1 hardware lead in most markets a lead in disc sales ranging from 2:1 in Canada/US to 9:1 in Japan.
Blu-ray has Disney and any parent would tell you that Disney is were it's at for children's films.
It seems they invented another great thing. (No matter that this is implemented as a alternate file stream on XP SP2) They will market it as something innovative, of course. You might not be aware that NTFS alternate file streams were implemented in order to support the resource fork paradigm in Mac OS on windows file servers serving mac os client machines on a network back in NT 4.x IIRC. Even with XP SP2, multiple file streams in NTFS presents a serious potential security hole where an innocent looking 1K readme.txt file could house an ever growing alternate stream that exhausts all disk space or it could be used to house a trojan payload hidden from the filesystem.
So if i wanted the ability to have domain networking in my home (and I do), AND have the media center ability built into my OS as well, I got ripped off?
If you want a high quality, consistent, graphically appealing operating system with desktop search, office suite, iPod integration, better Windows compatibility (including NTFS mounts and Windows codecs), and plenty of graphical glitz, download Ubuntu 7.10 at ubuntulinux.org. Applications, Applications, Applications is what average users want. Graphical glitz is just the gravy. Developers are attracted to OS X by frameworks that make it a breeze to rapidly develop your application without having to reinvent the wheel.
How dare MSFT let people choose to not pay for features they don't want! The bastards! MSFT recently admitted that they failed to deliver on the extra features promised for Vista Ultimate. In other words, MSFT admitted that they ripped off people who bought Vista Ultimate.
Steven and Mary Reiber should be sent to Guantanamo bay. They obviously are bent on disrupting world economies without offering an alternative. If this sort of extortion is not terrorism, I don't know what is.
Didn't some judge say that kind of behavior was illegal? Apple has a monopoly on a key business device? Really? Is Apple trying to keep out other cell phone makers out of the market? Are they trying to control a hardware platform/device they did not create? No. Just as with consoles, the maker of the device makes the rules and if you don't like those rules then don't buy the device.
Hello, I followed the link and read the article and this is exactly what I am talking about, all it does is encourage developers to write open souce code that improves OS X but Apple as a company does little to contribute anything back. Uh, hello. Anyone there? The following projects originate from Apple.
CDSA-Common Data Security Arch. Darwin HeaderDoc doc generator OpenDirectory QuickTime Streaming Server BonJour WebCore
As I mentioned before, Webcore (a fork of KHTML) was chosen by Nokia for use in their browers found in their mobile products. Apple is not only contributing to projects they lead but have contributed significant changes back into GCC, KHTML and other open source projects they make use of. I'm afraid that you are talking out of your ass. Do some research next time.
Hey, of course this move is moraly discussable, but is it even legal? Most countries (if not all) says "you can't write viruses" because that's destructive in various ways. But I've heard that the opposite is more or like encouraged: if there's a way of updating, fixing or adding features that all benefits the user - then of course you can!
Therefore: if Apple adds software (or hardware) that disables earlier functionality and spoils proper use of a device, it should actually be classed as a virus!
Be sure to right me if I'm totally wrong, though.. Are you high? Of course it's legal. It's their software and hardware. You just bought the hardware and a license to use the software. Apple is under no obligation to support hacks.
I own a Mac and I have to say that OS X is a very nice OS. The reason that it is a nice OS is all the open source programs Apple included in it to make it such. Just to name a few gcc, any of the shells and GNU tar. Apple seems to take what they want from open source and shun the open source community. Until this approach changes they are little more than parasites on open sources back side as far as I am concerned. As far as I'm concerned, you are a troll.
In Victoria, film crews often get the city to cover up parking meters so they can park their equipment trucks and trailers during filming. I don't understand why the city cannot accept money to simply cover up the meters and install a sign saying "For Apple Store customes only".
I know some of you don't like Sony because of the actions of their Sony BMG record label but Blu-ray (developed by Sony in partnership with Panasonic) is not just a read only format. There is single (25 GB) and dual layer (50GB) BD-R (write once) and BD-RE (Write erase) media and burners are already available as internal and external models from several brands already at speeds up to 3X I believe. HD DVD is stuck at 15 GB single layer burners at 1X speed and only in Toshiba laptops at the moment which effectively makes it read only for most people.
