"Best of all, the chip is only about a year away from public release, and will only cost around US $9.20 to produce"
To translate: This is vaporware, it may never be released in our lifetime, it may never actually work, and I have no fricken clue as to what it will actually cost.
Gee, I was under the impression that the Pirate Bay was just a tad more popular than that. With that nominal amount of infringement I'm left wondering what the big deal is.
Apparently, there has not been a single terrorist, illegal immigrant, or con artist in the last 50 years. Wait, they has been. So obviously these people eventually grow up and reach their 50s right?!
Here's the real deal. By exempting those over 50 the very powerful AARP is taken out of the equation.
"The promise of "every movie, ever" is bullshit, and will be for the foreseeable future."
I guess we'll have to disagree on that point. I remember back when people argued that the music industry would never allow their entire catalog to be legally sold online, but yet iTunes and Amazon (and any number of others) prove otherwise.
I kind of clarified that already when I wrote, "The vast majority of people don't watch movies over and over again."
I have to admit, kids are the exception. My kids do tend to watch movies over and over again. (On a side note I really don't think kids could appreciate the difference between an upsampled DVD and a Blu-ray disc.) However, for most adults they'll watch a movie once or twice and be done with it. Even renting a DVD two or three times is cheaper than buying it on sale.
Of course the fanatics out there will want to "own" movies to watch over and over again. I'm guessing Blu-ray could survive as a niche market, sort of like how they still sell LPs for the audio freaks.
But the war will be won by streaming because it will suit the needs of the vast majority of movie viewers.
Let's assume that Sony won the DVD-A/SACD battle. After it was over, no consumer gave a rat's ass. Thus the HD audio war was fought for nothing.
I'll go out on a limb here, DVD sales are in the dumps for a reason. The vast majority of people don't watch movies over and over again. Thus, they do not see any value in buying DVDs. If people won't buy cheap DVDs they certainly not going to go out and buy expensive Blu-ray movies, especially when you consider the playback machine costs $400 (USD)!
The future of movies will be streamed. You can call it IPTV or movies on demand, or whatever. But the future of physical media is dead. CDs are dead. DVDs are dying. Blu-ray was dead before the battle even started.
"they will want to watch these same movies later on the big screens"
And why can't they watch the Matroska/MKV movie they downloaded from the Pirate Bay later on the big screen? DVI to HDMI cables aren't that expensive, you know.
I've been waiting all day to come home and try Netflix's service on my new HDTV to see if this guy was right. Without much ado, he's wrong.
First, the guy wrote that "Because my computer allows me to send an unrestricted HDTV feed to my monitor, Hollywood has decided to revoke my ability to stream 480 resolution video files from Netflix. In order to fix my problem, Netflix recommended that I downgrade to a lower res VGA setup."
I have a computer with DVI out connected to a HDMI input on a 1080p television. A Samsung HL-T5087S to be exact. I'm running the TV at 1920x1080. But, yet I did not have to "downgrade to a lower res VGA setup" to get Netflix's streaming service to work. So, he's wrong.
Next he said that he had to give Microsoft's "sniffing program access to all of the files on my hard drive." Once again, that is complete BS. I too was faced with "Reset Microsoft DRM Utility." I clicked it and a second later it was done. I have a spanned drive of 2 terabytes of xvid files on my computer. Do you really think Microsoft's utility could have scanned all of those files in one second?! Clearly, it did no scanning of my system at all, it merely reset whatever DRM crap it had to reset and it was done.
Anyone who has read my posts and comments here know I'm not in favor of DRM. But if someone is going to attack it, they should get their facts straight and not simply make crap up.
And I just have to add this, what sort of moron buys movies from Amazon's Unbox service?! If you really want to watch a movie over and over again, buy the DVD! You can watch it on any DVD player. You can take it to a friend's house and watch it. You can rip it to your iPod or other portable player. You can make as many backups as you want. Bitching about the DRM in Unboxed movies you bought reflects much more poorly on the buyer than on the seller.
First, without justification he says the computer is "slapped together." Well, at least he showed his true colors right out of the gate.
