That's because their required specs just went up a notch.
I don't expect to see them fall much. Maybe they'll be $300 by this time next year, but the Profile 2.0 players will have just made their splash, so I wouldn't count on it.
I have an HD-A3, and I'm planning on getting a PS3 before the end of the month, when the 5-free disc offer is set to expire.
The PS3 isn't likely to depreciate any (until the 360 releases a Blu-ray add-on), and it's going to be upgraded to Profile 2.0, so it's still the best bet.
Care to cite some examples?
I've definitely seen this going on, and I've even bought an HD DVD from amazon.co.uk that wasn't available in the US, but I don't think Disney was letting anything get released on HD DVD.
I have an external drive on my Linux box in a USB to SATA external enclosure, and it goes into and out of power saving mode just fine.
If I haven't used it in a while, it takes a second or two to respond while the drive spins up. The drive never disappears or unmounts. It works perfectly.
I don't think there is a lack of protocol; I think Seagate is trying to over-engineer power savings with a horrible hack.
I've experienced similar issues with dvd::rip and certain DVDs. Sometimes, ripping an ISO, and mounting it, and then ripping from the mounted directory works.
If it doesn't, Thoggen has yet to fail on me. You can only use it to make OGG files, though.
Facebook still collects, stores, and does whatever they want with that information, however, and that is an unacceptable and gross violation of the user's privacy.
Which they will continue to do, even if you "opt out" of the feature. No company should be getting updates telling them where else on the web I go.
I've already blocked *facebook.com/beacon/* in my browsers, but I shouldn't have to, in order to prevent merchants from keeping Facebook informed as to my activities. Any merchant that implements this in any other way than an opt-in for sending the data to Facebook in the first place will not be getting my business, and I intend to tell them exactly why.
Heck, I would buy the PS3 at $250 simply because it's a 3.2GHz 8-core Linux box. Blu-ray is just icing, and I would still prefer movies in HD DVD. BD+ and Region Coding == annoying.
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I can't opt out until they try. Just like those stupid application e-mails. Oh, joy.
Chances are more movies will be available in HD format because of that.
Sadly, this is probably not the case, at least not in the short-term. Disney really really likes restrictive DRM. They will ride Blu-ray to the bottom before they will finally release their IP on a format that can be as easily ripped as HD DVD. Unless, of course, Blu-ray's DRM becomes fully cracked to the point where the difference is moot.
This makes me sad, as Pixar movies are awesome. Fortunately, computer animated movies have not reached the point where they are resolution-dependent: with good anti-aliasing, the round, regular shapes and lack of truly fine detail in Monster's Inc, Cars, and Finding Nemo make DVD a reasonable alternative for the time being.
I still wish I could buy them on HD DVD, but that isn't going to happen until Blu-ray goes the way of UMD, and Disney realizes it.
So you're planning on getting a Blu-Ray burner for data backup? What does that have to with which format your movies come on? You don't think Blu-Ray is going voluntarily to support ripping and burning your own discs, do you?
HD DVD's DRM is pretty much cracked. I'm throwing my lot in with them.
one addtional thing you should know about HD-DVD is that each disk contains two copies of the movie; one in standard def and the second in hi-def.
This is simply not true of HD DVD. It's true of HD DVD Combo discs, but then those are clearly and differently labeled. (And at the moment, it's quite useful to be able to rip an EDTV version of the movie, as I don't have an HD DVD drive on my computer.)
I certainly don't see, given the current state of the market, that a dual format solution is materializing. The combo players are significantly more expensive than buying one of each type of player ($1000 vs. $200 + $400).
Being cheaper faster (and also region-free, and less draconian DRM) is what I hope will allow HD DVD to go mainstream, and this holiday season is shaping up to be the time when Joe Sixpack picks up his first player for under $200.
I am one of those low-price (sub-$200) HD DVD player buyers. I'm putting my money on HD DVD being cheaper, and also throwing my hat in with the less-restrictive DRM.
I fully expect that this holiday season, HD DVD players will be cheap enough for HD DVD to gain the momentum and popular awareness that it needs to succeed.
