There going to have to gain about $66,000,000 to cover 22 episodes at what I estimate at about $3,000,000 per episode...
Paramount proly woudlent even accept it if they managed to get that much anyway. There not going to want the libility of it.
That almost sounds like somones trying to scam fans out of there money to me but I dont think it's the case.
Yea I didn't agree with the double ended dildo Blizzard wants to screw people with (Pay a high price for the game and then pay a fee to play) so I didnt buy the game.
I dont much care that the games expensive or that it has a monthly fee. It's that it has both that pissed me off. If there going to charge me a monthly fee to play the game should have been free or more (in real world logic) $25 - $35. If there going to charge me $55 then I dont want to pay a monthly fee to play.
The games a hit though so my opinion is deffinitly in the minority.
Ya know if apple is such a dedicated software company then I have yet to figure out why they havent botherd to make an OS to run on x86 based systems rather then there mostly proprietary hardware.
If apple botherd to try and spread out into the larger PC market they would slaughter MS rather quick and I woudlent mind seeing it happen.
Apples software is limited mostly to apple branded hardware and that limits how well the company can compete. Not to mention that doing stuff like that is FAR worse then anything MS had done or has ever done and probly ever will do. But cuz there so small they get away with it and come off looking like rebels:)
Maybie apple will make a move to break into the mainstream if CELL processors manage to catch on.
And as of right now sound/video support is much better on windows then linux (Though macs are also strong as hell here) and Zoom Player + the DirectShow API are far superior to MPlayer especily when it comes to DVD's.
I'm always up for change though and I'm rooting more for linux as an HTPC OS but I dont see Linux being ready to replace Windows in this use for some time now. Atleast 5 years.
Gentoo is what i'm keeping my eyes on but I currently use an old box with a Knoppix live CD just to fuck around with.
But you do have a point but I see it diffrntly then you do and it's something I didnt think off. The hardware is likley to not be diffrent so much as the drivers will be. We will proly just have to go download offical drivers from the companys non US site.
I myself am not a huge fan of the FPS genra on any platform (console or PC) but I do like some games in the genra and Halo is one of them.
I prefer the simple (by todays standards) gameplay style of classic games like Doom or the plot based games like Halo. I also prefer mission based multiplayer that reuires working together with other players to get a job done over the chaotic arena combat style of the majority of PC games such as UT2004. Halo and Halo 2 manages to hold my attention from start to end while after about 2 weeks of blowing away panzy's and geting my ass kicked by guys that have nothing bettrr to do then play 24/7 in UT2004 I got bored and un installed it.
To this day I still play doom (and all the games based on it's engine) and I think in 10 years or so i'll be digging in some boxes and run into Halo 2 and i'll end up playing it again (assuming my xbox still works in 10 years. Those things last about as long as PS2s last) and I'm sure game will be fun all over again. I cant really say the same about the arena combat games.
And I'm willing to bet $5000 the dude that devlops those drivers will be a Canadian. We ought to just hand the tech idustry to Canada right now and save ourselves the time:)
I just dont think this is the place for internet search engine companys. It's extreamly easy to make a tiny 100k program that can search an NTFS drives MFT at a speed thats almost un noticable to any human and this is the method I use to search my system.
Though this does not help people still using FAT or Linux and MAC formated drives:)
Windows 3.x kicked ass and i still have a box that has it installed just for the hell of it. I would hate to see a world that never had it. Though I guess I never would have known the diffrence if I never had it so oh well....:)
Seems yo understood it didn't you? Whats the use in spending so much time giving a damn about something like spelling anyway? Havent you anything better to do?:)
I mean record lables dont acctualy pay the artist much. I belive the avrage is about 25 cents per song or so depending on the artists rank in the industry. People like Metalica or Modana make more then say somone like Kid Rock or Limp Bizkit I'm sure but it's still not as much money as they deserve. You make a 10 song CD and you make about $2.50 per CD sold. A 10 song CD would sell for what? An avrage price of $10.95 - $12.95? Sounds like an ass fucking to me.
Now you take a group of guys playing in one of there parents gaurage or basment and one of em owns a coputer that came with a CD burner. Then it clicks in "Hey we can make a CD and sell it around school". Then after a few months of that it clocks in "A DVD duplicator can be bought for less then $1,000 and we can make CDs all day long for the cost of the blanks and sell them over the internet". "And cuz we dont have some large record lable taking the bulk of our profit form the CDs we can sell them at a more competitive and consumer friendy price tag of $9.95". "If we realy take this serios and work hard we can sell enough CDs to buy better equipment and instrments and we can be realy big one day"
Thats what I think the RIAA is afraid of. Back in the day you couldent mass produce analog audio formats but today anyone can mass prduce CDs and for not alot of money.
