Hmm.......not too long ago Sony put out a call for emulator programmers. It was generally assumed that the PS3 was going to emulate the PS2, rather than including a miniaturized PS2 onboard. Maybe they decided emulation was more trouble than it was worth?
Well announced a delay and then followed that up a few weeks later with the announcement of an ATI/HL2 bundle.
Except it's not a real bundle. It's the card plus a voucher. The cards are due out in something like three weeks IIRC, there's no way on god's earth HL2 will be ready by then.
It's quite a bit less than double the amount. True, it's twice the number of frames, but the process manages to fit more frames in the same amount of space by using 1.85:1 frames instead of standard 1.33:1 frames (which wastes a lot of space since modern films are always projected at 1.85:1 or 2.40:1 anyway, at least in the U.S.) and eliminating the optical soundtrack on the side of the frame (which is now redundant with digital sound processes like Dolby Digital and DTS).
I know the cheap Apex DVD players will convert PAL to NTSC output(at least they will with VCDs, i assume they would for DVDs too).
A huge number of DVD players can convert PAL to NTSC -- in fact I wouldn't be surprised if most of them do. The problem is most of them (including the Apex models) don't do it right; they don't compensate correctly for the resolution difference between the two (PAL being higher resolution than NTSC) and the result is a picture that appears vertically stretched. Fortunately more and more DVD players can do the conversion properly -- on the lower end there's the Cyberhome 402 (which can be found for as low as $35 and can be easily made region-free with a remote hack) and on the higher end is the Malata DVP-520 (which is region-free out of the box and goes for $200-300, depending on how lucky you get).
Penny Arcade's reaction is almost as dumb as the actual list. Final Fantasy VII "deposited the notion of gaming into a new generation"? Use hyperbole much? The ironic thing is this sort of hysterical bullshit alone justifies the inclusion of FF7 on the list. In fact anything that pisses off Penny Arcade is automatically beyond reproach in the greater scheme of things. So congratulations Gamespy.
Thoes games weren't really hyped or advertised much at all.
Except for the 500,000 fanboys on every gaming/anime forum/newsgroup in existence who will insist to their dying day that one or the other (or both) is the greatest game in the known history of the universe.
If you're going to force me to watch a million hours of cutscenes to keep up with what's going on, try to come up with a story that isn't just insipid rehashed Evangelion-wannabe HORSESHIT.
The Xbox version won't be out until 2004. EB has a tendency to literally make release dates up out of thin air (they've given numerous dates for Duke Nukem Forever, for example) but in this case they seem to be basing the date on this old article. For those who don't read Norwegian the article states that Vivendi's Norwegian branch announced that the release date was pushed back to mid-November, and presumably EB just guessed "mid-November" meant the 19th. Valve almost immediately denied that the game was delayed and they've reiterated the September 30 date several times since then. Again, the Xbox version won't be out this year at all.
I don't think he's claiming that, although I see how the confusion can come up. Bill Gates appeared "as himself" in several Outland strips, and suffice to say they were not complimentary.
Parade Magazine (THAT PIECE OF SHIT) fielded this question not long ago. They said Watterson (a "cranky recluse") had left the strip to pursue his "first love" and was now a painter. (Presumably the canvas type, not the house type.)
It's probably official at this point: a well-meaning experiment in property rights in the digital age has been ruined by idiots making fake bids. Predictably.
I haven't read the book AC #2 is talking about (it's out of print and the sellers on Amazon.com want $30 for it, so no thanks) but I'm not sure exactly how that could be true, unless there's some obscure quirk of international copyright law involved. What I heard was that the U.S. court ruled the Pythons' contract with the BBC gave them ownership of the show and the BBC, rather than face the risk of fighting a lawsuit in the UK (the lawsuit in the U.S. was against ABC, who bought a few episodes from the BBC and proceeded to hack them to pieces, rightly pissing off the Pythons), accepted the U.S. ruling and ceded all rights to the Pythons. Whether or not the BBC currently has the broadcast rights to the series I don't know, but they haven't aired repeats since the mid-to-late '90s so I'm inclined to think not. (They have released a "Best Of" compilation on DVD and VHS, though.)