One great way for them to seriously screw up Blu-Ray is for the price to stay high.
So, which one person is responsible for Finding Nemo? The voice actors? The animators? Concept artists? Storyboard artists? Writers?
Which member of the band is responsible for a musical group's album?
For a symphony recording?
You can't eliminate works for hire. If you did, what you would get in place of copyright transfer would be "contracts" stating who will collect money, and who has permission to say who can copy.
The published footage is obviously downscaled: and clearly not anti-aliased in the process.
I would bet that they filmed it in at least 1080p, and the true HD footage will be coming to you in the form of HD DVDs (and Blu-Rays, until it goes the way of UMD) that license the content.
If you want to put together an HD production, you have to find HD material, and right now, they're the only ones with HD moon probe footage.
What I was suggesting is that congress make it illegal for the AACS/CSS people to deny working keys to players that allow users to skip "unskippable" content. This implies that the content will still play as normal on these players, but "forbidden" actions will actually work, like the user intended. It would modify the market conditions, so that users could choose a player that, when they wished, could skip the content.
I am not suggesting that it not play the content given no user input.
I agree with your sentiment, but this is still encouraging news:
1) It's proven to be do-able, so the Good crackers just got a shot in the arm 2) If you buy this, it allows you to skip those annoying unskippable sections, and perform "forbidden" operations 2a) If enough people become aware of a world in which this is possible, it's much more likely that congress will get off of their asses and finally make it illegal to insist on those kinds of requirements.
Stuff like this is half the reason I read Slashdot.
After looking at Wikipedia's list of required HD-DVD/Blu-Ray features for players, and what that has meant, especially for audio quality on actual releases, as well as being region-free, I'm convinced that if anyone is going to "win", it's going to be HD-DVD. I was about 65% ready to buy. This little gem, if true, pushes me up to at least 75%.
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That's because their required specs just went up a notch. I don't expect to see them fall much. Maybe they'll be $300 by this time next year, but the Profile 2.0 players will have just made their splash, so I wouldn't count on it. I have an HD-A3, and I'm planning on getting a PS3 before the end of the month, when the 5-free disc offer is set to expire. The PS3 isn't likely to depreciate any (until the 360 releases a Blu-ray add-on), and it's going to be upgraded to Profile 2.0, so it's still the best bet.
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Care to cite some examples? I've definitely seen this going on, and I've even bought an HD DVD from amazon.co.uk that wasn't available in the US, but I don't think Disney was letting anything get released on HD DVD.
The worst part about this business is not that Facebook tells your friends. It's that Blockbuster tells Facebook in the first place.
The books are passable. Not great literature by any measure, but a fun read. The movie was horribly disappointing.
The set of hot chicks is not disjoint from the set of hot chicks (nor is that union disjoint from the set of chicks who want to have a family).
I have an external drive on my Linux box in a USB to SATA external enclosure, and it goes into and out of power saving mode just fine.
If I haven't used it in a while, it takes a second or two to respond while the drive spins up. The drive never disappears or unmounts. It works perfectly.
I don't think there is a lack of protocol; I think Seagate is trying to over-engineer power savings with a horrible hack.
I've experienced similar issues with dvd::rip and certain DVDs. Sometimes, ripping an ISO, and mounting it, and then ripping from the mounted directory works.
If it doesn't, Thoggen has yet to fail on me. You can only use it to make OGG files, though.
Facebook still collects, stores, and does whatever they want with that information, however, and that is an unacceptable and gross violation of the user's privacy.
Which they will continue to do, even if you "opt out" of the feature. No company should be getting updates telling them where else on the web I go.
I've already blocked *facebook.com/beacon/* in my browsers, but I shouldn't have to, in order to prevent merchants from keeping Facebook informed as to my activities. Any merchant that implements this in any other way than an opt-in for sending the data to Facebook in the first place will not be getting my business, and I intend to tell them exactly why.
Heck, I would buy the PS3 at $250 simply because it's a 3.2GHz 8-core Linux box. Blu-ray is just icing, and I would still prefer movies in HD DVD. BD+ and Region Coding == annoying.