Next, and without justification, he recommends buying a Windows Vista. Which is bizarre because most people are avoiding Vista like the plague. It's hard to believe this guy is objective when he makes that sort of recommendation. (And I can only imagine how excruciating Vista would run on a sub-basement system.)
Next he calls the system "relatively low-performing" and "enough to run Ubuntu Linux," but in the next paragraph he says the hardware would be good for "installing Windows Home Server or another flavor of Linux." That doesn't make any sense to me. Why dump a working version of Ubuntu for another version of Linux. He never explains the problems he has with Ubuntu.
Next he bizarrely criticizes it because "programs written for Mac OS X or Windows that you can buy online or in a retail store won't work on the Linux-based gPC." Well duh! That's just a cheap shot to confuse the ignorant.
...every major invention was stolen from me. Any day now I'm going to invent everything, including a time machine. I'll get stuck in the past when everyone will start stealing my ideas. I'll die penniless in 1926.
Yeah, why stop corporations from ripping us off?! It makes no sense. If they have a history of ripping us off, we should bend over and take it. Heck, it's our civic duty.
I remember the good old days when a 19" monitor was actually 18" or less. Now I go into stores and monitors are actually sized accurately. It's so damn confusing.
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"Best of all, the chip is only about a year away from public release, and will only cost around US $9.20 to produce"
To translate: This is vaporware, it may never be released in our lifetime, it may never actually work, and I have no fricken clue as to what it will actually cost.
Gee, I was under the impression that the Pirate Bay was just a tad more popular than that. With that nominal amount of infringement I'm left wondering what the big deal is.
The music industry needs a lobby group to bribe the government to stamp out evils such as net and satellite radio.
Apparently, there has not been a single terrorist, illegal immigrant, or con artist in the last 50 years. Wait, they has been. So obviously these people eventually grow up and reach their 50s right?!
Here's the real deal. By exempting those over 50 the very powerful AARP is taken out of the equation.
"The promise of "every movie, ever" is bullshit, and will be for the foreseeable future."
I guess we'll have to disagree on that point. I remember back when people argued that the music industry would never allow their entire catalog to be legally sold online, but yet iTunes and Amazon (and any number of others) prove otherwise.
"but some people do watch movies over and over."
I kind of clarified that already when I wrote, "The vast majority of people don't watch movies over and over again."
I have to admit, kids are the exception. My kids do tend to watch movies over and over again. (On a side note I really don't think kids could appreciate the difference between an upsampled DVD and a Blu-ray disc.) However, for most adults they'll watch a movie once or twice and be done with it. Even renting a DVD two or three times is cheaper than buying it on sale.
Of course the fanatics out there will want to "own" movies to watch over and over again. I'm guessing Blu-ray could survive as a niche market, sort of like how they still sell LPs for the audio freaks.
But the war will be won by streaming because it will suit the needs of the vast majority of movie viewers.
Let's assume that Sony won the DVD-A/SACD battle. After it was over, no consumer gave a rat's ass. Thus the HD audio war was fought for nothing.
I'll go out on a limb here, DVD sales are in the dumps for a reason. The vast majority of people don't watch movies over and over again. Thus, they do not see any value in buying DVDs. If people won't buy cheap DVDs they certainly not going to go out and buy expensive Blu-ray movies, especially when you consider the playback machine costs $400 (USD)!
The future of movies will be streamed. You can call it IPTV or movies on demand, or whatever. But the future of physical media is dead. CDs are dead. DVDs are dying. Blu-ray was dead before the battle even started.
"they will want to watch these same movies later on the big screens"
And why can't they watch the Matroska/MKV movie they downloaded from the Pirate Bay later on the big screen? DVI to HDMI cables aren't that expensive, you know.
I've been waiting all day to come home and try Netflix's service on my new HDTV to see if this guy was right. Without much ado, he's wrong.
First, the guy wrote that "Because my computer allows me to send an unrestricted HDTV feed to my monitor, Hollywood has decided to revoke my ability to stream 480 resolution video files from Netflix. In order to fix my problem, Netflix recommended that I downgrade to a lower res VGA setup."
