In addition to that, if you have a Memorex Thumbdrive (Which I have a 1Gig that I paid $40 for), that fat sucker won't let you put anything in the USB port next to it if there were in parallel so the split USB is welcome.
You and I and most of the/. crowd know the difference.
Hardly scientific but today's poll in IMDB:
Would you replace your DVD of a title if a High Definition (HD) DVD version came out? No, I don't see the need (49.8%) No, I'm gonna wait 'til they decide on the format to use(25.1%) Yes, if the price was right(10.8%) Yes, if there were more special features(8.4%) Yes, if the picture was better(5.9%)
I'm not an early adopter as I am waiting for the 'better' plasma display, a de-facto DVD format, and content to go with it. There is plenty of off air HD and (in my case, satellite) streamed content to satisfy HD viewing.
I know 3 people that bought HD displays that have no content to go with it nor will they upgrade a subscription package or get an antenna to get off-air content. They bought it becaue, it's flat and looks cool.
And again, there are 2 sports restaurants that I frequent. They both have 50inch or larger display with HD satellite subscription and do not show the content. Only one of the managers I asked was aware.
I think both formats are going to die or stay in the second lane until the next best thing comes out. Not everybody 'gets' the whole HD movement. -Why should average shopper buy a BD or HD title if they already have it on DVD? -How many consumers already think that DVD IS Hi Def? -With all the Hi Def ready displays out there, how many actually show HD content? -How many times do you go into a bar or sports restaurant where they DO have an HD display with Satellite hookup and HD content STILL SHOW Standard Def channels on the screen? -How many times do you see in a public place the aspect ratio screwed up on one of those plasma displays?
The ONLY way BD/HD will surpass DVD is when the cost of a BD/HD title is less than a standard DVD and we don't see that happening at all, ever. Video distributors will NOT stop making DVD's if they're selling and Hollywood will not issue an order to stop producing content for it for DRM sake.
Good point. I don't know if a black person complained to Walmart but how is displaying "Planet of the Apes" with Martin Luther King on the same page a bad thing? I fail to see why this reference shows the black community in a negative light. One is fiction the other not yet both are about one race at odds against the other.
I fail to see why this is news material of a 'bigotry' type. Obviously the black community still has a chip on their shoulder and to utter the word 'ape' in the same paragraph as a person of color is considered a 'bigot' statement.
This reminds me of a story that happened in Columbus Georgia last year where a police officer was eating a banana and a black woman got offended because he was eating a banana in front of her so she complained to his superior. http://www.americandaily.com/article/6842
How could you have NOT seen the demise of VHS back in 1998?
When grocery stores carried DVD players for $100 - where I bought mine back in 1999 - I saw that VHS didn't have a chance. What does VHS offer that DVD can't? The ability to record TV that 80% of people can't do with the help of VCR+ and even that is a chore to use.
And the distribution is so much cheaper than VHS and DVD's weigh less and take up less space for shipping, For every tape that is boxed, it takes the same amount of time to master the tape as it does to watch it. DVD's are pretty much shit out of the DVD master monster's bowels as fast as you can feed it.
Supposedly the next version of Windows takes many cues from the current Mac OS X.
Probably visually but not functionally. Windows is still the tired OS it was 10 years ago, although exciting it was then. NT did alot for the underpinnings but it still has that START button and convoluted menu system that is confusing as hell. I don't understand why MS just doesn't have the cajones to bring forth a new OS and support legacy through VM technology. If Linux hackers can do it on their time, what the hell is MS doing?
I'd like MS to actually do something instead of being a follower with a 'me too' approach yet flaunt 'we're a billion dollar corporation and we're the leaders because of it'
Then we'll have some dudes appear from the twilight zone and look at us as if we're statues where our caretaker, Mr. Wickwire, keeps us clean for the 200 years.
Time is relative anyway, it could take 1000 years for you to flip that switch, it'll take me just as long to hit 2 keys on my keyboard and bam, I'm a million years old just typing this!
I'm not convinced that I see it that way. I don't disagree but how can Apple design an interface that is identical across platforms yet Microsoft can't?
How is it Apples fault if Urge won't work with Macs (we don't know that yet but my bet is it won't)? You don't HAVE to have an iPod for music on a Mac.
Interesting comment. Here Apple has iTMS which works on Apple own OS as well as the competing Microsoft and functions exactly the same on either OS.
Will Urge do the same on Apple's OS or is this going to be another anti-trust issue? Hell, they could support Linux like Rhapsody and get out of the hot seat.
You know, the quality isn't that bad for a 'traded' CD. If I wanted better quality sound, I'd buy the damn mastered CD however for a song that a friend trades with me that I really don't care about, I'll take it and hear it once and maybe again in a couple of years.