Alot of big name bands are starting to see this little fact as well and are leaving the big lables after there contract expires. Proly the most notable band to do it is Corn.
Oh and if yer going to be a prick and post just to creect my spelling you should atleast not be a punk about it and not post anonymous:)
I'm going to do it just becose I want to. I refuse to let somone tell me what I can and cant do with my own equipment even if theres a chance of landing me in prison. I dont like that fair use of my system is impared by the logic that just ebcose I can do it must mean I will do it. If I hook my xbox or PS2 to my capture card the macrovision of those devices will kick in imparing my rightfull use of there DVD playback features and thats just total bullshit and I wont stand for it.
Some people in this subject are talking about how the cirrent distribution methods are quickly becoming obsolite. I say they have been obsolite for a good 10 years now. I myself have not owned a TV set sence sometime around 1988 or 1999 prefering to just use a PC with a capture card becose of the freedom it provided me.
I much prefer to watch TV on my time rather then there time and I think just about everyone but the media industry feels this way. The idea of a 500 channel universe is totaly obsolite and a single channel universe with on demand content (for a fair monthly fee of course) is the way things want to go. But again the media industry is afraid of chaing. therew afraid of loosing there power over us so they refuse to allow it to happen.
Why is the RIAA so pissed about P2P networks and cd recording technology? It's not becose there loosing money to piracy of there current artists but rather cuz they see the threat it has on them gaining future artists. Today any gaurage band can have a CD totaly bypasing the large record lables that would just fuck them in the ass on a reguler basis.
Here are 2 good examples of the binifits of watching TV on ones own pace rather then a set schedual. Fox had 2 shows (Family Guy and Futurama) and these shows did extreamly poor on there network run. Mostly becose of missmanagemt and other typical TV poltics. Now these shows get released in whole on DVD for a fair price and all of a sudden 2 bombs become 2 of the best selling DVDs ever. One would expect fox and the rest of the industry to notice this fact but they dont. They continue with there old ways of fucking people in the ass. Fox could totaly release straight to DVD seasions of futurama (12 episodes ever 8 months or so) and people would eat it up. I know I would. But ofcourse they dont...
Anyway lets get back to being more on topic. PVR flags and analog protections. My current HTPC setup is only analog as I havent yet seen the need to upgrade it to HDTV but yes I have macrovision disabled on all analog inputs and outputs (though I havent used the TV_Out in a long time). My DVD drive is RPC and region free as well with a firmware hack and I use AnyDVD to remove CSS protection just becose I want to even tohugh I dont acctualy bother to rip my DVDs. I just feel it shoudlent be there in the first place.
I bet there loosing far more money to develope futile protection schemes then they are to the acctual piracy itself. The quest to stop piracy is just a waste of time and money and in the long run i think the general public will wise up to what there doing and just stop buying DVD and music and do something other then watch TV. The media industry would rather shoot themsewlves in the foot then change with the rest of the world and give the public what they ask for.
One common thing I still here that is DEFFINITLY no longer valid is "The PSP will just be another Game Gear". People that say that need to open your eyes and read your post. This isn't 10 years ago...
In my personal opinion tohugh I think the PSP will become the mainstream handheld machine thus fourcing Nintendo into a smaller nich market that there consoles have mostly been in sence the N64 and I think they will be happy with that.
Another assumption people tend to keep making though is that the DS is the replacment for the gameboy. It is not and the GameBoy Advance 2 is announced to come out in the next few years. This little fact does give Nintendo a good chance to change there marketing stratagy after they see whats up as SONY can be included in the people that assumed the DS was the next GameBoy and thus Nintendo foruced everyone to play there cards early.
It's true:)
Look how huge Familt guy was over Futurama DVD sales. They both did well and therte both good shows but Family Guy is far more moron friendly and it trounced Futurama and is coming back to TV.
As for Enterrpise tohugh I just want them to take a break for about 5 years. Star Trek is not dead but I do feel the creative juices in thw well have dried up. Even Rick Berman said he knew the well would dry up sooner or later way back in like 1991. Problem is no one is taking the hint.
