I don't buy music off the internet. I don't download movies. Why? Because I'm getting less.
When I pay $10 for a cd or $15 for a movie, I'm paying that price not just for the mediaitself, but for the case, the album art, etc.
I don't like to flip thru my dvd/cd binder and see handwritten titles. I like to see the movie/music are on the actual disc.
How many people have their DVD or CD collections on shelfs? It's nice to look at. It's easy to find the movie/cd you're wanting. Not the case with download-n-burn processes where, even tho the purchase was legit, still looks like crap and looks copied/stolen. People are much more impressed (and so am I) with a shelf of a few hundred movies all in their nice cases than a bunch of dvd-r's sitting in a spindle.
I'll always be for going to the store and buying my media if it costs the same as teh digitally delivered version. No compressed downloads for me. I can guarantee the movie downloads aren't filling DVD9 discs. And if they're not, you're losing quality. Why pay for less?
Retail price is said, from MS, to be that of the lowest priced HD-DVD players at that time.
Being that all the movie processing is done thru the Xbox, the manufacturing has to be fairly cheap with a lot less hardware. And since HD-DVD players can be had at $500 today, I'm guessing a $200 price point. Take in mind MS would NOT want to sell their console and an aftermarket HD player that would cost MORE than a PS3 that has similar capabilities.
Props to MS if they sell the player under $200. Otherwise they're inviting the HD addicts who haven't bought next gen to purcahse the PS3 to get a "better" deal.
Where I work (we make Dell's revenue look like nothing), we use all Dell computers, monitors, and servers.
I may not be impressed with the quality of a few items (PV 220s top of my list), but they design products that are extremely easy to work on. The modular design and extremely well documented online resources make almost any hardware failure easy to troubleshoot.
Plus, ANY time I talk to their tech support, they actually from America. No horrible accents to understand. They know their stuff inside and out. All the email correspondence I've received lists the techs credentials, which is usually MCSE plus others.
The key to their success is top notch support for large businesses and corporations. The consumer market I'm sure doesn't touch the revenue they get from companies who buy tens of thousands of computers and thousands of servers, all with next day warranty services. Keeping the largest group of users happy, not the $500 Dimension users, is how they're still doing well today.
I'll stick with my Dual Disc cd's. Take for example the Chevelle dual disc cd/dvd.
One side is a completely DRM free "normal" cd that plays in all my cd players and can be ripped to any quality I want for my iPod.
The flipside is the sweet DVD in high quality 5.1. I play it in my home theatre system all the time. I love how the surround is mixed. You pick up a lot more with this than listening to stereo.
This is the perfect format, already implemented, so why would I care about WB's new format?
FWIW... I had a Rockford Fosgate in-dash dvd player in my last car that played movies in surround sound thru the car speakers (and obviously Dual Discs with the tracks mastered in 5.1). It DID make a nice difference to listen in 5.1 compared to stereo, unless you were a passenger in the back seat. Then the sound was kinda off.
I bet that 4 acre lot of the moon I bought off the internet for $50,000 is EXACTLY where the Japs are going to build their base... Not sure how I'll evict them....
I can't see an over-the-shoulder TPS game being the "Halo" game to stop people from buying a PS3. From the E3 video footage, the game seems to be an impressive, although unimaginitive duck & shoot game.
kill.switch with a face lift and team play?
Which will win?
HD-DVD
Why?
Because the larger consumer mass has NO IDEA what a Blu-Ray player is. The name itself gives no clue as to what the product is.
But when you mention HD-DVD, which has _DVD_ in the name, they'll understand what it is.
For me, I'll stick with my upconvert DVD player. Works fine for me, and it's 1/7 the price of an HD-DVD player.
How is blocking MySpace (which is the main site this bill is _intended_ for) a bad thing?/sarcasm
The very slight possibility a site such as this would fall under what this act is imposing is rediculous. RTFA, it says that not all possible sites that meet the criteria would be blocked. Pretty much, they use language in the act to specify a site as close to MySpace as possible, without specifically mention a particular site. You can imagine the backlash from the community if the DOPA act said "we're blocking one site in particular". Too me, that rings of many lawsuits.
Give some credit to how this act has to be legally worded. Sure, it's scope is broad, but there's not a whole lot more than can legally be done.
You forget... Nearly ALL money that Microsoft makes is off of the software.
So if pirated games drive up console sales, Microsoft only loses more money if these purchasers don't buying anything legitimate.
