I have a Phillips DVP-642, it has serious bug though even in the last firmware made for it if you use a HDTV iva component with it. All XViD movies get squished and additional black bars added on the top and bottom, so you only get to use about 1/3 of your screen to see the movie, the rest is black bars.
That bug was fixed in the DVP-5960.
Coming soon to Wii OJ Simpson's "If I did it, here's how you can to!" - , not only do you slit two people's throats using the Wii-mote, you get to drive the Bronco too!
didn't 2 Live Crew teach politicians anything!? Now every kid in America is going to buy this game. My only thory is that this politician got paid big bucks by Rockstar to start this campaign against them. There were games far worse than this that, unless killing someone with a chainsaw and pissing on their dead corpse wasn't far enough in Postal 2?
a study found people buy hybrids to show they care about the enviorment. A hybrid civic still looks like a civic, however a Prius is unmistakably a hybrid from the ground up. Part of the appear of owning a hybrid is your "image" or at least that is what one study found why people prefered the Hybrid Prius to other Hybrids out there.
Sorry to inform you but the days where a creditor needed a social security number to put something deragatory on you credit report are LONG gone. It is actually one of the biggest myth's of credit reports. See this:
See MYTH #8: http://www.fatwallet.com/t/52/225082/
My significant other and I just bought our first furniture set this past weekend. We got approved from HSBC for the in store financing. We had to talk to the HSBC representative in the store over the phone to verify us.
The questions surprised us. We were asked "what city does your brother live in?" and they gave us a list of four cities to choose from. The next one way, "At what company did your father work for last". Then she got questions about her step dad. I asked what my family members are doing on my credit report and was told "We compile information from a variety of public information stores". Keep in mind I haven't talked to my brother in years and had no idea where he was, but guessed based on where he went to college, and my S.O. hasn't spoken to her step dad in decades.
So if you think the informaiton web is only for you, wrong. The web is growing and includes people you know too. Truly scary how interconnected these new data bases are. I figure they are using a service like LexisNexus or some such to group credit users. Much like the US Govt uses these databases to keep tabs on terrorists and their associates.
My roomate found out at a certain sports book online they had a bet on the Kentucky Derby that paid some good odds, like 100-1 if you just clicked on the random selection button, instead of choosing horses. The trick was you just keep clicking it, sure you got some crappy horses, so he would obviously lose $20 on those cards, but just keep clicking it, eventually you would get one of the favorites, and instead of the regular 2-1 odds, you got the 100-1. So that $20 x 100, got him $2000, minus the crappy betting cards he had to get. The next race they got rid of the random betting button:)
All questions I brought up to the police in Berkely. According to the police this person was driving the passenger's car, the passenger supplied the insurance and registration and the car was registered in her name, it was not a stolen car. So he ran her insruance and registration and ran the "driver's information" which happened to be mine. The license plate number was written on the ticket as well as the make and model of the car, a Mazda 626. The first thing I had to do was fax them a copy of my signature to the courthouse. If the cop was doing his job he would have seen that I have blue eyes and am quite a bit taller than this person, if anything the cop and court should have to pay me for this whole mess and go after the passenger who owned the car for the money.
Sure this is great if your identity is stolen to use your credit to rip some business off. But it does NOTHING to prevent people from using your identity when pulled over for a traffic ticket. It happened to me. Here in California all you need to do is tell a cop you don't have your ID, then give them someone else's information so they can run through the computer, when it checks out, they write that person a ticket with the other person's name. That person drives off scot free and a few monthes later you get a warrant out for your arrest for Failure to Appear in court.
Let me tell you the pit in your stomach when you are wrongly accused of a crime, your insurance refuses to renew you, your local DMV refuses to renew your license, you get to drive to work with no license and insurance and you can't even go into a bar because your drivers license cannot be renewed. Of course you only find out about this just before your license is about to expire, when you need a license the most because you have no way of looking up your driving records for free. Then you get to go to court, in my case in Northern California when I live in San Diego to prove using ATM slips, credit card reciepts, and your signature and a picture of your car that you not only don't match the description of this person but that you have tons of paper trail to prove you never left your home town and tons of witnesses to say you were at work that day. Its a huge hassle.
Why not make cops take a finger print of anyone they pull over if they can't provide ID, or take their picture. Can a police officer on here please explain to me why they just trust a criminals word when they are giving a name and address that it is as good as a CA Drivers License, that is pathetic.