I'm sorry for all the fans out there that are upset the show died but I think they will understand it was for the better in the long run.
My personal opinion of how I would like to see Star Trek return is in a 1 hour dramatic animated series based on the aborted Star Trek Phase II project. The simpsons spearheaded half our prime time comedy and I would like to see Star Trek get the ball rolling on 1 hour drama animation. Animation offers far more freedom and you can do more with less budget. And I mean traditinal cell animation not some nasty CGI crap.
Thids show needed to end. I have been a long time fan of Star Trek and it has been greatley insulting to watch the series be ran into the ground. Voyager started it and this show tried to finish it. I hope I do not see anything Star Trek for atleast a good 5 years. Lets let the wounds heal and the creatve juice rebplenish themselves.
While I have to say i'm not at all an Anime nerd but I do know the general diffrence with "fansubers" of today and the ones of just 10 years ago is the great majority of the stuff they release as "fansubed" is comericaly avalible in most languages already. Too many "fansubers" will just rip the DVD appropriate to the language they want to release in and claim it as there own. And that has crosed the line of fansubing and flat out piracy. This is just not the days of trading low quality 3rd generation VHS tapes at conventions. Today the greater majority of Anime is released all over the world. I wont name names but today we have groups releasing stuff like Cowboy Bebop and claiming it as a fan sub when all they did was rip a R1 DVD and keep the R1 subtitles as they are. If thats not piracy then I just dont know what piracy is.
Though it's shoud not be said that "Linux secerity is a mtyh" but raher just "Secerity is a myth". The largest pro that MAC OS, Linux, and any other alternative OS has over Windows is the small market share. The hackers (the prick kind not the cool kind) wont give up just cuz MS died and once any alternative OS goes mainstream it will become the big secerity problem in the media. For every 1 way to lock something theres 10 ways to break in.
I read through most of the responces to this matter and then went and checked out my MGM DVDs to see whats up. Nothing looked wrong at all when I checked the "fullframe" vs. the "widescreen" side of the discs and attcualy on some of my discs like Spaceballs the widescreen side has more image on the left and rigt then the fullscreen side. This says to me that the statment that the fullframe side is modifed from the original theatricl image is totaly correct. Also some of the shots on that movie are formated in a way they would just not work if the disc was pan & scaned then later tilt & scaned (tilt & Scan is the common used term for taking a fullframe image and making it widescreen and it has been done in the past).
I say this is all BS and theres nothing wrong with the movies themsleves but rather just the way things were worded on the cases causing confusion. This is just more crap like the big Microsoft anti-trust suit that was so full of it.
I will not be returning my discs.
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There going to have to gain about $66,000,000 to cover 22 episodes at what I estimate at about $3,000,000 per episode... Paramount proly woudlent even accept it if they managed to get that much anyway. There not going to want the libility of it. That almost sounds like somones trying to scam fans out of there money to me but I dont think it's the case.
Yea I didn't agree with the double ended dildo Blizzard wants to screw people with (Pay a high price for the game and then pay a fee to play) so I didnt buy the game. I dont much care that the games expensive or that it has a monthly fee. It's that it has both that pissed me off. If there going to charge me a monthly fee to play the game should have been free or more (in real world logic) $25 - $35. If there going to charge me $55 then I dont want to pay a monthly fee to play. The games a hit though so my opinion is deffinitly in the minority.
The logic of this is just wacked... I want some of this super mega ultra crack there smoking in Hollywood.
Ya know if apple is such a dedicated software company then I have yet to figure out why they havent botherd to make an OS to run on x86 based systems rather then there mostly proprietary hardware. If apple botherd to try and spread out into the larger PC market they would slaughter MS rather quick and I woudlent mind seeing it happen. Apples software is limited mostly to apple branded hardware and that limits how well the company can compete. Not to mention that doing stuff like that is FAR worse then anything MS had done or has ever done and probly ever will do. But cuz there so small they get away with it and come off looking like rebels :)
Maybie apple will make a move to break into the mainstream if CELL processors manage to catch on.
I'm always up for change though and I'm rooting more for linux as an HTPC OS but I dont see Linux being ready to replace Windows in this use for some time now. Atleast 5 years.
Gentoo is what i'm keeping my eyes on but I currently use an old box with a Knoppix live CD just to fuck around with.
And if people started to use other OS's then the virus ports would come just as fast s the game ports :)
hahahaha. score!!!