If it's from Microsoft, it better work with devices that has their "Plays for sure" logo on it otherwise both Urge and "Plays for sure" are a total lack of respect for customers.
I think it's possible only if Microsoft distributes the USB device or licenses the USB device so that the software is tied to the USB hardware (of which will be quickly hacked and promptly distributed to the masses)
Even so, that will only be good for Windows only operating systems.
I wouldn't call it hundreds. Even so, it probably just a few code libraries to check against as I doubt they check against each and every title listed here: http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect
Probably their main concern is the Enterprise level support they have to comply with and NOT rush a patch out.
There's still copy protection on today's commercial DVDs. With HDTV becoming the norm in a few/several years, DVDs won't be good enough as they aren't hi def to match the displays.
With CDs, all they can do is up the sampling rate andmost people won't be able to hear the difference (including me). With DVDs, I can visually tell the difference between 480i , 852, and 1080.
The highest resolution for film to digital conversion today is 4000dpi so there isn't a need to re-convert movies that have been done, just re-master them.
I never said better, I just remember when it was just those 2 getting all the news. IMO, You'll get tired trying all of them and by the time you tweak it to do what you want it to do, you've learned how to program your own better and lighter.
The other thing about Blu-Ray is that if the price point per release isn't below $20, their target audience won't buy. Judging by the current trend of DVD's, I don't see how Blu-Ray will have a market value of less than $30 per release.
Geeks like us will re-buy LOTR and Star Wars to see it in Hi Def but there's no way I'm shelling out more cash for old tv shows on Blu-Ray or other lesser quality movies.
I saw DVD's catching on 10 years ago but I have a hard time seeing this one.
There are a bazillion Open Source CMS out there. I remember when Post Nuke and PHP-Nuke were it. Now it looks like a befuddled mess where posting on MySpace looks attractive.
It's still a glitch that happens in the mastering process. Titanic has a 1 frame compression issue too. Point is that there will be some dumb thing that will happen on a release (Probably "From Justin to Kelly" or "Glitter") that will render joe sixpack's BD-DVD useless and we will be screwed until the next format comes out or a video on demand where we can get even the most obscure video (Like "Incredible Melting Man") where the distribution actually works.
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In addition to that, if you have a Memorex Thumbdrive (Which I have a 1Gig that I paid $40 for), that fat sucker won't let you put anything in the USB port next to it if there were in parallel so the split USB is welcome.
Aliens entering their war machines, SUV drivers, or seismic activity.
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/6320.asp
I'm not an early adopter as I am waiting for the 'better' plasma display, a de-facto DVD format, and content to go with it. There is plenty of off air HD and (in my case, satellite) streamed content to satisfy HD viewing.
I know 3 people that bought HD displays that have no content to go with it nor will they upgrade a subscription package or get an antenna to get off-air content. They bought it becaue, it's flat and looks cool.
And again, there are 2 sports restaurants that I frequent. They both have 50inch or larger display with HD satellite subscription and do not show the content. Only one of the managers I asked was aware.
I think both formats are going to die or stay in the second lane until the next best thing comes out.
Not everybody 'gets' the whole HD movement.
-Why should average shopper buy a BD or HD title if they already have it on DVD?
-How many consumers already think that DVD IS Hi Def?
-With all the Hi Def ready displays out there, how many actually show HD content?
-How many times do you go into a bar or sports restaurant where they DO have an HD display with Satellite hookup and HD content STILL SHOW Standard Def channels on the screen?
-How many times do you see in a public place the aspect ratio screwed up on one of those plasma displays?
The ONLY way BD/HD will surpass DVD is when the cost of a BD/HD title is less than a standard DVD and we don't see that happening at all, ever.
Video distributors will NOT stop making DVD's if they're selling and Hollywood will not issue an order to stop producing content for it for DRM sake.
Good point. I don't know if a black person complained to Walmart but how is displaying "Planet of the Apes" with Martin Luther King on the same page a bad thing? I fail to see why this reference shows the black community in a negative light.
One is fiction the other not yet both are about one race at odds against the other.
I fail to see why this is news material of a 'bigotry' type.
Obviously the black community still has a chip on their shoulder and to utter the word 'ape' in the same paragraph as a person of color is considered a 'bigot' statement.
This reminds me of a story that happened in Columbus Georgia last year where a police officer was eating a banana and a black woman got offended because he was eating a banana in front of her so she complained to his superior.
http://www.americandaily.com/article/6842
How could you have NOT seen the demise of VHS back in 1998?
When grocery stores carried DVD players for $100 - where I bought mine back in 1999 - I saw that VHS didn't have a chance. What does VHS offer that DVD can't?
