way back with divx;-), the techies were thinking about this. but without a business mind, or business model, all us techies can do is tell our bosses in as careful a way as possible.
but it's inertia all the way up. we don't even advertise that we sell our DVDs direct through our site, because the retailers we sell to would get pissed and stop buying from us. like it or not, inefficient or not, the old retail distribution chain is where the bread and butter comes from.
there's no ways of adapting without affecting our own bottom line. so all we can do is prepare for the inevitable, and make the switch when the time is right. that timing depends on who you ask... retailers say NEVER!!1!, but physical media is shrinking every quarter, so it'll probably be when we're out of options.
we're making baby steps. it's all we can do. it'd be great to not be beholden to people like retailers or iTunes, but we don't have the penetration or servers for that...
we can say that we KNOW massive objects behave in a manner predicted by Newton's laws of motion to a degree of accuracy.
we can say that we KNOW in certain situations (extreme gravity, or whatnot) that these objects diverge from the behavior predicted by Newtonian physics and we have to whip out the Einsteinian maths to get a similar result, but one that agrees with reality to a far greater degree of accuracy.
that doesn't mean we KNOW these laws are correct, just that they agree with observation up to the limit of the accuracy of our measurements.
in most cases that is good enough.
rest assured, that when we see a headline "Einstein was wrong!!1!", that the world keeps turning.
we'd vote for the other guy, but he's worse. go figure. it's like a scaled back version of the USA, but with a functional health/education/welfare system. one wonders what the US govt actually spends its money on if it can't even get those right.
buy independent stuff. buy their DVDs and their downloads.
they (I, We) really don't give a shit about anti-piracy campaigns. we put the AFACT trailers on our discs because AFACT would like us to (or we pay a fee to them if we want them to help us when our stuff gets pirated, when and if we decide that has affected us). it's that or pay their goddamn protection money.
download if you want. if you like it, buy the disc when it comes out (yeah, thanks to the OFLC/COB/whatever classfication body, we're a month behind demonoid, but that can't be helped). just courtesy, you know?
of course, if you have more important things to spend money on, go do that. i have a baby, there's no way in hell i'm going to JB hifi to blow my pay on DVDs and blu-rays. but then i don't have time to watch them anyway. funny that.
it's a luxury item industry, and as purse-strings tighten, the luxuries go first. it's not like most of us aren't aware of that.
as a part of the australian entertainment industry, i say wtf?
fuck this government. they think they have a mandate just because nobody's crazy enough to vote for Abbott. and they're sort of right.
the shitty thing is that things are just so GOOD here. they can do their incremental freedom-grabs and not enough people will do anything. it's not as if we're starving...
maybe i'll get into a business that doesn't involve computers?
maybe measurable immediately next to the outlet pipe right as the accident was happening.
radioactive xenon has a very short half-life. and it was a small amount, and the atmosphere is very big. and noble gases don't bioaccumulate, so even if you breathed the stuff in, it'd be gone in the next breath, giving you a pretty small exposure even in the impossible worst-case scenario of you putting your mouth over the outlet pipe like it was a joint.
with the current reactors being considered by NRC, the waste problem is the same as the old reactors, unfortunately.
reactors that can breed fuel (ie, burn up waste), are seen as a proliferation hazard. some LFTR designs are a very good way to make nearly 100% pure U-233.
i'm all for them though... we can use the U-233 to start up more reactors just as well as we can use it for bombs.
you know how hard it is to keep all that gear running? to keep food on the operator's (my) table?
you can't have it both ways you know. you can't get everything for free and expect the people working in that field to be able to keep doing it.
it does suck that there's no economical way to preserve a lot of the stuff that was made back in the day and was never considered as something that would be released in any way in the future. there's certainly ways it could all improve, like distributors all over the world contributing to the restoration efforts, rather than just buying the finished product and selling that for cheap.
there's some fantastic national libraries and archives that have absolute treasures. more funding to them and less for Afghanistan and pork would be a good start. perhaps they should put their libraries online for free download? i'd love that.
how much cash is a licensor/distributor going to make from a DVD release of batman '66?
how much cash would it cost to hunt down the film reels (if they exist), tapes, whatevers?