So if some coffee shop owner who sells pot to American tourists comes to the US, he/she will be next? This is absolutly the sickest thing I have ever heard.
I am seriously considering abandoning my job of 10 years and studying to be a lawyer just to fight this outrageous abuse of power.
So I can gamble my stock market account in foreign companies, but I can't gamble on some sports bets. What if I drive down to Tijuana, place a bet at Caliente Sports Book? Will the Caliente owners be next.
I hope that clock strikes midnight soon, we need a fresh start.
Maybe they could come up with something better than the HR20 DVR that Directv is cramming down everyone's throats with a 2 year agreement. It would be nice to use a TIVO Series 3 on Directv.
I've seen 2 PS3's in the flesh. One was at a local Target with NBA 2k7, no problems. Then the other was a Circuit City, completely frozen. I instead played around on the XBOX 360 right next to it, played Madden and walked out the door with the 360.
In today's world the developers design for the least common denominator. In this case the XBOX 360. So you might see one or two graphics tricks, maybe extra shadowing or high dyamic lighting, but all in all they are all going to be the same game.
We will see when the XBOX 360 Forza 2 comes out how it compares to the SONY only Gran Turismo HD. My bet is they will be so similar no one will want to spend twice the price for the SONY console.
PS3 is DOA. I waited 2 years for that POS. No 1080i scaler, no rumble in the gamepad, no modchip, too expensive, now this. Xbox 360 has already won this round. Lets hope PS4 isn't some attempt for SONY to introduce yet anonther proprietary technology.
I have been waiting 2 years for the PS3. I loved the PS2 but was ready to use the potential of my HDTV because I'm a hard core Gran Turismo player.
Well the new PS3 has been a total disappointment for me.
My TV only does 1080i HD, no 720p. The PS3 doesn't upconvert its 720p games to 1080i, but instead down converts them to 480p! So much for next generation. Solution? $1500 external scaler, $2000 new HDTV, or go to the XBOX 360.
Next up, I love rumble in racing games, guess what, SONY dropped the ball on that one too. XBOX 360 wins again.
Now, there won't be any Gran Turismo on the XBOX, but wait, Forza 2 is coming out, and judging by the track list and car list, GT isn't the only game in town. http://forums.forzamotorsport.net/forums/permalink /23209/21658/ShowThread.aspx#21658
Then there is all the claims the PS3 is more powerful, so the graphics should be better. We all know game publishers are multi-platform these days, so they are going to develop for the lowest common denominator, so that may be the XBOX 360, Madden looks identical on both, Need for Speed Carbon is virtually the same. At least I won't have to deal with 480p in my games on the PS3.
Then the best part, its $200 cheaper AND it comes with HDTV component cables, unlike the PS3.
The only downsides I can see are you have to play for multiplayer XBOX LIVE, but from what I hear its a better experience.
I don't know of any cable STB's that support 1080p and I've never heard a complaint, I think SONY made the right decision here. I still don't understand why you can't just set it and forget it. If you have 720p you select that only, if you have 1080i you select that only, cable boxes can do it, why not SONY?
I have a 2 year old 1080i only HDTV (well it has 480p also), Does this mean the games will play at 1080i now instead of being downgraded to 480p?
I wasn't going to buy a PS3 if all it was going to do was provide 480p to my TV.
Any ideas on how to stop this crap? I've so far written to those ValuPak people, all the credit buerus (that actually worked), but I still get so much garbage in my mailbox, and the ValuPaks keep coming. Is there any law like the "Do Not Call List" for snail mail. Its infuriating.
Didn't House "cure" this in Season 1. I think it had to do with an insurance settlement or something some easy ass cure. Maybe Scott watched that episode.
come on this company was more a target for their Playstation disc verification bypass products more than the importing of games.
I remember when they sold PS2 mod chips and swap discs.
There are plenty of other importing companies, these guys got singled out because they were selling "backup devices".
I hate SONY as much as the next guy, but they do have to protect their intellectual property.
I HATE digital TV. The only thing I found TV good for was sports, now half the games just degrade into a sea of blocks on any type of motion I.E. the basis of sports. Garbage. Someone told me its my Directv but I've seen it on cable too. I rmember watching the slam dunk contest, every single dunker turned into something I would expect on YouTube, just awful.
