I thought I was an audio nut until I heard about the stories of people getting $2,000 speakers (individual price) and complaining that CDs were at 44100 Hz when it really should be 48000 or 96000 Hz because you "lose the detail on the high end waves". Point being that, even with my good hearing, I still can't tell the difference between CDs and 192kbps LAME encodings. Even when Pro Logic is applied to it to listen in 5.1 surround, there is no swishing in the rear channels (caused by sloppy stereo separation).
My hearing is kept in check every now and then. I've pointed out MPEG artifacting in a CD me and some others were listening to while we drove to lunch one day and the response was, "What th- you can hear that?"
At least it's good to know that some people are in the same boat as us. Luckily, there are very few who fit my first example.
As far as signal to noise ratio goes, it should be mentioned that CDs are 16 bits per sample. That means that the minimum amplitude that can be expressed on a CD is 1/32,768th that of a wave of 100% amplitude. That's pretty quiet. A lot of the background noise on an LP is much, much louder than that- probably even more so than 8 bit audio, which has a minimum amplitude of 1/128th that of 100% volume.
I thought DivX already was, at least in the sense that it saved a lot of space while retaining quite a bit of quality and is widely used as a format for sharing movies.
In a similar case, I already have seen DVD cases with words along the lines of, "Macrovision protected to ensure quality of the disc". Marketing DRM towards fidelity has already started.
I would bet that the anamorphic version is a third generation of reencoding derived from the LD rip that you on suprnova.org. Bad encoder, bad [swats nose with newspaper]. It shouldn't bother me too much for now that these are of 4:3-with-black-bar variety. The DVDs of older Jackie Chan movies seem to be mostly non-anamorphic as well, and look great on a standard definition set, despite the lower res image and crappier Chinese film stock it was derived from.
Crappy OpenGL in Epic's games is nothing new. In fact, The original Unreal and other games that used its engine, such as Deus Ex, had really crappy Direct3D code as well. It pissed me off to see computers no faster than mine run it at 75 fps with a 3dfx card while my computer ran it at less than 40 with memory issues on my TNT.
Holy SHIT! These things actually have menus, alternate sound channels, etc.? I was reluctant on getting these because they were unofficial and was only expecting a single linear movie with no menus and extras, but I see it's not the case. Hopefully they're widescreen- I don't need to ask. A partial download with a quick view of the VOB segment ought to clear that up.
Other than restoring the quality of the picture, I'm trying to think of what enhancements were made. Let's see, there's the Greedo shoots first scene, plastic Jabba the Hutt scene, Death Star w/shockwave scene, changed music in ending of RotJ..there's got to be more. Post a link if you got it. It's gotta all fit on one disc.
Even if branching wouldn't work, there's always DVD-18 (Don't worry, DVD writer users, it's only double sided dual layer). I believe T2 used that kind, and Terminator 1 used DVD-14.
One thing that was done on the Terminator 2 DVD was provide the original, plus the extended version with the deleted scenes. Both can be played all the way through as a movie even though the extended version is merely the original with deleted scenes spliced in, thanks to the wonders of random access media. My question is why Lucas hasn't taken advantage of that to allow certain scenes to be added/remove/changed to look like the original or enhanced version?
Next thing you know, you'll be driving around with your wife and kids in the car (I know, I know, what's a "wife") in broad daylight when suddenly the car blurts out, "Looks like you're trying to drive to the porno shop! Would you like me to provide directions to The Nipple Factory?"
What makes Ken so amusing? I don't have cable so I can't check it out for myself.
I think the only Jeopardy! shows I've seen on the cable channels were the stupid variations, like the one for kids that had a really annoying host. The broadcast stations where you live must suck, as most would usually play the original show in syndication.
This is what happens when a news page gets too many subsections. You could very well have a news article fall under IT, Linux, YRO, and Politics at the same time. To the demise of many optometrists, they tend to get attributed to IT and YRO quite a bit though.
How about a mini web server running on the portable player? One that is similar to the adjustable options page on many household broadband routers, so you could adjust settings at greater ease than you would with a small black-and-white LCD screen.
And, for classical music lovers, that's an actual problem.
I would guess that classical music doesn't really demand much in frequency range, but requires a very accurate stereo image. Wouldn't an independent stereo (avoid joint at all costs) 160+ kbps encoding in a decent encoder, such as LAME, be sufficient for listening to classical music on a portable?
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I thought I was an audio nut until I heard about the stories of people getting $2,000 speakers (individual price) and complaining that CDs were at 44100 Hz when it really should be 48000 or 96000 Hz because you "lose the detail on the high end waves". Point being that, even with my good hearing, I still can't tell the difference between CDs and 192kbps LAME encodings. Even when Pro Logic is applied to it to listen in 5.1 surround, there is no swishing in the rear channels (caused by sloppy stereo separation).
My hearing is kept in check every now and then. I've pointed out MPEG artifacting in a CD me and some others were listening to while we drove to lunch one day and the response was, "What th- you can hear that?"