But you do have a point but I see it diffrntly then you do and it's something I didnt think off. The hardware is likley to not be diffrent so much as the drivers will be. We will proly just have to go download offical drivers from the companys non US site.
I prefer the simple (by todays standards) gameplay style of classic games like Doom or the plot based games like Halo. I also prefer mission based multiplayer that reuires working together with other players to get a job done over the chaotic arena combat style of the majority of PC games such as UT2004. Halo and Halo 2 manages to hold my attention from start to end while after about 2 weeks of blowing away panzy's and geting my ass kicked by guys that have nothing bettrr to do then play 24/7 in UT2004 I got bored and un installed it.
To this day I still play doom (and all the games based on it's engine) and I think in 10 years or so i'll be digging in some boxes and run into Halo 2 and i'll end up playing it again (assuming my xbox still works in 10 years. Those things last about as long as PS2s last) and I'm sure game will be fun all over again. I cant really say the same about the arena combat games.
8/10 is my score for Halo 2.
And I'm willing to bet $5000 the dude that devlops those drivers will be a Canadian. We ought to just hand the tech idustry to Canada right now and save ourselves the time :)
Oh NM I read that wrong. This is about there internet search not that desktop search stuff I guess.
I just dont think this is the place for internet search engine companys. It's extreamly easy to make a tiny 100k program that can search an NTFS drives MFT at a speed thats almost un noticable to any human and this is the method I use to search my system. Though this does not help people still using FAT or Linux and MAC formated drives :)
Windows 3.x kicked ass and i still have a box that has it installed just for the hell of it. I would hate to see a world that never had it. Though I guess I never would have known the diffrence if I never had it so oh well.... :)
Seems yo understood it didn't you? Whats the use in spending so much time giving a damn about something like spelling anyway? Havent you anything better to do? :)
Now you take a group of guys playing in one of there parents gaurage or basment and one of em owns a coputer that came with a CD burner. Then it clicks in "Hey we can make a CD and sell it around school". Then after a few months of that it clocks in "A DVD duplicator can be bought for less then $1,000 and we can make CDs all day long for the cost of the blanks and sell them over the internet". "And cuz we dont have some large record lable taking the bulk of our profit form the CDs we can sell them at a more competitive and consumer friendy price tag of $9.95". "If we realy take this serios and work hard we can sell enough CDs to buy better equipment and instrments and we can be realy big one day"
Thats what I think the RIAA is afraid of. Back in the day you couldent mass produce analog audio formats but today anyone can mass prduce CDs and for not alot of money.
Alot of big name bands are starting to see this little fact as well and are leaving the big lables after there contract expires. Proly the most notable band to do it is Corn.
Oh and if yer going to be a prick and post just to creect my spelling you should atleast not be a punk about it and not post anonymous :)
Some people in this subject are talking about how the cirrent distribution methods are quickly becoming obsolite. I say they have been obsolite for a good 10 years now. I myself have not owned a TV set sence sometime around 1988 or 1999 prefering to just use a PC with a capture card becose of the freedom it provided me.
I much prefer to watch TV on my time rather then there time and I think just about everyone but the media industry feels this way. The idea of a 500 channel universe is totaly obsolite and a single channel universe with on demand content (for a fair monthly fee of course) is the way things want to go. But again the media industry is afraid of chaing. therew afraid of loosing there power over us so they refuse to allow it to happen.
Why is the RIAA so pissed about P2P networks and cd recording technology? It's not becose there loosing money to piracy of there current artists but rather cuz they see the threat it has on them gaining future artists. Today any gaurage band can have a CD totaly bypasing the large record lables that would just fuck them in the ass on a reguler basis.
Here are 2 good examples of the binifits of watching TV on ones own pace rather then a set schedual. Fox had 2 shows (Family Guy and Futurama) and these shows did extreamly poor on there network run. Mostly becose of missmanagemt and other typical TV poltics. Now these shows get released in whole on DVD for a fair price and all of a sudden 2 bombs become 2 of the best selling DVDs ever. One would expect fox and the rest of the industry to notice this fact but they dont. They continue with there old ways of fucking people in the ass. Fox could totaly release straight to DVD seasions of futurama (12 episodes ever 8 months or so) and people would eat it up. I know I would. But ofcourse they dont...