I doubt this 4 layer format will be cheap or write-able by consumers any time soon.
Hitachi is about to release two Blu-ray camcorders within a month. There are no plans for any standalone HD DVD recorders or camcorders.
Apparently MSFT wants to be the only seller of NBC Universal content online via their XBox Live store. Rumours are flying that MSFT was behind the move to have Paramount withdraw support for Blu-ray (a format supported by Apple). MSFT has a great deal invested in HD DVD via the HD DVD add-on and their Windows Media technology for HD DVD content creation software.
They do not want any media that uses industry standard AVC as a codec to succeed because the cannot sell encoder licenses for media creation software or influence media content creators to use their OS and related technologies.
If Paramount is next to withdraw from iTunes (even if they are making a lot of money), I would suggest investigating whether MSFT paid them off like they may have indirectly to support HD DVD exclusively.
Microsoft, the most prominent technology company supporting HD DVDs, said it could not rule out payment but said it wrote no checks. The mafia always pays in cash. Or they could have simply wired or direct deposited the money. That way they could say that they "wrote no checks" while sending the money electronically.
I'll tell you what, if Toshiba has a "free HD-A20" with the purchase of any HD DVD movie, then I will get one. Otherwise, I'm not wasting hundreds of dollars on hardware that I do not want from a company that I do not trust. I've had two crappy DVD players from Toshiba over the years and I'm sick of their sub-par quality. The latter device was an upscaling DVD player that will not even upscale unprotected content through component. I am quite happy with the upscaling of unprotected DVD's via component on my PS3 and with the picture quality of Blu-ray titles as well.
I take that back, Toshiba would have to pay me to buy their equipment. BTW, the HD-A2 is not 1080 progressive capable. It only outputs up to 1080 interlaced or 720 progressive.
HD-DVD does support mandatory Linear PCM, so no worries there. There is one major worry. The lack of capacity (30 GB for dual layer HD DVD versus 50 GB dual layer Blu-ray) is a major concern for fitting an Linear PCM track while still having enough space for a decent bitrate for high picture quality.
I enjoy seeing Blu-ray fail because it's Sony's, and at least to my limited and uninterested knowledge, it's even more full of AIDS (digital restrictions malware) than HD-DVD, but ultimately, both are AIDS-ridden media corporation formats, and we're in a case of cat shit vs. dog shit. FUD. Blu-ray was developed by Sony and Panasonic back in 2002 after Sony tried to get the DVD forum to begin work on the next generation replacement for DVD but were turned down. Toshiba did not believe that there was a market for it and that DVDs were good enough. After developing Blu-ray, Sony and Panasonic approached several DVD forum members (Toshiba and Warner) about making Blu-ray the next generation replacement for DVD but they were rebuffed because Toshiba and Warner were worried about losing the money they were making on DVD patents.
Both Blu-ray and HD DVD use the same AACS-128bit scheme but Blu-ray is coming out with a new scheme as AACS-128bit has been cracked already.
HD DVD has no Write and Erase format standard. After market HD DVD burners are virtually non-existent and are only supported on Windows. There is no HD DVD camcorder standard. HD DVD has lower capacity and a lower maxiumum bandwidth (bitrate). There are no HD DVD video recorder settop devices. There is no HD-DVD ROM (software) standard. Blu-ray has all of those things.
Have you considered a PS3? Not only does it support keyboards and mice but you have a choice of bluetooth, USB or RF sets that have a receiver which plugs into USB. I've had success with the MSFT wireless keyboard/mouse combos but I have not admittedly tried to see if games support them.
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The only thing is that is against the Terms and Conditions that one must Agree to in order for the Install to complete.
[J] You mean like with the upgrade versions of windows or Adobe Photoshop? Are you saying that people should go ahead and buy the cheaper upgrade version and hack it to install without an earlier full version? Is that what you are saying? If you don't have a mac, then you don't have a right to install the upgrade. Apple only sells upgrade boxes. The full versions come with new hardware from Apple.
http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/11/12/o2.iphone.fastest.seller/
Fact: WiFi is not as widespread as 3G. Try finding a wireless signal when you're in a car driving down the freeway.
Fact: There are more-technically-advanced phones available from other companies, with decent battery life
Fact: 3G is not as widespread as 2G and 2.5G in North America. Try finding a 3G signal when you're in a car driving down the freeway. Supposedly more technically advanced MP3 players prefered by some slashdotters did not sell better than the iPod because they were harder to use, sync and setup for average consumers.