how much would it cost to transfer the films to something good (even digibeta, which is 20 years old this year, is the best standard def has to offer)?
how much would it cost to assemble everything into watchable form (ie, the film reels will have transfer notes, timing info, etc that needs to be recreated on modern gear, and episodes need to be re-cut to how they were screened.
you'll find with anything that's not on DVD already (remember DVD's been around since 1998), you can safely guess that someone's done the maths above and it's come out negative.
the transfer would have to be pretty bad for the VHS to be superior.
like if it came off a VHS or something...
i've used VHS recently in production as a special effect. there is something cool about deliberately creasing the tape, then resetting the timer on the resulting glitch, so you can record something on the tape which will then glitch out on that exact spot.
but there's nothing intrinsically good about the format whatsoever. the only worse format was U-matic, and that's mainly due to the size of the tapes more than anything else. quality was the same or slightly better.
J-format is the way to go if you want vintage cred. there's only a handful of working decks in the world. and by deck, i mean stand-in prop for a '60s computer - size of a catering fridge, massive reel-to-reel setup.
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the problem with that argument is that people like me browse at -1 so we can see all the nerd rage in it's glory.
the comment threads are unusable at anything but -1.
this is true. things move at snail's pace.
way back with divx ;-), the techies were thinking about this. but without a business mind, or business model, all us techies can do is tell our bosses in as careful a way as possible.
but it's inertia all the way up. we don't even advertise that we sell our DVDs direct through our site, because the retailers we sell to would get pissed and stop buying from us. like it or not, inefficient or not, the old retail distribution chain is where the bread and butter comes from.
there's no ways of adapting without affecting our own bottom line. so all we can do is prepare for the inevitable, and make the switch when the time is right. that timing depends on who you ask... retailers say NEVER!!1!, but physical media is shrinking every quarter, so it'll probably be when we're out of options.
we're making baby steps. it's all we can do. it'd be great to not be beholden to people like retailers or iTunes, but we don't have the penetration or servers for that...
we can say that we KNOW massive objects behave in a manner predicted by Newton's laws of motion to a degree of accuracy.
we can say that we KNOW in certain situations (extreme gravity, or whatnot) that these objects diverge from the behavior predicted by Newtonian physics and we have to whip out the Einsteinian maths to get a similar result, but one that agrees with reality to a far greater degree of accuracy.
that doesn't mean we KNOW these laws are correct, just that they agree with observation up to the limit of the accuracy of our measurements.
in most cases that is good enough.
rest assured, that when we see a headline "Einstein was wrong!!1!", that the world keeps turning.
that's a damn shame.
but then, Australians have a history of not voting for anyone in particular, but rather voting against the incumbent.
while Labor are doing such a smashing job, Abbot can be as crazy as he wants and he'll still get the votes.
i'd do the same if i didn't know he'd be no better. between shit and worse, why would you choose worse?
you never heard of iTunes?
i'm a dyed in the wool apple hater and i've heard of iTunes.
look up the port arthur massacre.
none of us have guns anymore because of that.
we'd vote for the other guy, but he's worse. go figure. it's like a scaled back version of the USA, but with a functional health/education/welfare system. one wonders what the US govt actually spends its money on if it can't even get those right.
speaking from the other side...
buy independent stuff. buy their DVDs and their downloads.
they (I, We) really don't give a shit about anti-piracy campaigns. we put the AFACT trailers on our discs because AFACT would like us to (or we pay a fee to them if we want them to help us when our stuff gets pirated, when and if we decide that has affected us). it's that or pay their goddamn protection money.
download if you want. if you like it, buy the disc when it comes out (yeah, thanks to the OFLC/COB/whatever classfication body, we're a month behind demonoid, but that can't be helped). just courtesy, you know?
of course, if you have more important things to spend money on, go do that. i have a baby, there's no way in hell i'm going to JB hifi to blow my pay on DVDs and blu-rays. but then i don't have time to watch them anyway. funny that.
it's a luxury item industry, and as purse-strings tighten, the luxuries go first. it's not like most of us aren't aware of that.
wow, good frostypiss!
as a part of the australian entertainment industry, i say wtf?
fuck this government. they think they have a mandate just because nobody's crazy enough to vote for Abbott. and they're sort of right.