TV shows "seem" worth more the more discs you get. Software on optical media is sold in large boxes for the same reason.
Besides, manufacturing costs for both Blu-ray and HD DVD are on the order of 10 cents/disc.
Sadly, this is probably not the case, at least not in the short-term. Disney really really likes restrictive DRM. They will ride Blu-ray to the bottom before they will finally release their IP on a format that can be as easily ripped as HD DVD. Unless, of course, Blu-ray's DRM becomes fully cracked to the point where the difference is moot.
This makes me sad, as Pixar movies are awesome. Fortunately, computer animated movies have not reached the point where they are resolution-dependent: with good anti-aliasing, the round, regular shapes and lack of truly fine detail in Monster's Inc, Cars, and Finding Nemo make DVD a reasonable alternative for the time being.
I still wish I could buy them on HD DVD, but that isn't going to happen until Blu-ray goes the way of UMD, and Disney realizes it.
Walmart with their sub-$200 HD DVD players was the tipping point.
Disney going HD DVD would be the watershed.
HD DVD's DRM is pretty much cracked. I'm throwing my lot in with them.
This is simply not true of HD DVD. It's true of HD DVD Combo discs, but then those are clearly and differently labeled. (And at the moment, it's quite useful to be able to rip an EDTV version of the movie, as I don't have an HD DVD drive on my computer.)
I certainly don't see, given the current state of the market, that a dual format solution is materializing. The combo players are significantly more expensive than buying one of each type of player ($1000 vs. $200 + $400).
Being cheaper faster (and also region-free, and less draconian DRM) is what I hope will allow HD DVD to go mainstream, and this holiday season is shaping up to be the time when Joe Sixpack picks up his first player for under $200.
I am one of those low-price (sub-$200) HD DVD player buyers. I'm putting my money on HD DVD being cheaper, and also throwing my hat in with the less-restrictive DRM.
I fully expect that this holiday season, HD DVD players will be cheap enough for HD DVD to gain the momentum and popular awareness that it needs to succeed.
One great way for them to seriously screw up Blu-Ray is for the price to stay high.
No one wants Sony to fold. We're perfectly happy with them continually buying themselves back in to a losing game.
I just hope they don't bleed enough money to make the DRM monstrosity that is Blu-Ray a success. As long as it goes the way of UMD, I'll be happy.
So, which one person is responsible for Finding Nemo? The voice actors? The animators? Concept artists? Storyboard artists? Writers?
Which member of the band is responsible for a musical group's album?
For a symphony recording?
You can't eliminate works for hire. If you did, what you would get in place of copyright transfer would be "contracts" stating who will collect money, and who has permission to say who can copy.
The published footage is obviously downscaled: and clearly not anti-aliased in the process.
I would bet that they filmed it in at least 1080p, and the true HD footage will be coming to you in the form of HD DVDs (and Blu-Rays, until it goes the way of UMD) that license the content.
If you want to put together an HD production, you have to find HD material, and right now, they're the only ones with HD moon probe footage.
sensitive clod?
What I was suggesting is that congress make it illegal for the AACS/CSS people to deny working keys to players that allow users to skip "unskippable" content. This implies that the content will still play as normal on these players, but "forbidden" actions will actually work, like the user intended. It would modify the market conditions, so that users could choose a player that, when they wished, could skip the content.
I am not suggesting that it not play the content given no user input.
I agree with your sentiment, but this is still encouraging news:
1) It's proven to be do-able, so the Good crackers just got a shot in the arm
2) If you buy this, it allows you to skip those annoying unskippable sections, and perform "forbidden" operations
2a) If enough people become aware of a world in which this is possible, it's much more likely that congress will get off of their asses and finally make it illegal to insist on those kinds of requirements.
That's excellent news!
Thanks for the tip.
Stuff like this is half the reason I read Slashdot.
After looking at Wikipedia's list of required HD-DVD/Blu-Ray features for players, and what that has meant, especially for audio quality on actual releases, as well as being region-free, I'm convinced that if anyone is going to "win", it's going to be HD-DVD. I was about 65% ready to buy. This little gem, if true, pushes me up to at least 75%.
I would mod YOU insightful.