He's interviewed in the new issue of Empire and in that he says that he'd like to work on the TV series (by directing a couple of episodes or something like that) but he hasn't signed up for anything.
It's worth getting that magazine just for the huge Star Wars geekout with Kevin Smith, Simon Pegg (of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced), and Edgar Wright (ditto).
That's why you can set Adblock to hide the ads instead of blocking them completely (in Adblock preferences). You don't notice any difference on your end but the browser still downloads the ad so that they get their page view even though you never see anything. Everyone wins except the advertiser, and I have no qualms about taking money from them if it means they'll have less money to spend on seizure-inducing Flash banners.
"Sony has no experience in console gaming. Nintendo has been doing it right for a decade and half, why should we think the PSX can just waltz onto the scene and take over? Can it even be done?"
...the BBC is publicly funded and so doesn't need to make a profit. They don't care if people go and download their stuff (in fact, they're soon going to be offering their archives online) because they don't have advertising revenue to lose and have already made their money from everyone in the UK with a TV who pays £120/year to them. I'm sure that a commercial company that actually had to turn a profit would be singing a different tune.
I've been in hotel rooms where you get 3 hours of access for £10 ($19.20), so I'd say that $30 for what could be a 16-hour flight is a bargain. Especially when it's something as insanely boring as a long-haul flight.
What does people protecting their property from people who want their work for nothing have to do with freedom of the press? The only freedom threatened here is people's freedom to download what isn't theirs, and I'm pretty sure they were never given that in the first place.
You wouldn't be complaining if you'd seen American TV. Commercials out of every orifice (the legal limit on commercials for every hour of programming in the US is 20 minutes; in the UK it's 7 minutes), they're not allowed to swear (you can be fined for saying "god damn"!), and any nudity is a definite no-no.
Comparing that to the UK, I seem to remember the BBC showing American Pie a few weeks back - it was broadcast unencrypted on network TV with no commercials, and no cuts at all, including the full webcam scene. And who can forget that they broadcast Jerry Springer The Opera on a Saturday night complete with all the profanities (3,168 "fucks" and 297 "cunts" according to Mediawatch), and Jesus admitting to being "a bit gay".
Not bad for a country with no written guarantee of free speech. But then again the US consistently shows how little that means.
Sky don't make their advertising rates public (if they did you'd find them on the BRAD database), but from what I know about TV and media advertising I'd hazard a guess that it costs around £100,000 ($189,421 US) for a slot on Sky One, the station that broadcasts 24 here. The first two episodes of 24 which were shown back-to-back got a peak average of 680,000 viewers which means that the advertisers are paying £0.18 ($0.34 US) per viewer to advertise on there.
As a Brit who's been downloading 24 to keep up with the US schedule (I think episode 5 is shown here tonight as opposed to 10 in the US on Monday, and I plan to buy the DVDs when they come out as I've done with all previous seasons), I'd gladly pay 20p per episode to download them early. It's 20p in their pocket that they wouldn't have otherwise and when I watch commercial television I'll go and do something else while the ads are on anyway. Hell, I pay £30/month for Sky anyway.
I wouldn't put it past them to be honest. The fact that English is the only language spoken almost universally by representatives of the EU hasn't stopped them attempting to have French made the official language.
They still make players with region coding in Europe? I can't remember the last time I saw a DVD player in a shop that wasn't being advertised as "multiregion", "region free", "region 0", etc.
The Japanese version of Shenmue had Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Sprite in its drinks machines but they were removed from the US version in favour of fictional generic brands. I actually found that far more distracting because I rarely see machines in real life selling generic drinks - they're invariably Coca-Cola or Pepsi.
That's why there's a place for product placement in games, just as long as it's not too invasive and I don't get offered cheap viagra on the loading screens.
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"The real problem will be when 24/48 hours before the release, these will be flying all over P2P networks everywhere."
Try 2,000 hours before the release - a genuine DVD rip of ROTJ was leaked a couple of weeks ago right after they gave advance copies to some VIPs;)
Either way I'm not buying these. I have the original, unedited trilogy on LaserDisc and I'm going to convert them to DVD. It won't look as good as the DVDs but no-one's fucked with it, Han doesn't have the power to dodge a beam of light fired from two feet away, and I don't have to give another $70 to Lucas to fund his latest "revision" in a few years.
