I bought one on eBay last week. Refurbished HD841 and it looks like they've blocked the HDCP Hack as part of being refurbished.:-( That's the only reason why I bought the HD841 anyway.
After buying a SACD/DVD-A universal player a couple years ago, and still finding a horrible lack of desireable content released, I think I've already played this dualing format game. And lost. Like a total John.
Obvious answer is that the Touchstone and New Line type industry players are just going to do what the music labels did -- continue to release content on the lowest common denominator; the DVD-Video.
Personally, I'm not making this mistake. I may well buy a Sony PS3 when it ships, then if a decent movie is released in Blu-Ray HD then I already will have a player. However my A/V rack will be void of any HD player for the foreseeable future, mostly because I don't see the HD DVD conflict being resolved any cleaner of faster than the current SACD/DVD-A skirmish that I jumped into.
In the public realm, gTalk is my favorite however it hasn't gained critical mass. The telephony feature is hot.
AOL IM would be close behind once you turn off all the AD garbage. I do like the encryption certificate support in the latest copies of AOL-IM for secure IM'ing b/t family. Not too hard to setup with a Linux box:
It is by far the best IM client I've used. Useful chat history retention, group chats, palettes for animated gifs you can drop in a conversation. I use gTalk, AIM (used to use gAIM), and used to use ICQ, SameTime v3, Trillian. NotesBuddy is still my favorite client.
Code names are typically names that can't be afforded legal protection. Places, animals etc that can't be copyrighted/trademarked.
Apple tends to like they're animals, esp the Cats & apple varieties.
Intel seems to favor city names.
The real Kalidescope product looks pretty cool, curious if it's just MythTV wrapped up in pretty GUIs & hardware. I saw it first on Panbo.com as the ideal Yacht solution.
but I enjoy much more the fact that this whole r00tkit fiasco has set DRM back by years.
Perhaps this blow will get SACD or DVD-A back on track. I'm hoping one of the two formats will gain more support and am more than willing to buy content in that format. SACDs sound so much better than MP3s or CDs. Sony et. al. need to fight from the value-add perspective and not the legal-assault front.
Count me as one of those that likes the old Beastie logo. Looks like they may have caved in to pressure that the Beastie not policitically correct for the religious crowd.
So who will draw the first Beastie logo thrusting his trident into the lame new one?
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I googled a phrase that I'll xerox onto frisbees once I find a kleenex to wipe off the band-aid goo on the pretty kodak that'll be above the phrase.
I bought one on eBay last week. Refurbished HD841 and it looks like they've blocked the HDCP Hack as part of being refurbished. :-( That's the only reason why I bought the HD841 anyway.
After buying a SACD/DVD-A universal player a couple years ago, and still finding a horrible lack of desireable content released, I think I've already played this dualing format game. And lost. Like a total John. Obvious answer is that the Touchstone and New Line type industry players are just going to do what the music labels did -- continue to release content on the lowest common denominator; the DVD-Video. Personally, I'm not making this mistake. I may well buy a Sony PS3 when it ships, then if a decent movie is released in Blu-Ray HD then I already will have a player. However my A/V rack will be void of any HD player for the foreseeable future, mostly because I don't see the HD DVD conflict being resolved any cleaner of faster than the current SACD/DVD-A skirmish that I jumped into.
...and the age old debate of when Linux will be ready for the desktop of the masses will be answered.
In the public realm, gTalk is my favorite however it hasn't gained critical mass. The telephony feature is hot.
AOL IM would be close behind once you turn off all the AD garbage. I do like the encryption certificate support in the latest copies of AOL-IM for secure IM'ing b/t family. Not too hard to setup with a Linux box:
/usr/share/ssl/misc/CA -newca
openssl x509 -in demoCA/cacert.pem -days 1024 -out cacert.pem -signkey demoCA/private/cakey.pem
cp cacert.pem demoCA/cacert.pem
/usr/share/ssl/misc/CA -newreq
/usr/share/ssl/misc/CA -signreq
openssl pkcs12 -export -in newcert.pem -inkey newreq.pem -certfile demoCA/cacert.pem -name "aimCert" -out mycert.p12
If you're company uses IBM Sametime internally you'd do well to checkout NotesBuddy. Easy download:
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/notesbuddy
It is by far the best IM client I've used. Useful chat history retention, group chats, palettes for animated gifs you can drop in a conversation. I use gTalk, AIM (used to use gAIM), and used to use ICQ, SameTime v3, Trillian. NotesBuddy is still my favorite client.
Code names are typically names that can't be afforded legal protection. Places, animals etc that can't be copyrighted/trademarked. Apple tends to like they're animals, esp the Cats & apple varieties. Intel seems to favor city names. The real Kalidescope product looks pretty cool, curious if it's just MythTV wrapped up in pretty GUIs & hardware. I saw it first on Panbo.com as the ideal Yacht solution.
but I enjoy much more the fact that this whole r00tkit fiasco has set DRM back by years. Perhaps this blow will get SACD or DVD-A back on track. I'm hoping one of the two formats will gain more support and am more than willing to buy content in that format. SACDs sound so much better than MP3s or CDs. Sony et. al. need to fight from the value-add perspective and not the legal-assault front.
...doesn't mean that Microsoft really isn't after our favorite browser.
Count me as one of those that likes the old Beastie logo. Looks like they may have caved in to pressure that the Beastie not policitically correct for the religious crowd. So who will draw the first Beastie logo thrusting his trident into the lame new one?