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I have a Phillips DVP-642, it has serious bug though even in the last firmware made for it if you use a HDTV iva component with it. All XViD movies get squished and additional black bars added on the top and bottom, so you only get to use about 1/3 of your screen to see the movie, the rest is black bars. That bug was fixed in the DVP-5960.
Coming soon to Wii OJ Simpson's "If I did it, here's how you can to!" - , not only do you slit two people's throats using the Wii-mote, you get to drive the Bronco too!
didn't 2 Live Crew teach politicians anything!? Now every kid in America is going to buy this game. My only thory is that this politician got paid big bucks by Rockstar to start this campaign against them. There were games far worse than this that, unless killing someone with a chainsaw and pissing on their dead corpse wasn't far enough in Postal 2?
a study found people buy hybrids to show they care about the enviorment. A hybrid civic still looks like a civic, however a Prius is unmistakably a hybrid from the ground up. Part of the appear of owning a hybrid is your "image" or at least that is what one study found why people prefered the Hybrid Prius to other Hybrids out there.
Sorry to inform you but the days where a creditor needed a social security number to put something deragatory on you credit report are LONG gone. It is actually one of the biggest myth's of credit reports. See this: See MYTH #8: http://www.fatwallet.com/t/52/225082/
My significant other and I just bought our first furniture set this past weekend. We got approved from HSBC for the in store financing. We had to talk to the HSBC representative in the store over the phone to verify us. The questions surprised us. We were asked "what city does your brother live in?" and they gave us a list of four cities to choose from. The next one way, "At what company did your father work for last". Then she got questions about her step dad. I asked what my family members are doing on my credit report and was told "We compile information from a variety of public information stores". Keep in mind I haven't talked to my brother in years and had no idea where he was, but guessed based on where he went to college, and my S.O. hasn't spoken to her step dad in decades. So if you think the informaiton web is only for you, wrong. The web is growing and includes people you know too. Truly scary how interconnected these new data bases are. I figure they are using a service like LexisNexus or some such to group credit users. Much like the US Govt uses these databases to keep tabs on terrorists and their associates.
Good luck with that.
My roomate found out at a certain sports book online they had a bet on the Kentucky Derby that paid some good odds, like 100-1 if you just clicked on the random selection button, instead of choosing horses. The trick was you just keep clicking it, sure you got some crappy horses, so he would obviously lose $20 on those cards, but just keep clicking it, eventually you would get one of the favorites, and instead of the regular 2-1 odds, you got the 100-1. So that $20 x 100, got him $2000, minus the crappy betting cards he had to get. The next race they got rid of the random betting button :)
All questions I brought up to the police in Berkely. According to the police this person was driving the passenger's car, the passenger supplied the insurance and registration and the car was registered in her name, it was not a stolen car. So he ran her insruance and registration and ran the "driver's information" which happened to be mine. The license plate number was written on the ticket as well as the make and model of the car, a Mazda 626. The first thing I had to do was fax them a copy of my signature to the courthouse. If the cop was doing his job he would have seen that I have blue eyes and am quite a bit taller than this person, if anything the cop and court should have to pay me for this whole mess and go after the passenger who owned the car for the money.
Sure this is great if your identity is stolen to use your credit to rip some business off. But it does NOTHING to prevent people from using your identity when pulled over for a traffic ticket. It happened to me. Here in California all you need to do is tell a cop you don't have your ID, then give them someone else's information so they can run through the computer, when it checks out, they write that person a ticket with the other person's name. That person drives off scot free and a few monthes later you get a warrant out for your arrest for Failure to Appear in court. Let me tell you the pit in your stomach when you are wrongly accused of a crime, your insurance refuses to renew you, your local DMV refuses to renew your license, you get to drive to work with no license and insurance and you can't even go into a bar because your drivers license cannot be renewed. Of course you only find out about this just before your license is about to expire, when you need a license the most because you have no way of looking up your driving records for free. Then you get to go to court, in my case in Northern California when I live in San Diego to prove using ATM slips, credit card reciepts, and your signature and a picture of your car that you not only don't match the description of this person but that you have tons of paper trail to prove you never left your home town and tons of witnesses to say you were at work that day. Its a huge hassle. Why not make cops take a finger print of anyone they pull over if they can't provide ID, or take their picture. Can a police officer on here please explain to me why they just trust a criminals word when they are giving a name and address that it is as good as a CA Drivers License, that is pathetic.
on their grave. This is out of hand.