That's weird that you've had two die - I've had mine since the Japanese release of Soul Calibur (8/5/99 according to GameFAQs; holy shit - have I really had my DC for almost four years?) and it's been modded for imports, modded so I can switch it to 50Hz mode, and is still working as well as the day I bought it. I just seem to have good luck with consoles though, my release day PlayStation still works fine without flipping it over or having to jump through hoops and sell my soul to make it boot.
I'm not trolling. Cromwell is legal but it can't run Xbox code, signed or unsigned. To run Xbox code (be it games, XBMC, whatever) you need a hacked BIOS.
Ditto. I work in a UK game store and we mod PS2s (and will continue to do so - it's always been an under-the-counter thing because Sony reps don't like sending you more stuff when they see you offering mods), but 90% of people who get it done so that they can buy imports which we also sell. We'll stop doing it when Sony give us a fair deal - release more RPGs than just Final Fantasy, give 60Hz options to all games, and don't make us wait a year for a game that's available across the Atlantic now. When they do that people won't have a legitimate reason for modchips and we'll stop doing it.
Each copy could have watermarks in unique locations so that when they download the leaked copy from the Internet and they see that noise covers up the watermarks at [x] location on the screen at [y] time in the movie, that corresponds to the copy sent out to person [z]. To be honest though I don't think they're that desperate to leak out movies, they'll just do it if the ability to do it is there. If the risk of being found is high enough they're not going ot bother.
...how is this a victory for consumers when most of them complain that they buy Windows and then need seperate antivirus software, seperate firewall, and seperate software to do everything? Making MS not bundle WMP or IE with their software is just going to make it more difficult for Joe Public consumer and they'll probably just go to Microsoft.com and download all the MS software anyway.
So does this mean that PC companies like Dell will be able to bundle RealPlayer with their PCs instead of WMP? How does this benefit the consumer? It's just going to lead to more people clogging up support sites with basic queries as they try to use the WMP and find out that it's called RealPlayer, is shit, and has a different interface.
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He's interviewed in the new issue of Empire and in that he says that he'd like to work on the TV series (by directing a couple of episodes or something like that) but he hasn't signed up for anything.
It's worth getting that magazine just for the huge Star Wars geekout with Kevin Smith, Simon Pegg (of Shaun of the Dead and Spaced), and Edgar Wright (ditto).
That's why you can set Adblock to hide the ads instead of blocking them completely (in Adblock preferences). You don't notice any difference on your end but the browser still downloads the ad so that they get their page view even though you never see anything. Everyone wins except the advertiser, and I have no qualms about taking money from them if it means they'll have less money to spend on seizure-inducing Flash banners.
"Sony has no experience in console gaming. Nintendo has been doing it right for a decade and half, why should we think the PSX can just waltz onto the scene and take over? Can it even be done?"
...the BBC is publicly funded and so doesn't need to make a profit. They don't care if people go and download their stuff (in fact, they're soon going to be offering their archives online) because they don't have advertising revenue to lose and have already made their money from everyone in the UK with a TV who pays £120/year to them. I'm sure that a commercial company that actually had to turn a profit would be singing a different tune.
I've been in hotel rooms where you get 3 hours of access for £10 ($19.20), so I'd say that $30 for what could be a 16-hour flight is a bargain. Especially when it's something as insanely boring as a long-haul flight.
Haven't you been watching 24? The terrorists can melt down every nuclear power plant in the country over the Internet!
What does people protecting their property from people who want their work for nothing have to do with freedom of the press? The only freedom threatened here is people's freedom to download what isn't theirs, and I'm pretty sure they were never given that in the first place.
You wouldn't be complaining if you'd seen American TV. Commercials out of every orifice (the legal limit on commercials for every hour of programming in the US is 20 minutes; in the UK it's 7 minutes), they're not allowed to swear (you can be fined for saying "god damn"!), and any nudity is a definite no-no.
Comparing that to the UK, I seem to remember the BBC showing American Pie a few weeks back - it was broadcast unencrypted on network TV with no commercials, and no cuts at all, including the full webcam scene. And who can forget that they broadcast Jerry Springer The Opera on a Saturday night complete with all the profanities (3,168 "fucks" and 297 "cunts" according to Mediawatch), and Jesus admitting to being "a bit gay".
Not bad for a country with no written guarantee of free speech. But then again the US consistently shows how little that means.
Sky don't make their advertising rates public (if they did you'd find them on the BRAD database), but from what I know about TV and media advertising I'd hazard a guess that it costs around £100,000 ($189,421 US) for a slot on Sky One, the station that broadcasts 24 here. The first two episodes of 24 which were shown back-to-back got a peak average of 680,000 viewers which means that the advertisers are paying £0.18 ($0.34 US) per viewer to advertise on there.