The only offset is peripherals, but those sales are marginal compared to the money made off of title sales.
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I don't like to flip thru my dvd/cd binder and see handwritten titles. I like to see the movie/music are on the actual disc.
How many people have their DVD or CD collections on shelfs? It's nice to look at. It's easy to find the movie/cd you're wanting. Not the case with download-n-burn processes where, even tho the purchase was legit, still looks like crap and looks copied/stolen. People are much more impressed (and so am I) with a shelf of a few hundred movies all in their nice cases than a bunch of dvd-r's sitting in a spindle.
I'll always be for going to the store and buying my media if it costs the same as teh digitally delivered version. No compressed downloads for me. I can guarantee the movie downloads aren't filling DVD9 discs. And if they're not, you're losing quality. Why pay for less?
Except for the fact that the 360 has already disproved that point.
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Therefore, I LOVE the option of deciding if I _want_ the fancy movie player or _just_ the game console.
Sony doesn't give me that option. I'm FORCED to purchase the integrated drive to play HD movies, although the games themselves don't require them.
And this caters to less than 1% of the PC gamer market?
Being that all the movie processing is done thru the Xbox, the manufacturing has to be fairly cheap with a lot less hardware. And since HD-DVD players can be had at $500 today, I'm guessing a $200 price point. Take in mind MS would NOT want to sell their console and an aftermarket HD player that would cost MORE than a PS3 that has similar capabilities.
Props to MS if they sell the player under $200. Otherwise they're inviting the HD addicts who haven't bought next gen to purcahse the PS3 to get a "better" deal.
I may not be impressed with the quality of a few items (PV 220s top of my list), but they design products that are extremely easy to work on. The modular design and extremely well documented online resources make almost any hardware failure easy to troubleshoot.
Plus, ANY time I talk to their tech support, they actually from America. No horrible accents to understand. They know their stuff inside and out. All the email correspondence I've received lists the techs credentials, which is usually MCSE plus others.
The key to their success is top notch support for large businesses and corporations. The consumer market I'm sure doesn't touch the revenue they get from companies who buy tens of thousands of computers and thousands of servers, all with next day warranty services. Keeping the largest group of users happy, not the $500 Dimension users, is how they're still doing well today.
One side is a completely DRM free "normal" cd that plays in all my cd players and can be ripped to any quality I want for my iPod.
The flipside is the sweet DVD in high quality 5.1. I play it in my home theatre system all the time. I love how the surround is mixed. You pick up a lot more with this than listening to stereo.
This is the perfect format, already implemented, so why would I care about WB's new format?
FWIW... I had a Rockford Fosgate in-dash dvd player in my last car that played movies in surround sound thru the car speakers (and obviously Dual Discs with the tracks mastered in 5.1). It DID make a nice difference to listen in 5.1 compared to stereo, unless you were a passenger in the back seat. Then the sound was kinda off.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_disc
I bet that 4 acre lot of the moon I bought off the internet for $50,000 is EXACTLY where the Japs are going to build their base... Not sure how I'll evict them....
I can't see an over-the-shoulder TPS game being the "Halo" game to stop people from buying a PS3. From the E3 video footage, the game seems to be an impressive, although unimaginitive duck & shoot game. kill.switch with a face lift and team play?
Which will win? HD-DVD Why? Because the larger consumer mass has NO IDEA what a Blu-Ray player is. The name itself gives no clue as to what the product is. But when you mention HD-DVD, which has _DVD_ in the name, they'll understand what it is. For me, I'll stick with my upconvert DVD player. Works fine for me, and it's 1/7 the price of an HD-DVD player.
How is blocking MySpace (which is the main site this bill is _intended_ for) a bad thing? /sarcasm
The very slight possibility a site such as this would fall under what this act is imposing is rediculous. RTFA, it says that not all possible sites that meet the criteria would be blocked. Pretty much, they use language in the act to specify a site as close to MySpace as possible, without specifically mention a particular site. You can imagine the backlash from the community if the DOPA act said "we're blocking one site in particular". Too me, that rings of many lawsuits.
Give some credit to how this act has to be legally worded. Sure, it's scope is broad, but there's not a whole lot more than can legally be done.
You forget... Nearly ALL money that Microsoft makes is off of the software. So if pirated games drive up console sales, Microsoft only loses more money if these purchasers don't buying anything legitimate. The only offset is peripherals, but those sales are marginal compared to the money made off of title sales.