I have a computer with DVI out connected to a HDMI input on a 1080p television. A Samsung HL-T5087S to be exact. I'm running the TV at 1920x1080. But, yet I did not have to "downgrade to a lower res VGA setup" to get Netflix's streaming service to work. So, he's wrong.
Next he said that he had to give Microsoft's "sniffing program access to all of the files on my hard drive." Once again, that is complete BS. I too was faced with "Reset Microsoft DRM Utility." I clicked it and a second later it was done. I have a spanned drive of 2 terabytes of xvid files on my computer. Do you really think Microsoft's utility could have scanned all of those files in one second?! Clearly, it did no scanning of my system at all, it merely reset whatever DRM crap it had to reset and it was done.
Anyone who has read my posts and comments here know I'm not in favor of DRM. But if someone is going to attack it, they should get their facts straight and not simply make crap up.
And I just have to add this, what sort of moron buys movies from Amazon's Unbox service?! If you really want to watch a movie over and over again, buy the DVD! You can watch it on any DVD player. You can take it to a friend's house and watch it. You can rip it to your iPod or other portable player. You can make as many backups as you want. Bitching about the DRM in Unboxed movies you bought reflects much more poorly on the buyer than on the seller.
As Microsoft already has two monopolies on causing user frustration, it only makes sense they patent the detection of such frustration.
... I actually lived long enough for the US Right to come full circle with the Communist Left!
First, without justification he says the computer is "slapped together." Well, at least he showed his true colors right out of the gate.
Next, and without justification, he recommends buying a Windows Vista. Which is bizarre because most people are avoiding Vista like the plague. It's hard to believe this guy is objective when he makes that sort of recommendation. (And I can only imagine how excruciating Vista would run on a sub-basement system.)
Next he calls the system "relatively low-performing" and "enough to run Ubuntu Linux," but in the next paragraph he says the hardware would be good for "installing Windows Home Server or another flavor of Linux." That doesn't make any sense to me. Why dump a working version of Ubuntu for another version of Linux. He never explains the problems he has with Ubuntu.
Next he bizarrely criticizes it because "programs written for Mac OS X or Windows that you can buy online or in a retail store won't work on the Linux-based gPC." Well duh! That's just a cheap shot to confuse the ignorant.
I could go on, but I think you get the idea.
Everyone knows you have to wait until at least version 3.1 to get anything useful out of Microsoft.
Nope, he's actually my father, sister, and 2nd cousin, twice removed. Don't ask me to explain. Thanks.
...every major invention was stolen from me. Any day now I'm going to invent everything, including a time machine. I'll get stuck in the past when everyone will start stealing my ideas. I'll die penniless in 1926.
What I find amazing is that they managed to make a 110 TV appear really small.
Americans are ignorant about technology?! Stop the presses, wake the neighbors, and kill the dog. Damn, this is news.
From the blog:
"And now I have an inkling Apple will add lossless music downloads to the iTunes Store within the next 12 months."
Translation:
I have no fricken clue that this will ever happen, but because I think it'd be cool if it did, I'll go ahead and blog about it.
Exactly!
... they might as well have the soundtrack performed by Led Zeppelin.
"I can see "Hobbit: Vengance" starring Bruce Willis. The tag line, "More explosive action than any other Middle Earth movie EVER!!!!"."
If that's the case they would have signed Michael Bay to produce the sequel!
"How much cooler would that be!?"
Not quite as cool as Zombie Kong 2: Electric Boogaloo.
Sure, if "all the clips" on YouTube illegally took copyrighted works, retitled them, and then presented them as owned by someone else, I agree.
However, even an idiot (like yourself) should be aware that not "all" clips on YouTube fit that definition. In fact, the overwhelming majority do not.
So I'm left trying to understand your idiotic connection between this story and YouTube. I guess I answered that myself, didn't I.
"You forget that you will have to wait till they grow up"
You vastly overestimate the morality of guys who crave Natalie Portman. A lot of guys would probably only have to wait 10 years tops!
Yeah, why stop corporations from ripping us off?! It makes no sense. If they have a history of ripping us off, we should bend over and take it. Heck, it's our civic duty.
I remember the good old days when a 19" monitor was actually 18" or less. Now I go into stores and monitors are actually sized accurately. It's so damn confusing.