I will probably end up buying a mini as a dedicated "server" for this using my 3TB media storage as a nice place to drop my movies and iTV as a frontend.
I love mythTV, I use it now to record stuff..but I want a nice quiet, well designed client to hook up to my TV...not a pc.
my 16:9 dvds upscaled look just fine on my 50" 1080p HDTV through component. If the XBox360 had HDMI, it would be that instead...but at least the movies i've watched so far are just fine.
The thing is, the Airport Express is a push device...iTunes pushes music to it.
This thing is supposed to Pull media from iTunes and display it...my question comes as: What happens if it find two or three instances of iTunes accessible via bonjour? Will it display the content from all three?
Gamefly has the same concept, it's an envelope that has a cardboard sleeve that your paper sleeve for the dvd sits in. The envelope has your name printed on a sticker that's attached to a flap of paper that's taped over the information on the envelope. You remove that flap of paper (perforated), put the game back in, the perforated end has a strip of paper covering glue, seal it, and mail it back.
I'm not sure if gamefly is going to be a target now too...but it doesn't encroach on netflix's business...yet:)
Is it BlueRay? Meh, it's unnecessary really, developers seem to be able to deliver big games on a single DVD for the XBox360. Bigger hard drive? Wireless controllers? HDMI? I'm not sure what makes the PS3 more innovative than the XBox360.
The Cell processor? Why is that more innovative than a custom Triple PowerPC core?
I'm finding it difficult what makes the PS3 so much more innovative than the XBox360...Maybe I'm uneducated when it comes to the unit, I find the Wii much more innovative than either of the two units.
What if Microsoft went as far as the encode the sound in the actual code of vista? That way it can't be changed without a patch. If brand was so important to them, i would imagine that they would go that far. I have no knowledge if this is true or not, but that would stop people from "deleting the wav file" or replacing it or whatever.
Wielding a hex editor would prove to have very interesting results though:)
Yes because little Bobby's mommy is going to shell out $100 more than the most expensive XBox360 or $250 more than the Wii because it has the ability to run Linux.
You can rent XBLA games at Blockbuster? That's news to me.
Games from XBox Live Arcade aren't always from houses like Ubisoft. A lot of them are from indie developers who probably don't want to front the cost of pressing hundreds of thousands of discs. XBLA gives them a channel to provide customers with their content. Most of the time you can get demos, but they are severely limited or buggy if it's not a finished game.
This model works, if you've played lumines or even heard of it enough to feel $15 is worth half the game (it's not really a story so it won't stop abruptly), then you can go ahead and pay $15. If you like it, pay the other $10. If not, well you'd be out $40 if you bought the PSP version...
If the game is overpriced, it won't sell. Microsoft doesn't have to play Daddy to these companies and say "you're doing a disservice to customers...".
Customers won't pay the price if it's too much, and at that point, they will drop the price. APparently people are buying it from the number of cloning clyde icons i see floating around.
Does Microsoft own the company that writes Lumines? No, they don't. Ubisoft has the choice of the cost of the game, how they charge for content and how they release episodic content like this. Stop blaming Microsoft for this, it's not their call.
Cloning Clyde, Bejeweled, etc are NOT written my MS either. If you have a problem with what NinjaBee thinks their game is worth, don't buy Cloning Clyde, don't by Outpost Kaloki X, don't buy any other their games. Just stop blaming Microsoft for this...god you people are so blind in your hatred towards them...they just provide the network to download other people's content, they don't set the prices.
Those advertisements are meant for you and me, they are meant for my mom, grandmother, aunt, and virtually every woman over 50 in my life who owns a computer. They are the ones who call me asking questions, they read the manual...before starting their computer.
They really don't like too many choices, they like things that work...WMP10 + Napster/Rhapsody/Walmart/virgin is just confusing...ITunes + ITMS is just there...simple. Maybe Zune + ZMS or whatever it's called will be that simplicity that is needed...but there's nothing simple about what's currently there...especially the lack of consistency (this album I can subscribe to, this I can't, this is listed but I can't do anything because the record company doesn't want it distributed, etc)...said women above would be so confused by these.
While you picked up an Ibook last year, the current stack of macintels are much more competitively priced with other more lifestyle type systems (alienware, etc). The mac pro, even more so...
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The Core 360 is only $299.99...
So it's really only $50 under it's closes competition.
True, true...
I will probably end up buying a mini as a dedicated "server" for this using my 3TB media storage as a nice place to drop my movies and iTV as a frontend.
I love mythTV, I use it now to record stuff..but I want a nice quiet, well designed client to hook up to my TV...not a pc.
I went to the new iPod Nano ad page and indeed my music sped up very quickly. As soon as i stopped the video the music returned to normal speed.
my 16:9 dvds upscaled look just fine on my 50" 1080p HDTV through component. If the XBox360 had HDMI, it would be that instead...but at least the movies i've watched so far are just fine.