the shitty thing is that things are just so GOOD here. they can do their incremental freedom-grabs and not enough people will do anything. it's not as if we're starving...
maybe i'll get into a business that doesn't involve computers?
the prius uses a regular engine for driving hard. it's no surprise it'd be less efficient than a sports car when it's driven like a sports car.
if you're driving economically (say, if a woman drives), then take a guess which out of the beamer and the prius will get further on a tank...
i drive a small beamer and they're fucking shit for stop-start economy, and only vaguely okay for long distance economy.
they do have a lot of go in them...
wrong. this has already come up today in another thread. they were using an old rig, from before the ban.
they were just unlucky.
maybe measurable immediately next to the outlet pipe right as the accident was happening.
radioactive xenon has a very short half-life. and it was a small amount, and the atmosphere is very big. and noble gases don't bioaccumulate, so even if you breathed the stuff in, it'd be gone in the next breath, giving you a pretty small exposure even in the impossible worst-case scenario of you putting your mouth over the outlet pipe like it was a joint.
i never heard anyone dying from reduced mobility...
with the current reactors being considered by NRC, the waste problem is the same as the old reactors, unfortunately.
reactors that can breed fuel (ie, burn up waste), are seen as a proliferation hazard. some LFTR designs are a very good way to make nearly 100% pure U-233.
i'm all for them though... we can use the U-233 to start up more reactors just as well as we can use it for bombs.
but the same argument goes for nuke - there's been problems, so don't use it at all.
no wonder nobody can agree on anything - we're all arguing precisely the same moot point on both sides.
actually, even the summary states that the reactors are passively cooled to avoid the very problem that happened in Japan.
so, yeah, we learned. in fact, we learned before it happened, as this design hasn't just been sketched on a napkin in march last year.
i get the feeling that if you were saying the above directly to me, i'd be getting hit by crumbs of sandwich from the ferocity of it.
was there a point in there?
i like how you group them both together like that.
mods have no sense of humour.
what? because you want everything for free?
you know how hard it is to keep all that gear running? to keep food on the operator's (my) table?
you can't have it both ways you know. you can't get everything for free and expect the people working in that field to be able to keep doing it.
it does suck that there's no economical way to preserve a lot of the stuff that was made back in the day and was never considered as something that would be released in any way in the future. there's certainly ways it could all improve, like distributors all over the world contributing to the restoration efforts, rather than just buying the finished product and selling that for cheap.
there's some fantastic national libraries and archives that have absolute treasures. more funding to them and less for Afghanistan and pork would be a good start. perhaps they should put their libraries online for free download? i'd love that.
you know, the frist prost in this thread actually seems relevant and of decent quality (if a little brief).
you'll find that people who grew up with cinema have the respect you crave.
it's precisely the home video, VoD, netflix generations that have fucked the cinema experience.
great. more robots and panty shots.
not exactly.
the main gotcha is supply and demand.
how much cash is a licensor/distributor going to make from a DVD release of batman '66?
how much cash would it cost to hunt down the film reels (if they exist), tapes, whatevers?
how much would it cost to transfer the films to something good (even digibeta, which is 20 years old this year, is the best standard def has to offer)?
how much would it cost to assemble everything into watchable form (ie, the film reels will have transfer notes, timing info, etc that needs to be recreated on modern gear, and episodes need to be re-cut to how they were screened.
you'll find with anything that's not on DVD already (remember DVD's been around since 1998), you can safely guess that someone's done the maths above and it's come out negative.
i blew all my mods on the Australian TSA scanner article :(
the transfer would have to be pretty bad for the VHS to be superior.
like if it came off a VHS or something...
i've used VHS recently in production as a special effect. there is something cool about deliberately creasing the tape, then resetting the timer on the resulting glitch, so you can record something on the tape which will then glitch out on that exact spot.
but there's nothing intrinsically good about the format whatsoever. the only worse format was U-matic, and that's mainly due to the size of the tapes more than anything else. quality was the same or slightly better.
J-format is the way to go if you want vintage cred. there's only a handful of working decks in the world. and by deck, i mean stand-in prop for a '60s computer - size of a catering fridge, massive reel-to-reel setup.