That all the Monty Python episodes will be available? That would be really cool, but I just spent ~$100 on the 14 DVD boxed set. Nuts!
I wouldn't count on this, since thanks to a U.S. court decision in the late '70s the Pythons own all the rights to the TV series, not the BBC or anyone else.
I cannot conceive of this archive existing without some very large and substantial gaps. So much BBC programming (particularly nowadays) is created with the collaboration of private sector companies that it would be a rights nightmare. I also can't help but notice that no time frame is provided here so for all we know he's talking about the distant future and hasn't even seriously begun looking at how to implement this.
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Hmm.......not too long ago Sony put out a call for emulator programmers. It was generally assumed that the PS3 was going to emulate the PS2, rather than including a miniaturized PS2 onboard. Maybe they decided emulation was more trouble than it was worth?
Only the shitty unusable model, though.
It's quite a bit less than double the amount. True, it's twice the number of frames, but the process manages to fit more frames in the same amount of space by using 1.85:1 frames instead of standard 1.33:1 frames (which wastes a lot of space since modern films are always projected at 1.85:1 or 2.40:1 anyway, at least in the U.S.) and eliminating the optical soundtrack on the side of the frame (which is now redundant with digital sound processes like Dolby Digital and DTS).
"Big money! Big prizes! I love it!"
Penny Arcade's reaction is almost as dumb as the actual list. Final Fantasy VII "deposited the notion of gaming into a new generation"? Use hyperbole much? The ironic thing is this sort of hysterical bullshit alone justifies the inclusion of FF7 on the list. In fact anything that pisses off Penny Arcade is automatically beyond reproach in the greater scheme of things. So congratulations Gamespy.
If you're going to force me to watch a million hours of cutscenes to keep up with what's going on, try to come up with a story that isn't just insipid rehashed Evangelion-wannabe HORSESHIT.
Zelda's been out in the UK since early May.
I'm pretty sure the SNES/GBA couldn't handle a faithful port of Tomb Raider.
The Xbox version won't be out until 2004. EB has a tendency to literally make release dates up out of thin air (they've given numerous dates for Duke Nukem Forever, for example) but in this case they seem to be basing the date on this old article. For those who don't read Norwegian the article states that Vivendi's Norwegian branch announced that the release date was pushed back to mid-November, and presumably EB just guessed "mid-November" meant the 19th. Valve almost immediately denied that the game was delayed and they've reiterated the September 30 date several times since then. Again, the Xbox version won't be out this year at all.
The author photos and bios at the back of the various Bloom County collections were funnier than most of the actual strips.
It's probably official at this point: a well-meaning experiment in property rights in the digital age has been ruined by idiots making fake bids. Predictably.
Jerkcity is the best web comic. This has been proven objectively, using science.
Isn't Atlantis supposed to be ripped off from some anime too? Emperor's New Groove was funny.
So all 128kbps rips are exactly the same?
I haven't read the book AC #2 is talking about (it's out of print and the sellers on Amazon.com want $30 for it, so no thanks) but I'm not sure exactly how that could be true, unless there's some obscure quirk of international copyright law involved. What I heard was that the U.S. court ruled the Pythons' contract with the BBC gave them ownership of the show and the BBC, rather than face the risk of fighting a lawsuit in the UK (the lawsuit in the U.S. was against ABC, who bought a few episodes from the BBC and proceeded to hack them to pieces, rightly pissing off the Pythons), accepted the U.S. ruling and ceded all rights to the Pythons. Whether or not the BBC currently has the broadcast rights to the series I don't know, but they haven't aired repeats since the mid-to-late '90s so I'm inclined to think not. (They have released a "Best Of" compilation on DVD and VHS, though.)
I cannot conceive of this archive existing without some very large and substantial gaps. So much BBC programming (particularly nowadays) is created with the collaboration of private sector companies that it would be a rights nightmare. I also can't help but notice that no time frame is provided here so for all we know he's talking about the distant future and hasn't even seriously begun looking at how to implement this.
Are you joking?