At least it's good to know that some people are in the same boat as us. Luckily, there are very few who fit my first example.
As far as signal to noise ratio goes, it should be mentioned that CDs are 16 bits per sample. That means that the minimum amplitude that can be expressed on a CD is 1/32,768th that of a wave of 100% amplitude. That's pretty quiet. A lot of the background noise on an LP is much, much louder than that- probably even more so than 8 bit audio, which has a minimum amplitude of 1/128th that of 100% volume.
I thought DivX already was, at least in the sense that it saved a lot of space while retaining quite a bit of quality and is widely used as a format for sharing movies.
Didn't Windows 9x/Me have a 512 MB limit? I have 98 installed, but can't prove the limit with only 384 MB.
In a similar case, I already have seen DVD cases with words along the lines of, "Macrovision protected to ensure quality of the disc". Marketing DRM towards fidelity has already started.
I would bet that the anamorphic version is a third generation of reencoding derived from the LD rip that you on suprnova.org. Bad encoder, bad [swats nose with newspaper]. It shouldn't bother me too much for now that these are of 4:3-with-black-bar variety. The DVDs of older Jackie Chan movies seem to be mostly non-anamorphic as well, and look great on a standard definition set, despite the lower res image and crappier Chinese film stock it was derived from.
Crappy OpenGL in Epic's games is nothing new. In fact, The original Unreal and other games that used its engine, such as Deus Ex, had really crappy Direct3D code as well. It pissed me off to see computers no faster than mine run it at 75 fps with a 3dfx card while my computer ran it at less than 40 with memory issues on my TNT.
Holy SHIT! These things actually have menus, alternate sound channels, etc.? I was reluctant on getting these because they were unofficial and was only expecting a single linear movie with no menus and extras, but I see it's not the case. Hopefully they're widescreen- I don't need to ask. A partial download with a quick view of the VOB segment ought to clear that up.
...someone paying you for accomodation.
Bad example. College dorms are expensive for what they are.
I'll have to check on that, but I really doubt it is the same song. Seseme Street's song had a bit more shuffle to it for one thing.
I still have the originals on laserdisc (widescreen) and my laserdisc player still works - so some of us can keep the dream alive.
Take a look on suprnova.org. There are actual torrents of Laserdisc to DVD conversions on there for fans of the original.
Other than restoring the quality of the picture, I'm trying to think of what enhancements were made. Let's see, there's the Greedo shoots first scene, plastic Jabba the Hutt scene, Death Star w/shockwave scene, changed music in ending of RotJ..there's got to be more. Post a link if you got it. It's gotta all fit on one disc.
Even if branching wouldn't work, there's always DVD-18 (Don't worry, DVD writer users, it's only double sided dual layer). I believe T2 used that kind, and Terminator 1 used DVD-14.
One thing that was done on the Terminator 2 DVD was provide the original, plus the extended version with the deleted scenes. Both can be played all the way through as a movie even though the extended version is merely the original with deleted scenes spliced in, thanks to the wonders of random access media. My question is why Lucas hasn't taken advantage of that to allow certain scenes to be added/remove/changed to look like the original or enhanced version?
Next thing you know, you'll be driving around with your wife and kids in the car (I know, I know, what's a "wife") in broad daylight when suddenly the car blurts out, "Looks like you're trying to drive to the porno shop! Would you like me to provide directions to The Nipple Factory?"
When I press the "check email" button, I better not hear "Hey, does this look like a 'Q' to you?"
Oh, great. Now the Highway Patrol has to worry about attributing car crashes to m 3 ga p3n1le enh4nc3mEnt!!!!11111
What makes Ken so amusing? I don't have cable so I can't check it out for myself.
I think the only Jeopardy! shows I've seen on the cable channels were the stupid variations, like the one for kids that had a really annoying host. The broadcast stations where you live must suck, as most would usually play the original show in syndication.
...be assured I was registering my disgust on the internet within seconds. Worst. Spoiler. Ever. I will only read it three more times...today.
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I wasn't surprised at all that Ken, a guy from Utah, barely knew anything in the music categories.
Sorry, I guess information wants to annoy you..err..be free, I mean.
Somebody want to buy this guy an "enter" key?
This is what happens when a news page gets too many subsections. You could very well have a news article fall under IT, Linux, YRO, and Politics at the same time. To the demise of many optometrists, they tend to get attributed to IT and YRO quite a bit though.
How about a mini web server running on the portable player? One that is similar to the adjustable options page on many household broadband routers, so you could adjust settings at greater ease than you would with a small black-and-white LCD screen.
You laugh now, but I actually have a CD that has Second Reality Part 2 on it. (Although it was an S3M originally, I think.)
And, for classical music lovers, that's an actual problem.
I would guess that classical music doesn't really demand much in frequency range, but requires a very accurate stereo image. Wouldn't an independent stereo (avoid joint at all costs) 160+ kbps encoding in a decent encoder, such as LAME, be sufficient for listening to classical music on a portable?