So if some coffee shop owner who sells pot to American tourists comes to the US, he/she will be next? This is absolutly the sickest thing I have ever heard.
I am seriously considering abandoning my job of 10 years and studying to be a lawyer just to fight this outrageous abuse of power.
So I can gamble my stock market account in foreign companies, but I can't gamble on some sports bets. What if I drive down to Tijuana, place a bet at Caliente Sports Book? Will the Caliente owners be next.
I hope that clock strikes midnight soon, we need a fresh start.
Maybe they could come up with something better than the HR20 DVR that Directv is cramming down everyone's throats with a 2 year agreement. It would be nice to use a TIVO Series 3 on Directv.
I'm sure MS has some DRM to prevent you from downloading your shows again on a new XBOX 360.
I've seen 2 PS3's in the flesh. One was at a local Target with NBA 2k7, no problems. Then the other was a Circuit City, completely frozen. I instead played around on the XBOX 360 right next to it, played Madden and walked out the door with the 360.
In today's world the developers design for the least common denominator. In this case the XBOX 360. So you might see one or two graphics tricks, maybe extra shadowing or high dyamic lighting, but all in all they are all going to be the same game. We will see when the XBOX 360 Forza 2 comes out how it compares to the SONY only Gran Turismo HD. My bet is they will be so similar no one will want to spend twice the price for the SONY console.
PS3 is DOA. I waited 2 years for that POS. No 1080i scaler, no rumble in the gamepad, no modchip, too expensive, now this. Xbox 360 has already won this round. Lets hope PS4 isn't some attempt for SONY to introduce yet anonther proprietary technology.
I have been waiting 2 years for the PS3. I loved the PS2 but was ready to use the potential of my HDTV because I'm a hard core Gran Turismo player. Well the new PS3 has been a total disappointment for me. My TV only does 1080i HD, no 720p. The PS3 doesn't upconvert its 720p games to 1080i, but instead down converts them to 480p! So much for next generation. Solution? $1500 external scaler, $2000 new HDTV, or go to the XBOX 360. Next up, I love rumble in racing games, guess what, SONY dropped the ball on that one too. XBOX 360 wins again. Now, there won't be any Gran Turismo on the XBOX, but wait, Forza 2 is coming out, and judging by the track list and car list, GT isn't the only game in town. http://forums.forzamotorsport.net/forums/permalink /23209/21658/ShowThread.aspx#21658
Then there is all the claims the PS3 is more powerful, so the graphics should be better. We all know game publishers are multi-platform these days, so they are going to develop for the lowest common denominator, so that may be the XBOX 360, Madden looks identical on both, Need for Speed Carbon is virtually the same. At least I won't have to deal with 480p in my games on the PS3.
Then the best part, its $200 cheaper AND it comes with HDTV component cables, unlike the PS3.
The only downsides I can see are you have to play for multiplayer XBOX LIVE, but from what I hear its a better experience.
IGN.COM reports this still doesn't fix the 1080i issue.
I don't know of any cable STB's that support 1080p and I've never heard a complaint, I think SONY made the right decision here. I still don't understand why you can't just set it and forget it. If you have 720p you select that only, if you have 1080i you select that only, cable boxes can do it, why not SONY?
I have a 2 year old 1080i only HDTV (well it has 480p also), Does this mean the games will play at 1080i now instead of being downgraded to 480p? I wasn't going to buy a PS3 if all it was going to do was provide 480p to my TV.
Any ideas on how to stop this crap? I've so far written to those ValuPak people, all the credit buerus (that actually worked), but I still get so much garbage in my mailbox, and the ValuPaks keep coming. Is there any law like the "Do Not Call List" for snail mail. Its infuriating.
Didn't House "cure" this in Season 1. I think it had to do with an insurance settlement or something some easy ass cure. Maybe Scott watched that episode.
come on this company was more a target for their Playstation disc verification bypass products more than the importing of games. I remember when they sold PS2 mod chips and swap discs. There are plenty of other importing companies, these guys got singled out because they were selling "backup devices". I hate SONY as much as the next guy, but they do have to protect their intellectual property.
I HATE digital TV. The only thing I found TV good for was sports, now half the games just degrade into a sea of blocks on any type of motion I.E. the basis of sports. Garbage. Someone told me its my Directv but I've seen it on cable too. I rmember watching the slam dunk contest, every single dunker turned into something I would expect on YouTube, just awful.