You do know that in order to get even close to the quantities of aspartame given to those rats, you would have to consume so much (for example) diet soda that you'd die of water poisoning LONG before any tumors could develop, right? Just going from memory, I believe the dosing was equivalent to 10+ gallons of diet soda a day, EVERY day.
Actually only HD DVD is region free. Blu-Ray still has region coding, although it differs from DVD's. BR has 3 regions--The Western Hemisphere and Pacific Rim; Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australia; and Asia. and Now regions could still theoretically be added to HD DVD, but the DVD Forum has pledged not to do that until at least 2009. They have recently considered backpedaling on that promise, but nothing has been determined yet.
Actually you were mistaken when you did your research previously. ALL HD DVD and Blu-Ray players can output HD resolutions via component. EVERY SINGLE ONE. That's 720p and 1080i for all models, and 1080p for those that support it. The only thing they can't do via component is upconvert SD content to HD resolutions, but that's no different than conventional upconverting players and is the result of restrictions placed on analog output by the DVD rules. But for content that's sourced in HiDef, no worries.
I did this myself with my Toshiba HD-A1, which was the first player released in either format a year ago. I did eventually hook it up via HDMI/DVI because I wanted SD upconversion, but HD DVDs look fantastic with either connection. The original Samsung BDP-1000 Blu-Ray player was the same way, and every HD and BR player since has been no different.
Likewise, the cost-cutting started the erosion of the perceived reliability of their products. I couldn't believe when I saw a Laserjet 6 - it was absolute garbage. All breakable plastic and cheap parts. I think the one that someone bought for our office lasted less than 6 months (a LJ-4 that was in a much higher-traffic area with much less-responsible users lasted a good 6 years).
Unfortunately there never WAS a LaserJet 6, so it couldn't have been a piece of junk. Your company either bought a LaserJet 6L, in which case I'd agree with you that it's one of the most worthless piles of garbage HP ever produced; or the 6P, which was an excellent printer IMHO, but was not intended for workgroup use like the LJ4 was. The 5P/6P (same printer basically) were a replacement for the 4P, which cost less than half of what your LJ4 did. The replacement for the LJ4 was the LJ5, which was still available around the time of the 6P. After that, the LJ4/5 series became the LJ 4000 series, while the 4P/5P/6P became the 2000 series and the abysmal 5L/6L became the 1000 series.
I've seen literally dozens of LJ5's and 4000's with over a half a million pages. Hell I have a user that goes through 160,000 pages a MONTH with her 4050--a task WELL beyond its duty cycle. Last I checked, it had around 850k pages and was still going strong. So the new printers are no less reliable than the old--unless you cheap out and buy a personal desktop laser when you need a workgroup one.
They do allow timed "VCR style" recordings. Pushing Tivo+7 gets you to the "Record Time/Channel" menu. You can also get there through the menu.
This option allows you to set up single or repeating recordings on any day(s), channel, or time, and they can be prioritized just like any other scheduled recording.
And I understand your paranoia, but the hacker community has exhaustively checked the data exchange between the boxes and TiVo, and found NOTHING other than the anonymous data that they tell you up front that they collect (and that you can opt out of).
Maybe it could be a PPV sport? I sure as hell would pay $19.95 to support it. Wouldn't that be ironic, their own demise being sold wholesale at the magic price:)
Most of Sony's better receivers have a "DCS" function, which behaves basically like a stereo compressor, which is pretty much what you're looking for. you could also run a compressor inline to your inputs.
It IS on a hard disk, and though the disk format is currently only known by a few dozen people, eventually, yes, someone will figure out how to remove data from it. However this does not need to be of great concern for one major reason. There's really no good way to remove it. TiVo by design has no ethernet or firewire ports.
That means that EVERY SINGLE TIME you want to remove a show from your machine, you have to turn it off, disconnect and remove it from your Home Theater setup, take it apart, take out the drive, hook it up to your computer, hack into the MFS and transfer the files to your computer, then convert them to a more widely-used format (AVI or MOV most likely).
Nevermind the fact that you miss any shows that are on during this time period that it would have normally recorded for you, and that it'll likely take you 2-3x as long as the program duration to remove and convert it, and you STILL have a video that is significantly lower quality than the original broadcast, and too huge to economically store.
Will some people do it anyway? sure. Some to show that they can (classic hacker mentality, nothing wrong with it), and others who so resent the idea of paying for something that they'll waste hours upon hours of their time to save $3. My time is vastly more valuable than that, and I suspect most americans' time is as well.
So the comparison to MP3 is an inherintly faulty one. you can't drop a TiVo into your CD drive and rip a 30 minute program into a small usable video file in 5 minutes. Converting 172Kbps CD audio data into MPEG-1 is a little easier than changing the format of a 9MB/s MPEG-2 video stream. And the resultant files are a little easier to move around.
