These things (or other similar ones by other companies) are a godsend, even if they are somewhat overpriced. I must have 30 or 40 of them in my house.
You can also get long power bars with as many as ten outlets that are well spaced - enough to permit use of most wall wart-type plugs without needing these cords.
1/50 as fast by clockrate, and probably 1/200 the performance because of the gains in efficiency made by modern processors. Clock rate isn't everything, else the 3 GHz Pentium 4s would still be among the fastest CPUs available in performance (and they aren't).
Other codecs give better audio quality with smaller filesizes (e.g. Ogg Vorbis), but transcoding lossy to lossy makes things even lossier.
Personally, I use FLAC at home and I use MP3 where I have to, and Ogg Vorbis where I can, when file size is more important than audio quality.
Your point may be correct, or it may not be, but I don't want what I want decided by others. Give me lossless - remember, I had it (and still do) with CDs - don't take quality away from me without the option of retaining it.
There's a difference. Floppy disks became obsolete because of lack of storage capacity. CDs are becoming obsolete because music listeners these days value convenience over quality and actually owning their music.
Copy-protected CDs lack the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo on their packaging, which speaks volumes. It has to be a CD by the standard to display the logo, and copy-protected discs don't meet the standard.
Pringles cans are resonant at about 2.4 GHz, so really high UHF. Not the ideal frequencies for TV channels, although if the signal is strong enough, even a paper clip will work.
The antennas haven't changed. Only the contents of the signals have changed.
In fact, old analog antennas still make great TV antennas, as long as your channels haven't shifted from VHF to UHF (as has happened in some markets). Even then the old antenna will still probably work well enough in many circumstances.
The advantage of the HDHomeRun solution, at least with Plex (if not with its own software) is that you get unencrypted feeds recorded on your hard disk. You can do what you want with them - you can generate DVDs or Blu-Ray discs from them, stream them, put them on a flash drive and share them... it's not trapped inside your box.
Putting 'cause, with the apostrophe like that, is informal, but perfectly grammatical.
Using cause for because without an apostrophe to indicate the missing syllable IS wrong, however. It's also frustrating because cause, as in cause and effect, is pronounced differently from the last syllable of because. I prefer "cuz" to "cause", but autocorrect has gotten rid of that, it seems.
Most likely your player is bad. I've been using DVDs and Blu-Rays for nearly as long as both have existed and have never had a disk spontaneously fail. I certainly have had players fail though.
MakeMKV + HandBrake (HandBrake can do almost all DVDs and some BluRays without MakeMKV, but MakeMKV is needed for some encrypted discs). MakeMKV is shareware (free beta period but reasonable to pay for if you don't want the hassle); HandBrake is open source. Both run on Linux, OS X and Windows.
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Canada here. Hi. I live in a small city of 250,000 and we have five commercial-free radio stations here, including our community radio station.
I liberated mine from Micro Center to Canada, and so far, so good.
If we'd pay more for stuff, they'd probably fix it for us.
Retailers can provide friendlier plugs, but it will likely raise product prices. If we demand them, though, companies will provide them.
https://www.amazon.com/Etekcit... Like these ones, as a simple example.
These things (or other similar ones by other companies) are a godsend, even if they are somewhat overpriced. I must have 30 or 40 of them in my house.
You can also get long power bars with as many as ten outlets that are well spaced - enough to permit use of most wall wart-type plugs without needing these cords.
1/50 as fast by clockrate, and probably 1/200 the performance because of the gains in efficiency made by modern processors. Clock rate isn't everything, else the 3 GHz Pentium 4s would still be among the fastest CPUs available in performance (and they aren't).
I still have a pair of these - one's my offsite backup machine - and they still work well, although the single USB port is becoming a limiting factor.
Other codecs give better audio quality with smaller filesizes (e.g. Ogg Vorbis), but transcoding lossy to lossy makes things even lossier.
Personally, I use FLAC at home and I use MP3 where I have to, and Ogg Vorbis where I can, when file size is more important than audio quality.
Your point may be correct, or it may not be, but I don't want what I want decided by others. Give me lossless - remember, I had it (and still do) with CDs - don't take quality away from me without the option of retaining it.
iTunes still rips CDs for you, although there are better tools for the job.
There's a difference. Floppy disks became obsolete because of lack of storage capacity. CDs are becoming obsolete because music listeners these days value convenience over quality and actually owning their music.
Give us that, and losslessly, and we'll talk.
Copy-protected CDs lack the "Compact Disc Digital Audio" logo on their packaging, which speaks volumes. It has to be a CD by the standard to display the logo, and copy-protected discs don't meet the standard.
Pringles cans are resonant at about 2.4 GHz, so really high UHF. Not the ideal frequencies for TV channels, although if the signal is strong enough, even a paper clip will work.
Yes, Plex runs on Linux (and other OSes - I run my instance in Linux). It's slick.
The antennas haven't changed. Only the contents of the signals have changed.
In fact, old analog antennas still make great TV antennas, as long as your channels haven't shifted from VHF to UHF (as has happened in some markets). Even then the old antenna will still probably work well enough in many circumstances.
The advantage of the HDHomeRun solution, at least with Plex (if not with its own software) is that you get unencrypted feeds recorded on your hard disk. You can do what you want with them - you can generate DVDs or Blu-Ray discs from them, stream them, put them on a flash drive and share them... it's not trapped inside your box.
Diploma mills run like that, but not actual universities.
Putting 'cause, with the apostrophe like that, is informal, but perfectly grammatical.
Using cause for because without an apostrophe to indicate the missing syllable IS wrong, however. It's also frustrating because cause, as in cause and effect, is pronounced differently from the last syllable of because. I prefer "cuz" to "cause", but autocorrect has gotten rid of that, it seems.
Or, let's just all migrate to IPv6 and be done with this.
Most likely your player is bad. I've been using DVDs and Blu-Rays for nearly as long as both have existed and have never had a disk spontaneously fail. I certainly have had players fail though.
Greater lossy compression than you find for the video on Blu-Ray, and lossy compression on the audio (Blu-Rays generally have lossless audio).
MakeMKV + HandBrake (HandBrake can do almost all DVDs and some BluRays without MakeMKV, but MakeMKV is needed for some encrypted discs). MakeMKV is shareware (free beta period but reasonable to pay for if you don't want the hassle); HandBrake is open source. Both run on Linux, OS X and Windows.
Geode:
processor : 0
vendor_id : AuthenticAMD
cpu family : 5
model : 10
model name : Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by AMD PCS
stepping : 2
microcode : 0x8b
cpu MHz : 498.048
cache size : 128 KB
fdiv_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu de pse tsc msr cx8 sep pge cmov clflush mmx mmxext 3dnowext 3dnow vmmcall
bogomips : 996.09
clflush size : 32
cache_alignment : 32
address sizes : 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual
power management:
Linux fqdn.domain.tld 3.16.0-4-586 #1 Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u4 (2015-09-19) i586 GNU/Linux
This is from an Alix 2D3 which is (but not for much longer) my router.
He failed to argue that point.
Quite a few North American carriers use 2600 MHz (2.6 GHz) spectrum, although that doesn't change your point that much.