Anyway lets get back to being more on topic. PVR flags and analog protections. My current HTPC setup is only analog as I havent yet seen the need to upgrade it to HDTV but yes I have macrovision disabled on all analog inputs and outputs (though I havent used the TV_Out in a long time). My DVD drive is RPC and region free as well with a firmware hack and I use AnyDVD to remove CSS protection just becose I want to even tohugh I dont acctualy bother to rip my DVDs. I just feel it shoudlent be there in the first place.
I bet there loosing far more money to develope futile protection schemes then they are to the acctual piracy itself. The quest to stop piracy is just a waste of time and money and in the long run i think the general public will wise up to what there doing and just stop buying DVD and music and do something other then watch TV. The media industry would rather shoot themsewlves in the foot then change with the rest of the world and give the public what they ask for.
One common thing I still here that is DEFFINITLY no longer valid is "The PSP will just be another Game Gear". People that say that need to open your eyes and read your post. This isn't 10 years ago... In my personal opinion tohugh I think the PSP will become the mainstream handheld machine thus fourcing Nintendo into a smaller nich market that there consoles have mostly been in sence the N64 and I think they will be happy with that. Another assumption people tend to keep making though is that the DS is the replacment for the gameboy. It is not and the GameBoy Advance 2 is announced to come out in the next few years. This little fact does give Nintendo a good chance to change there marketing stratagy after they see whats up as SONY can be included in the people that assumed the DS was the next GameBoy and thus Nintendo foruced everyone to play there cards early.
It's true :)
Look how huge Familt guy was over Futurama DVD sales. They both did well and therte both good shows but Family Guy is far more moron friendly and it trounced Futurama and is coming back to TV.
As for Enterrpise tohugh I just want them to take a break for about 5 years. Star Trek is not dead but I do feel the creative juices in thw well have dried up. Even Rick Berman said he knew the well would dry up sooner or later way back in like 1991. Problem is no one is taking the hint.
I'm sorry for all the fans out there that are upset the show died but I think they will understand it was for the better in the long run.
My personal opinion of how I would like to see Star Trek return is in a 1 hour dramatic animated series based on the aborted Star Trek Phase II project. The simpsons spearheaded half our prime time comedy and I would like to see Star Trek get the ball rolling on 1 hour drama animation. Animation offers far more freedom and you can do more with less budget. And I mean traditinal cell animation not some nasty CGI crap.
Thids show needed to end. I have been a long time fan of Star Trek and it has been greatley insulting to watch the series be ran into the ground. Voyager started it and this show tried to finish it. I hope I do not see anything Star Trek for atleast a good 5 years. Lets let the wounds heal and the creatve juice rebplenish themselves.
While I have to say i'm not at all an Anime nerd but I do know the general diffrence with "fansubers" of today and the ones of just 10 years ago is the great majority of the stuff they release as "fansubed" is comericaly avalible in most languages already. Too many "fansubers" will just rip the DVD appropriate to the language they want to release in and claim it as there own. And that has crosed the line of fansubing and flat out piracy. This is just not the days of trading low quality 3rd generation VHS tapes at conventions. Today the greater majority of Anime is released all over the world. I wont name names but today we have groups releasing stuff like Cowboy Bebop and claiming it as a fan sub when all they did was rip a R1 DVD and keep the R1 subtitles as they are. If thats not piracy then I just dont know what piracy is.
Though it's shoud not be said that "Linux secerity is a mtyh" but raher just "Secerity is a myth". The largest pro that MAC OS, Linux, and any other alternative OS has over Windows is the small market share. The hackers (the prick kind not the cool kind) wont give up just cuz MS died and once any alternative OS goes mainstream it will become the big secerity problem in the media. For every 1 way to lock something theres 10 ways to break in.
I read through most of the responces to this matter and then went and checked out my MGM DVDs to see whats up. Nothing looked wrong at all when I checked the "fullframe" vs. the "widescreen" side of the discs and attcualy on some of my discs like Spaceballs the widescreen side has more image on the left and rigt then the fullscreen side. This says to me that the statment that the fullframe side is modifed from the original theatricl image is totaly correct. Also some of the shots on that movie are formated in a way they would just not work if the disc was pan & scaned then later tilt & scaned (tilt & Scan is the common used term for taking a fullframe image and making it widescreen and it has been done in the past). I say this is all BS and theres nothing wrong with the movies themsleves but rather just the way things were worded on the cases causing confusion. This is just more crap like the big Microsoft anti-trust suit that was so full of it. I will not be returning my discs.