The school to which you are referring is Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI (www.hillsdale.edu). They don't accept any state or federal funds, because that's the only way they can avoid having to disclose student information to the government. There is a large amount of private aid available, though.
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You do know that in order to get even close to the quantities of aspartame given to those rats, you would have to consume so much (for example) diet soda that you'd die of water poisoning LONG before any tumors could develop, right? Just going from memory, I believe the dosing was equivalent to 10+ gallons of diet soda a day, EVERY day.
Actually only HD DVD is region free. Blu-Ray still has region coding, although it differs from DVD's. BR has 3 regions--The Western Hemisphere and Pacific Rim; Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Australia; and Asia. and Now regions could still theoretically be added to HD DVD, but the DVD Forum has pledged not to do that until at least 2009. They have recently considered backpedaling on that promise, but nothing has been determined yet.
Actually you were mistaken when you did your research previously. ALL HD DVD and Blu-Ray players can output HD resolutions via component. EVERY SINGLE ONE. That's 720p and 1080i for all models, and 1080p for those that support it. The only thing they can't do via component is upconvert SD content to HD resolutions, but that's no different than conventional upconverting players and is the result of restrictions placed on analog output by the DVD rules. But for content that's sourced in HiDef, no worries.
I did this myself with my Toshiba HD-A1, which was the first player released in either format a year ago. I did eventually hook it up via HDMI/DVI because I wanted SD upconversion, but HD DVDs look fantastic with either connection. The original Samsung BDP-1000 Blu-Ray player was the same way, and every HD and BR player since has been no different.
Unfortunately there never WAS a LaserJet 6, so it couldn't have been a piece of junk. Your company either bought a LaserJet 6L, in which case I'd agree with you that it's one of the most worthless piles of garbage HP ever produced; or the 6P, which was an excellent printer IMHO, but was not intended for workgroup use like the LJ4 was. The 5P/6P (same printer basically) were a replacement for the 4P, which cost less than half of what your LJ4 did. The replacement for the LJ4 was the LJ5, which was still available around the time of the 6P. After that, the LJ4/5 series became the LJ 4000 series, while the 4P/5P/6P became the 2000 series and the abysmal 5L/6L became the 1000 series.
I've seen literally dozens of LJ5's and 4000's with over a half a million pages. Hell I have a user that goes through 160,000 pages a MONTH with her 4050--a task WELL beyond its duty cycle. Last I checked, it had around 850k pages and was still going strong. So the new printers are no less reliable than the old--unless you cheap out and buy a personal desktop laser when you need a workgroup one.
They do allow timed "VCR style" recordings. Pushing Tivo+7 gets you to the "Record Time/Channel" menu. You can also get there through the menu.
This option allows you to set up single or repeating recordings on any day(s), channel, or time, and they can be prioritized just like any other scheduled recording.
And I understand your paranoia, but the hacker community has exhaustively checked the data exchange between the boxes and TiVo, and found NOTHING other than the anonymous data that they tell you up front that they collect (and that you can opt out of).
I fully advocate spammer-lynching.
:)
Maybe it could be a PPV sport? I sure as hell would pay $19.95 to support it. Wouldn't that be ironic, their own demise being sold wholesale at the magic price
Most of Sony's better receivers have a "DCS" function, which behaves basically like a stereo compressor, which is pretty much what you're looking for. you could also run a compressor inline to your inputs.
It IS on a hard disk, and though the disk format is currently only known by a few dozen people, eventually, yes, someone will figure out how to remove data from it. However this does not need to be of great concern for one major reason. There's really no good way to remove it. TiVo by design has no ethernet or firewire ports. That means that EVERY SINGLE TIME you want to remove a show from your machine, you have to turn it off, disconnect and remove it from your Home Theater setup, take it apart, take out the drive, hook it up to your computer, hack into the MFS and transfer the files to your computer, then convert them to a more widely-used format (AVI or MOV most likely). Nevermind the fact that you miss any shows that are on during this time period that it would have normally recorded for you, and that it'll likely take you 2-3x as long as the program duration to remove and convert it, and you STILL have a video that is significantly lower quality than the original broadcast, and too huge to economically store. Will some people do it anyway? sure. Some to show that they can (classic hacker mentality, nothing wrong with it), and others who so resent the idea of paying for something that they'll waste hours upon hours of their time to save $3. My time is vastly more valuable than that, and I suspect most americans' time is as well. So the comparison to MP3 is an inherintly faulty one. you can't drop a TiVo into your CD drive and rip a 30 minute program into a small usable video file in 5 minutes. Converting 172Kbps CD audio data into MPEG-1 is a little easier than changing the format of a 9MB/s MPEG-2 video stream. And the resultant files are a little easier to move around.
The school to which you are referring is Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, MI (www.hillsdale.edu). They don't accept any state or federal funds, because that's the only way they can avoid having to disclose student information to the government. There is a large amount of private aid available, though.