The ability to record TV that 80% of people can't do with the help of VCR+ and even that is a chore to use.
And the distribution is so much cheaper than VHS and DVD's weigh less and take up less space for shipping, For every tape that is boxed, it takes the same amount of time to master the tape as it does to watch it. DVD's are pretty much shit out of the DVD master monster's bowels as fast as you can feed it.
Supposedly the next version of Windows takes many cues from the current Mac OS X.
Probably visually but not functionally. Windows is still the tired OS it was 10 years ago, although exciting it was then. NT did alot for the underpinnings but it still has that START button and convoluted menu system that is confusing as hell.
I don't understand why MS just doesn't have the cajones to bring forth a new OS and support legacy through VM technology. If Linux hackers can do it on their time, what the hell is MS doing?
I'd like MS to actually do something instead of being a follower with a 'me too' approach yet flaunt 'we're a billion dollar corporation and we're the leaders because of it'
Then we'll have some dudes appear from the twilight zone and look at us as if we're statues where our caretaker, Mr. Wickwire, keeps us clean for the 200 years.
Time is relative anyway, it could take 1000 years for you to flip that switch, it'll take me just as long to hit 2 keys on my keyboard and bam, I'm a million years old just typing this!
I'm not convinced that I see it that way. I don't disagree but how can Apple design an interface that is identical across platforms yet Microsoft can't?
How is it Apples fault if Urge won't work with Macs (we don't know that yet but my bet is it won't)?
You don't HAVE to have an iPod for music on a Mac.
Bills biggest threat is Chuck Norris.
Interesting comment.
Here Apple has iTMS which works on Apple own OS as well as the competing Microsoft and functions exactly the same on either OS.
Will Urge do the same on Apple's OS or is this going to be another anti-trust issue?
Hell, they could support Linux like Rhapsody and get out of the hot seat.
Why should they pay Thompson Consumer for the encoding when they own their own format?
Moreover, their format has a 90% desktop saturation rate.
You know, the quality isn't that bad for a 'traded' CD. If I wanted better quality sound, I'd buy the damn mastered CD however for a song that a friend trades with me that I really don't care about, I'll take it and hear it once and maybe again in a couple of years.
If it's from Microsoft, it better work with devices that has their "Plays for sure" logo on it otherwise both Urge and "Plays for sure" are a total lack of respect for customers.
And what we need now is an HD-DVD player on the market with no content with BD-DVD content with no player.
'holy crap that's bigger than an 80's VHS player'
That is the size of my 1983 JVC VHS VCR.
That unit must have a breadboard in it for the chipset.
I think Game Boys are illegal in Greece
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-956357.html
I think it's possible only if Microsoft distributes the USB device or licenses the USB device so that the software is tied to the USB hardware (of which will be quickly hacked and promptly distributed to the masses)
Even so, that will only be good for Windows only operating systems.
I wouldn't call it hundreds.
Even so, it probably just a few code libraries to check against as I doubt they check against each and every title listed here:
http://support.microsoft.com/gp/lifeselect
Probably their main concern is the Enterprise level support they have to comply with and NOT rush a patch out.
There's still copy protection on today's commercial DVDs.
With HDTV becoming the norm in a few/several years, DVDs won't be good enough as they aren't hi def to match the displays.
With CDs, all they can do is up the sampling rate andmost people won't be able to hear the difference (including me).
With DVDs, I can visually tell the difference between 480i , 852, and 1080.
The highest resolution for film to digital conversion today is 4000dpi so there isn't a need to re-convert movies that have been done, just re-master them.
I never said better, I just remember when it was just those 2 getting all the news.
IMO, You'll get tired trying all of them and by the time you tweak it to do what you want it to do, you've learned how to program your own better and lighter.
The other thing about Blu-Ray is that if the price point per release isn't below $20, their target audience won't buy.
Judging by the current trend of DVD's, I don't see how Blu-Ray will have a market value of less than $30 per release.
Geeks like us will re-buy LOTR and Star Wars to see it in Hi Def but there's no way I'm shelling out more cash for old tv shows on Blu-Ray or other lesser quality movies.
I saw DVD's catching on 10 years ago but I have a hard time seeing this one.
There are a bazillion Open Source CMS out there. I remember when Post Nuke and PHP-Nuke were it. Now it looks like a befuddled mess where posting on MySpace looks attractive.
It's still a glitch that happens in the mastering process. Titanic has a 1 frame compression issue too.
Point is that there will be some dumb thing that will happen on a release (Probably "From Justin to Kelly" or "Glitter") that will render joe sixpack's BD-DVD useless and we will be screwed until the next format comes out or a video on demand where we can get even the most obscure video (Like "Incredible Melting Man") where the distribution actually works.