The thing is, the Airport Express is a push device...iTunes pushes music to it.
This thing is supposed to Pull media from iTunes and display it...my question comes as: What happens if it find two or three instances of iTunes accessible via bonjour? Will it display the content from all three?
That would be cool.
The new nanos are aluminum, not plastic :)
But that is IBM, not Sony.
I still haven't heard why the PS3 is more innovative...
Gamefly has the same concept, it's an envelope that has a cardboard sleeve that your paper sleeve for the dvd sits in. The envelope has your name printed on a sticker that's attached to a flap of paper that's taped over the information on the envelope. You remove that flap of paper (perforated), put the game back in, the perforated end has a strip of paper covering glue, seal it, and mail it back.
:)
I'm not sure if gamefly is going to be a target now too...but it doesn't encroach on netflix's business...yet
DIVX needed a DIVX player which could play normal DVDs, but you still needed to buy the DIVX player first.
I don't know. A 4Ghz Pentium-4 seems like an awful lot of processing power for a DVD player :)
Why is the PS3 more innovative?
Is it BlueRay? Meh, it's unnecessary really, developers seem to be able to deliver big games on a single DVD for the XBox360. Bigger hard drive? Wireless controllers? HDMI? I'm not sure what makes the PS3 more innovative than the XBox360.
The Cell processor? Why is that more innovative than a custom Triple PowerPC core?
I'm finding it difficult what makes the PS3 so much more innovative than the XBox360...Maybe I'm uneducated when it comes to the unit, I find the Wii much more innovative than either of the two units.
it's a frontend to IE, which is already running on windows as soon as it boots up.
What's your point? I was saying the Firefox isn't as slow as it was said before.
What if Microsoft went as far as the encode the sound in the actual code of vista? That way it can't be changed without a patch. If brand was so important to them, i would imagine that they would go that far. I have no knowledge if this is true or not, but that would stop people from "deleting the wav file" or replacing it or whatever.
:)
Wielding a hex editor would prove to have very interesting results though
I just tested firefox startup on my workstation...
10 seconds...and that's with the Google syncing junk and it checking for updates to an extension that i have.
*Linux*
Yes because little Bobby's mommy is going to shell out $100 more than the most expensive XBox360 or $250 more than the Wii because it has the ability to run Linux.
So...
:)
communism is only bad when using MS products?
I was never good at logic
No actually Napster sells music too, for $.99 a song.
This makes your purchased music more usable and is just as ethical as converting your itms purchases to mp3.
You can rent XBLA games at Blockbuster? That's news to me.
Games from XBox Live Arcade aren't always from houses like Ubisoft. A lot of them are from indie developers who probably don't want to front the cost of pressing hundreds of thousands of discs. XBLA gives them a channel to provide customers with their content. Most of the time you can get demos, but they are severely limited or buggy if it's not a finished game.
This model works, if you've played lumines or even heard of it enough to feel $15 is worth half the game (it's not really a story so it won't stop abruptly), then you can go ahead and pay $15. If you like it, pay the other $10. If not, well you'd be out $40 if you bought the PSP version...
If the game is overpriced, it won't sell. Microsoft doesn't have to play Daddy to these companies and say "you're doing a disservice to customers...".
Customers won't pay the price if it's too much, and at that point, they will drop the price. APparently people are buying it from the number of cloning clyde icons i see floating around.
Does Microsoft own the company that writes Lumines? No, they don't. Ubisoft has the choice of the cost of the game, how they charge for content and how they release episodic content like this. Stop blaming Microsoft for this, it's not their call.
Cloning Clyde, Bejeweled, etc are NOT written my MS either. If you have a problem with what NinjaBee thinks their game is worth, don't buy Cloning Clyde, don't by Outpost Kaloki X, don't buy any other their games. Just stop blaming Microsoft for this...god you people are so blind in your hatred towards them...they just provide the network to download other people's content, they don't set the prices.
stay off the internet...
A lot COULD happen...the chances are slim that they will.
*Those advertisements are meant for you and me*
s/are/aren't
Those advertisements are meant for you and me, they are meant for my mom, grandmother, aunt, and virtually every woman over 50 in my life who owns a computer. They are the ones who call me asking questions, they read the manual...before starting their computer.
They really don't like too many choices, they like things that work...WMP10 + Napster/Rhapsody/Walmart/virgin is just confusing...ITunes + ITMS is just there...simple. Maybe Zune + ZMS or whatever it's called will be that simplicity that is needed...but there's nothing simple about what's currently there...especially the lack of consistency (this album I can subscribe to, this I can't, this is listed but I can't do anything because the record company doesn't want it distributed, etc)...said women above would be so confused by these.
While you picked up an Ibook last year, the current stack of macintels are much more competitively priced with other more lifestyle type systems (alienware, etc). The mac pro, even more so...
and what exactly does your usb powered mouse pad do? :)
example...?