HD DVD = Toshiba
Blu-ray = Panasonic, Sony, Pioneer, Sharp, Hitachi, Samsung, Philips, Mitsubishi and LG.
For computer drives we have:
HD DVD = Toshiba
Blu-ray = Panasonic, Sony, Pioneer
For burner technology we have:
HD DVD = 1X single layer (15GB) HD DVD-R
Blu-ray = BD-R 4X (50GB) Dual layer & BD-RE (rewritable)
Camcorders
HD DVD = none
Blu-ray = 2 Hitachi blu-ray recording camcorder models.
HD DVD is the beta max of this generation except that it is not technically superior like beta was compared with VHS.
People don't know anything about one format or the other, or even care, but they know HD is good and DVD sounds familiar and easy to use. HD-DVD was a great move because it leveraged the gajillions of dollars that have already been pumped into marketing "HD" and "DVD", and the familiarity that goes with both.
Uh.... no. It confuses consumers who think an HD DVD player is a upscaling DVD player or they think their existing upscaling DVD player will play back HD DVDs.
Most average joes I've spoken to believe Blu-ray is the future even if they personally have not bought one yet.
If you count PS3's, blu-ray has a 10:1 hardware lead in most markets a lead in disc sales ranging from 2:1 in Canada/US to 9:1 in Japan.
Blu-ray has Disney and any parent would tell you that Disney is were it's at for children's films.
So if i wanted the ability to have domain networking in my home (and I do), AND have the media center ability built into my OS as well, I got ripped off?
Hmmm...not seeing it.
Nick White of the Official Windows Vista Blog said the following: While I'm not sure anyone could dispute that to date, we've failed to meet the expectations of our Ultimate customers over the Ultimate Extras, we're working hard to exceed their expectations moving forward, and bring them the value they deserve. http://www.windows-now.com/blogs/robert/archive/2007/09/25/microsofts-mea-culpa-on-vista-ultimate-extras.aspxSteven and Mary Reiber should be sent to Guantanamo bay. They obviously are bent on disrupting world economies without offering an alternative. If this sort of extortion is not terrorism, I don't know what is.
http://www.apple.com/opensource/
The webkit project has been used by Nokia.
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/internet/webkit.html
The QuickTime Streaming Server project is available for OS X, linux and windows server.
http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/index.html
If you are going to troll, try a little harder next time.
In Victoria, film crews often get the city to cover up parking meters so they can park their equipment trucks and trailers during filming. I don't understand why the city cannot accept money to simply cover up the meters and install a sign saying "For Apple Store customes only".
I think he is confusing the RCMP with CSIS although there is a connection between CSIS and the RCMP and CSIS grew out of the RCMP.
I doubt this 4 layer format will be cheap or write-able by consumers any time soon.
Hitachi is about to release two Blu-ray camcorders within a month. There are no plans for any standalone HD DVD recorders or camcorders.
They do not want any media that uses industry standard AVC as a codec to succeed because the cannot sell encoder licenses for media creation software or influence media content creators to use their OS and related technologies.
If Paramount is next to withdraw from iTunes (even if they are making a lot of money), I would suggest investigating whether MSFT paid them off like they may have indirectly to support HD DVD exclusively.
I take that back, Toshiba would have to pay me to buy their equipment. BTW, the HD-A2 is not 1080 progressive capable. It only outputs up to 1080 interlaced or 720 progressive.
Both Blu-ray and HD DVD use the same AACS-128bit scheme but Blu-ray is coming out with a new scheme as AACS-128bit has been cracked already.
HD DVD has no Write and Erase format standard. After market HD DVD burners are virtually non-existent and are only supported on Windows. There is no HD DVD camcorder standard. HD DVD has lower capacity and a lower maxiumum bandwidth (bitrate). There are no HD DVD video recorder settop devices. There is no HD-DVD ROM (software) standard. Blu-ray has all of those things.
Have you considered a PS3? Not only does it support keyboards and mice but you have a choice of bluetooth, USB or RF sets that have a receiver which plugs into USB. I've had success with the MSFT wireless keyboard/mouse combos but I have not admittedly tried to see if games support them.