As a Brit who's been downloading 24 to keep up with the US schedule (I think episode 5 is shown here tonight as opposed to 10 in the US on Monday, and I plan to buy the DVDs when they come out as I've done with all previous seasons), I'd gladly pay 20p per episode to download them early. It's 20p in their pocket that they wouldn't have otherwise and when I watch commercial television I'll go and do something else while the ads are on anyway. Hell, I pay £30/month for Sky anyway.
I wouldn't put it past them to be honest. The fact that English is the only language spoken almost universally by representatives of the EU hasn't stopped them attempting to have French made the official language.
...does the population of San Francisco get sued?
They still make players with region coding in Europe? I can't remember the last time I saw a DVD player in a shop that wasn't being advertised as "multiregion", "region free", "region 0", etc.
The Japanese version of Shenmue had Coca-Cola, Fanta, and Sprite in its drinks machines but they were removed from the US version in favour of fictional generic brands. I actually found that far more distracting because I rarely see machines in real life selling generic drinks - they're invariably Coca-Cola or Pepsi.
That's why there's a place for product placement in games, just as long as it's not too invasive and I don't get offered cheap viagra on the loading screens.
Please don't give Lucas any ideas.
"The real problem will be when 24/48 hours before the release, these will be flying all over P2P networks everywhere."
Try 2,000 hours before the release - a genuine DVD rip of ROTJ was leaked a couple of weeks ago right after they gave advance copies to some VIPs ;)
Either way I'm not buying these. I have the original, unedited trilogy on LaserDisc and I'm going to convert them to DVD. It won't look as good as the DVDs but no-one's fucked with it, Han doesn't have the power to dodge a beam of light fired from two feet away, and I don't have to give another $70 to Lucas to fund his latest "revision" in a few years.
That's weird that you've had two die - I've had mine since the Japanese release of Soul Calibur (8/5/99 according to GameFAQs; holy shit - have I really had my DC for almost four years?) and it's been modded for imports, modded so I can switch it to 50Hz mode, and is still working as well as the day I bought it. I just seem to have good luck with consoles though, my release day PlayStation still works fine without flipping it over or having to jump through hoops and sell my soul to make it boot.
I'm not trolling. Cromwell is legal but it can't run Xbox code, signed or unsigned. To run Xbox code (be it games, XBMC, whatever) you need a hacked BIOS.
"I nicked it when you let your guard down for that split-second. And I'd do it again!"
"Nothing is being copied illegally here"
Apart from the illegally ripped and hacked BIOS used to make the mod capable of running unsigned Xbox code...
Ditto. I work in a UK game store and we mod PS2s (and will continue to do so - it's always been an under-the-counter thing because Sony reps don't like sending you more stuff when they see you offering mods), but 90% of people who get it done so that they can buy imports which we also sell. We'll stop doing it when Sony give us a fair deal - release more RPGs than just Final Fantasy, give 60Hz options to all games, and don't make us wait a year for a game that's available across the Atlantic now. When they do that people won't have a legitimate reason for modchips and we'll stop doing it.
12 hours? Great, they've broken the barrier of half the battery life of the competition. Look out, iRiver, Creative, and Rio!
It's a joke that's gone on too long and people just won't drop. Like those Star Wars prequels and the special editions.
Each copy could have watermarks in unique locations so that when they download the leaked copy from the Internet and they see that noise covers up the watermarks at [x] location on the screen at [y] time in the movie, that corresponds to the copy sent out to person [z]. To be honest though I don't think they're that desperate to leak out movies, they'll just do it if the ability to do it is there. If the risk of being found is high enough they're not going ot bother.
Bookmark BugMeNot or get the BugMeNot Firefox plugin. Use it. Love it.
...how is this a victory for consumers when most of them complain that they buy Windows and then need seperate antivirus software, seperate firewall, and seperate software to do everything? Making MS not bundle WMP or IE with their software is just going to make it more difficult for Joe Public consumer and they'll probably just go to Microsoft.com and download all the MS software anyway.
So does this mean that PC companies like Dell will be able to bundle RealPlayer with their PCs instead of WMP? How does this benefit the consumer? It's just going to lead to more people clogging up support sites with basic queries as they try to use the WMP and find out that it's called RealPlayer, is shit, and has a different interface.